COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE OF THE SERVICES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86B00269R000500050020-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 28, 2003
• Sequence Number: 20
• Content Type: PAPER

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COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE OF THE
SERVICES
The field of counter--intelligence, internal
security and counter-espionage is a field in which the
coordinating services of CIA are peculiarly needed and
could be of tremendous value. This is particularly
applicable to these activities as they are carried on
within the United States.
For an intelligence consideration of this
problem it is necessary to take into account not only
the activities of the various Services, but as well,
the very important role, domestically, of the FBI as
an intelligence, as distinguished from a law enforcement
agency.
Counter-intelligence in this-country developed
largely in the period immediately preceding the outbreak
of World War II. This appears to have been due mainly
to the increasing awareness of the Services of the
problem of personnel security as an intelligence problem.
This resulted in 1939 in the establishment by Executive
Order of a interdepartmental intelligence conference
made up of Chiefs of military and naval intelligence
and of the FBI. The conference concerned itself with
the coordination upon purely jurisdictional lines of the
investigative and other responsibility with respect to
espionage, sabotage, counter-espionage and subversion.
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Its deliberations resulted in a so-called Delimitation
Agreement, which, as revised in 1942, remains the
,jurisdictional delineation of general responsibility
to cover.
in the fields of
[take in description of
Delimitation Agreement]
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