ESTIMATED FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE COSTS

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• Document Release Date: March 24, 2000
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• Content Type: REPORT

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ESTIMATED FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE COSTS
1. Purpose
The purpose of this report is to provide the Director of Central
Intelligence and the Ua S. Intelligence Board (USIB) with a medium for
a clear and meaningful presentation of foreign intelligence cost data.
A format for this purpose has been agreed upon by the USIB. It is
designed for use with estimated "order of magnitude" costs of those
activities which derive from national, and/or departmental requirements
for intelligence. Additionally, it is intended as a demonstration of
how "intelligence money" is utilized by major intelligence functions.
"Foreign intelligence", for the purposes of this report, is intended to
mean the foreign intelligence effort of the U. S. which is subject to
the coordinating authority of the Director of Central Intelligence and
the cognizance of the United States Intelligence Board, This report
is intended to serve a purely statistical purpose inasmuch as costs can
only be distributed into some of the functional categories by resorting
to arbitrary judgments which are subject to varying degrees of error.
2. Financial Consideration
The report will include two basic types of cost data on an obliga-
tion basis:
as Direct obligations: Those obligations actually incurred
by an intelligence command, bureau or element thereof, or any
comparable intelligence organization which actually performs the
intelligence activity involved and can identify the related
obligations. In essence, such obligations are those under the
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direct control of an intelligence organization (Central Intelligence
Agency and National Security Agency) or an intelligence element of a
larger organization such as AF Security Service/Air Force; ACSI/Army;
G-2, USAREUB; Ii t/Stag; etc.
b. Indirect obligations Those obligations which appear in
non-intelligence commands, bureaus, services, or other comparable
organizations as a part of their own budget operations, but can be
identified as being in direct support of an intelligence activity,
e.g., R&D projects performed for foreign intelligence purposes.
3m Procedures
Foreign intelligence cost estimates will be prepared by all member
agencies of the USIB who are engaged in the conduct of foreign intelli-
gence activities.
The cost estimates will be developed on the basis of actual obli-
gations incurred during the fiscal year ending 30 June and prepared for
submission to the Cost Estimates Committee by 30 September of the
following fiscal year.
The Cost Estimates Committee of the USIB is responsible for
coordinating the preparation of the Board's annual statistical report
on foreign intelligence costs and the preparation of any special reports
involving foreign intelligence costs which may* be required by the Board.
After approval by the USIB, the Board's annual statistical report
on Estimated Foreign Intelligence Costs will be submitted to the President's
Board of Consultants on Foreign Intelligence Activities and to the Bureau
of the Budget.
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4+. The following provides the instructions and definitions for
preparing estimated foreign intelligence cost data:
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PREPARATION OF ESTIMATED FOREIGN IN`LIGENCE COSTS
A. Activities Involved
1. Collection and Technical Proceasing includes all foreign
intelligence activities required for the collection of raw information
and its technical processing to put the collected material in shape for
use by those intelligence elements engaged intthe production of finished
intelligence.
a. COMM includes all collection and technical processing
activities conducted under the pertinent provisions of National
Security Council Intelligence Directive (NSCID) No. 6.
b. ELINT includes all collection and technical processing
activities conducted under the pertinent provisions of NSCID No. 6.
Co RADINT includes all collection and technical processing
activities required to obtain, information from reflected pulses of
radio frequency energy.
d. ESPIONAGE includes all collection activities conducted under
the provisions of NSCID No. 5.
OTHER COVERT COLLECTION includes any non-overt collection
activities not covered above. Any activities included under-;this
general title will be adequately described in a footnote or, if
security consideration requires it, identified by reference to the
basic directive by which they are authorized.
f. FOREIGN SERVICE AND ATTACHES includes the over-all cost of
the military attache system and that proportion of State's overseas
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Foreign Service costs that can reasonably be attributed to the col-
lection and reporting of political, economic, geographic, cultural,
sociological, scientific and technical, and biographic intelligence
to meet State's own departmental needs for intelligence and its
assigned responsibilities for "services of common concern." Collec-
tion activities of the Foreign Service and Military attaches are
covered by the provisions of NSCID No. 2g. OTHER OVERT COLLECTION includes any overt collection
activities not shown in l.f. above. Activities listed under this
general heading will be adequately described in a footnote.
2. Production and Dissemination includes the cost of all activities
conducted by an agency or its contractors to produce and disseminate
finished intelligence through the evaluation, analysis9 integration an,
interpretation of the products resulting from the "collection and
technical processing" activities listed in paragraph 1.
ARM INTELLIGENCE includes the production and dissemination
of finished intelligence on such matters as organization, equipping,
order of battle, and logistics of foreign gro rod forces. In
general, it includes that finished intelligence for which the Army
has production responsibility under the provisions of NSCID No. 3-
b. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE includes the production and dissemina-
tion of finished intelligence on such matters as organization,
The three military services will generally include, under the generic
term of Army, Naval or Air Force Intelligence respectively, all estimated
costs of their production of other types of finished intelligence, i.e.,
economic, political and sociological, scientific and technical,, and
geographic.
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equipping, order of battle and logistics of foreign naval forces.
