MINUTES OF 10 JANUARY 1978 MEETING

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 14, 2004
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• Publication Date: January 10, 1978
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DCI/IC 78-1106
10 January 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR: Members, Intelligence Definitions
Working Group
Office of Policy and Planning
Intelligence Community Staff
SUBJECT: Minutes of 10 January 1978 Meeting
1. A summary of the 10 January 1978 meeting. of
the Intelligence Definitions Working Group is attached
for your information. No changes were made to the list
of definitions dated 20 December 1977.
2. The next meeting of the Working Group will be-
gin at 1330, 17 January 1978, CIIB Room 5509.
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Attachment
As stated
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ATTENDEES
DEFINITIONS WORKING GROUP
10 January 1978
Acting Chairman
Capt. L. D. Dahl
MT. R. P. Watson
Maj. Jack W. Wolfe
Mr. Hugh Smith
CIA
State/INR/DDC
FBI
DIA
NSA (IHC)
NSA
Army (OACSI)
Navy
IC Staff (SECOM)
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MINUTES
INTELLIGENCE DEFINITIONS WORKING GROUP
10 January 1978
PROCEDURAL ITEMS:
discussed his progress on his project
to present the relationships among groups of intelligence
terms in graphic form. He appealed to the Working Group
for assistance in defining technical intelligence terms
relating to imagery, acoustics, and nuclear radiation.
MINUTES:
Inl labsence, Mr.
openedd the meeting 1 a iscussion of the possible
ink acy of the previously agreed-upon definitions of
Intelligence and Foreign Intelligence. The Group con-
sidered proposed revisions to each term (attached) and,
after considerable discussion, agreed to study the defini-
tions preparatory to further discussion at the next meet-
ing. Members of the Group were encouraged to provide
their own candidate definitions and not to limit their
thinking to those provided.
2. The Group continued the discussion of the pre-
vious meeting by considering a revised slate of definitions
received from the Security Committee (attached) as follows:
a. Unauthorized Disclosure--accepted as
is. Will be included in next revision.
b. Leak--dropped from further consideration
because deemed inappropriate for an Intelligence
Glossary.
c. Damage Assessment--Definition accepted
with the addition of "Intelligence Community Con-
text" in parenthesis preceding the definition,
and with the stem revised to read, "An evaluation
of the impact...." DIA agreed to provide a second
definition of the term when used in a military
intelligence context. Acceptance was thus deferred.
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d. Sensitive Intelligence Sources or
Methods--After lengthy discussion, it was agreed
that the Secretary would work with the SECOM
member to devise a definition which will incor-
porate the separate definitions of Intelligence
Method and Intelligence Source and will obv
the need to separately e ine these component
terms.
e. Proprietar The definition seemed
acceptable but, ng had no opportunity to staff
it, the Group asked for additional time for that
purpose.
3. A "Loose-ends List" (attached), which compiles
candidate definitions not yet considered, was distributed
and will be the agenda item following cleanup of the
SECOM list at the next meeting.
4. The next meeting of the Working Group will
begin at 1330, 17 January 1978, CHB Room 5509.,
STAT
Executive Secretary
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OPP PROPOSED REVISION
INTELLIGENCE: (a) A generic term applied to information
acquired in response to the requirements of policy or
decisionmakers, and which includes counterintelligence.
(b) A descriptive term used to refer to the direct support
or collateral functions, activities, or organizations
which relate to the performance of the steps in the
Intelligence Cycle. (See Intelligence Cycle and
Intelligence Activities.)
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE (FI): (a) The product of collecting,
processing, and analyzing foreign information which relates
to a nation's security, foreign relations, or economic
interests. (b) The collective effort or enterprise which
produces (a) above.
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UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE: See Compromise.
LEAK: A compromise which results from making official
classified information available to the public through the
media without attribution to a specific source and with-
out official declassification of the information.
DAMAGE ASSESSMENT: A report which assesses the impact
of a compromise in terms of loss of intelligence informa-
tion, sources or methods, and which may describe and/or
recommend corrective measures to minimize damage and
prevent future compromises.
INTELLIGENCE METHOD: Any means used or planned to be used
in the collection or analysis of intelligence,
INTELLIGENCE SOURCE: Any person, thing, condition or
event from which intelligence information has been, is,
or is planned to be derived.
SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES OR METHODS: A collective
phrase used to describe those intelligence sources or
intelligence methods which, if compromised, are vulnerable
to counteraction that could reasonably be expected to
reduce their effectiveness in supporting the intelligence
activities of the United States.
PROPRIETARY: A business entity owned, in whole or in part,
or controlled by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and
operated to provide private commercial cover for a lawful
intelligence activity of the CIA.
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Human Source Reporting: The flow of intelligence informa-
tion from those who gather it to the consumer/user of the
information. A form of the term is also used to denote an
item of information being conveyed, as in "Human Source Report."
(See Human Intelligence.)
Human Resources Collection: All activities which attend
collection of intelligence from human sources. (See Human
Intelligence.)
