NEXT MEETING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M00596A000500010012-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2004
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: January 16, 1978
• Content Type: MF

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DCI/IC 78-1108
16 January 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR: Members, Intelligence Definitions Working Group
Executive Secretary
SUBJECT: Next Meeting
1. The 17 January 1978 meeting of the Intelligence Definitions
Working Group was canceled because neither the Chairman nor Executive
Secretary was available to meet at the scheduled time.
2. In preparation for the next meeting, Working Group members are
asked to give careful consideration to the attached proposed definitions
of Intelligence and Sensitive Intelligence Sources or Methods. Each of
these terms has been discussed at length by the Working Group, which
should reach for resolution at its next meeting. Devising an omnibus
definition of Intelligence may be the Working Group's most challenging
task; the attached proposal is but the latest in a number of attempts,
but it seems to be getting closer. The proposed definition of Sensitive
Intelligence Sources or Methods was developed by SECOM and OPP together,
as the 10 January minutes indicated would be done.
3. The next meeting of the Working Group will begin at 1330, 24
January 1978, CHB Room 5S09.
Lxecutive Secretary
Attachment
As stated
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INTELLIGENCE: (a) Knowledge acquired and furnished in response to the
known or perceived requirements of policy or decisionmakers, and which
is principally derived from information about another nation which is
concealed from or not intended for the use of the acquiring nation. (See
Intelligence Cycle.)
Examples:
? Policy development requires good intelligence.
? Timely intelligence is important to informed
decisionmaking.
(b) A term used to refer collectively to the direct support or col-
lateral functions, activities, or organizations which participate in the
production of intelligence as defined in (a) above.
Examples:
? Intelligence is a demanding profession.
? Central Intelligence Agency.
? Human source collection is an important intelligence
activity.
SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES OR METHODS: A collective term for those
persons, things, conditions, or events which provide intelligence in-
formation and those means used in the collection of such information
which, if compromised, are vulnerable to counteraction that could
reasonably be expected to reduce their ability to support U.S. intel-
ligence activities.
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