AVOIDANCE OF USE OF SCI SOURCES AND METHODS IN FINISHED INTELLIGENCE PRODUCTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85T00788R000100070025-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 23, 2003
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: April 1, 1981
• Content Type: MF

NATIONAL FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE BOARD
Approved For Release 2004/01/29 : CIA-RDP85T00788R000100070025-0
I APR 1991
'INMIORANDUM FOR NATIONAL FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE BOARD
SUBJECT:- Avoidance of Use of SCI Sources and Methods
in Finished Intelligence Products
1. In order to improve protection of intelligence sources
and methods that have been determined to warrant special control,
all intelligence production elements shall take special care to
ensure that data on such sources and methods are excluded to the
extent possible from finished intelligence products. To provide
this protection, producers of finished intelligence will:
system-oriented cimpartnents.
a. Avoid production which must be handled in c artments
intended to protect collection efforts
because it limits the utility of the product an /or
results in proliferation of access to collection
b. Abide by the total prohibition against using in a
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product-oriented compartment (e.g., TK) any sensitive
compartmented information that has been identified as
warranting compartmentation in a collection-oriented
special access program 0. Such practice voids
the utility of separating sources and methods from
product information.
c. Ensure that unavoidable references to sensitive compact
mented intelligence sources are as non-specific as
practicable.
2. Generalized discussion of compartmented collection
capabilities is permitted in finished intelligence products
provided that the products are themselves compartmented. Discussion
of specific details concerning collection system sources or
methods which are protected by special access programs should not
normally be contained in finished intelligence. When treatment
of a particular subject in finished intelligence products-rwuires
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 CIA-RDP85T00788R000100070025-0
William J. Casey
Chairman
SUBJECT: Avoidance of Use of SCI Sources and Methods in Finished
detailed discussion of compartmented sources and methods, a
special supplement, appropriately controlled, is the preferred
vehicle. Finished intelligence may contain discussion of gaps in
intelligence collection on specific problems or areas, of the
general capabilities of collection systems to provide indications
warning and as a measurement of the reliability of sources to the
extent that analytical judgments would be effected.. 0
3. The policy of constraint on the use of compartmented
information on sources and methods in finished intelligence
products applies to all Intelligence Community publications,
,including. the NID,. Interagency Memoranda, National Intelligence
Estimates and Alert Memoranda. It also applies to all the
finished intelligence production of individual agencies, includ--
ing formal and informal memoranda and studies.
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