DIRECTIVE ON COORDINATION OF FORIEGN INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES.

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• Publication Date: January 22, 1946
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Public Papers of the Presidents
rg Directive on Coordination of Foreign Intelligence Activities.
January 22, 1946
To the Secretary of State, the Secretary of
War, and the Secretary of the Navy:
r. It is my desire, and I hereby direct, that
all Federal foreign intelligence activities be
planned, developed and coordinated so as
to assure the most effective accomplishment
of the intelligence mission related to the
national security. I hereby designate you,
together with another person to be named by
me as my personal representative, as the
National Intelligence Authority to accom-
plish this purpose.
. 2. Within the limits of available appro-
priations, you shall each from time to time
assign persons and facilities from your re-
spective Departments, which persons shall
collectively form a Central Intelligence
Group and shall, under the direction of a
Director of Central Intelligence, assist the
National Intelligence Authority. The Direc-
tor of Central Intelligence shall be desig.
nated by me, shall be responsible to the
National Intelligence Authority, and shall
sit as a non-voting member thereof.
3. Subject to the existing law, and to the
direction and control of the National Intelli-
gence Authority, the Director -of Central
Intelligence shall:
a. Accomplish the correlation and evalua-
tion of intelligence relating to the national
security, and the appropriate dissemination
within the Government of the resulting
strategic and national policy intelligence.
In so doing, full use shall be made of the
staff and facilities of the intelligence agen-
cies of your Departments.
b. Plan for the coordination of such of
the activities of the intelligence agencies of
your Departments ?as relate to the national
security and recommend to the National
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Intelligence Authority the establishment of
such over-all policies and objectives as will
assure the most effective accomplishment of
the national intelligence mission.
c. Perform, for the benefit of said intelli-
gence agencies, such services ofcommon con-
cern as the National Intelligence Authority
determines can be more efficiently accom-
plished centrally.
d. Perform such other functions and
duties related to intelligence affecting.the
national security as the President and the
National Intelligence Authority may from
time to time direct.
4. No police, law enforcement or internal
security functions shall be exercised under
this directive.
5. Such intelligence received by the intelli-
gence agencies of your Departments as may
be designated by the National Intelligence
Authority shall be freely available to the
Director of Central Intelligence for correla-
tion, evaluation or dissemination. To the
extent approved by the National Intelligence
Authority, the operations of said intelligence
agencies shall be open to inspection by the
Director of Central Intelligence in connec-
tion with planning functions.
6. The existing intelligence agencies of
your Departments shall continue to collect,
evaluate, correlate and disseminate depart-
mental intelligence.
7. The Director of Central Intelligence
shall be advised by an Intelligence Advisory
Board consisting of the heads (or their rep-
resentatives) of the principal military and
civilian intelligence agencies of the Govern.
merit having functions related to national
security, as determined by the National In-
telligence Authority.
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8. Within the scope of existing law and
Presidential directives, other departments
and agencies of the executive branch of the
Federal Government shall furnish such in-
telligence information relating to the na-
tional security as is in their possession, and
as the Director of Central Intelligence may
from time to time request pursuant to regu-
lations of the National Intelligence
Authority.
9. Nothing herein shall be construed to
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authorize the making of investigations in-
side the continental limits of the United
States and its possessions, except as pro-
vided by law and Presidential directives.
ro. In the conduct of their activities the
National Intelligence Authority and the Di-
rector of Central Intelligence shall be re-
sponsible for fully protecting intelligence
sources and methods.
Sincerely yours,
HARRY S. TRUMAN
20 Letter to the Chairman and Members of the President's Steel
Fact-Finding Board. January 22,
Dear Mr. Feinsinger:
I have received the letter dated January 59,
5946 signed by yourself and the other Mem-
bers of the Steel Fact-Finding Board, Associ-
ate Justice Roger I. McDonough and
Associate Justice James M. Douglas, in which
you review the activities of the Board to
date, and request instructions as to your
further procedure.
For the present, I suggest that you con-
tinue your study of governmental data, and
that you remain available for further
consultation.
1946
Your sincere desire to assist in every way
possible in securing an early termination
of this dispute is highly appreciated.
Very sincerely yours,
HARRY S. TRUMAN
[Honorable Nathan P. Feinsinger, Chairman, Steel
Fact-Finding Board, Department of Labor, Wash-
ington, D.C.]
xorE: The letter from the Chairman and members
of the Steel Fact-Finding Board was released with
21 The President's News Conference of
January 24, 1946
THE PRESIDENT. I want to read a couple of
things to you, and then I will stand for
questions as usual.
[I.] "Judge Samuel I. Rosenman is leav-
ing the White House officially on'February.
Ist, to return to private life in New York'
City. -I make this announcement with dtep
regret."
. You will receive copies of this. 'It is
mimeographed, so you don't have to take it
down now.
[Continuing reading]: "Judge Rosenman
sought to resign in a letter to me dated
April 14, 1945. I 'told him I could not let
him go, and he patriotically accepted my
decision. In justice to him, I can no longer
try to dissuade him from leaving.
udge Rosenman's service to two Presi-
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