Department of Defense
DIRECTIVE
NUMBER 5240.02
March 17, 2015
USD(I)
SUBJECT: Counterintelligence (CI)
References: See Enclosure 1
1. PURPOSE. This directive:
a. Reissues DoD Directive (DoDD) O-5240.02 (Reference (a)) to update established policy
and assign responsibilities for conducting CI activities and reporting CI information to Congress,
the Secretary of Defense, and the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence (USD(I)) in
accordance with DoDD 5143.01 (Reference (b)).
b. Incorporates and cancels the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control,
Communications, and Intelligence Memorandum (Reference (c)) and USD(I) Memorandums
(References (d) and (e)).
2. APPLICABILITY. This directive applies to OSD, the Military Departments, the Office of
the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Joint Staff, the Combatant Commands
(CCMDs), the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Defense (OIG DoD), the
Defense Agencies, the DoD Field Activities, and all other organizational entities within the DoD
(referred to collectively in this directive as the “DoD Components”).
3. POLICY. It is DoD policy that:
a. CI activities are undertaken as part of an integrated DoD and national effort to detect,
identify, assess, exploit, penetrate, degrade, and counter or neutralize espionage, intelligence
collection, sabotage, sedition, subversion, assassination, and terrorist activities conducted for or
on behalf of foreign powers, organizations, persons, or their agents directed against U.S. national
security interests or DoD and its personnel, information, materiel, facilities, and activities.
b. CI activities are undertaken to support the four CI missions of:
(1) Countering espionage, international terrorism, and the CI insider threat.
