ABSTRACT
The open activities of CIA at home cover a wide range. Among the "services of common concern" that CIA performs for the intelligence community is the open collection of information on foreign countries from cooperative American citizens and companies. Both the open and secret directorates of the CIA are, unfortunately, housed together in the overlarge structure of the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Domestic support of CIA's secret operations is extensive. The most crucial element in the domestic support of CIA's secret operations is the provision of cover for overseas case officers. The principal focus of CIA espionage work in this country, however, is the recruitment of visiting foreigners for eventual use as intelligence agents when they return to their own countries—the main task of the Foreign Resources Division. Every foreign intelligence service has found that it can approach a high-level foreigner on its own soil more easily and more securely than it can in his native capital.
