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view had two principal roles. One: to identify wherever possible what hostile services are doling, what agents they were using, and in turn attempting to protect the C I A from penetration by these hostile forces. The second big job was to ride, in a sense, sidecar with the positive intelligence operators who were recruiting agents and getting information through this device, to see to it that those agents were clean. In other words, that they were individuals that were really telling the truth (as they saw it) to their handlers or case officers in the C I A and were not double agents penetrating the C I A on behalf of some hostile service. Now those are two very important functions which the Counterintelligence Staff a s I saw it was to perform. In the first instance, the effort to keep foreign services from penetrating the Agency, I know a lot of work was done on interrogating defectors, working with other friendly security services in Britain, France, and so forth--in other words, performing that function with 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-weeks care. Inside the C I A , the more controversial part of the CI Staff is the second element, where there is a normal and natural tension between the positive intelligence collector and the counterintelligence expert, who is wont to tell the positive intelligence collector that the agent he has just recruited is likely to be 2