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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M01133A001000040001-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 15, 2004
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 13, 1974
• Content Type: REPORT

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DCI BRIEFING BOOK
(Murphy Commission)
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"Briefing paper on Clandestine Operations 1
_,'(':overt Action) prepared by DDO
,v0' ;E_camples of Covert Action
Grief summary of Covert Action papers pre- 4
pared for the Commission by Ambassador
Thelcher,
tp-pr on Congressional Oversight of the CIA 5
STATI NTL
6mmiss ion documents pertaining to the act i-
v?ities and plans of ; the Intelligence
1`C .mmittee
'Letters from Ambassador Murphy to Mr. Colby
setting out "ground rules'.".
crrespondence from Mr. Colby to Ambassador 10
'Murphy responding to the Commission's re-
quest for an unclassified . overview of the
Community, ` commission -'.s , questions .t.o the
olby's testimony of. 19 Noverraber 1973_.,,,.,
omission's unclassified summary of Mr.
Mandate and Membership of-..the Commission. 11
Current status report on'Commission studies
v/ AArt'icles by John Marks from New York Times 12
and Washington Monthly
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Murphy Commission Briefing Book, Continued
STATI NTLOO
/ Articles from Foreign Affairs by
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and Nicholas Katzenbach
Correspondence and back-up material ex- 14
changed by the DCI and the Attorney General
W, Intelligence Community Budget Information 15
Correspondence and back-up material dealing 16
with Philip Agee
Key Intelligence Questions for FY 1975 17
(DCI book includes loose hard-cover copy)
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C-6 J Or-
TALKING PAPER FOR DCI BRIEFING ON MURPHY COMMISSION ON
CLANDESTINE OPERATIONS WITH EMPHASIS COVERT A
Act of 1949 set the pattern of CIA clandestine opera-
tions in the field of foreign intelligence. From the
The National Security Act of 1947 and the
I. Introduction
very beginning, the primary focus of CIA and the Intelli-
gence Community has been aid continues to be on infor-
mation collection and analysis. We serve the Executive
Branch by providing foreign intelligence on critical
from whom periodic accountings of results are requ
international issues and we prepare assessments on the
significance of these developments. We also serve
Congress and the public interest by providing the re-
sults of these assessments to Congress.
Our information collection mission is regu-
lated and controlled by a system of national intelli-
gence requirements recently refined as Key Intelligence
Questions (KIQs) with which all agencies represented
on the United States Intelligence Board are.tasked and
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The KIQs and other formal requirements are continually
revised in order to meet the changing needs of policy
makers. Many influences are brought to bear in deter-
mining the content and priority of a KIQ, most im-
portantly those flowing from the National Security
Council mechanism, the State, Defense and Treasury
Departments, ambassadors in critical countries, and the
Congress.
Covert action, the main subject of this briefing,
derives from the National Security Act of 1947 (Section
102(d)(5)) which authorizes the CIA "to perform such
other functions and duties related to intelligence
affecting the national security as the National Security
Council may from time to time direct." As a result
of Executive usage and Congressional sanction over the
years, this specialized field of foreign intelligence
activity has become an integral part of CIA clandestine
operations. But,L must be stressed that covert action
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is a subsidary task to that of intelligence collection
and, in fact, our capability for covert action is
usually in direct proportion to our ability to recruit
key foreign officials and influential people for infor-
mation purposes.
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