LETTER TO BOB FROM PAUL W. HODGES

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• Publication Date: July 22, 1977
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22 July 1977
Bob,
Re your draft DCID on intelligence definitions, you
may be able to benefit from the 10 months and 22 hard
bargaining sessions that the HRC Task Force has behind it
thus far (it is a continuing activity). Attached is the
working product to date, formally approved by State, DIA,
CIA, Treasury, ERDA, Army, Navy, Air Force, NSA and the
FBI; coordinated by the NFIB and approved by the DCI. The
key to getting everyone to salute and use these definitions -
besides compromise - is to be found in the covering
explanation (Pg 34), to wit: it is not encyclopedic, but
rather a living text of terms in regular and frequent use,
and will be continuously revised by mutual consent to
reflect changes taking place in intelligence practices.
In our inaugural effort we identified and addressed
a number of problem areas which have bedeviled human
resource collection managers and reviewing officials for
years. Of particular note in this regard are the differences
in intention among the following terms:
a. Review versus Evaluate versus Assess
Review - To examine, inspect, and discuss in
a critical manner, precedent to consideration of
value.
Evaluate - To appraise the worth of an intelli-
gence activity or result in terms of its contribution
to a specific goal, or the credibility, reliability,
pertinency, accuracy, usefulness of information
in terms of an intelligence need, usually without
reference to cost.
Assess - A management deliberation in which the
value of an intelligence activity, result, or
product is weighed against resource allocation
or expenditures.
b. Guidance versus Requirement versus Tasking
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Collection Guidance - Information which interprets,
clarifies, or expands upon previously defined
intelligence needs. Consumer guidance points
the way for collection managers. Collection
manager guidance steers the course of field
collection.
Collection Requirement - A specific statement of
information need. A specific form of guidance
which is sanctioned by the resource manager and
carries an implicit authorization to commit
resources in collection tasking.
Tasking - The assignment or direction, by command
c annel, of an individual or activity to perform
in a specified way for achievement of a specified
end, objective, or goal.
c. User versus ?Consumer-
Intelligence User - An intelligence producer or
other person who uses foreign information or
produces finished intelligence in the conduct
of intelligence activities.
Intelligence Coh'sumer A policymaker or action
officer outside the-intelligence community that
employs intelligence information, in any of its
various forms to support activities that are not
intelligence related.
Two new terms, Foreign Affairs Community and Actionable
Intelligence, had to be created to fill commonly recognized
needs. The latter term, Actionable Intelligence, I partic-
ularly commend to your attention since it very nicely
resolves one of the issues in the space between national
and tactical.
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ANNEX E
GLOSSARY OF INTELLIGENCE TERMS
This Glossary is a living text of intelligence
parlance which departments and agencies of the Foreign
Affairs Community are asked to use in communicating with
each other on human resource intelligence matters. It
represents the accumulative product of a continuing
activity being sponsored by the DCI's Human Resources
Committee under auspices of the National Foreign Intelligence
Plan for Human Resources. It is not intended that the
Glossary be encyclopedic; it is intended that it cover terms
in regular and frequent use by Community elements interacting
on intelligence ma'.-ers. New words may be added or dropped
as they come into or drop out of active use within the
Community. The language of terms already in the Glossary
may be revised by mutual consent to reflect changes taking
place in human resource intelligence practices. In all cases
the language of the intelligence terms will be developed
by the Human Resources Committee and agreed to by all
participating departments and agencies.
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INTELLIGENCE TERMS
ASSESS -- A management deliberation in which the value of an
intelligence activity, result, or product is weighed against
resource allocation or expenditures.
COLLECTION - The acquisition of information and the delivery
of the collected information to the consumer.
CLANESTINE COLLECTION - The collection of foreign
intelligence information in a manner precluding
attribution to the collector, agency/activity
where disclosure of the manner of collection
could be inimical to the U.S. Government.
COLLEC'T'ION GUIDANCE - Information which interprets,
clarifies, or expands upon previously defined
intelligence needs. Consumer guidance points-, t".1-le
way for collection managers. Collection manner
guidance steers the course of field collection.
