Arms Control And Disarmament Agency: More Corrective Actions Needed to Control Classified Codeword Documents
NSIAD-90-175
Published: Jun 22, 1990. Publicly Released: Jul 23, 1990.
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Highlights
Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO determined what actions the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) and the Department of State took in response to its recommendations to improve the control, protection, and accountability of sensitive compartmented information (SCI) at an ACDA sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF).
Recommendations
Recommendations for Executive Action
| Agency Affected | Recommendation | Status |
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| Department of State | The Secretary of State should ensure that the required security upgrades are promptly completed to obtain full accreditation of the Intelligence and Research Bureau SCIF. |
Closed – Implemented
The State Department completed the required security upgrades and the Central Intelligence Agency granted final accreditation of the Intelligence and Research Bureau's Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility on September 5, 1990.
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| Department of State | The Secretary of State should ensure that the Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research provides adequate oversight of the ACDA facility and the SCI holdings, as required by applicable directives and the memorandum of agreement. This oversight should include, at a minimum, an annual inventory of all SCI held by ACDA to ensure that all SCI is being appropriately accounted for and stored. |
Closed – Implemented
State/Intelligence and Research (INR) inventoried all ACDA SCI holdings in September 1990 and all documents were accounted for by November 1990. Subsequently, State/INR completed an 100 percent audit of documents required to be accounted for by the Director, CIA, and a 10 percent audit of all remaining documents. INR does not intend to perform an annual 100 percent audit of the later documents.
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| United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency | The Director, ACDA, should implement procedures to control all incoming SCI, including copies of electronic message traffic, to ensure compliance with accountability and control procedures prescribed in the Director of Central Intelligence directive. |
Closed – Not Implemented
ACDA stated that, according to CIA, electronic messages are not controlled within the intelligence community. ACDA receives cables through State/INR (an intelligence community member) and ACDA SCIF is contained within INR SCIF. On June 26, 1991, State responded that in view of the audit trail and controls maintained by INR, both State and CIA agree that a receipt system by ACDA is unnecessary.
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