Reagan Signs Directive Making NSA Director National Manager for Telecommunications and Computer Security, Reaching Into Private-Sector Systems
- A directive dated September 17, 1984 designates the NSA Director as National Manager for Telecommunications and Automated Information Systems Security, responsible to the Secretary of Defense as Executive Agent.
- The National Manager is to “act as the government focal point for cryptography, telecommunications systems security, and automated information systems security.”
- The directive says the government “shall encourage, advise, and, where appropriate, assist the private sector” to identify systems that handle “sensitive non-government information, the loss of which could adversely affect the national security.”
- It authorizes technical security material and assistance to go to “private institutions (including government contractors).”
- The directive’s stated subject is protecting systems from foreign exploitation; it does not authorize collection from them.
Sources & Citations
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National Security Decision Directive Number 145, National Policy on Telecommunications and Automated Information Systems Security (text)
— Federation of American Scientists, Intelligence Resource Program
· Sep 17, 1984
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NSDD 145 scanned original (OCR text read; legible but noisy)
— Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
· Sep 17, 1984
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Cite this entry
The Cascade Ledger. “Reagan Signs Directive Making NSA Director National Manager for Telecommunications and Computer Security, Reaching Into Private-Sector Systems.” The Capture Cascade Timeline, September 17, 1984. https://capturecascade.org/event/1984-09-17--nsdd-145-nsa-national-manager-private-sector-computer-security/