INTELLIGENCE DEFINITIONS

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September 23, 1977
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Approved For Release 2004/03/25 : CIA-RDP80M00596A0004000312-7 DCI/IC-77-6353 23 September 1977 MEMORANDUM FOR: I Special Assistant to the D D /IC Director, Office of Policy and Planning SUBJECT: Intelligence Definitions 1. Attached is a list of intelligence definitions in response to Senator Huddleston's letter of September 19, 1977. 2. These definitions are tentative in that they have not been coordinated with the Intelligence Community; however, we have tried to extract pertinent definitions from existing directives or regulatory matter to the maxi- mum extent feasible. I recommend that Senator Huddleston be advised of this fact and request that he provide us the opportunity to modify these definitions should Community agreement be obtained prior to the introduction of legis- lation. 3. I will take this matter up with the Community Working Group on Definitions at its next meeting. Attachment As stated Approved For Release 2004/03/25 : CIA-RDP80M00596A000400030012-7 Approved For Release 2004/03/25 : CIA-RDP80M00596A000400030012-7 1. Intelligence: The product resulting from the collection, processing, integration, analysis, evaluation and inter- pretation of available information concerning foreign countries or areas. 2. Intelligence Activities: A generic term used to des- cribe totality of e forts and endeavors undertaken by the departments, agencies, and elements comprising the In- telligence Community. 3. Foreign Intelligence: The product of collection, pro- cessing, and analysis f foreign information relating to the national security, to the foreign relations or economic interests of the United States by a Government agency that is assigned an intelligence mission, 4. Foreign Counterintelligence: That aspect of intelligence activity, with its resultant product, devoted to destroying the effectiveness of inimical foreign intelligence activities and undertaken to protect the security of the nation and its personnel, information, and installations against es- pionage, sabotage, subversion, and terrorism. 5. Departmental Intelligence; Foreign intelligence used by the operating head of the department or agency in order to meet the unique requirements of the departmental or agency mission. 6. Tactical Intelligence: That intelligence required by military commanders in t e field to maintain the readiness of operating forces for combat operations and to support the planning and conduct of military operations under com- bat conditions. Tactical intelligence assets are those intelligence entities under the direct operating control of the military commander in the field, whether assigned or attached, and the existence of which is justified primarily on the basis of their contribution to accomplishment of the operational mission. 7. Intelligence-related Activities: Those activities, specifically excluded from tthe Consolidated Defense Intelli- gence Program which respond to operational commanders' tasking for time-sensitive information on foreign activities; Approved For Release 2004/03/25 : CIA-RDP80M00596A000400030012-7 Approved For Release 2004/03/25 : CIA-RDP80M00596A000400030012-7 respond to national Intelligence Community advisory tasking of systems whose primary mission is to support operating forces; train personnel for intelligence duties; or are devoted to research and development of intelligence or related capabilities. Intelligence-related activities do not include programs which are so closely integrated with a weapon system that their primary function is to provide immediate data for targeting purposes. 8. Communications Intelligence: Intelligence derived from information obtained through intercept of foreign electrical communications by other than the intended recipients. 9. Electronics Intelligence: Product resulting from the collection (observation and recording), and the processing for subsequent intelligence purposes, of information derived from foreign non-communications, electromagnetic radiations emanating from other than atomic detonation or radioactive sources. 10. Foreign Instrumentation Signals Intelligence: That class of signals, inc iUing rara io beacon and telemetry, which are electronic emitters associated with weapons systems usually only during their test phase. 11. Signals Intelligence; A generic term which aggregates Communications and Electronics Intelligence as well as that intelligence derived from the collection of foreign instru- mentation signals (e.g., telemetry and beaconry) and non- imagery infrared and coherent light signals. 12. Non-Communications Emanations: Those emissions made for purposes of er than communications; e.g., by radars, navigational aids, jammers and remote control systems. 13. United States Signals Intelligence System: Elements of the 'National Security Agency /Central Security Service, the Service Cryptologic Agencies, the Central Intelligence Agency, and other departments and agencies which conduct SIGINT activities. 