ALIENS AS A SOURCE OF INTELLIGENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01731R002600020004-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2004
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: October 24, 1947
• Content Type: MF

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SUBJECT: Aliens as a Source of Intelligence
1. In a telephone conversation this date with Colonel
E. P. Mussett, Plans and Policies Staff of the Office of the
Assistant Chief of Staff-2, Headquarters, Department of the Air
Force, he assured me that the last sentence of the attached memo-
randum from General Schulgen, subject as above, dated 22 October
1947, was incorrect and should have read - "It is requested that
this problem be placed on the agenda for consideration at an
early IAC meeting".
2. Colonel Mussett is aware of the fact that the CIA
has not yet received the designated representatives of the members
of the National Security Council to serve on the proposed Intelli-
gence Advisory Committee.
USAF review(s) completed.
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL, INTELLIGENCE
SUBJECTS Aliens-as a Source of Intelligence
Inclosed is a proposal regarding coordination of
the exploitation of aliens entering the United states
as a source of foreign information. It is requested
that this problem be considered by the CIA and such
action taken thereon as may be appropriate.
1 Incl
Proposal (as stated abv)
(in duplicate)
GEO. F. SCHULGEN
Brigadier General, U.S.A.F
Deputy, Asst. Chief of M Staff-2
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INTERROGATION OF ALIENS AS A SOURCE *OF INTELLIGENCE
INFORMATION
To develop a coordinated program for interrogation of
aliens as a source of intelligence information,
FACTS BEARING ON ME PROBLEM AND DISCUSSION
2, The great mass of foreigners coming into this country including
annually over 150,000 persons on a quota basis and tens of thousands
of tourists, business representatives and refugees, are not in general
screened for information of value to the security of the United States,
Lack of personnel in the Army, Navy, and Air Force precludes any sub-
stantial coverage of such aliens. The Immigration and Naturalization
services interview immigrants but only for determination of qualification
for citizenship. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is primarily
interested in those aliens of known questionable tendencies.
3, Furthermore, even though efforts were to be made by IAC agencies
to carry out such interrogations, an uncoordinated program would lead
to duplication and to progressive deterioration of any particular
informant as a source. A coordinated program would on the other hand
result in a conservation of effort and be productive of more efficiently
collated information,
4. It is considered that pursuant to the provisions of the National
Security Act, the Central Intelligence Agency is the proper agency to
make recommendations to the National Security Council for the coordination
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of this intelligence activity. It is further considered that in the
interest of efficiency and economy at least a portion of these interro-
gations, particularly those which involve aliens believed to have
information in various fields, might well be conducted by Central
Intelligence Agency representatives as a common service.
5. The Federal Bureau of Investigation would of course be consulted
in connection with the establishing of the overall program and in connection
with the particular individuals to be interrogated.
RE COMEMDA TI ON
6. It is recommended that the Central Intelligence Agency recommend
to the National Security Council,
a. A program designed to coordinate the interrogation of aliens
as a source of intelligence information.
b. That the Central Intelligence Agency be authorized ?to
perform for the benefit of the existing intelligence agencies, such
interrogations of aliens as can be more efficiently accomplished centrally.
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