MINUTES OF 26 OCTOBER 1977 MEETING

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 12, 2004
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: October 26, 1977
• Content Type: MF

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DCI/IC 77-6375
26 October 1977
MEMORANDUM FOR: Members, Intelligence Definitions
Working Group
I I
-0111ce or o lcy and Planning
Intelligence Community Staff
SUBJECT: Minutes of 26 October 1977 Meeting
1. A summary of the 26 October 1977 meeting of the
Intelligence Definitions Working Group is attached for
your information. Also attached are the definitions agreed
upon at the 26 October meeting and a list titled National/
Tactical Interface Study Definitions for discussion at the
next meeting.
2. Draft definitions not previously distributed are
also included for your review pending future discussion.
In that connection, in the CIA definitions distributed
earlier, please note the following change:
Cartographic Intelligence: The research and
analysis of positional data--political, economic,
social, geographic, military, and scientific--which
can be shown on maps to display spatial relation-
ships for analytical, estimative, and decision-
making processes.
3. The next meeting of the Working Group will begin
at 0930, Tuesday, 1 November 1977, CHB, Room 5S09.
Attachment
As Stated
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MINUTES OF THE INTELLIGENCE
DEFINITIONS WORKING GROUP
1? noting that the Treasury
representative was unable to attend, deferred discussion
of Treasury's candidate definitions. He informed the Work-
ing Group that four definitions from the draft Executive
Order on intelligence had been selected to replace those
previously reviewed by the Group to be included on the
Huddleston list of 26. The four terms are communications
security, foreign intelligence, foreign counterintelligence,
and international terrorist activity.
2. The Group reviewed candidate definitions submitted
by the NIO, Energy, Army and HRC. Those agreed-upon defini-
tions, as modified by the Group, are attached for your in-
formation. Note that assessment and information needs on
the NIO list were deferred for later discussion wen the
Treasury representative could be present.
3. nnounced that the undersigned
will henceforth act as executive secretary to the Working
Group in place of Questions, requests STAT
for assistance, etc. may be directed to the same telephone
iorl-
Uttice ice ot Policy and Planning
Intelligence Community Staff
STAT
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NAME
ATTENDEES
DEFINITIONS WORKING GROUP
26 October 1977
STAT
r. Lee Mart in
Mr. R. P. Watson
STAT
STAT
Mr. H. W. Taylor
Mr. William Kenworthey, Jr.
STAT F- I
ORGANIZATION
ICS (OPEI)
DoE
FBI
DIA
Army (OACSI)
CIA
NFAC
NSA
IHC
ICS (OPP)
376-1748
STAT
STAT
324-4583 STAT
695-6669
695-4469
X88-65L1
688-7608
TAT
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DEFINITIONS AGREED UPON
26 October 1977
Alert Memorandum: A document issued by the DCI to
NSC-level policymakers to warn them of possible developments
abroad, often of a crisis nature, of major concern to the
US. Alert Memoranda are coordinated within the Intelligence
Community to the extent time permits.
Coordination: The process of seeking concurrence
from one or more groups, organizations, and agencies re-
garding a proposal or an activity for which they share
some responsibility, and which may result in contributions,
concurrences or dissents. In the production of intelligence,
the process by which producers gain the views of other pro-
ducers on the adequacy of a specific draft assessment,
estimate, or report. Coordination is intended to increase a
product's factual accuracy, clarify its judgments, resolve
disagreement on issues that permit, and sharpen statements
of disagreement on major unresolved issues.
Estimative Intelligence: A category of intelligence
production which attemps to project future foreign develop-
ments and their implications for US interests, whether of a
national or departmental character. Estimative Intelligence
may or may not be coordinated.
Intelligence Estimate: The product of Estimative
Intelligence.
Interagency Intelligence Memorandum (IIM): A national
intelligence assessment or estimate issued by the DCI with
advice of appropriate NFIB agencies.
National Estimates: (See National Intelligence
Estimate).
Special Intelligence Estimate (SNIE): National Intel-
ligence Estimates (NIEs) which are relevant to specific
policy problems that need to be addressed in the immediate
future. SNIEs are generally unscheduled, shorter, and pre-
pared more quickly than NIEs and are coordinated within
the Intelligence Community only to the extent that time
permits.
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Energy Intelligence: Foreign intelligence relating to
the tec nical, economic and political capabilities and
programs of foreign countries to engage in development,
utilization and commerce of basic and advanced energy
technologies. Energy intelligence includes the location
and extent of foreign energy resources and their alloca-
tion; foreign government energy policies, plans and pro-
grams; new and improved foreign energy technologies; and
economic and security aspects of foreign energy supply,
demand, production distribution, and utilization.
Proliferation Intelligence: Foreign intelligence re-
lating to (a) scientific, technical and economic capabilities
and programs and the political plans and intentions of non-
nuclear weapon states (NNWS) or foreign organizations to
acquire nuclear weapons and/or to acquire the requisite
special nuclear materials.(SNM) and to carry on research,
development and manufacture of nuclear explosive devices,
and; (b) the attitudes, policies and actions of foreign
nuclear supplier countries or organizations within these
countries toward provision of technologies, facilities or
SNM which could assist NNWS or foreign organizations to
acquire or develop nuclear explosive devices.
