GUIDELINES FOR INTELLIGENCE ACTIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP02T06251R000900300003-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 22, 2012
• Sequence Number: 3
• Content Type: MISC

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GUIDELINES FOR INTELLIGENCE ACTION
1. Intelligence products
a. General: This Administration views accurate and objective
intelligence products as essential to the conduct of foreign affairs and
national security affairs. Such intelligence can be assured provided
disparate views are well aired, and philosophizing not substituted for
analysis.
b. National Intelligence Estimates.
A sharply limited number of intelligence estimates pertinent to
decision-making at National Security Level shall be prepared and maintained.
These estimates will contain the fully propounded views of the DCI, the
Director DIA, and the Director INR (State Dept.), which officers shall
ensure that changes of their views or available data shall be reflected as
they occur rather than in annual revisions. The distribution of such
estimates shall be sharply reduced to a strict need-to-know list.
c. Current Intelligence: The three production agencies of the
Intelligence community will analyze and report current intelligence as it
develops and forward reports expeditiously to consumers directly concerned
with the subject matter only. The practice of producing all source, all
subject matter classified "newspapers" will cease. Collection elements will
not provide raw materials directly to intelligence consumers. All current
intelligence reports will be forwarded to DCI, DDIA, DINR, and DNSA at the
same time they are forwarded to cabinet members, or to NSC.
2. Counterintelligence
a. General: The head of each entity of the intelligence community
shall establish, subject to the approval of the Director of Central
Intelligence and the Attorney General, guidelines to govern the employment
of certain techniques for collecting intelligence about U.S. citizens and
permanent resident aliens, and to govern the dissemination of intelligence
information about U.S. citizens and permanent resident aliens.
These guidelines shall be the official policy of the entity which
promulgates them. The head of each entity shall record every significant
instance in which a significant authorized or unauthorized deviation from
these guidelines occurred. Such records shall be made available to the
President's foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and to the Intelligence
Committees of the Congress.
The purpose of these guidelines shall be to match the acquisition and
dissemination of information regarding U.S. citizens and resident aliens
with the need of the various entities of the intelligence community to
obtain information relating to the security and foreign policy of the United
States, and information regarding activities of hostile intelligence
services, international terrorist groups, and large scale international
criminal organizations.
b. Collection
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Guidelines shall govern the employment of the following techniques:
1. Those techniques which may require a judicial warrant if used to
collect information for a law enforcement purpose.
2. Informants and undercover agents.
3. Other covert or clandestine techniques, including techniques in
which the person from whom the information is being obtained is unaware
that he or she is providing information to an entity of the intelligence
community.
4. Examination of financial or other Third Party records.
5. Public information sources, including interviews in which the
interviewer acknowledges his or her own connection with an entity of the
intelligence community.
Any entity of the intelligence community shall employ these techniques
to gather information about any citizen or permanent resident of the United
States while such person is in the United States, only after the head of the
entity or his designee has certified in writing that necessary information
cannot be obtained by any other means or cannot be obtained by any other
means without excessive expenditure of resources. Such certifications shall
be available to the Attorney General and to the Intelligence Committee of
the Congress.
c. Dissemination
Intelligence or counterintelligence identifying citizens or permanent
residents of the United States shall be disseminated within the intelligence
community only in the following circumstances.
1. When the information reasonably related to the citizens or
permanent resident's engagement in or assistance to--
a. clandestine intelligence activity on behalf of a foreign
power,
b. any other clandestine activity on behalf of a foreign power
or organization,
c. international terrorists activity or preparations thereafter.
2. When the information is required to assess the meaning of any
intelligence,
3. When the information is necessary to any entity of the
intelligence community in order to assess the suitability of any person as
a potential source of intelligence or operational assistance,
4. When the information would be useful to law enforcement officials
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to prevent or to prosecute any felony, the information may be disseminated
to such officials.
Any entity of the intelligence community is authorized to disseminate
any intelligence or counterintelligence information about any citizen or
permanent resident of the United States to the Counterintelligence Office of
the Department of Justice.
Whenever any entity of the intelligence community dessiminates any
information about any citizen or permanent resident of' the United States to
any other entity or to any law enforcement agency, such entity shall make a
record of such dissemination. Such record shall include a statement of the
reasons for such dissemination.
3. Security:
a. General: The business of intelligence is of necessity secret.
Certain categories of intelligence, in particular those affecting
decision-making on politically sensitive issues are all too often leaked to
the press. Such categories of intelligence must be identified and access to
such intelligence must be restricted to officials willing to submit to
polygraph examination in the event of security breaches.
b. Public Affairs. The intelligence agencies shall be represented in
public affairs by the concerned cabinet officer or the White House. Direct
contact with intelligence agencies shall be dealt with accordingly.
c. Freedom of Information: This Administration will seek Congressional
anendment of the FOI Act to strengthen security. Meanwhile the emphasis on
responses to FOI requests shall be upon the prevention of public access to
information damaging to intelligence efforts.
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