"ELECTRONIC INTELLIGENCE" (ELINT)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86T00268R000700010028-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 7, 2014
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: May 16, 1955
• Content Type: MEMO

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EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
WASHINGTON
May 16, 1955
MEMORANDUM FOR THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
SUBJECT: "Electronic Intelligence" (ELINT)
REFERENCES: A. Memo for NSC from Executive Secretary,
same subject, dated April 29, 1955
B. NSCID No. 17
C. NSC,Action No. 1400
The National Security and the Secretary of the Treasury)
effective tbi- approved by memorandum the propoA,Id NSCID No. 17 on the
oubject, upon the recommendation of the Deputy Secretary of Defense am the
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Director of Central Intelligence, concurred in by all of the members of the
Intelligence Advisory Committee except the FBI member, who reported "No
comment".
Accordingly NSCID No. 17 is transmitted herewith for information,
and is being referred to the Secretary of Defense, the Director of Central In-
telligence, and the members of the Intelligence Advisory Committee for infor-
mation and appropriate action.
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cc: The Secretary of the Treasury
The Director, Bureau of the Budget
The Chailman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
The Director of Central Intelligenceo
JAMES S. LAY, JR.
Executive Secretar
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May 161 1955
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTIV INTO. 17
"ELECTRONIC INTELLIGENCE" (ELINT)
Pursuant to Sections 101 and 102, as amen
Security Act of 1947, THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
THAT:
SECRET
ded, .c=pir the National
AUTTICaRIZES AND DIRECTS
The following organization and procedures
in order that Electronics Intelligence, hereinafter
made most effective.
are Ini-reby established
ELINT, may be
1. Definition: The term ELINT is defined as ltALDe collection
(observation and recording)/ and the technical processinec 1.0x. later intel-
ligence purposes; e information on foreign, non-c electro-
magneticmm radiations emanating from other than atomic a.et.c-..;:nzdtion sources.
2. The USCIB, in addition to its authority an. xesponsibility
as defined in NSCID i9, and operating under the procedurEe,is established under
paragraph 1-(f) of that Directive, shall be the nanational/policy body for
go.vx-rmnerits
ELINT, including policy in relation to the Technical 1ThcntEsislAg Center pro-
vided by paragraph 4 below, arrangements with foreign in the
field of ELINT, and recommendations concerning research 3..inK1 thwelopment re-
quirements.
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3. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 2 atz::a=
1n1; of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency shall be
respective ELINT collection activities.
4. The technical processing of all ELINT be accomplished in
Defense. How-
a center to be organized and administered by the Departrarrt of
ever, parallel processing in the field may be accomplisha for essential
imediate operational or tactical purposes. This center shall be jointly
staffed by individuals detailed from the Department of rXense and the CIA
in a proportion to be determined by the Secretary of Defrise euad the DCI.
5. All data collected by the collection agencl_.es shall be made
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available forthwith to the Technical Processing Center, ubject only to mini-
mum. delays necessitated by prior exploitation in the fie:Lid_ for urgent tactical
or operational purposes.
6. The Technical Processing Center shall effec-t fullest and most
expeditious processing possible and furnish the results tlaereof to the inter-
ested Departments and agencies, and to the extent practiceebie, in the form
desired by them.
NSCID No. 17 SECRET
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