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2. From time to time some employees have been concerned that
Agency activities might conflict with these statements. They can be
assured that Agency activities do not. For clarification, some activities
which may have been subject to misunderstanding are listed as follows:

a. Domestic Contacts. The Domestic Contact Service
establishes discreet but overt relationships with American pri-
vate citizens, commercial, academic and other organizations
and resident aliens for the purposes of collecting on a voluntary
basis foreign intelligence or soliciting their cooperation
in assisting the Agency to perform its mission overseas.
Records of the individuals and organizations cooperating with the
Agency are maintained as a necessary practical element of this
process.

b. Security Investigations. Security investigations are con-
ducted on prospective employees, contractors, and consultants,
and on security problems which arise. These investigations in-
volves a wide range of investigative procedures, including neighbor-
hood inquiries, checks with other Government agencies, review of
credit reports, and interviews with former employers and business
associates. This is essential to assure that our personnel possess
a high degree of personal integrity, sense of responsibility, and
competence and to protect classified information and sensitive in-
telligence sources and methods. The resulting files are held sepa-
rately by the Office of Security and are not merged with other
Agency files.

c. Foreign Resources. On some occasions, foreign citizens
of interest to CIA are contacted and recruited in America for work
abroad. The purpose of this activity is entirely restricted to the
Agency's foreign operations.

d. Recruitment. CIA recruiters maintain a wide variety of
contacts within the United States, assisting individuals interested
in employment with CIA to learn more about it and to join its em-
ployes force.

e. Contracting. In the course of CIA business and operations,
a number of contracts for procurement, research, or analysis are
made with a variety of U.S. companies and individuals. This in no
way constitutes operations in the U.S. but rather secures the assist-
ance of these groups in carrying out the CIA mission against foreign
targets.

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