COLLECTION AGAINST INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85M00364R001101660029-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Document Release Date: April 18, 2008
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: March 13, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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The Director of Central Intelligence
Washington.D. C.20505
MEMORANDUM FOR: The Honorable William P. Clark
Assistant to the President for
National Security Affairs
SUBJECT: Collection Against International Terrorism
REFERENCE: Your memorandum of 22 February 1982,
same subject
1. Your memorandum cited the President's interest in greater
intelligence efforts against international terrorism and called for raising
both priorities and resource commitments. This is a preliminary response, and
will be followed by a more detailed answer after a thorough revievn#
activities, plans, and resources concerning this important area.
2. The attention paid to international terrorism by the Intelligence
Community has increased considerably in the past year. The overall priority
.of this target was raised in coordination with the Senior Interdepartmental
Group and may be raised further. Intelligence collection objectives
susceptible to human source collection have been identified in a comprehensive
National HUMINT Collection Plan on Terrorism (attached). The Plan, which was
endorsed by the National Foreign Intelligence Board, was distributed to every
US diplomatic mission and consular post as Dart of an effort to sensitize them
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to the nature and urgency of the problem.
3. The collection agencies have undertaken a number of fundamental steps
to improve their collection potential:
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