PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED The dissistant cdjutant, Task Group 7.4, mainteined a chart showing the clasped tinc, from the origin-tor to adcressec, on nessages re= ecived during March, The data on the chart incicated on incrozs2 in the cfficicney of the cormunicstions systcn,. Joint Task Foreo SEVEN stated in thcir Operations Order 1~53 that Messages conteining TOP SECRET and/or RESTRICTED DAT. information would be encrypted in an off-line systen, Since the policy st-ted abeve was not binding on orgonizaticns outside of Joint Task Force SEVEN, an occasional TOP SECRET or RESTRICTED DAT.. nessage was re~ ecivee at the Joint Relay Center (Eniwotok) fron fir Forco organizati-ns which hed transmitted the nessage by on-lino SIGTOT method. the Communtie-tions Security Officer of Joint Tasie Forcc SEVEN discussed this problen with . Communications Security Officer of Task Group 7.4, by telephone on 5 Merch, It was decided tuc best way to approach “hs problom was to ask each unit, thet tronsnit:od such a nossago by on-line SIGTOT, to encrypt that type message in an qe off-line system in the future,