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ad | = Peed (8) at my request, Mr. Bannerman has | prepared @ statenent ef what are believed by his te be the standards of seeurity implisit in the decieions of | the Seourity Committee. They are attached berete me, and will be sonsidered further velew. _ 7 (a) Spesial attention ls required with veopect te 7s the peculiar position wich the FBI cosupion im the oa structure and seope of the Department's personnel aecurtty investigations. The FBI, in ordinary . eourse, feeds the Department information either ta the form routine checks conducted for OBA, or fer CON, by the special ehesks made at CON's request, i er in the form of reports of interest toe the Depr t- — ment sent without special selieitation. | (d) Mention may be made of the fet that = @tree- tion ef Mr. Russell, kr. ‘Bannerwan's offices ealls fer a speotal PBI investigation ef foreign eereer | personnel applicants ia all enses where some lenent | ef doubt has been produced from ether sources: fae a eluding CSA. ‘Twenty-three eases bed, ‘at the time - of the survey, been referred to FBI wiéer thie errenge- ment and four reporte had been received from FBI, = _ : of which ome smounted to a clearance and three were fy derogatory. These three casos were examined ond in” ; one case it may be noted (the Kimball case) there a _ as considerable ©