NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTIVE NO. 5 ESPIONAGE AND COUNTERINTELLIGENCE

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• Publication Date: July 9, 1957
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NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTIVE NO. 5
ESPIONAGE AND COUNTERINTELLIGENCE
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 102 (d) of the National
Security Act of 1947, as amended, the National Security Council hereby
authorizes and directs that:
1. The Central Intelligence Agency shall conduct all national
espionage outside the United States and its possessions in order to
meet the needs of all Departments and Agencies concerned, in con-
nection with the national security, except for certain agreed activities
by other Departments and Agencies.
2. The Central Intelligence Agency shall conduct all counter-
intelligence outside the United States and its possessions, except that
this authority shall not preclude the departmental counterintelligence
activities, and certain agreed counterintelligence activities pertaining
thereto, of other Departments and Agencies, necessary for the pro-
tection of their respective personnel, operations, installations,
material, and equipment. Each Department or Agency with personnel
or installations located outside the United States and its possessions
is responsible for the counterintelligence protection of such personnel
or installations,
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3. For the purpose of this directive:
a. Espionage is defined as the clandestine procurement
of information.
b. Counterintelligence is defined as that activity, with
its resultant product, which is undertaken to protect the security
of the nation, and its personnel and installations abroad, against
espionage, counterespionage, sabotage, and subversion. As
an activity, counterintelligence is the process of procuring,
developing, and recording information concerning espionage,
counterespionage, sabotage, and subversion directed against
the national security, and of penetrating, manipulating, or
repressing individuals, groups, or organizations conducting
or capable of conducting, such acts.
4. The Central Intelligence Agency shall be responsible for
maintaining as a service of common concern the central indices and
records of foreign counterintelligence information. It shall be the
obligation of the Departments and Agencies to assist the Central
Intelligence Agency in the execution of this responsibility by contributing
to the central file, ona continuing basis, all pertinent material col-
lected by them.
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5. To promote the over-all interests of the U. S. intelligence
community the Director of Central Intelligence shall, in consultation
with the Intelligence Advisory Committee, coordinate all activities
authorized herein except in active theaters of war where U. S. forces
are engaged in combat, in which event the provisions of paragraph 12,
below, shall apply. .
6. The Director of Central Intelligence shall coordinate foreign
clandestine intelligence collection with overt collection abroad.. He
shall also insure in consultation with the Intelligence Advisory Committee
that counterintelligence activity abroad is coordinated with the Depart-
ments and Agencies responsible for domestic counterintelligence to the
extent necessary to insure conformity with the policies enunciated by
the National Security Council..,. The Director of Central Intelligence
shall invite Departments and Agencies not permanent members of the
Intelligence Advisory Committee which have counterintelligence
responsibilities abroad to participate in the Intelligence Advisory
Committee deliberations when counterintelligence matters affecting
such responsibilities are under consideration.
7. Other Departments and Agencies shall assist the Central
Intelligence Agency in its conduct of espionage by providing continuous
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and timely guidance, specific collection requirements, and assessments
of intelligence information collected.
8. In the conduct of national espionage and counterintelligence
the Director of Central Intelligence shall make arrangements with the
Departments and Agencies for such cover support as may be needed by
the Central Intelligence Agency.
9. In a foreign area other than an active theater of war where
U. S. forces are engaged in combat, the designated representative of
the Director of Central Intelligence shall keep the senior U. S. repre-
sentative appropriately advised of U. S. espionage and counterintelli-
gence activities conducted in or from the area.
10. In a foreign area where major U. S. military commands
are stationed, the designated representative of the Director of Central
Intelligence shall keep the senior U. S. military commanders informed
of the espionage and counterintelligence operations conducted by the
Central Intelligence Agency in or from the area in direct support of
the commanders.
11. The Central Intelligence Agency is responsible for the,
establishment, conduct, and development of liaison concerning
clandestine matters with foreign intelligence and security services.
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Other Departments and Agencies may conduct liaison on non-clan-
destine matters with foreign intelligence and security services as
required for the proper execution of their missions. However, all
liaison which concerns or affects clandestine matters shall be coor-
dinated in advance and on a continuing basis with the.Central Intelligence
Agency in order to insure that such relationships are beneficial to the
over-all clandestine interests of the T.T. S.
12. In active theaters of war where U. S. forces are engaged
in combat:
a. All resources of the Central Intelligence Agency shall
be included in a CIA Theater Force and, through the CIA
commander thereof, shall provide espionage and counterintelli-
gence support to military operations in accordance with the
requirements of the U. S. Military Theater Commander or
the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
b. Such exceptional espionage and counterintelligence
operations as may be conducted by the CIA Theater Force in
support of national requirements as distinguished from those
operations conducted in support of the Military Theater
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Commander shall be coordinated by the Director of Central
Intelligence with the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
c. The Director of Central Intelligence and the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, shall establish procedures for the coordination
of liaison between U. S. military commanders and foreign
services concerning clandestine matters.
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