NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTIVE NO. 7 DOMESTIC EXPLOITATION

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NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTIVE NO, 7
DOMESTIC EXPLOITATION
Pursuannz`1; to the provisions of Section 102 of the National
Security Act- of 191!7, and for the purpose enunciated in pai-i -
graphs (d) and (a) thereof, the National Security Council here-
by authorizes and directs that:
1. The Central Intelligence Agency shall be responaib .e
for the exploitation, on a highly selective basis, within the
United States of business concerns., other non-governmental
organizations and individuals as sources of foreign intel-
ligence information.
2. To implement this undertaking, the Central Intel-
ligence Agency shall:
a. Determine the foreign intelligence potential
of sources so that the best available may be selected
expeditiously for exploitation upon the receipt of col-
lection requests from the intelligence agencies. For
this purpose, CIA will maintain a central index of non-
governmental sources in the United States,
b. Establish uniform procedures and standards for
security clearance of all contacts in this field, and
arrange such clearances.
c, Establish uniform procedures to insure that
the interests of organizations and individuals contacted
will not be jeopardized.
d. Collect through the establishment of field
offices within the United States, foreign intelligence
information required in the interests of the national
security or by the individual intelligence agencies.
e. Arrange for direct contact between intelligence
agency representatives and non-governmental sources with-
in the United States whenever conditions require such
action or upon the request of a member agency to secure
technical or other foreign intelligence information.
f. Obtain the agreement of responsible policy-
making officials of American organizations having a
foreign intelligence potential before establishing and
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maintaining contacts within that organization.
g. Inform the intelligence agencies of the pro-
spective departure from or return to the United States
of selected American citizens having a high foreign
intelligence potential, so that the agencies may fur-
nish requirements or provide specialists for briefing
or interrogation.
h. Disseminate to the appropriate agencies all
foreign intelligence information obtained through this
program. Reports produced by the agencies shall be,
identified as such, unless the originating agency stipu-
lates to the contrary.
3. Further to implement this undertaking, the intelli-
gence agencies shall:
a. Assign to duty in the Central Intelligence
Agency field offices, if they so desire and within their
capabilities, representatives to serve their interests
under the direction of the CIA managers. Member agencies
may, at their discretion, establish active working
liaison between their Regional Offices and CIA Field
Offices.
b. Send directly to the Central Intelligence A-
gency7-for collection all their requests for foreign in-
telligence information to be obtained from non-govern-
mental sources within.the United States.
C. Transmit to the Central Intelligence Agency
for appropriate dissemination full information and re-
ports resulting from approved direct contacts by agency
representatives with non-governmental sources, identify-
ing such sources by CIA code number.
d. Obtain, to the maximum extent possible, from
their departments and agencies the foreign intelligence
information which the departments and agencies have re-
ceived as a by-product of the normal relationship with
business concerns and other non-governmental organi-
zations and individuals in the TJnited States in connect-
ion with non-intelligence activities, and transmit to
the maximum extent possible, the information to the
Central Intelligence Agency for editing for source se-
curity and for appropriate dissemination.
e. Obtain, in so far as is practicable and within
existing security regulations, from their departments
and agencies information concerning business concerns
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and other non-governmental organizations and individuals
in the United States having foreign intelligence poten-
tial, which the department or agency possesses or sub-
sequently acquires, and make the information available
to the Central Intelligence Agency.
f. Nominate representatives to serve on a com-
mittee, under the chairmanship of the Central Intelli-
gence Agency, to meet periodically to consider mutual
problems and interests in connection with this program.
4. Further to implement this undertaking, the National
Security Resources Board and the components of the Military
Establishment, other than the components represented on the
IAC, shall furnish directly to the CIA, to the maximum ex-
tent possible, all foreign intelligence information which is
received as_a by-product of their normal relationship with
business concerns and other non-governmental organizations
and individuals in the United States, in connection with
non-intelligence activities.
5. Nothing in this program shall be interpreted to
affect the established relationship of the Departments and
Agencies with business concerns, other non-governmental,
organizations, and individuals in the United States for pur-
poses other than the procurement of foreign intelligence
information. Nor shall it affect the normal interchange of
documents between libraries of the departments and other
libraries, or the development of research projects with
individuals or non-governmental institutions.
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