MINUTES OF 8 NOVEMBER 1977 MEETING

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2004
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: November 8, 1977
• Content Type: MF

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DCI/IC 77-6386
8 November 1977
MEMORANDUM FOR: Members, Intelligence Definitions
Working Group
Office of Policy and Planning
Intelligence Community Staff
SUBJECT: Minutes of 8 November 1977 Meeting
1. A summary of the 8 November 1977 meeting of
the Intelligence Definitions Working Group is attached
for your information. Also attached is a complete list
of definitions approved by the Group to date.
2. The next meeting of the Working Group will be-
gin at 1330, Tuesday, 15 November 1977, CHB Room 5509.
Attachment
As stated
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MINUTES
INTELLIGENCE DEFINITIONS WORKING GROUP
8 November 1977
1. opened the meeting by noting
his pleasure at the progress made by the Group to date,
expressing his hope and expectation that the task at
hand would continue to be met in such a reasonable and
disciplined way. He further put into perspective the
definitions produced by the Working Group versus definitions
resulting from other Community activities external to the
Working Group, such as the "Huddleston 26" which have re-
centl been circulated to NFIB for comment.
view is that the Working Group must continue to
progress unimpeded by other "definitions" activities un-
til it has produced a complete glossary of agreed-upon
Intelligence Community terms for formal NFIB considera-
tion. In accordance with this clarification by the Chair-
man, the attached list of approved Working Group defini-
tions again includes the Group's definitions for the four
terms substituted for earlier by the E.O. drafters. The
integrity of the Working Group's definitions will be main-
tained henceforth.
2. The definition of the term Director of Central
Intelligence (DCI), which was proposed in the 1 November
1977 minutes, was amended and approved as it appears in
the attachment.
3. The NIO list of candidate definitions was com-
pleted with agreement on the terms assessment and
information(al) needs, also shown in t he attachment.
4. The OPP candidate term foreign intelligence
information was discussed at length. It was tentatively
cdeetermin that intelligence information, foreign intelli-
gence information, and foreign counterintelligence in orma-
tion each needed separate definitions. The FBI was asked
to assist in clarifying these terms.
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5. Three previously agreed-upon terms have been
deleted at NSA's request, pending modification. The
three are: Global SIGINT System, Local SIGINT System, and
Direct Support Unit.
6. The DIA candidate list was considered down to
Intelligence Requirement. All were asked to address this
definition and to be prepared to discuss it and the re-
mainder of the DIA list at the next meeting.
7. After considerable discussion, CIA was asked to
provide candidate definitions of clandestine, clandestine
operations, covert operations, an covert action. These
wi lice discussed at the next meeting.
8. Based on a discussion of intelligence definitions
versus other existing definitions of certain intelligence
terms, the Chairman recorded the need to note in the
eventual Working Group glossary that the definitions con-
tained therein would not necessarily coincide with defi-
nitions used elsewhere for legal purposes. This thought
will be included in the "escape clause" drafted at an
earlier meeting,
9. The next meeting of the Working Group will begin
at 1330 on Tuesday, 15 November 1977.
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