PROPOSED NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTIVE NO. 7 DOMESTIC EXPLOITATION

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67-00059A000100100014-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 3, 2001
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: December 16, 1947
• Content Type: REGULATION

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NATIO1y1 L SECURITY COUNCIL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTIVE NO. 7
DOMESTIC EXPLOITATION
Under the authority of paragraph 7 of National Security
Countil Intelligence Directive 1:
1, The Central Intelligence Agency shall be responsible for
the exploitation within the United States of business concern other
organizations, and individuals as sources of foreign intelligence
information.
2., To implement this undertaking, the Central Intelligence
Agency shall:
a. Determine the foreign intelligence potential of sources
so that the best available may be selected expeditiously for
exploitation upon the receipt of collection requests from
the intelligence agencies.
b. Establish uniform procedures and standards for the
security clearance of contacts in this field for the guidance
and control of all pertinent agencies, Including a provision
for Central Intelligence Agency clearance of all proposed agency
contacts,
c. Establish in compliance with the third proviso of
Section 102 (d) (3) of the National Security Act of 1947
uniform procedures to insure that the interests of individuals
and organizations contacted will not be jeopardized,
d. Collect through the establishment of interagency field
offices within the United States, foreign intelligence information
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required in the interests of the national security or by
the individual intelligence agencies?
e.. Arrange for direct contact between intelligence agency
representatives and domestic non.+govern;ental sources whenever
conditions require such action or upon the request of a member
agency to secure technical or other foreign intelligence
information,
f. Obtain and maintain the overall cooperation of indi.
vidue.ls and of responsible policy making officials of organizations
having a foreign intelligence potential.
E, Inform the intelligence agencies of the prospective
departure from or return to the United States of selected
American citizens having a high foreign intelligence potential,
so that the agencies may furnish requirements or provide specialists
for briefing or interrogation.
h. Disseminate to the appropriate agencies all foreign
intelligence information obtained through this program, Reports
produced by the agencies shall be identified as such.
3. Further to implement this undertaking, the intelligence
agencies shall:
a. Assign to duty in the Central Intelligence Agency field
offices, within agency capabilities, representatives to serve
the interests of their respective agencies, under the direction
of the CIA managers,
b, Send directly to the Central Intelligence Agency for
collection all their requests for foreign intelligence
infornation from domestic non-governmental sources,
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c. Transmit to the Centres igence Agency for
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appropriate dissemination full information and reports
resulting from approved direct contacts by agency repre-
sentatives with domestic non-governmental sources, identifying
such sources by CIA code number..
d. Transmit to the Central Intelligence Agency for
editing, for source security, and for appropriate dissemination
all foreign intelligence information which has been received
by the Department of. State, the components of the National
Military Establishment, and the Atomic Energy Commission as
a by-product of their normal relationship with American
business concerns, and other organizations in connection with
non-intelligence activities.
e. Make available to the Central Intelligence Agency
all information now possessed or subsequently acquired by the
Department of State, the components of the National Military
Establishment, and the Atomic Energy Commission concerning
American individuals and organizations having foreign intelli-
gence potential.
4, Each agency participating in this program will nominate
a representative to serve on a committee, under the chairmanship of
the Central Intelligence Agency, to meet periodically to consider
mutual problems and interests in connection with this program,
5., Nothing in this program shall be interpreted to affect the
established relationship of the departments and agencies with
business concerns, other organizations, and individuals in the
United States for purposes other than the procurement of foreign
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