MINUTES OF 10 JANUARY 1978 MEETING

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 4, 2006
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: January 10, 1978
• Content Type: MF

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DCI/IC 78-1106
10 January 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR: Members, Intelligence Definitions
Working Group
Office of Policy and Planning
Intelligence Community Staff
SUBJECT: Minutes of 10 January 1978 Meeting
1. A summary of the 10 January 1978 meeting of
the Intelligence Definitions Working Group is attached
for your information. No changes were made to the list
of definitions dated 20 December 1977.
2. The next meeting of the Working Group will be-
gin at 1330, 17 January 1978,
Executive Secretary
Attachment
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ATTENDEES
DEFINITIONS WORKING GROUP
10 January 1978
Acting Chairman
ORGANIZATION
CIA
State/INR/DDC
FBI
DIA
NSA (IHC)
NSA
Army (OACSI)
Navy
IC Staff (SECOM)
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MINUTES
INTELLIGENCE DEFINITIONS WORKING GROUP
10 January 1978
PROCEDURAL ITEMS:
discussed his progress on his project
to present the relationships among groups of intelligence
terms in graphic form. He appealed to the Working Group
for assistance in defining technical intelligence terms
relating to imagery, acoustics, and nuclear radiation.
MINUTES: 25X1
In absence,
opened the meeting with a discussion of the possible
inadequacy of the previously agreed-upon definitions of
Intelligence and Foreign Intelligence. The Group con-
si ed red proposed revisions to each term (attached) and,
after considerable discussion, agreed to study the defini-
tions preparatory to further discussion at the next meet-
ing. Members of the Group were encouraged to provide
their own candidate definitions and not to limit their
thinking to those provided.
2. The Group continued the discussion of the pre-
vious meeting by considering a revised slate of. definitions
received from the Security Committee (attached) as follows:
a. Unauthorized Disclosure--accepted as
is. Will be inclu e d in next revision.
b. Leak--dropped from further consideration
because deemed inappropriate for an Intelligence
Glossary.
c. Damage Assessment--Definition accepted
with the addition of "Intelligence Community Con-
text" in parenthesis preceding the definition,
and with the stem revised to read, "An evaluation
of the impact...." DIA agreed to provide a second
definition of the term when used in a military
intelligence context. Acceptance was thus deferred.
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d. Sensitive Intelligence Sources or
Methods- -A -ter engt y discussion, it was agreed
that the Secretary would work with the SECOM
member to devise a definition which will incor-
porate the separate definitions of Intelligence
Method and Intelligence Source and will o viate
time need to separately define these component
terms.
e. Propriety--The definition seemed
acceptable but, having had no opportunity to staff
it, the Group asked for additional time for.that
purpose.
3. A "Loose-ends List" (attached), which. compiles
candidate definitions not yet considered, was distributed
and will be the agenda item following clean-up of the
SECOM list at the next meeting.
4. The next meeting of the Working Grou will
begin at 1330, 17 January 1978,
Executive Secretary
25X1
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