AVOIDANCE OF USE OF SCI SOURCES AND METHODS IN FINISHED INTELLIGENCE PRODUCTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85T00788R000100070022-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 23, 2003
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: April 11, 1981
• Content Type: MF

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'Abide by the total prohibition against using in a
product-oriented compartrcent (e.g. , _.TK) any sensitive
com, artrnented information that has been identified as
product information.
Ensure that unavoidable: references to sensitive compart-_
mented intelligence sources are as non-specific as -
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: APR 1931
t?IE:oRANC JM FOR MTIOi . FOREIG ImT LZGENCE B0:ARB
SUBJECT: Avoidance of Use of SCI Sources and Methods
in Finished Intelligence Products
this protection, producers of finished intelligence irzll
extent possible from finished intelligence products- - To provide
ensure that data on'such sources and methods are excluded. to the,
all intelliLrence.-prQductian elements shall take special. care to
1. In order to i r ircnre protection of intelligence sources
and metho 'that have bpert determined to Irarrant special control,
Warranting cc:npart.entation in a co_E.Lection-ors-enLeci
the utility of separating sources and methods-tram
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of a particular subject in finished intelligence product-s_-r_-_:P
normally be c:c-. din finished intelligence- When trea- ent
of Sp e ific e ta .i? s ccnceinirig collection system sources or -
methods >'h?c are trotec:.ed by speciall access programs should not
provided that the products are themselves cc,^ a~i ented_ DiscussioTt,
capabilities is psrr:L.Lted in finished intelligence products
prod cable- - - ' -
2_ Generalized discussion of carrpartnented collection
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detailed discussion of can. partmented sources and rethods, a '
special suppleneat, appropriately controlled, is tha preferred
vehicle . Find sh`d. intelligence may contain discussion of gaps in
intelligence collection on specific problems or areas, of the
general capabilities of collection systems to provide indications
warning and as a measurement of the -reliability of sources to the
extent that analytical Judgments ' would be effected-
'['he policy of constraint on the use of canmartinented
info= iztidrL on sources and methods in finished intelligence,
produces applies to all Intelligence Community publications,
'including the NID, Interagency Memoranda, ? National Intelligence
Estimates and Alert Memoranda_. . it also applies - to a? 1. the
finished intelligence Production. of individual agencies; includ-
vino formal and informal memoranda and studies.
William J, Casey _
Chairman