(EST PUB DATE) MHCHAOS

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 01482068
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: August 7, 2017
• Case Number: F-2007-00094
• Publication Date: January 1, 1974

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MOHACS is resti-ict d to the collection abroad of information
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on foreign activities related to domestic matters. CIA will focus
clearly on the foreign organizations and individuals involved and
only incidentally on their American contacts. As a consequence,
CIA, will not take on the primary responsibility for following
Ameacans abroad, although CIA can accept a request by the FBI to
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tor-the surveillance of such an American and the transmission of
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the results back to the FBI. It must be plainly demonstrated in.
each such transmission that the-CIA is merely a channel of communi-
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cation between the FBI and the appropriate foreign service and is�
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not to be d?rectly engaged in the surveillance or other action .
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against the American involved.
With respect to Americans abroad who become suspect for
security or counterintelligence reasons, any official U.S. per-
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sonnel will be reported to their parent-agency's security uuthori-
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.ties, CIA will merely-serve as a transmission belt for the
information concerned. Specific CIA operations will not be mounted
against such inclividwas, but they will be reported when their
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identitie: come as an incidental result of other CIA foreign in�
telligence or counterintelligence operations. With respect to
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private American citizens abroad, any such information arising
vIll be reported to the FBI. CIA involvement thereafter will be
restricted to following intelligence or counterintelligence aspects
of the case and transmitting any FBI requests for assistance from
foreign.secutity or intelligence services on the matter, in the
fashion outlined above.
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