NATIONAL SECURITY INTELLIGENCE DIRECTIVE NO. 5 U. .S ESPIONAGE AND COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES ABROAD

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• Publication Date: October 14, 1957
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NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTIVE NO. 5
U. S. ESPIONAGE AND COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES ABROAD
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 102(d) of the National
Security Act of 19!+7, as amended, the National Security Council hereby
authorizes and directs that:
1. For the purpose of this directive:
a. Espionage is defined as those clandestine activities which
are directed toward the acquisition of information through intelli-
gence operations against a foreign power.
b. Counterintelligence is defined as that intelligence
activity, with its resultant product, which is devoted to destroying
the effectiveness of inimical foreign intelligence activities and
which is undertaken to protect the security of the nation, and its
personnel, information and installations abroad, against espionage,
sabotage, and subversion. Counterintelligence includes the process
of procuring, developing, recording, and disseminating information
concerning hostile clandestine activity and of penetrating,
manipulating, or repressing individuals, groups, or organizations
conducting or capable of conducting such activity.
2. To ensure centralized direction through prior, comprehensive and
continuing coordination of all clandestine activities authorized herein,
the Director of Central Intelligence shall:
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a. Establish, in consultation with the Intelligence Advisory
Committee, the procedures necessary to achieve such direction and
coordination;
b. Coordinate all clandestine activities authorized herein
and conducted outside the U. S. and its possessions, including
liaison which concerns clandestine activities or which involves
foreign clandestine services, except when the provisions of
paragraph 8 apply; also coordinate clandestine activities with
overt collection abroad;
c. Invite Departments and Agencies not permanent members of
the Intelligence Advisory Committee which have clandestine counter-
intelligence responsibilities abroad to participate in the
Intelligence Advisory Committee deliberations when clandestine
counterintelligence matters affecting such responsibilities are
under consideration;
d. Make mutually agreeable arrangements with Departments
and Agencies for such cover support as may be needed by the
Central Intelligence Agency, and coordinate arrangements for
such cover support as may be required by other Departments and
Agencies to carry out the clandestine activities authorized in
paragraph 4 below. Arrangements for cover involving the
military services or any component of the Department of Defense
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will be made in accordance with the procedures established by the
Secretary of Defense.
3. The Central Intelligence Agency is the national clandestine
service of the United States and has primary responsibility, subject to
the provisions of paragraph 8, for the following services of common con-
cern:
a. The conduct of espionage outside the United States and
its possessions in order to meet the intelligence needs of all
Departments and Agencies concerned, in connection with the
national security;
b. The conduct of clandestine counterintelligence outside,
the United States and its possessions;
c. The conduct of liaison with foreign clandestine services
or concerning the above clandestine activities with foreign
intelligence or security services.
d. The maintenance for the benefit of the intelligence
community of central indexes and records of foreign counter-
intelligence information to which all Departments and Agencies
shall contribute on a continuing basis all pertinent material
collected by them.
4. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 2 above, other
Departments and Agencies with commands or installations located
outside the U. S. and its possessions may:
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a. Conduct additional espionage in order to satisfy
departmental intelligence needs;
b. Conduct clandestine counterintelligence activities
necessary for the security of their personnel, commands,
activitf*.es and installations;
c. Conduct liaison with foreign clandestine services or
concerning the above clandestine activities with foreign
intelligence or security services.
5. Departments and Agencies shall assist the Central Intelli-
gence Agency in its conduct of espionage by providing guidance in
the form of continuous, timely and specific collection requirements
and, as required, assessments of the information collected. They
shall provide similar support to each other as required.
6. In a foreign area, except where paragraph 8 applies, the
Director of Central Intelligence shall, after consultation with the
Secretary of State, insure that the senior U. S. representative, or
his designated representative, is appropriately advised of U. S.
espionage and clandestine counterintelligence activities conducted in
or from the area.
7. In foreign areas where major U. S. military commands are
stationed, the designated representatives of the Director of Central
Intelligence shall keep the senior U. S. military commanders, or
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their designated representatives, appropriately informed of the
espionage and clandestine counterintelligence operations, conducted
by the Central Intelligence Agency in or from such areas, which
significantly r:Sffect the missions of such commanders.
8. In active theaters of war where U. S. forces are engaged,
or when the President so directs:
*a. The entire Central Intelligence Agency organization
assigned by the Director of Central Intelligence to a commander
of a command established by the Joint Chiefs of Staff shall be
established as a CIA Force and, through the CIA Commander thereof,
shall provide espionage and counterintelligence support to
military operations.
b. Espionage and counterintelligence operations which,
because of some exceptional political, diplomatic or other
implication, are conducted independently by the Central Intelli-
gence Agency, shall be coordinated by the Director of Central
Intelligence with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and, as appropriate,
with the Secretary of State.
*Detailed arrangements concerning the command relationships between the
CIA organization and the Armed Forces in active theaters of war where
American forces are engaged are established by agreement between the
Director of Central Intelligence and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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c. The Director of Central Intelligence and the Joint Chiefs
of Staff shall establish procedures for the coordination of
liaison on clandestine activities between U. S. military commanders
and foreign services that engage in such activities.
9. In addition to the above, thQ Director of Central Intelligence,
in consultation with the Intelligence Advisory Committee and other
interested Departments and Agencies as provided in paragraph 2c above
shall:
a. Provide for coordination of all U. S. counterintelligence
activities abroad and for the coordination of such activities with
the Departments and Agencies responsible for domestic counter-
intelligence, to the extent necessary to ensure conformity with
policies enunciated by the National Security Council;
b. Take such other action as may be deemed necessary to
promote the overall effectiveness of the U. S. counterintelligence
effort abroad.
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