The overall effect is that 0.00004% of the world's online activity is reviewed by NSA intelligence analysts, the memorandum said.
They include Politburo minutes, army and intelligence reports and memorandums of meetings that Deng held with his comrades.
F.B.I. counterterrorism officials developed the intelligence cited in the memorandum through firsthand observation, informants, public sources like the Internet and other methods, officials said.
On May 19, Dennis C. Blair, the director of national intelligence, sent a classified memorandum announcing that his office would use its authority to select the top American spy in each country overseas.
WASHINGTON — On May 19, Dennis C. Blair, the director of national intelligence, sent a classified memorandum announcing that his office would use its authority to select the top American spy in each country overseas.
"For many years, there has been a bias in the intelligence community" against defectors, the memorandum said.
The State Department spokesman, Richard A. Boucher, said tonight: "I'm not in a position to comment on reports of classified memorandum from our intelligence folks".
Even President Obama's new director of national intelligence, Dennis C. Blair, wrote in a memorandum to his staff last week that "high value information came from interrogations in which these methods were used," an assertion left out when the memorandum was edited for public release.
"What would the public say if we didn't look for criminal activity and intelligence at these events?" The memorandum urged local law enforcement officials "to be alert to these possible indicators of protest activity and report any potentially illegal acts" to counterterrorism task forces run by the F.B.I.
King mentioned an Oct. 9 memorandum from the intelligence community that he said detailed what the Russians were up to.
