REVISION OF THE CHARTERS OF THE JIC AND THE JIS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67-00059A000100160023-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 10, 2001
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: July 21, 1947
• Content Type: MF

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WAR DEPARTMENT
lhew Department General Staff
Intelligence Division
Washington 25* D. C.
1947
lEID907 JCS Declassification/Release Ins ftuc ons on File
R THE DI
T: Revision of the Charters of the JIC and the JIS
!E)randum dated 11 July19472
e to your
rector of Intelligence* * cannot con-
sten enclosed thereto* but reaffirms the
1569/4. The following comeente are in
The Joint Chiefs of Staff in fulfilling their function
planning must control the intelligence agency or
support this function, The GIG* despite the military
signed therein* is not within the structure of the
Lets of Staff and therefore cannot* and should not be expected*
11 a staff function for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
b. The JIG* in common with all committees* frequently
confronted by-a wide divergence of opinion among itarmembers
services of an intelligence staff are required for the expedi
resolution of these differences. Without the services of a stat:
the JIC would be confronted by a situatUnivelerein the cooperate
agencies drafting war plans or mar plans +estimates would apply-
direct to the intelligence services, with the resultant danger that
the divergence of opinion reflected in the separate intelligence
ewe:ems:might be reconciled by -working groups not primarily con-
ownskt with intelligence
C, The priorities assigned to estimates requested of the
JIC are set by the Joint Staff Planners -- priorities the JIC
considers its foremost obligation. Any systmwhereby such priori-
ties:might be overshadowed by requests from another and possibly
senior source* would unnecessarily hinder the work of the Joint
Staff Planners. For this reason also* the Joint Intelligence Staff
should be under the direct control of the Joint Intelligence Committee.
d, Inasmuch as each individual member of the JIC is re-
sponsible to the National Intelligence Authority* it is considered
neither necessary nor advisable to restrict a subcommittee of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff to the policies and objectives enunciated by
the National Intelligence Authority.
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no objection to the Director of Cen
a member of the armed forces) aitt
of the JIG, it is believed that inasmuch
with military problems there is no
ch a procedure.
ion of the Secretariat, Joint Chiefs
one. To make an exception in the case
by rewiring him 'Ito handle those matters *A
priate to the CIO" is unsound.
FOR TRE DIRECTOR. OF INTELLIGENCEs
/ /Laurin L. AMU=
L&JRX L. WILLIAMS
ColOnel5 GSG
Executive
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