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Report of Investigation Agency Access to the Ssci Shared Drive on Rdinet

Central Intelligence Agency · 2014-07-18 · 57 pages · text by GLM-OCR

This is a report of investigation by the Central Intelligence Agency's Office of Inspector General, dated 18 July 2014. It covers Agency access to Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff files on RDINet, the network built for the Senate review of the rendition, detention and interrogation program. The report found that five Agency employees improperly accessed the SSCI Majority shared drive and that three IT staff lacked candor. It also found no factual basis for the CIA crimes report against SSCI staff.

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# UNCLASSIFIED//FOUO

(U) Other Related RDINet Events

1. (U//FOUO) The OIG learned of several historical incidents related to RDINet during the course of this investigation. The incidents were cited by multiple interviewees as demonstrating that SSCI users were previously aware of Agency monitoring of SSCI activity on RDINet.

2. (U//FOUO) In January 2010, the CIA RDI team removed 874 documents from the virtual Reading Room and an additional set of 52 documents on 11 May 2010. The CIA staff interviewed by the OIG stated that these documents were "Executive Privilege" documents that had been unintentionally comingled on the RDINet with documents intended for production to the SSCI. When it was discovered that these documents had been added to the virtual Reading Room in error, the RDI team removed the documents. On or about 11 May 2010, the RDI team informed SSCI that documents were removed from the virtual Reading Room. SSCI staffer sent an email to

on 12 May 2010, stating that "Our understanding of the agreement

we reached with you last year was that the computer systems on which the Committee would be working would only be accessed by CIA personnel for purely administrative, IT actions. CIA's actions in removing documents from our system are unequivocally not administrative." The RDI leadership then informed the relevant CIA employees that no further documents should be removed from the Reading Room prior to consulting with the SSCI staff. (b) (3)

3. (U//FOUO) In December 2009, the

detected that a

(3) In January 2010, the same individual also reported having a camera in the secure facility to the facility's gate guard but did not provide the camera for review. The individual was identified as on RDINet in November and December 2010. The matter was referred to the CIA Counterintelligence Center's Counterespionage Group (CEG), and the employee was removed from the team.

4. (U//FOUO) On 6 May 2010, a SSCI staffer requested from the Agency the ability to print a sensitive document from the RDINet. The SSCI staff member attempted to bypass the print restriction by

CIC reviewed the incident and recommended removing the possibility of SSCI staffers utilizing but because the capability was it could not be removed or disabled. The RDI team discussed this issue with the SSCI staff and reminded them of the need for security of the sensitive documents.

5. (U//FOUO) In 2013, a number of detainee videos not provided to the SSCI by the CIA were (b)(3) requested by SSCI staff. The RDI review team evaluated the request and determined the videos to be (b)(6) outside of the scope of the SSCI review. According to the SSCI staffer asserted his request, (b)(7)(c) saying he had a document that defined the location of the videos and that they were from responsive detainee sites. The staffer presented a hardcopy spreadsheet that recognized as a working copy (b)(3) produced by the SRT team. confirmed with the SRT analysts that the requested videos were not (b)(6) responsive, and that all of the responsive videos from the spreadsheet had already been provided. The (b)(7)

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