NIS COORDINATION

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 12, 2001
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EriA I COOILDITITION
The main efforts of the 11.:3 Coordinator durinr, the year were
directed towards the development of avpabilities -,vithin. the Intel etc
Agencie.:-, for a balanced production of NIS in accordance v,fith scheduled
commitmentrs. The difficulties w:Llich resulted from the Korean -..4ar not only
reduced productiorx severely but alsoL:m;-:).tly unbalanced the whole NIS
Pron iloreinerA, riew st,iff 5 were ineapab3_e of satisfactory
without considerable indoctrination :-Lnd training. R.,,peri..ence in this
respect indicates that it tak:es six LIM thS to a year to develop crept:tent
air; ta tor work,? This f t accounts in 1 itrZe iieaure tiar the al OW
revJurvnce of production even ulth a fo_irly large increase in. sL.fts, and
for the c cati rue d tive fled en:Le in on tribu tions.
nother im.portant aspect of the NL Program which as accorded
conzider:t.Lle enph77,:31,s 1.yf;E the improvement of NIL procethres .:And rec,uirements?,
During the yer, tvirte JLi 3tandord Ins tractions., inc1udine; the editorial
inrntLor&ss ? WC.-1"`e comp1ettLyiiied, A..n. entire4 new or,afl.iZitiOn Was
set- up cagier the :;cierit,.itic Inteili7ence Cor.unitte to produce Chapter VIII,
with coord.in,ation accomplished by t.he Chairmin of the .SIC CssL.stant,
Director, Office of 3elt:mtific intellinee, CIL). the recrzaniza-
V.11 ona.l. problems were ccn. iderbLz:,:va. delayed pr lucti ons a major revision
of Cllapter VII on the T..U.31i. had. sib oit1iLy Leen completed by the end of
the year.
A. third import:.int c9ncern of t.,"ne 11.15 Coordim,tor throughout the
year kmi5 been ti e de-velupment of Ade."11,,c-te measures for the collection of
basic:.u..itelliente .necessary Yor requirements under the maintenance
.precram.? It :Is apparent t Lat nucti. o Lne inforno, t ion in published IS is
ineorraGte arid, ittri.ccurate. Tais wa t.o Ipt expec te d since time did. not
permit f cornprehenAve calle,..:tion effort durirw: -the int.ial phase of' NIS
produrtion.? It is p,:ratifyinr,, to ucte? nowevers that all contributing
agencies have MiPieubstant1aL prni,.M on,s for asic intelligence collection.
7erieral terms, field l'Ictivitics reired to review aU published
NIS contributions- on areas and c.,7:Av,:.r,orles for which they are rosponsible,
and to make aumry reports of errors to their departments., In addition
there 4..;.re adequaLe provrv for the initiation of collection to fill "gap"
information infitcated in,su.b*ecti pus "Comments on Principal Sources'i,
While collection capabi,lities itWe Armed F'..)rces have been substantially
incrteed, they Arc st?IU incapilble inmanj of meetin the corprehen-
sive ?UJ requirnraents,
Coni3idemble iriprove.tvnIt was made in otrengthe!iinr; the
coordimting anr . revicnAlv, elziponouts in the Intellixence Agencies,, These
have been noticeably weak .fror.t the very beginning of the MS Program with
the result that the qualitative ade,:ivar_l of contributions has been -seriously
deficient, All agencies have now .made provisions for better qualified
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coordinatIng and reviewing steffs end for a more eereful eeamanation of
IL; contributions before transmittal to CIA? ?Mile this will eventually
reoult in a muca needed qualitative improvement in NIS contributions* it
hee teeporarily reduced production flow from the contributing a:encies1
since a large percentage of inadequate contributions are being turned back
at thc coatributing agencies" level.,
5, improved inter-agency rking level coordinAtion ha u resulted
from
or frequent conferences and consultations Increased emphasis has
been /riven to improvine, the correlation of related Intelligence appearing
in the V7i01,A5 section of each aS, which ie Increasingly more difficult
?4 lore sectionu ere publiohed. To azeist contributors in this respect"
there has been developed during the year the oas Correlation Guide" which
eets forth the inter-msletionehips of subject cateeoriee covered by US
re luirenento, in terve of fundamental end secondary treatment* oe that
proper' croes-rhecking of data cen be undertaker by contributors during the
eLrly staece uf proOuction
7 On 16 January 1951, the us Committee issued a Special Report
to the Dleector of Central Intelligence for consideratiori by the Intelligence
Advisory Committeei, The Committee recommended a substantial increase in
NIS production in vice of the critical world situation and the urgency of
completing NIS on stratterAeally important areas at an early date. The IAC
considered those proOosele on 16 rarch 1951, arid decided the best that could
be done for the remainder of ilscal Year 1951 was to build up capabilities
within the Intelligence ligencies to at least an 8 NIS-a-year level* and to
recenolder this matter when the required level of production had been
attained, with the view to poosible further augmentation. The JCS High
Priority List wes amended on February. 1951 by the addition of a new
"Higheet Priority" Group of 24 IS Areas selected. from the JCS list of high
priority countries and subdivided into 3 priority groupingse The main
effect of thie amendment was increased emphasis on Far Eastern and Satellite
countries,.
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