INTELLIGENCE EVALUATION COMMITTEE AND STAFF

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 01430462
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: August 7, 2017
• Case Number: F-2007-00094
• Publication Date: May 7, 1973

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SUBJECT: Intelligence Evaluation Committee and Staff
1. Background: Formed December 1970. Membership:
Department of Justice (Chairman); FBI (active staff par-
ticipation agreed to only in May 1971); Department of
Defense; Secret Service; National Security Agency; CIA
and any necessary representatives of other Departments
or Agencies. (Following have participated: Treasury,
State.) Staff: IES Executive Director John Dougherty
and later Bernard Wells supplied by Department of Justice
with .title of Special Assistant to the Attorney General
in reporting through the Assistant Attorney General for
Internal Security Robert Mardian and later William Olsen.
IES has received requirements directly from and delivered
reports directly to John Dean of the White House.
2. CIA Participation: Contributions on foreign
.aspects (by. memorandum with no agency letterhead or at-
tribution). Contributions occasionally include foreign
intelligence provided by FBI and NSA.
3. Special Report: The Unauthorized Disclosure
of, Classified Information, November 1971. Initiated July
1971 by the White House as a consequence of the Presi-
dent's concern about the release of the Pentagon Papers
by Daniel Ellsberg. Both Robert Mardian and G. Gordon
Liddy initially involved in tasking the IES to produce
this evaluation. Drafting done by IES Staff members
from Justice and FBI. Only gigency participation was
editorial review.
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Introduction
Problems Relating to the Disclosure
of Classified Information
Executive Orders and Related Directives
Effectiveness of Existing Security
Regulations
Lessons of the "Pentagon Papers"
Conclusions and Recommendations
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SUBJECT: The MHCHAOS Program
1. The MHCHAOS program is a worldwide program for
clandestine collection abroad of information on foreign
efforts to support/encourage/exploit/manipulate domestic
U.S. extremism, especially by Cuba, Communist China,
North Vietnam, the Soviet Union, North Korea and the
Arab fedayeen.
2. The MHCHAOS program has not and is not conduct-
ing efforts domestically for internal domestic collection
purposes. Agency efforts are foreign. Foreign-oriented
activity in the United States has been of two types:
a. Selected FBI domestic sources who travel
abroad in connection with their extremist activity
and/or affiliations to make contact with hostile
foreign powers or with foreign extremist groups
have been briefed and debriefed by Headquarters
officers. The briefing has included appropriate
operational guidance, including defensive advice.
3. As indicated earlier, MHCHAOS is a foreign pro-
gram, conducted overseas, except for the limited activity
� described above. The program is and has been managed so
as to achieve the maximum feasible utilization of exist-
ing resources of the Operations Directorate. No assets
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have been recited and run exclusively for the MHCHAOS
program. Instead, emphasis has been placed on the exploi-
tation of new and old Agency assets who have a by-product
capability or a concurrent capability for provision of
information responsive to the program's requirements.
This has involved the provision of custom-tailored collec-
tion requirements and operational guidance. This collec-
tion program is viewed as an _integral Dart of the recruit-
ment and collection programs
Over the course of the MHCHAOS program, there have been
approximately 20 important areas of operational interest,
. The MHCHAOS program
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5. MHCHAOS reporting from abroad relating to the
program originates in two ways: Individuals who are noted
in contact with Cubans, the Chinese Communists, etc., and
who appear to have extremist connections, interests or
background are reported upon. Other individuals are re-
ported upon in response to specific Headquarters require-
ments received from the FBI because such individuals are
.of active investigatory security interest to the FBI.
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8. Information of particular significance, when col-
lected, has been disseminated by special memorandum over
� the signature of the Director of Central Intelligence to
the White House (Dr. Kissinger and John Dean), as well as
to the Attorney General, the Secretary of State and the
Director of the FBI.
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