ADDITION OF AUDIO COUNTERMEASURES EQUIPMENT TO EXPORT ADMINISTRATION REGULATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82M00591R000300110029-7
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• Original Classification: C
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 10, 2003
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: February 3, 1976
• Content Type: MF

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SUBJECT . Addition of Audio Countermeasures
Equipment to Export Administration
Regulations
1. The Technical Surveillance Countermeasures portion
of the Intelligence Community security arena has been
perennially plagued by industrial firms marketing or attempting
to market overseas countermeasures equipment and/or techniques
which are identical with or are alarmingly similar to those in
use by the Intelligence Community. We have recently reviewed
this with representatives of the Justice Department, the
Department of State Munitions Control Board, and the Office of
Export Administration of the U. S. Commerce Department and
find that there is little that can currently be done. We
conclude that a useful first step would be to try to extend the
Export Administration Regulations to cover equipment of this
type. The attached excerpt shows those regulations currently
cover Communications Intercepting Devices, 376.13 in language
taken, incidentally, directly from the Omnibus Crime Bill.
2. We are advised that the U. S. can unilaterally add
items to these regulations with the approval of the President
and the Congress. The alternative is to request and receive
(no doubt after much discussion) unanimous agreement of the
COCOM nations; not a desirable route to follow.
3. It is suggested that the DCI, pursuant to the
provision of Section 102(d) of the National Security Act of
1947 and as further spelled out in NSCID No. 5, may have
therein the required Presidential and Congressional approval
as the primary U. S. authority responsible for counterintel-
ligence abroad. If that be the case, I would propose a
letter from the DCI to the Office of Export Administration,
Commerce Department, citing this authority, requesting that
audio surveillance! countermeasures equipment, devices, and
techniques be considered in the same category and receive
the same treatment as Communications Intercepting Devices.
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4. I would appreciate your judgement as to the DCI's
authority, as cited or from other sources, to make such a
request. Our contact at the Office of Expof Administration
is Mr. John K. Boidock, phone 967-
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