UTLIZATION CRITERIA FOR TALENT ELINT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61S00750A000200040038-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 29, 2000
• Sequence Number: 38
• Content Type: REQ

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ON CMEM FOR TALENT
1. The basic principles to be adhered to in the utilization
of TALENT FLINT materials are:
a. The materials which reveal the fact that information
was obtained from overflight will never be disseminated or utilized
outside the CONTROL SYST ?!, except in unusual cases where specific
authorization is granted by the TOT. These materials include tapes
and raw data that can be identified with the TALENT system.
b. The process for extracting information from the raw
data, cited above, for use outside the CONTROL SYSTEM must be done
in such a way as to leave no evidence or indication of its origin
as being TALENT ,
2. Exploitation of TALENT ELM will be accomplished within
the CONTROL SYSTEM to the maximum degree possible at the Washington
level. Exploitation within the system below this level will
generally be restricted to the Major Component Coed level.
3. Procedures for utilizing and exploiting TALENT ELT will
be restricted to the following:
a. Information may be studied within the TALENT SYSTEM
by cleared key intelligence analysts, operations and planning
personnel, and used as background without reference to source in
situations where documentation is not required.
b, Raw ELtNT data originally recorded on TALES SYSTEM
tapes may be analyzed outside the CONTROL SYSTEM only when all
aspects have been removed that could identify the source as TALENT,
After all original or raw reproductions of tapes have been Played
back by cleared analysts,, for purposes of insuring that no recorded
information is present which will compromise source or any opera-
tional. information, they may be passed to uncleared analysts for
analysis purposes who have a minimum SECRET clearance. In case
source or operational data is contained on the original tapes,
cleared analysts may make a reproduction of the tapes deleting this
information to insure that only pure ELF intercept which does not
reveal operational in,formatior, is present. Following this process,
the reproduced tapes may then be passed to uncleared analysts as
stated above.
c. Through the deletion of those operational aspects
requiring TALENT control, see paragraph la above, the TALENT FLINT
may be disseminated outside the system, but may not be classified
lower than SECRET. Those operationaal aspects requiring deletion are:
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pre-mission planning and briefing, post-mission interrogation,
navigational data, relative electronics intercept bearing inforrna-
tion, and any other information that could compromise the source.
In accordance with the foregoing, only the data which follows, by
security classification, will be released outside the TAL T SYSTEM:
1. Location - Provided a collateral source could
feasibly obtain or support the location.
2. Type - function.
3. Signal characteristics.
4. Year of information.
5. Source of Information will neat be indicated,, in
any form, in the SECRET and TOP SECRET,' reports.
6. When the above has been accomplished, this type
report need not be marked NOEORN.
TOP SECRET CODEWCRD REPORTS
1. All the information contained in SECRET/TOP SECRET
reports as indicated in paragraph 3c,, above.
2. The source of information may be indicated ONLY
AS COLLATERAL OR FROM OTHER RELIABLE SOURCES.
d. The principle established in paragraph lb above will
be rigidly followed in sub-paragraphs 3b and c, above.
4. Each Department or Agency will submit to the Utilization
Board for approval his proposed procedures developed under the pro-
visions of paragraphs 3b and c of this paper.
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