INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY'S AUDIO SURVEILLANCE COUNTERMEASURES EFFORT

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• Publication Date: May 16, 1966
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UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD
OFFICE OF THE CHAIRMAN
16 May 1966
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chairman, President's Foreign
Intelligence Advisory Board
SUBJECT:
Intelligence Community's Audio
Surveillance Countermeasures
Effort
1. Your memorandum of April 19, 1966 requested a status
report on the implementation of DCID No. 1/1Z which established the
Technical Surveillance Countermeasures Committee (TSCC) under
USIB on December 23, 1964.
2. Since its establishment the TSCC and its two subcommittees
have met some 16 times. On March 25th the Committee submitted
its First Annual Report to USIB and the Report was considered by
the Board at its meeting on April 14th. When discussing and approving
the Report, which was classified SECRET, the Board directed that
the classification be raised to TOP SECRET. Reprinting of the
Report has just been completed and a copy is attached.
3. The TSCC Annual Report reviews the U. S. Government's
efforts to counter the audio surveillance threat and is divided into
two parts. Part I deals primarily with activities and efforts behind
the Iron Curtain or in crisis areas, while Part II presents an
account of the totality of the intelligence community's efforts and a
quick survey of the active programs under way to improve our
countermeasures capabilities. The Report contains specific informa-
tion on the subjects requested in paragraphs 1 and 2 in your
memorandum. Technical inspections are covered in Chapters II and
VI while secure acoustic rooms are dealt with in Chapter IX and the
in-place receiver program in Chapter X.
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4., Paragraph 3 of your memorandum requested informa-
tion on action which would be taken upon the discovery of a
technical penetration in a U. S. installation. At its ninth meeting
on October 22nd the TSCC adopted Procedural Guide No. 1 --
Requirements for Reporting and Testing of Technical Surveillance
Penetrations, copy of which is attached. Pages 2, 4 and 5 of this
Guide outline the mechanism through which a decision is reached
on the feasibility of intelligence exploitation of a hostile penetration.
Actions to be taken with respect to nullification, removal and
testing of the technical devices involved in the penetration and
.subsequent preparation of technical reports and damage assess-
ments are Covered elsewhere in the Procedural Guide.
5. Paragraph 4 of your memorandum requested information
on the status of current Research and Development projects. I
personally feel that a meaningful report on this subject would be
much too detailed and sensitive to put in writing: I would be glad
to have brief you or a small group of Board members
at your convenience.
6. On pages 6 through 8 of the TSCC Annual Report you will
find a listing of the significant weaknesses and problems connected
with our attempts to combat the audio surveillance threat. These
have been divided into three categories. The first includes problems
which are not soluble at the level of the TSCC and represent
difficulties present in varying degrees at our different diplomatic
installations overseas. The second category of problems includes
those which can properly be attacked by one or more member
agencies of the TSCC, while the third category includes problems
only partially soluble at best regardless of how much effort or
emphasis is placed on them.
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PRESIDENTS FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY -BOARD
April 19, 1966
MEMORAND UTN': FOR THE C-
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SUBJECT: Audio Surveillance Countermeasures Effort
REFERENCE : DCID No. 1/12
At the direction of Board Chairman Clark Clifford, and
as an outgrowth of discussions at the last Board meeting, it
is requested that you arrange for the submission of a current
status report on the implementation of DCID No, 1/12
In addition to the requested report, and in order to be
responsive to questions raised by several of the Board members
at the last meeting, it would be appreciated if your submission
would include the following:
1. The status of actions taken within the intelligence
community to provide sensitive Government installations over-
seas with countermeasures to defend against audio surveillance
penetrations,
2. A summary of current policies guiding audio surveil-
lance sweep operations at such installations including current
requirements for the frequency of such sweeps in (a) Iron
Curtain countries and (b) other countries,
3. A statement of existing policy guidance relating to
the actions to be taken upon the discovery of a technical
penetration of sensitive U. S. installations abroad, including
(a) procedures for obtaining a decision concerning the feasibility
of intelligence exploitation of a discovered device or audio
surveillance syste~;., and (b) action with respect to nullification
and removal of such device or system,
4, A status report on research and development projects
presently under way for the purpose of producing new and improved
devices and techniques for the detection of audio penetration
attempts by hostile intelligence and security services,
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50 An ident_ff~_cation of any signif-c2 t gcps and
defficiencies in the countermeasures e_fo t which have been
identified in the course of implementing NSAM 317, dated
November 15, 196L!
It would be appreciated if your report could be
received in this office by May 15, 19609 in time for study
by interested Board Panels prior to the next :.re-ular scheduled
meeting of the full Board on May 26 and 27, 1966.
Your assistance in this matter will be appreciated.
J. Patrick Co
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PRESIDENTS FOREIGN I NTTET , I G2NOE ^ DVISORY BOARD
MEMORANDUM FOR THE CH AI R_AN
UNITED STATES I NTELT -- ENC r BO ;-' ^.D
SUBJECT: Audio Surveillance Countermeasures Effort
REFERENCE: DCID No. 1/12
At the direction of Board Chairman Clark Clifford; and
as an outgrc:' th of discussions at the last Board meeting, -
is requested that you arrange for the submission of a current
status report on the implementation of DCID No. 1/12,
In addition to the requested report, and in order to be
responsive to questions raised by several of the Board members
at the last meeting, it would be appreciated if your submission
would include the following:
1. The status of actions taken within the intelligence
community to provide sensitive Government installations over-
seas with countermeasures to defend against audio surveillance
penetrations,
2. A summary of current policies guiding audio surveil-
lance sweep operations at such installations including current
requirements for the frequency of such sweeps in (a) iron
Curtain countries and (b) other countries,
3. A statement of existing policy guidance relating to
the actions to be taken upon the discovery of a technical
Denetration of sensitive U, S. installations abroad, including
(a) procedures for obtaining a decision concerning the feasibility
of intelligence exploitation of a discovered device or audio
surveillance syste?1, and (b) action with respect to nullification
and removal of such device or system,
4o A status report on research and development projects
presently under way for the purpose of producing new and imooroved
devices and techniques for the detection of audio penetration
attempts by hostile intelligence and security services,
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5,. An identification of any significant gaps and
defficiencies in the countermeasures effort which have been
i dentified in the course of implementing NS Air 317, dated
November 15, 1964.
It would be appreciated if your report could be
received in this office by May 15, 1966, in time for study
by interested Board Panels prior to the next reMular scheduled
meeting of the full Board on May 26 and 27, 196b.
Your assistance in this matter will be appreciated,
r /1I
J, Patrick CoS,
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