Human Intelligence (HUMINT): Encompasses the meanings of
HUMAN SOURCE REPORTING and HUMAN RESOURCES COLLECTION. The
acronym is used primarily by the Department of Defense and
appears only infrequently in communications of other departments
and agencies. Its use can be misleading since much of the
information in human source reporting comes from sources that are
not part of an intelligence activity.
National Intelligence Officer: A National Intelligence
Officer is the senior substantive staff officer of the DCI and
the DCI's Deputy for National Intelligence for the NIO's assigned)
area of substantive Cr-esponsibilit}yy. He also manages estimative
and interagency intelligence production on behalf of the DCI
and D/DCI/NI in fulfillment of the DCI's charter to produce
national intelligence. An NIO is, further, the principal point
of contact between the DCI and intelligence consumers below the
cabinet level. An NIO is also charged with monitoring and
coordinating that portion of the production of the National
Foreign Assessment Center that involves more than one production
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office or that is interdisciplinary in character. Finally,
an NIO is, the primary source of national-level substantive
guidance to Intelligence Community planners, collectors, and
resource managers.
Energy Intelligence: Foreign intelligence on the economic,
political and technical factors affecting energy supply in
international markets and in individual foreign countries. Key
intelligence includes data on energy supply/demand balances,
prices, national and international energy policies, and the
political and institutional forces influencing policy decisions
in these areas. (Proposed redraft.)
Special Activities Office (SAO): A term and its abbreviation
often used with reference to the TANGO and/or BRAVO information,
material, security administration, areas, etc. The term has
evolved into the unclassified means of identifying TANGO and
BRAVO information or controls.
Indications and Warning Intelligence (I&W): That area of
intelligence concerned with time-sensitive information on foreign
developments that could involve a threat to U.S. or allied
military, political, or economic interests, including threats
to U.S. citizens. It covers indications of enemy hostile actions
or intentions; imminence of hostilities; serious-insurgency;
nuclear/non-nuclear attack on the U.S., its overseas forces, or
allied nations; hostile reactions to U.S. reconnaissance
activities; terrorist attacks; and any other events significantly
threatening U.S. security interests.
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Special Security Officer (SSO): The officer specifically
designated for the implementation of the COMINT security and
administrative instructions within any activity authorized
COMINT material. Provides the command or activity with four
basic services:
a. Operates a COMINT facility.
b. Operates a Communications Terminal for receipt
of SI (Special Intelligence).
c. Advises on COMINT security matters, including
sanitization and use.
d. Assists command intelligence office in production-,
of intelligence within resource limitations. Can refer
also to the officer where the officer works.
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Proposed Add-Ons
Case Officer
Collation
Counterespionage
Countersabotage
Countersubversion
Decrypt
Encipher
Encrypt
Interrogation
Nationals
Plumbing
Safe House
Parts of
FCI
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Damage Assessment: The determination of the effect of attacks on
targets.
Civil Damage Assessment: An appraisal of damage to a nation's
population, industry, utilities, communications, transportation,
food, water and medical resources to support planning for
national recovery.
Military Damage Assessment: An appraisal of the effects of an
attack on a nation's military forces to determine residual
military capability and to support planning for recovery and recon-
stitution.
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INTELLIGENCE: (a) Knowledge acquired and furnished in response
to the known or perceived requirements of policy or decision-
makers which is derived principally from information about
another nation which is normally concealed from or not intended
for the use of the acquiring nation. Intelligence'is the
product of a cyclical process encompassing the planning for.,
gathering and analyzing of such information and providing it to
consumers in a desired format. (See Intelligence Cycle.)
Examples:
o Policy development requires good intelligence.
o Timely intelligence is important to informed
decisionmaking.
(b) A term used to refer collectively to the functions,
activities, or organizations which participate in the process
of planning, gathering, and analyzing foreign information of
value to policymakers and to the production of intelligence
as defined in (a) above. It also encompasses counterintelligence.
Examples:
Human source collection is an important intelligence
activity.
o Central Intelligence Agency.
Intelligence is a demanding profession.
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Intelligence. A process that involves the gathering and use of secret and
other information to support decisionmakers in the spnnsoring organizations.
COMMENT. As an adjective, the word "intelligence" is used to refer to agencies
and organizations that use the process (eg. intelligence agency); to product
that results from the process (eg. intelligence repmrt); to activity that
involves the process (eg. intelligence analysis); to information acquired in
the process (eg. intelligence information) ; Us(Pitt i~c th~A(X4~t~ kt~*c? (t it
t& and to participants in the process (eg intelligence officers).
The adjectives and the words they modify are sometimes used in a shorthand
fashion (eg. he works in intelligence; he turned over so;;te intelligence).
The word "intelligence" as a noun '~ZStIiL't ~t~L' often is further modified to
refer to some subset of the process (eg. counterintelligence, economic
intelligence).
FYI. The word "proprietary" can be'included in the unclassified glossary,
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