SEE COLLECT' TON REOU l REMINT .
COLLECTION PROGRAM - Describes the planning, imple-
mentation, resource management and direction of
activities relative to collection and distribution
of information responsive to defined needs.
COLLECTION REOUIRL:MEN'I' - A specific statement of
information need. A specific form of guidance
which is sanctioned by the resource manager and
carries an implicit authorization to commit
resources in collection tasking. SEE COLLECTION
GUIDANCE, ALSO TASKING.
COIINI'FKINTELLIGENCE - That intelligence activity, With its
resultant product, devoted to destroyi.ng the effectiveness
of inimical foreign intelligence activities and undertaken
to protect the security of the nation and its personnel,
information, and installations against espionage, sabotage,
or subversion.
COVERT OPERATIONS (COVERT ACTIONS) - SEE SPECIAL ACTIVITIES.
IN W TORT OF NATIONAL FOREIGN POLICY OBJECTIVES.
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T'Sl'IONAGI - The act of acquiring foreign intelligence by
cl.andest ne methods that are illegal under the laws of
the target country.
EVALUATE - To appraise the worth of an intelligence activity
or result in terms of its contribution to a specific goal,
or th*o credibility, reliability, pertinency, accuracy, use-
fulness of information in terms of an intelligence need,
usually without reference to cost.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMUNITY - Those departments, U.S. Govern-
ment agencies, and other organizations which are represented
i.n U.S. diplomatic missions abroad; and Executive Branch
entities which may not he represented abroad but are signif-
icantly involved in international activities with the
governments of other nations. SEE ALSO INTELLIGENCE
C011N1.[NITY.
Sf[JRCE - A person who wittingly or unwit.tix;^ly imparts
Intel ii once information by any means to an intelligence
,Ictivity.
11UMAN RESOURCES COLLECTION PROGRAM - The sum of personnel
funds, facilities, and other assets authorised in NSCIDs
2, 4, 5 and 9 to conduct collection activities concerning
foreign countries.
INTELLIGENCE -
ACTIONABLE INTELLIGENCE - Information that is
directly useful to consumers without having to
go through the full intelligence processing cycle.
NOTE: It may address strategic or tactical needs,
as in close-support type collection for U.S.
negotiating teams or action elements dealing with
international terrorism, narcotics, etc.
BASIC INTELLIGENCE - Factual, fundamental, and
generally stable information about all aspects
of a nation--physical, social, economic, political,
military, biographical, and cultural--which is used
as basis for intelligence products in support of
planning, policymaking, and military operations.
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CURRENT INT}-LI.TGUNCE - intelligence el of al l types or
forms of immediate interest to the users of intelli-
geilce; it is usually dissemillated. wi thoIIt the delays
inc](lent to complete eva Iuation or Illterpret.atioil.
DEPARTMENTAL INTELLIGENCE - Intelligence which
-government departments and agencies require or
generate in support of their own missions. SEE
NOTE ON STIRATEGIC INTELLIGENCE.
FINISHED INTELLIGENCE - The end product of a
cumulative process of information gathering,
research, and analysis.
FOREIGN T'`'TELLIGENCE INFORMATION - Tnformation
concerning the capabilitiies, intentions, and
activities of any foreign Power organi-atiorls,
or their a''eiits; or of any non-Un Ited States
person, whether wi thin or outs i.di the U n i C
States; or concerning foreign intc,I I i ncc
Sources aIld methods, equlpIileIlt and methodology
unique to the accquisition of exploitation o!
foreign intelligence, foreign mu ital'y Lardre
obtained for exploitation, fill( Or
recordings resulting from U.S. foreign int.elli-
gence collection efforts.
INTERDEPARTMENTAL INTELLIGENCE - Integrated
departmental intelligence required by various
elements of the government for the execution
of their missions.
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE - Intelligence required by
the President, the NSC, and other officials of
the U.S. Government involved in .formulating and
directing the implementation of national security
policy. SEE STRATEGIC INTELLIGENCE
STRATEGIC INTELLIGENCE - Intelligence required for
the formation of policy and military plans and
operations at the national and international levels.
