INTELLIGENCE DEFINITIONS
Document Type:
Collection:
Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
CIA-RDP80M00596A000400030012-7
Release Decision:
RIPPUB
Original Classification:
K
Document Page Count:
6
Document Creation Date:
December 15, 2016
Document Release Date:
March 15, 2004
Sequence Number:
12
Case Number:
Publication Date:
September 23, 1977
Content Type:
MF
File:
Attachment | Size |
---|---|
![]() | 283.97 KB |
Body:
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