In general, it includes that finished intelligence for which the
Navy has production responsibility under the provisions of NSCID
No. 30
*?c. AIR INTELLIGENCE includes the production and dissemination
of finished intelligence on such matters as organization, equipping,
order of battle and logistics of foreign air forces. In general,
it includes that finished intelligence for which the Air Force has
production responsibility under the provisions of NSCID No. 3o-
d. J'2 CURRENT INTELLIGENCE includes that intelligence of all
types and forms of immediate interest which is prepared by the J-2
Intelligence Directorate of the Joint Staff and usually dissemi-
nated without the delays incident to complete evaluation or
interpretation.
eo JOINT INTELLIGENCE is a special category of interdepart-
mental intelligence jointly produced and disseminated in the
performance of the assigned missions of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
f. POLITICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE includes the
production and dissemination of that finished political and
sociological intelligence for which the State Department has
production responsibility under the provisions of NSCID No. 3. The
following subsidiary types of intelligence production will also be
included under this heading: cultural and psychological; the latter
including: first, intelligence on other gover?rnent?s plans, programs,
and media for waging psychological warfare, and second, foreign
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public opinion polls and studies of the susceptibilities of foreign
populations to psychological warfare.
g< ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE includes the production and dissemina-
tion of finished economic intelligence concerning the potentialities,
utilization, and vulnerabilities of a foreign nations' natural and
human resources. It includes such subjects as raw materials,
manufacturing (including weapons), services, transportation, communi-
cations, trade and finance. In general, it includes that finished
economic intelligence for which the State Department and Central
Intelligence Agency have intelligence production responsibility under
the provisions of NSCID No. 3.
h. SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE includes the production
and dissemination of finished intelligence on:
(1) The progress of foreign scientific research and develop-
ment, and achievements resulting therefrom, as it affects the
military or economic potential of a nation.
(2) Technical devices, equipment, and specific processes
applicable to foreign structures,, equipment, or weapons, in
being, in production, or under development.
(3) In general, those scientific and technical matters for
which Central Intelligence Agency has production responsibility
under the provisions of NSCID No. 3.
i. GEOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE includes the production, dissemina-
tion and cartographic preparation of intelligence on the natural
features, i.e., land, sea, and weather of foreign areas.
3. Auxiliary Activities - Activities will be listed here when
their cost cannot be included as an integral part of the cost estimates
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covering the activities shown in sections 1 and. 2 of the format. In
general, it is contemplated that the following types of activity con-
ducted in support of collection and technical processing, production
and dissemination, or both, will be included as an integral part of the
over-all cost of the items shown in sections 1 and 2 of the format, with
a footnote indicating that such action has been taken. However, to the
extent that a reporting department or agency does not consider it
feasible to allocate such costs in this fashion, they will be shown as
separate items under the Auxiliary Activities groupings-
a. ADMINISTRATION, SUPERVISION AND COORDINATION includes those
administrative overhead functions reasonably assignable to a
department's or an agency's foreign intelligence effort.
b. COINMUNICATIONS includes all direct and indirect, commercial
and governmental cormmmications provided for the support of the
foreign intelligence activities.
c. SECURITY includes those physical and personnel security
measures directly related to the intelligence activities covered in
the report.
d. TRAINING includes the direct and indirect cost of training
activities conducted in whole or in part for the support of the
foreign intelligence activities listed elsewhere in this report.
Where only a portion of a training facility is devoted to supporting
intelligence activities, the over-all cost should be distributed as
appropriate.
e. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT includes the direct or indirect
cost of that research and development which is related to the
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development of devices, equipment, and techniques for use in the
foreign intelligence effort. This may range from research and
development conducted solely for intelligence purposes so that the
full cost could logically be charged to intelligence, to those
research and development activities which are conducted only in
part for intelligence purposes and therefore only an appropriate
portion of their over-all cost should be allocated as a charge
against intelligence.
f. SCREENING AND DISTRIBUTION includes the handling of raw
and finished intelligence originated in the reporting agency and
in other agencies.
g. TRANSLATION includes those activities specifically con-
ducted for the purpose of abstracting or translating foreign
language documents of intelligence interests.
h. REFERENCE FACILITIES includes libraries, collections, and
registers containing primarily intelligence materials.
i. PRINTING AND REPRODUCTION includes printing and reproduc-
tion of such materials as books, briefs, reports, cables, and maps
directly related to the activities listed in sections 1 and 2 of
the format.
J. REQUIREMENTS COORDINATION includes receiving, screening,
collating and assigning requirements for the collection of intelli-
gence information through the activities listed in section 1 of the
format.
B. Additions to Capital Equipment includes identifiable costs incurred
in the fiscal year reported for additions to capital equipment, such as
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buildings, installations, aircraft, vehicles and any other major equip-
ment to be used primarily for the foreign intelligence activities
covered by this report. Costs of capital equipment will be excluded
from items A.l. through A.3. above.
C. Man-Years - Estimates of man-years should be based on average on-duty
strengths for the fiscal year and, should be rounded to the nearest man-
year.
D. Obligations - Estimates will be based upon actual obligations incurred
during the fiscal year covered by the report and shown in thousands of
dollars.
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