National SIGINT Requirements List:
Information Need (IN) - France: Economic
Developments
WikiLeaks release: June 29, 2015
Keywords: National Security Agency, NSA, Information Need, IN, Secret, NOFORN,
SIGINT, United States, USA, France, economic espionage, G-8, G-20
Restraint: SECRET
Title: National SIGINT Requirements List: Information Need (IN) - France:
Economic Developments
Date: 2012
Organization: Director of National Intelligence (DNI)
Link: https://wikileaks.org/nsa-france/
Pages: 1

Description
This classified US intelligence "Information Need" spying order mandates long term economic espionage
against France in order to obtain details about the economic activities of French companies and the
economic policies and decisions of the French government. Information Needs (IN) are collection
requirements extracted from the National SIGINT Requirements List, and are used to broadly justify the
interception of communications in order to satisfy generic intelligence demands from U.S. policy makers
and the U.S. Intelligence Community. This IN, identified as 2002-204 (first created in 2002 and updated
for more than a decade) and referenced in the list of Top NSA French Targets previously published by
WikiLeaks, shows which particular information of interest ("Essential Elements of Information", EEI) the
relevant Signals Intelligence units are instructed to collect and report about. Such requirements include
France's economic relations with the United States, other countries and international institutions, France's
financial and trade policies, and its views on G-8 and G-20 agendas. "Supported Elements" are those
parts of the US government which are supported by (i.e receive intelligence reports derived from) the
espionage.

 IN Standard Report: S­C­2002­204
Title : (S//REL TO USA, AUS, CAN, GBR, NZL) France: Economic 
Developments 
Originator Classification : SECRET//REL TO USA, AUS, CAN, GBR, NZL 
Table of Contents 
EEI A : (U//FOUO) Economic Relations with the United States  
EEI B : (S//REL TO USA, AUS, CAN, GBR, NZL) French Business
Practices  
EEI C : (S//REL TO USA, AUS, CAN, GBR, NZL) French 
Financial/Macroeconomic Policy Development  
EEI D : (U//FOUO) Views On G­8, G­20 Developments/Issues  
EEI E : (U//FOUO) Budgetary Constraints/Contributions To NATO  
EEI F : (S//REL TO USA, AUS, CAN, GBR, NZL) French Views  
EEI G : (U//FOUO) Relations With Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 
And Transitional States  
EEI H : (U//FOUO) Foreign Contracts/Feasibility 
Studies/Negotiations
EEI I : (U//FOUO) Relations With International Financial 
Institutions  
EEI J : (S//REL TO USA, AUS, CAN, GBR, NZL) French Trade Policies  
EEI K : (U//FOUO) Questionable Trade Activities  
(U//FOUO) Supported Element(s): 
CIA  
COMMERCE
DHS  
DIA/DI  
DIA/OSR­2  
DIA/USEUCOM  
FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD  
STATE/INR  
TREASURY  
US TRADE REP  
DOE/IN