SUMMARY OF POLICY FOR THE USE OF TALENT MATERIAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP92B01090R002600150046-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 23, 2012
• Sequence Number: 46
• Publication Date: November 25, 1957
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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25 November 1957
SUMMARY CF POLICY FOR THE USE OF TALENT MATERIAL
The directive of 16 August 1956, establishing the UAB, gives its mission
as "stimulating the Agencies participating in the TALENT Control System to
exploit the AQUATONE product to the optimum benefit for intelligence production
without directly citing the source or the raw information produced by the source."
The directive also states: "The Board ? .should be guided but not necessari-
ly limited by the principles and procedures for the utilization of photography
and COMINT as recommended by the Ad Hoc Requirements Committee for Project
AQUATONE and approved by CIA."
The principles and procedures mentioned above were dated 22 May 1956 and
contained the following statements of basic policy:
'$a, the materials will never be disseminated or utilized outside ofthe
Control System in their original state except in unusual cases where
specific authorization is granted by the DCI or in cases as provided in
the TALENT Control Manual,"
"b. The process for extracting information from the original materials
for use-outside the Control System must be done in such a way as to leave
no evidence or indication of its origin,"
It was 'specified that exploitation would be accomplished to the maximum degree
at the Washington level, and the following procedures were also specified.
"a, Information may be studied within the TALENT System by cleared key
HANDLE VIA COM'INT AND TALENT CHANNELS ONLY
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