NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTIVE NO. 1 DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

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• Publication Date: December 12, 1947
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NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTIVE NO. 1
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 102 of the National
Security Act of 1 47, and for the purposes enunciated in para-
graphs (d) and (e) thereof, the National Security Council here-
by authorizes and directs that:
1. To maintain the relationship essential to coordi-
nation between the Central Intelligence Agency and the
intelligence organizations, an Intelligence Advisory Com-
mittee consisting of the respective intelligence chiefs
from the Departments of State, Army, Navy, and Air Force,
and from the Joint Staff (JCS), and the Atomic Energy Com-
mission, or their representatives, shall be established-lo-
advise the Director of Central Intelligence. The Director
o entral Intelligence will invite the chief, or his repre-
sentative,, of any other intelligence Agency having functions
related to the national security to sit with the Intelligence
Advisory Committee whenever matters within the purview of
his Agency are to be discussed.
2. To the extent authorized by Section 102 (e) of the
National Security Act of 1947, the Director of Central In-
telligence, or representatives designated by him, by arrange-
ment with the head of the department or agency concerned,
siall make such surve s and inspections of departmental in-
e aence materia o the various federal Iepartments and
Age cies re ating to the national security as may. deem
necessary in connection with his duty to advise the NSC and
o make recommendations for the coordination of intelligence
activities.
3. Coordination of intelligence activities should be
designed primarily to strengthen the overall governmental
intelligence structure. Primary departmental requirements
shall be recognized and shall receive the cooperation and
support of the Central Intelligence Agency.
a. The Director of Central Intelligence shall,
in making recommendations or giving advice to the'
National Security Council pertaining to the intelli-
gence activities of the various Departments and Agencies.,
transmit therewith a statement indicating the concur-
rence or non-concurrence of the members of the Intelli-
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gence Advisory Committee; provided that, when una-
nimity is not obtained among the Department heads of
the National Military Establishment, the Director of
Central Intelligence shall refer the problem to the
Secretary of Defense before presenting it to the
National Security Council.
b. Recommendations of the Director of Central
Intelligence shall, when approved by the National Se-
curity Council, issue as Council Directives to the
Director of Central Intelligence. The respective in-
telligence chiefs shall be responsible for insuring
that such orders or directives, when applicable, are
implemented within their intelligence organizations.
c The Director of Central Intelligence shall.
act for the National Security Council to insure full
nd proper implementation of Council directives by
issuing such supplementary DCI directives as may be
required. Such implementing directives in which the
Ishall be issued by the Director of Central Intelligence,
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gencies as provided in paragraph b. where disagree-
ent arises between the Director of Central Intelli-
gence and one or more members of the Intelligence Ad-
visory Committee over such d.irectives?, the proposed
rence, shall be forwarded to the NSC for decision as
tprovided in paragraph a.
4 The Director of Central Intelligence shall pro-
duce intelligence relating to -the national security, here-
after referred to as as national ntellgence.~.,~n so far as
practicable, he shall not duplicate the intelligence ac-
tivities and research of the various arEmenn a and gen-
t es- u s a make use o existing me lgence facilities
and shall utilize departmental intelligence for such pro-
duction purposes. For definitions see NSCID No. 3.
5. The Director of Central Intelligence shall dis-
seminate National Intelligence to the President, to mem-
bers of the National Security Council, to the Intelligence
Chiefs of the IAC Agencies, and to such Governmental De-
partments and Agencies as the National Security Council
from time-to time may designate. Intelligence so dissemi-
nated shall be officially concurred in by the Intelligence
Agencies or shall carry an agreed statement of substantial
dissent.
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6. When Security Regulations of the originating
Agency permit., the Director of Central Intelligence shall
disseminate to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and
other Departments or Agencies intelligence or intelligence
information which he may possess when he deems such dis-
semination appropriate to their functions relating to the
national security.
7. The Director of Central Intelligence shall per-
form for the benefit of the existing intelligence Agencies
such services of common concern to these Agencies as the
National Security Council determines can be more efficient-
ly accomplished centrally.
8. The intelligence organizations in each of the De-
partments and Agencies shall maintain with the Central In-
telligence Agency and with each other, as appropriate to
their respective responsibilities, a continuing interchange
of intelligence information and intelligence available to
them.
9. The intelligence files in each intelligence or-
ganization, including the CIA, shall be made available
under security regulations of the Department or Agency con-
cerned to the others for consultation.
10; The intelligence organizations within the limits
of their capabilities shall provide, or procure, such in-
telligence as may be requested by the Director of Central
Intelligence or by one of the other Departments or Agencies.
11, The Director of Central Intelligence shall make
arrangements with the respective Departments and Agencies
to assign to the Central Intelligence Agency such experi-
enced and qualified officers and members as maybe of ad-
vantage for advisory, operational, or other purposes, in
addition to such personnel as the Director of Central In-
telligence may directly employ, In each case, such depart-
mental personnel will be subject to the necessary. personnel
procedures of each Department.
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