NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTIVE NO. 2 COORDINATION OF COLLECTION ACTIVITIES ABROAD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2000
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: January 13, 1948
• Content Type: REGULATION

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NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTIVE NO. 2
COORDINATION OF COLLECTION ACTIVITIES ABROAD
The following over-all policies and objectives are established
by the National Security Council for the interdepartmental coordi-
nation of foreign, intelligence collection activities, so that meas-
ures may be taken promptly to effect sound and efficient utilization
of the various departmental collecting and reporting facilities
abroad:
1. There shall be an allocation within certain broad cat-
egories of agency responsibility for collection abroad, as fol-
lows:
Political.... ...Department
of
State
Cultural ......... Department
of
State
Sociological.....Department
of
State
Military ......... Department
of
the Army
Naval ............ Department
of
the Navy
Air.............. Department
of
the Air Force
Economic )
Scientific .Each agency in accordance
Technological its respective needs
2. All available intelligence information, no matter by
whom collected, shall, wherever possible, be transmitted immed-
iately to the field representative of the agency most concerned.
However, the collector may also send copies to or otherwise in-
form his own agency.
3. The senior US representative in each foreign area
where the United States maintains a foreign post shall, within
the spirit of the principles enunciated herein, be responsible
for the coordination of all normal collection activities in
his area.
4, The collecting and reporting facilities of each of the
agencies shall be utilized so as to avoid unproductive duplica-
tion and uncoordinated overlap and to insure within budgetary
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limitations that full flow of intelligence information which
is the major need of all departments and agencies for the ac-
complishment of their respective missions.
5. Full utilization shall be made of the individual
initiative and favorable contacts of agency representatives.
6. No interpretation of these established over-all pol-
ticics and objectives shall. negate the basic principle that all
departmental representatives abroad are individually respons-
ible for the collection and for the appropriate transmission
to their departments of all intelligence information pertinent
to their departmental missions.,
7. There shall be free and unrestricted interdepartmental
exchange of intelligence information to meet the recognized
secondary needs of each department and agency for intelligence
usually obtained or prepared. by other departments or agencies.
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