SEE FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION.
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INTELLIGENCE CO"'1JUNITY - Refers to CIA, NSA, and PIA, the
spec:in+l officers within DoI) for collection of spcciali::ed
intell:i ;ence thr'.,ugh reconnaissance programs; and the
intelligence eler,~.ents of the military services, FBI, State,
Treasury, and ERDA. SEE ALSO FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMUNITY.
IN'I'JLLTUNCE CONSUMER - A policymaker or action officer
outside the intelligence community that employs intelligence
information, in any. of its various forms to support activities
that are not intelligence related. SEE INTELLIGENCE USER.
INTI?LLTGENCE USER - An intelligence producer or other person
who uses foreign information or produces finished intelIigcncc
in the conduct of intelligence activities. SEE INTELLIGENCE
CO ;SUM1=I:.
MONITORING - The overt. or clandestine act of observing,
l.i inning to, i.ntercenting, recording, transcribing any
form of cornnrunicat ions or media for intelligence collection
or intelligence security purposes.
NATIONAL FOREIGN T N'!*!: I T..'CiENCI PROGRAM - Encompasses the Human
Resources Collection il -o;rams ol. departments and a?enci.es ? the
programs of the CIA and the special offices within the Dof) for
the collection of -,puci,.lized intelligence through reconnais-
sance programs; thce co;ase] idated cryptologic program; and
other programs of the departments and agencies, not including
tactical intelligence, designated by the Committee on Foreign
Intel] igence as part c--- the program.
RAW INTELLIGENCE - Unevaluated information of potential
intelligence value.
REPORTING - The flow of information from those who gather
information in the field to the consumer/user of the
information.
REVIEW - To examine, inspect, and discuss in a critical manner,
precedent to consideration of value.
SF'SI'I'lVE SOURCES AND METHODS - A sensitive source is a person,
orgnni-zat.ion, or technical means which provides intelligence,
subject to protection of identity and intelligence relation-
ship, and is vulnerable to counter action and thus could he
lost or diminished in effectiveness should identity become
compromised. Sensitive methods are the means by which support
is provided to, or intelligence received from, sources r;hen
sr;ch TTC.,:trs ar,e vulnerable 1 counter action or to Ioss of
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SPECIAL ACTIVITIES IN SUPPORT OF NATIONAL FOREIGN POLTCY
OL.71 C;TI`1`1 S Activities- -other than the collection Rand pro-
uction of intelligence and related support functions--
designed to further official. United States programs and
policies abroad and which are planned and executed so that the
role of the U.S. Government is not apparent or publicly
acknowledged. SEE COVERT OPERATIONS.
TASKING - The assignment or direction, by command channel,
of an individual or activity to perform in a specified way
for achievement of a specified end, objective, or goal. SEE
COLLECTION REQUIREMENT.
CLANDESTINE OPERATIONS (HUMAN RESOURCES) - Operation aimed
at gaining access to closely guarded targets, using human
resources and supporting assets; may also include the use of
sensing devices. Operations are always marked by secrecy, to
preclude increased countermeasures. Clandestine operations
differ from overt operations principally in the care taken to
limit knowledge concerning them to only those persons with a
genuine need-to-know, and to conceal them from the target
government, which considers them illegal. The operations are
usually also concealed from other governments, except when
conducted bilaterally. Also known as espionage or agent oper-
ations. Not to be confused with overt operations.
INTELLIGENCE COORDINATION - To bring an intelligence matter
into common action for most effective results. Also, a
procedure in the management of intelligence activities,
programs, resources, and operations which signifies concurrence.
OVERT OPERATION (HUMAN RESOURCES) - Human resource collection
operation for gathering materiel or information by observation
or from knowledgeable human sources, or openly available media.
The collection process may be classified or unclassified.
Differs from clandestine operations chiefly in that the target
and host governments as well as the sources involved are
normally aware of the general activity although the specific
acquisition, sites, and processes may be successfully concealed.
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