APPENDIX A DEFINITIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87B01034R000200020029-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 1, 2005
• Sequence Number: 29
• Content Type: MISC

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For the purposes of these procedures:
Agerx.ies within the Intelligence C7=amity are: (a) the CIA; (b) the
National Security Agency; (c) the Defense Intelligence Agency; (d) the Offices
within the Department of Defense for the collection of specialized national
foreign intelligence through reconnaissance programs; (e) the Bureau of
Intelligence and Research of the Department of State; (f) the intelligence
elements of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, the FBI, the Department
of the Treasury, and the Department of Energy; and (g) the staff elements of the
Office of the DCI.
Agent of a foreign paver means :
a. A person who, for or on behalf of a forei n power, is engaged in
clandestine intelligence activities (including clandestine activities
intended to affect the political or governnntal-process), sabotage, or
international terrorist activities, or who conspires with or knowingly aids
or abets such a person in engaging in such activities;
b. A person who is an officer or employee of~a foreign power,
including any individual whether in the United States or abroad who acts in
an official capacity on behalf of a foreign power, is attached to a foreign
diplomatic establishment or an establishment under the control of a foreign
power, or is employed by a public international organization or organization
established urrier an agreement to which the United States is a .party;
c. A corporation or other entity that is owned or controlled directly
or indirectly by a foreign power;
d. A person acting in collaboration with an intelligence or security
service of a foreign per who has, or has had, access to information or
material classified by the United States; or
e. A person unlawfully acting for or pursuant to the direction of a
foreign paver, provided that the fact that a person's activities may benefit
or further the aims of a foreign power, standing alone, is not sufficient to
support a finding that a person is acting for or pursuant to the direction
of a foreign power.
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Central Intelligence Agency and CIA include the staff elements of the Office
of the Director of Central Intelligence.
Consent means that (a) the subject or a participant in the activity has
granted permission, in writing if passible or orally, within a specific time
frame and context or (b) in the case of employees or visitors to government
facilities, there is a visible posted notice on government property which
clearly states that the place or object where the notice is posted is subject to
a particular form of search or surveillance; (c) in the case of employees, the
activity is undertaken in accordance with published rules or regulations; or (d)
the subject of a lawful investigation has authorized a CIA employee to undertake
that activity regardless of the subject's knowledge of the employee's
affiliation. Consent to collect implies consent to retain or disseminate.
Consent, unless the consenting party specifies otherwise, includes consent to
use standard collection techniques.
Counterintelligence means infornation gathered and activities conducted to
protect against espionage and other clandestine intelligence activities,
sabotage, and international terrorist activities or assassinations conducted by
or on behalf of foreign powers, organizations or persons, but not includir
personnel, physical, document, or cc mications security pregramS.
Employee means a person employed by, assigned to, or acting for the
organization. I
Foreign per means (a) a foreign government or any component thereof,
whether or not recognized by the United States; (b) a faction of a fore n
nation' or nations, not substantially composed of United States persons; Cc) an
entity that is openly acknowledged by a foreign government or governments to be
directed and controlled by such foreign government or governments; (d) a
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foreign-based group engaged in international terrorist activity and any other
group engaged abroad in any such activity; or (e) a foreign-based political
organization not substantially composed of United States persons.
Foreign intelliger a means information relating to the capabilities,
intentions, and activities of foreign powers, organizations, or persons, but not
including counterintelligence except for information on international terrorist
activities.
I ternaitics3al terrorist activities means any activity or activities which:
a. Involves killing, causing serious bodily harm, kidnapping, or
violent destruction of property, or an attempt or credible threat to con nit
such acts; and
b. Appears intended to endanger a protectee of the Secret Service,
the Department of State, or other Federal department or agency, or to
further political, social, or eeonxnie goals by intimidating or coercing a
civilian population or any segment thereof, influencing the policy of a
goverrm nt or international organization by intimidation or coercion, or
obtaining widespread publicity for a group or its cause; and
c. Occurs totally outside the United States or transcends national
boundaries in terms of the means by which it is accomplished, the civilian
population, government, or international organization it appears intended to
? coerce or intimidate, or the locale in which its perpetrators operate or
seek asylum.
Least intrusive technique feasible means that all techniques may be used
only if less intrusive techniques cannot acquire intelligence of the nature,
reliability and timeliness required. As a general rule, unregulated collection
and standard collection techniques are less intrusive than special collection 25X1
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Public Q maunications means cc a munications transmitted within frequency
bands devoted to AM/FM, television and other broadcasts and communications
intended for subsequent broadcast or public dissemination which are in fact
broadcast or disseminated publicly; amateur and CB ccm unications; police, fire,
ambulance, navigational aid and distress, and other public service
transmissions; and aircraft and maritime ccmninications not connected with Land-
based telephone lines.
Publicly available means information that any member of the public could
lawfully obtain by request or observation, or information, including public
ccranmications, that is lawfully accessible to any member of the public.
Special activities means activities conducted in support of national foreign
policy objectives abroad which are planned and executed so that the role of the
United States Government is not apparent or acknowledged publicly, and functions
in support of such activities, but which are not intended to influence United
States political processes, public opinion or policies and do not include
diplomatic activities or the collection and production of intelligence or
related support. functions.
Unoonsented physical. search Trans a search or seizure of a person or his
property or possessions for purposes other than placing an electronic -
surveillance or electronic or mechanical monitoring device, without the consent
of the person or, in the case of property or possessions, of another individual
who has authority to consent to such a search. This term includes the opening
of any mail sent by or intended to be received by a United States person. '
United States person means
a. A citizen of the United States;
b. An alien krxnwm by CIA to be a permanent resident alien;
c. An unincorporated association substantially canposed of United
States citizens or permanent resident aliens;
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d. A corporation incorporated in the United States, unless such
corporation is controlled by one or more foreign goveriinents. A corporation
or corporate subsidiary incorporated abroad, even if partially or wholly
owned by a corporation incorporated in the United States, is not a United
States person.
A person or organization outside the United States shall be presumed not to be a
United States person unless information to the contrary is obtained.
In United States postal charnels means:
a. Mail while in transit within, among, and between the United States
(including mail of foreign origin which is passed by a foreign postal
administration to the U.S. Postal Service for forwarding to a foreign postal
administration under a postal treaty or convention and mail temporarily in
the hands of the U.S. Custans Service or the Department of Agriculture); its
territories and possessions; Army--Air Force (APO) and Navy (FPO) post
offices; and mail for delivery to the United Nations, N.Y.; and
b. International mail enroute to an addressee in the United States or
its possessions after passage to U.S. Postal Service fran a foreign postal
administration or enroute to an addressee abroad before passage to a foreign
postal administation.
As a general rule, mail shall be considered in such postal channels until the
mcment it is manually delivered to the specific addressee in the United States
named on the envelope or his authorized agent.
Visibly present means that a person at a location at which a special
collection technique is directed is a person who is (a) a party to a
conversation at that location, (b) a person, other than a party, who
participates in a conversation at that location, or (c) a person in such close
proximity to a conversation at that location so as to be reasonably assumed by
the participants to be able to overbear the conversation at that location.
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