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APPENDIX E
UNITED States ForrEIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE Court,
WasHINGTON, D.C.
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF THE UNITED STATES
ORDER AUTHORIZING ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCES OF
(Docket Number
MINIMIZATION
FOR AN
)
PROCEDURES
Pursuant to §101(h) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
of 1978, the following procedures have been adopted by the Attorney General, and shall be followed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in implementing these electronic surveillance as ordered
by the Court:
Section 1~—Applicability and scope
These procedures apply to the acquisition, retention, and dissemination of non-publicly available communications concerning unconsenting United States persons that is collected in the course of electronic surveillance directed at the communications of these agents
of a foreign power, consistent with the need of the United States to
obtain, produce, and disseminate foreign intelligence information.
These procedures also apply to non-United States persons only
where set forth hereinafter.
Section 2—Definitions
(a) Definitions set forth in §101 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, including the terms “foreign intelligence information,” “United States person,” and others which may be used in
these procedures, shall apply to these procedures.
(b) As used herein “communications of a United States person”
includes all communications to which a United States person is a
party. “Communications concerning a United States person” includes all communications in which a United States person is discussed or mentioned, except that communications
are not “commu-
nications concerning a United States person” if they reveal only
publicly available information about the person.
(c) When the citizenship status of a party to a communication
being surveilled is unknown, and no reasonable basis exists for concluding that the party is not a United States person, it is presumed
that such party is a United States person.
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