NSSD 2-82 Detecting and Countering the Foreign Intelligence Threat to the United States

the TOD OBCROT 3 UNCLASSINED - Legal, guideline, structural, and organizational impediments to achieving required capabilities in these areas. - Strengths, vulnerabilities, and weaknesses in regard to protective security. objectives, policies, and organiza- tion applicable to US Government agencies, US Government contractors, and private industry. - The need to develop a central, all source counter intelligence information and analysis capability. It is intended that the review focus on the strengths and weaknesses of our capabilities to respond to the threat, and as such it should draw upon previous assessments in establishing the nature and source of the threat, including the current multidisciplinary assessment. Administration Management of the NSSD 2-82 review will be the responsi- bility of an interagency review group chaired by the Director of Central Intelligence or his representative The interagency review group will report its findings for National Security Council consideration not later than June 15, 1982. The interagency review group will include representatives of the Departments of Defense and Justice, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National Security Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, and others that the Director of Central Intelligence may choose. All matters relating to this NSSD will be classified Top Secret. Dissemination of this NSSD, subsequent study material, and the resulting draft will be handled on a strict need-to-know basis. Ramed Reagan TOT SBERET UKCLASSIFIED tor SECREL