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Approved For Release 2003/04/18 : CIA-RDP80B01676R001100070002-3 NATICNAL SECURITY COMMCIL DIRECTIVE wri COVERT OPERATICNS l. fhe Netional Security Council, taking cognizanes of the vielous covert activities of the USSR ani Communist Chine and the governments, parties and groups dominated by then (hereafter col- lectively referred tc as "International Commniaa") te discredit and defest the aims and activities of the United States and oth=r powera of the free world, determined, as set forth in NSC direc~ ives 10/2 ari 10/5, that, in the interests cf world peace and U. Se national security, the overt foreign activities of the iu. §. Government should be supplemented by covert cperations. ?. The Central intelligence 4gancy had alrearty been charged by the National Security Couneil with conducting espionage and counterespionage operations abroad. It therefore seened deeirable, fer operational reasons, not to create a new agency for covert operations, but, subject to directives from the WSC, to place the responsibility for thea on the Central Intelligence Agency and correlate them with espionage and counterespionage operations under the over-all control of the Nirestor ef Central Intellirence. 3. The HSC has determinad that such covert operations shall to the greatest extent practicable, in the lirht of 5. S. and Soviet capabilities and takine into account the risk of war, be designed to: - uy mo a Create Approved For Release 2003/04/18 : CIA-RDP80B01676R001 100070002-3 208-7