Cryptonym: TPOCTONAL
00/00/76: SSCIA document: Proprietaries: Page 90: "VI: Project MHBOUND: In 1958, at the time construction of the new CIA headquarters building in Langley was begun, a small counterintelligence operation was established to maintain surveillance of activities to prevent hostile penetration and sabotage. It was successful in its objectives and, therefore, upon occupancy of the building in 1962 the Project, now known as MHBOUND, was established as an outgrowth of the initial effort. From a single office in Arlington, Virginia, the project expanded to four field offices (Arlington, Falls Church, Los Angeles and St. Louis). Also, it grew from a single corporate entity into three separate corporations. The parent organization in 1962 was Anderson Enterprises, Inc., which operated in the greater Washington area and was set up to create a bona fide commercial corporation which would perform security services on a competitive basis for any and all individuals and companies which might require them, as well as Federal and local government units. In addition, it would conduct operations for the Office of Security of the CIA. This activity proved most successful, with customers utilizing it for document destruction, for consultation, for guard work, and for investigations...In addition to the conduct of investigations, MHBOUND was used in the following activities: (a) TPOCTONAL - covert monitoring of construction of CIA headquarters building...(c) TAPIR - covert monitoring of construction of CIA printing services building; (d) ZULU - surveillance of DOD civilian employees suspected to be potential defectors to Soviets; (e) STPROBE - testing security effectiveness at domestic DDS&T sites and contractor facilities; (f) MERRIMAC - monitoring of dissident groups in D.C.; *This particular project and other aspects of MHBOUND's domestic activities are treated in greater detail in the Committee's Staff Report dealing with the operations of MHBOUND."
157-10011-10078: TESTIMONY OF OSBORN, HOWARD J.
"Two proprietary companies, Anderson Security Associates and General Personnel Investigations, have been used to do large scale investigations of the personnel of companies who contract with the CIA." At p. 15: "When the CIA Headquarters was constructed in the late 1950s, the Office of Security recruited various members of the construction work force to maintain security against the installation of listening devices, telephone taps, or other penetrations of the premises. As an outgrowth of the success in that security effort, the Office of Security organized a wholly-owned proprietary company which was called Anderson Security Associates and which was employed to do large-scale investigations of the personnel of the companies who contract with the CIA....Anderson Security Associates was in reality run by Mr. Ralph True, a CIA security case officer, who also ran a similarly wholly-owned proprietary company on the West Coast, General Personnel Investigations, Inc."
https://www.archives.gov/files/research/mlk/releases/2025/0721/02330028_david_e_hanlon_ralph_orc.pdf
7/31/69 letter to Richard E. Kuh of the CIA to Howard Sprague, vice president of Itek Corporation: "This letter states the Agency's understanding of the arrangements which have been made between the Agency and Itek Corporation regarding General Personnel Investigations, Inc. (GPII)...The purpose of this agreement is to assist the Agency in the performance of certain of its tasks in the interests of the national security of the United States. The ostensible contractual arrangements between Itek and Corporation and GPII are acknowledged to be of no force and effect and the true parties in interest are the U.S. Government, as represented by the Central Intelligence Agency, and Itek Corporation..."