14. Communications Security (COMSEC): The protection resulting from the app3Tcation of crypto security, trans- mission security, and emission security measures to tele- communications and from the application of physical security measures to COMSEC information. These measures are taken to deny unauthorized persons information of value which might be derived from the possession and study of such telecommunications, or to insure the authenticity of such telecommunications. Approved For Release 2004/03/25 : CIA-RDP80M00596A000400030012-7 Approved For Release 2004/03/25 : CIA-RDP80M00596A000400030012-7 15. Transmission Security: The component of communications security which results from all measures designed to pro- tect transmissions from interception and from exploitation by means other than cryptanalysis. 16. Emission Security: In COMSEC, that component of communications security which results from all measures taken to deny to unauthorized persons information of value which might be derived from interception and analysis of com- promising emanations from crypto-.equipment and telecommuni- cations systems. 17. Physical Security: The means or procedures, such as safes, vaults, internal and external perimeter barriers, guard systems, alarms, and secure mail or pouch systems, designed to safeguard classified information, intelligence or activities against exposure to, or access by, unauthorized persons. 18. Personnel Security: The means or procedures, such as selective investigations, record checks, personal interviews, supervisory controls, and individual responsibilities, de- signed to provide reasonable assurance that persons being considered for, or granted access to, classified information are loyal and trustworthy and that they use such information only in a manner which will assure its continued protection. 19. Cryptosecurity: The component of communications security that results from the provision of technically sound crypto- systems (e.g., methods or processes, singly or in combination, for transforming text in order to conceal its meaning) and from their proper use. 20. Cryptolog : The branch of knowledge which treats the principles of cryptography and cryptanalytics and is used to produce signals intelligence and maintain communications security. 21. Cryptologic Activities: A generic term used to describe the totality ot activities undertaken by the organizations within the Intelligence Community which deal with the science of treating hidden, disguised or encrypted communica- tions. 22. Code: A substitution cryptosystem in which plain text elements are primarily words, phrases, or sentences, and the code equivalents (called "code groups'-') typically consist of letters or digits (or both) in otherwise mean- ingless combinations of identical length. Approved For Release 2004/03/25 : CIA-RDP80M00596A000400030012-7 Approved For Release 2004/03/25 : CIA-RDP80M00596A000400030012-7 23. Cipher: Any method or system of transforming text according to predetermined rules in order to obscure or conceal its meaning where the cryptographic treatment is applied to plain text elements of equal length. 24. Cryptographic System: A method or process (which may be a combination of several processes) for transforming text in order to conceal its meaning, including associated items of cryptomaterial (equipments and equipment com- ponents which perform cryptographic functions; associated keying materials, operating instructions, and maintenance manuals; codes and other manual cryptosystems; and general publications and other documents required for proper encryption, decryption, and authentication). 25. International Terrorist Activities: The calculated use o- vio ence,, or the threat ovio ence, to attain political goals through fear, intimidation or coercion. It usually involves a criminal act, often symbolic in nature, and is intended to influence an audience beyond the immediate victims. International terrorism is terrorism transcending national boundaries in the carrying out of the act, the purpose of the act, the nationalities of the victims, or the resolution of the incident. These acts are usually designed to attract wide publicity in order to focus attention on the existence, cause, or demands of the perpetrators. 26. National Intelligence Estimates: Thorough assessments of situations in the foreign environment that are relevant to the formulation of national security policy, projecting probable future courses of action and developments, struc- tured to illuminate policy issues and differences of view within the Intelligence Community, and issued by the Direc- tor of Central Intelligence with the advice of the National Foreign Intelligence Board. Approved For Release 2004/03/25 : CIA-RDP80M00596A000400030012-7 Approved For Release 2004/03/25: CIA-RDP80M00596A000400030012-7 Original 1 1 1 1 1 1 OPP/PPD/ (ICS-77-6353) Addressee A/D/DCI/IC D/OPBD D/OPPI SIGINT Division OPP Subj OPP Chrono IC Registry (23 Sept 77) Approved For Release 2004/03/25 : CIA-RDP80M00596A000400030012-7