LIMITATIONS ON TRAINING AND ASSISTANCE TO FOREIGN INTERNAL SECURITY SERVICES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00380R000600170056-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2001
• Sequence Number: 56
• Publication Date: February 15, 1974
• Content Type: DISP

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SUBJECT -- - Limitations on Training and Assistance to Foreign Internal Security Services
ACTION REQUIRED ? REFERENCES - .- _ - - .- .__ - - - ~~_-.r- - Reference: State Telegram 00841; Subject: Foreign Assistance Act of 1973,
Termination of Overseas Police Training and Related Programs of
U.S. Assistance; a Joint State/AID/Defense Message
1. The Foreign Assistance Act of 1973 (FAA) severely curtails training and
material. assistance to the police of foreign countries. In effect, assistance
funded by the Act for all phases of law enforcement, other than for narcotics
control, is prohibited. The Act does not prohibit training of foreign police
officials in the United States. Neither does it prohibit assistance to units
whose sole function is combat operations against insurgents or defense of
national territory against foreign invasion, nor overseas public safety activi-
ties funded by the foreign government. The latter, however, require considera-
tion on a case-by-case basis. (See Reference for additional details).
2. Stations may anticipate liaison requests for assistance now denied
foreign governments under the new FAA. The intent of Congress reflected in
the conference report is that present programs being conducted by AID in foreign
countries may not be transferred to some other agency to avoid the prohibition.
The language of the Act is meant to phase out such programs "and the objectives
should not be circumvented by using other funds for this purpose."
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action as and objectives, in support of the narcotics interdiction
program, or in support of units whose sole function is that aspect of
internal security which may involve combat operations against insurgents;
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b. -we do not initiate (or continue) programs whose purpose is simply
to replace programs previously funded under the FAA.
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