ROLES OF THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY IN WARTIME AND IN NATIONAL EMERGENCIES SHORT OF WAR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP66B00403R000400230013-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 6, 2006
• Sequence Number: 13
• Content Type: MEMO

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NATIONAL SECURITY ACTION MEMORANDUM
TO : Director of Central Intelligence
Secretary of State
Secretary of Defense
Director of the Office of Emerge
SUBJECT: Role* of the Director of Central Int
Intelligence Agency in Wartime an
:tort of War
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1. The purpose of this memorandum is to affirm the role of the
Director of Central Intelligence and of the Central Intelligence Agency in
the event of war (including general war involving the Continental U. S.
and during periods of national emergency short of war, and to provide a
clear understanding of the responsibility during suck a period of the
Director of Centrel intelligence and of the Central Intelligence Agency.
2,, The responsibiiitinw of the Director o Central Intelligence as
the Government's principal intelligence officer (based on statute, the
President's memorandum of 16 January 1962 for the Director of Central
Intelligence, and other pertinent orders and directives) will continue
under any of the above specified events. In like manner, responsibilities
f the Central Intelligence Agency, which are carried out under the
rection of the National Security Council (as set forth in statute and
pertinent orders and directives), will also continue.
3. Agreements between the Central intelligence Agency and the
Department of Defense, pertaining to the relationship of Central Intelligence
Agency components to given theater commanders or commands where
Agency components are located in active theaters of war where American
forces are engaged, will be implemented under any of the above in accord-
ance with the provisions of such agreements upon ateignment of a Central
Intelligence Agency force by the Director of Central Intelligence to a given
theater commander or command.
MORVCDE.,
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4. The Director of Central Intelligence shall make the
necessary arrangements including communications, Liaison, and logis-
tical requirements to assure his support of the President with respect
to the total United States intelligence effort, and (b) for the conduct of
appropriate activities of the Central Intelligence Agency. The Depart-
ment of state, the Department of Defense, the Office of Emergency
Planning, as well as other departments and agencies of the Government
as appropriate, will render to the Director of Central Intelligence all
assistance as he rosy require in carrying out his mission as herein
directed.
5. The Director of Central Intelligence shall keep the President
appropriately informed concerning the existing and projected status of
intelligence support to the President and the posture of Central Intelligence
Agency readiness.
cc: Secretary of the Treasury
The Attorney General
Secretary of Commerce
Director of the Bureau of the Budget
Director of the U. S. Information Agency
Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission
Chairman, joint Chiefs of Staff
Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
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