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25X1C Approved For Release 2002/08/08; CIA-RDP79M00095A4@@0300030006-3 2. The Threat The hostile intelligence threat to the US is often thought of in terms of the Soviet overhead imagery collection program and the variety of Soviet SIGINT collection programs. But the Soviet human resources collection program is both complementary to the other two Soviet collection programs and a formidable threat in its own right. Soviet overt human resources collection takes in the rich information lodes of an open society like a vacuum cleaner. Soviet clandestine human resources collection is a sharply focused effort concentrating on information not otherwise obtainable, i.e., strategic plans and intentions intelligence on the US, R&D on new advanced US weapons systems, penetration and negation of US intelligence and security ser- vices. Continued Soviet expenditure of sizeable resources on the Soviet human resources collection effort indicates the > Soviets have found it valuable. a. Size of Soviet Human Resource Intelligence Threat Over the past 15 years the accessibility of the US to Soviet and Soviet surrogate human resources collectors has increased without a corresponding usable increase in the accessibility of the USSR to human resources collec- tion by the US and its allies. 25X1 3 SECRET Approved For Release 2002/09/03 : CIA-RDP79M00095A000300030006-3 25X1C