NSCID 5 DEFINITION OF COUNTERINTELLIGENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85S00362R000600170011-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 1, 2003
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: October 15, 1957
• Content Type: MF

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15 October 1957
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director (Coordination)
ATTENTION
SUBJECT : NSCID 5 Definition of Counterintelligence
1. Reference is made to the meeting of the Working Group for
NSCID 5 on 14 October 1957, at which the Service representatives
professed to be unable to grasp the basis of the objection by the
CI Staff to the exclusion of counterespionage from the list of in-
imical foreign intelligence activities against which U.S. counter-
intelligence provides a defense.
2. It is felt that the objections of the services would be
met, and the CI Staff position would be clarified, by the adoption
of the following wording:
nb. Counterintelligence is defined as that intelligence
activity, with its resultant product, which is devoted to
destroying the effectiveness of inimical foreign intelligence
activities and which is undertaken to protect the security of
the nation, and its personnel, information, and installations
abroad, against espionage, counterintelligence, sabotage, and
subversion.... 11
3. Colonel Dalton's original argument was that we should either
omit counterespionage at this point or include countersabotage and
countersubversion as well. Since the military have repeatedly affirmed
that counterintelligence includes counterespionage as well as counter-
sabotage, and countersubversion, this shift meets Army's objection.
At the same time it preserves our principle that counterintelligence
is not solely defensive but constitutes (like espionage, subversion,
and sabotage) a threat to the national security when directed against
us.
4. In connection with the foregoing, it is reqiested that any
records of the deliberations of the Working Group reflect the unani-
mous affirmation that counterintelligence includes counterespionage.
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S.A. to Chief, CI Staff
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