SURVEY OF DEFECTOR PROGRAM ACTIVITY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04718A000800290100-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 24, 2000
• Sequence Number: 100
• Publication Date: September 18, 1953
• Content Type: MF

Approved For Release 2003/08/05 CJo-RDP78-Q4718A000800290100-3
18 September 1953
M 0RANDUM FOR: Director of Security
SUBJECT : Survey of Defector Program Activity
1. This Office is currently conducting a survey of the activity
carried on by CIA in the Defector Program, a responsibility levied on
us by NSCID 13 and 14. The survey will also include certain of the
financial obligations incurred by virtue of discharging these responsi-
bilities.
2. For purposes of the survey, a defector is defined as follows:
Denotes an individual who escapes from the control of the
USSR, or countries in the Soviet Orbit, or who, being out-
side such jurisdiction or control, is unwilling to return
to it, and who is of special interest to the U.S. Government
because he is able to add valuable new or confirmatory
information to existing U.S. knowledge of the Soviet world;
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because he is of operational value to a U.S. agency, or
because his defection can be exploited in the
Soviet Orbit is defined to include Poland, Czecho-
field.
slovakia, Hungary, Albania, Bulgaria, Rumania, North Korea,
Communist China and East Germany.
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25X1A9a 3? Mr. of my staff is designated as my representa-
tive to contact you on this matter. He will be particularly interested
in learning what services you have been requested to perform on behalf
of DD/P and 00 of a custodial or escort nature in connection with the
handling of defector and other services rendered by you in support of
this program. 1~
s/
Lyman B. Kirkpatrick
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cc: DD/A:
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Inspector General