Decontrol: The removal of compartmented material
from special security controls stipulated by the compart-
ment. The decontrolled material is unchanged and remains
in its original form except that the control and account-
ability markings for the specific compartment are removed.
Net Assessments: Comparative reviews and analyses
of opposing national strengths, capabilities, vulnerabilities
and weaknesses. Intelligence net assessments involve only
foreign countries.
Actionable Intelligence: Intelligence information
that is directly useful to consumers without having to
go through the full intelligence production process. It
may address strategic or tactical needs, or close-support
of US negotiating teams or action elements dealing with
such matters as international terrorism or narcotics.
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DCI: The Director of Central Intelligence is the President's
principal foreign intelligence adviser appointed by him with the
consent of'the Senate to be the 1.er of the Intelligence Community
and hijaid of the Central Intelligence Agency and to discharge those
authorities and responsibilities as they are prescribed by law and
by Presidential directives.
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMUNITY
Those departments, U.S. Government agencies, and
other organizations which are represented in U.S.
diplomatic missions abroad; and Executive Branch entities
which may not be represented abroad but are significantly
involved in international activities with the governments
of other nations.
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Monitor to Assess
MONITOR
The overt or clandestine act of observing, listening
to, intercepting, recording, transcribing any form of
communications or media for intelligence collection or
intelligence security purposes.
REVIEW
To examine, inspect, and discuss in a critical manner,
precedent to consideration of value:
EVALUATE
To appraise the worth of an intelligence activity or
result in terms of its contribution to a specific goal,
or the credibility, reliability, pertinency, accuracy,
usefulness of information in terms of an intelligence
need, usually without reference to cost.
ASSESS
A management deliberation in which the value of an
intelligence activity, result, or product is weighed
against resource allocation or expenditures.
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DCI: The Director of Central Intelligence is the President's
principal foreign intelligence adviser appointed by him with the
consent of the Senate to be the leader of the Intelligence Community
and fnN-W of the Central Intelligence Agency and to discharge those
authorities and responsibilities as they are prescribed by law and
by Presidential directives.
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OPP PROPOSED TERMS
Consolidated Defense Intelligence Program (CDIP)
Consolidated Intelligence Resources Information System (CIRIS)
Global Systems
Local Systems
Reconnaissance
Surveillance
Direct Support Unit
Validation
Fusion
Fusion Centers
Quick Reaction Capability
Asset - (Tactical) (Intelligence)
(National) (Intelligence)
Essential Element of Information
Operational Control Capability
Target
Collection Requirement
Near Real Time
Joint Intelligence
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TERMINOLOGY (FBI)
AGENT
An individual other than an officer, employee
or co-opted worker of an intelligence service to whom
specific intelligence assignments are given by or on behalf
of an intelligence service.
AGENT OF INFLUENCE .
An agent who utilizes his position to influence
public opinion or decision making to produce results beneficial
to the country whose intelligence service operates him.
CO-OPTED WORKER
A national of a country but not an officer or
employee of the country's intelligence service who assists
that service on a temporary or regular basis. (While in
most circumstances a co-opted worker .is an official of
the country, he can also be a tourist, student, etc.)
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A national of a country who has escaped from the
control of such country, or who, being outside such jurisdiction
and control, is unwilling to return thereto and is of special
value to another government because he is able to add valuable
new or confirmatory information to existing knowledge of
his country.
DEFECTOR IN PLACE
A foreign official who overtly continues to work
.for his government and covertly provides information of
intelligence value to an intelligence service of another
government.
DOMESTIC SECURITY
Those internal activities undertaken by the United
States Government to protect the nation from acts of violence
i
(which acts are in violation of the constitution, laws,
or treaties, of the United States) intended to overthrow
or substantially impair the functioning of the United States
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Government or the government of a state; to substantially
interfere with the activities of a foreign government in
the United States; or to deprive persons of their civil
rights.
DOUBLE AGENT
An agent who is cooperating with an intelligence
service on behalf of and under the control of an intelligence
service of another country.
An officer or employee of an intelligence service
dispatched abroad who has no overt connection with the
intelligence service with which he is connected or with
the government operating that intelligence service.
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ILLEGAL AGENT
An agent directed from the headquarters of his
intelligence service or by an illegal residency.
OFFICIALS (FOREIGN)
Foreign nationals in the United States who are
acting in an official capacity on behalf of a foreign power,
attached to a foreign diplomatic establishment or an establish-
ment under the control of a foreign power, or employed by
a public. international organization or organization established
under an agreement to which the United States is a party.
RESIDENCY (ILLEGAL)
An intelligence establishment in a target country
composed of one or more intelligence officers and possibly
one or more employees which has no overt connection with
the intelligence service involved or with the government
of the country operating the intelligence service.
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RESIDENCY (LEGAL)
An intelligence establishment in a target country
composed of intelligence officers and employees assigned
as overt representatives of their government.
Those acts specifically described by United States
federal law which are committed with the intent of injure,
interfere with, or obstruct the national defense of the United
States.
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