DISTRIBUTION OF HOSTILE INTELLIGENCE SERVICES MULTIDISCIPLINARY THREAT AND US COUNTERMEASURES ASSESSMENT AND RECOMMENDATIONS

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 4, 2008
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• Publication Date: March 26, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR THE VICE PRESIDENT
THE SECRETARY OF STATE
THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
THE SECRETARY OF ENERGY
COUNSELLOR TO THE PRESIDENT
THE DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT
AND BUDGET
THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE PRESIDENT
CHAIRMAN, JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF
DIRECTOR, FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
DIRECTOR, DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
DIRECTOR, NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY
SUBJECT: Distribution of Hostile Intelligence Services
Multidisciplinary Threat and US Countermeasures
Assessment and Recommendations
A coordinated national approach to the wide range of
intelligence collection techniques by which hostile intelli-
gence services threaten the United States is vital to our
security. To foster this approach National Security Decision
Directive 2 directs that an annual assessment of the relative
threat to United States interests from foreign intelligence
and security services be prepared including an assessment of
the effectiveness of various countermeasures. The purpose is
to enable the National Security Council and the President to
perceive the threat broadly, especially the interaction of
different hostile collection systems and to develop and main-
tain an integrated countermeasures program. In tasking this
third national assessment, the Assistant to the President
for National Security Affairs asked that it consider in
particular "active measures" and that it expand the evaluation
of the effectiveness of the various countermeasures employed
to meet the threat.
The assessment, together with a series of recommendations
for improving US countermeasures under separate cover, was
prepared by the National Multidisciplinary Counterintelligence
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Assessment Center assigned to the Director
of Central Intelligence and is distributed for your review
and action. The assessment is sobering in its judgement of
the increasing strategic threat posed by the intelligence
services of the Soviet Union and its allies and disturbing
in its assessment of the adequacy of US countermeasures_
In National Security Study Directive 2-82, Detecting and
Countering the Foreign Intelligence Threat to the United
States, the President has asked that the current multi-
disciplinary assessment, as well as the two previous ones,
be drawn upon in establishing the nature and scope of the
threat. The Senior Interagency Group - Intelligence (SIG-I)
shall consider the assessment and recommendations in the course
of the NSSD 2-82 review. In this connection, appropriate
addressees should prepare a detailed plan for implementing
each of the recommendations contained in the current assess-
ment as part of that review and in time to input the develop-
ment of the FY 1984 budget.
Where appropriate, you may wish to draw on the attached
assessment in preparing for upcoming FY 1983 budget hearings
on US counterintelligence needs.
FOR THE PRESIDENT:
William P. Clark
Attachment
Hostile Intelligence Services
Multidisciplinary Threat and
US Countermeasures, March 1982
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