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DIRECTOR  OF  CENTRAL  INTELLIGENCE  
DIRECTIVE  NO.  1/10 
SECURITY  POLICY  GUIDANCE*  ON  LIAISON  RELATIONSHIPS  WITH 
FOREIGN  INTELLIGENCE  ORGANIZATIONS  AND  FOREIGN 
SECURITY  SERVICES 
(Effective  18  May  1976) 
Pursuant  to  Section  102  of  the  National  Security  Act  of  1947, 
Executive  Order  11905  and  National  Security  Council  Intelligence 
Directives,  the  following  is  established  as  security  guidance  to 
representatives  of  U.S.  departments,  agencies  and  military  commands 
who  conduct,  supervise  or  coordinate  liaison  with  foreign  intelli- 
gence and  security  services. 
1.  .The  fact  of  broad,  general  intelligence  cooperation  with 
countries  or  groups  of  countries  x^ith  which  the  United  States 
maintains  formal  military  alliances  or  agreements  (e.g.,  NATO)  is 
unclassified. 
2.  The  fact  of  intelligence  cooperation  betweenthe  United 
States  and  a  specific  governmental  component  in  an  allied  country 
(see  1  above),  or  description  of  the  nature  of  intelligence  coop- 
eration betxveen  the  United  States. and  any  allied  country,  is 
classified  Secret  unless  a  different  classification  is  specified. 
3.  The  fact  of  intelligence  cooperation  betxv'een  the  United 
States  and  specifically  named  foreign  countries  and  governmental 
components  thereof  with  xvhich  the  United  States  is  not  allied  is 
normally  classified  not  less  than  Secret. 
4.  Details  of  or  specifics  concerning  any  intelligence 
exchange  agreement  will  be  classified  according  to  content. 
1.    This  directive  supersedes  DCID  1/10  effective  19  November  1975
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5.  The  identities  of  foreign  governmental  or  military 
personnel  who  provide  intelligence  pursuant  to  such  agreements 
or  liaison  relationships  will  be  protected  at  the  same  level  of 
classification  which  applies  to  the  fact  of  the  intelligence 
cooperation,  or  at  such  different  level  as  may  be  required  by 
their  governments  or  individual  circumstances. 
6.  Information  classified  in  accordance  with  paragraphs  2, 
3,  4  and  5  above  shall  not  be  released  to  any  foreign  country  or 
its  representatives  except  by  the  mutual  agreement  of  the  United 
States  and  the  foreign  country  whose  intelligence  cooperation  is'  ' 
involved. 
7.  Information  classified  in  accordance  with  this  guidance 
shall  be  exempt. from  the  provisions  of  the  General  Declassification 
Schedule  of  Executive  Order  11652  under  exemptions  5B(1)  or  5B(3), 
or  both.   Information  about  the  nature  of  a  relationship  may  be 
declassified  only  in  accordance  with  the  mutual  desires  of  the 
United  States  and  the  foreign  government. 
8.  This  directive  does  not  apply  to  any  liaison  relationship 
that  is  concerned  with  U.S.  internal  security  functions,  or  with 
criminal  or  disciplinary  matters  that  are  not  directly  related  to  . 
foreign  intelligence. 
Georgfe  Bush 
Director  of  Central  Intelligence 
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