ARMY INTELLIGENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-03362A000600070002-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 31, 2001
• Sequence Number: 2
• Content Type: OUTLINE

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ARMY Declass/Release Instructions On File*
Declassification/Release Instructions on File
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Army Intelligence
I, The Army needs intelligence as a basis of planning and for the conduct
of ground operations.
A. The kinds of intelligence needed differ with the level of Army
command.
1. Strategic intelligence needed by the high civilian officers
of the Department of the Army, the Chief of Staff, the
General Staff Divisions, the Technical Services, and theater
commanders.
a, Strategic intelligence deals in a broad sense, with
the military capabilities, vulnerabilities, and
intentions of foreign armies.
(1) Size and character of the military establishment.
(2) Strategic doctrine and policies.
(3) Political alignment, such as treaty obligations.
(4) Political direction and control of military
establishment.
(5) Economic resources for sustaining military effort.
(6) Transportation and communications?facilities.
(7) Manpower potential for combat forces and supply.
(8) Psychological factors.
(9) Scientific potential.
(10) Geographical factors.
20 Combat intelligence is needed by army units in contact with
enemy or preparing for hostilities.
a. Combat intelligence is defined as "military intelligence
required for use in a combat situation, whether based
upon information collected locally or provided by higher
headquarters," or information about the enemy needed by
the unit commander in order to accomplish his mission.
(1) Identification of enemy forces (order of battle).
(2) Tactical doctrine.
(3) Terrain information.
(4) Transportation and communications information.
(5) Information about local population and conditions
in combat area.
B. There is no sharp line between strategic and combat intelligence, but
it can be recognized that the Chief of the Staff of the Army and a
regimental commander have different intelligence requirements.
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II, Armor organization makes provision for meeting intelligence needs of
all levels of command,
A. An intelligence officer is a member of the commanderts staff on
all levels above the battalion.
1. Known as 5.2 in battalion and regiment and C-2 in units above.
a. S-2 or G-2 has two principal responsibilities.
(1) Furnish the positive intelligence needed by the
commander.
(2) Insure adequatecuunter-intelligence measures.
B. The A.C. of S., G2 is the top intelligence officer of the Army and
has responsibilities of planning and direction beyond those of other
intelligence officers.
1. Prepare Department of the Army Intelligence Plan "for the
purpose of fulfilling assigned responsibilities pertaining to
the collection and evaluation of intelligence information;
the production of intelligence in prescribed fields, and its
dissemination to authorized recipients; and the general co-
ordination of intelligence activities within the Department
of the Army.
2. Furnish intelligence required by Department of the Army and
General Staff Divisions.
3. Furnish appropriate intelligence to lower commands.
4. Supervise intelligence production of technical services,
5. Supervise the training and supply of counter-intelligence
personnel.
Plan map supplies.
7. Plan and conduct intelligence training.
8. Plan recruitment and training of specialist units - e.g., OB,
interrogation, interpreter, and censorship teams.
III. The activities of the A.G. of S.J. 0-2 are those most closely related to
the work of CIA.
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A. Collection is planned to fulfill the Essential Elements of
Information (E.E.I.'s) - a listing of the most critical global
information requirements for the production of strategic intell-
igence by the A.C. of S., G-2 and the Technical Services for to the
Department of the Army and for fulfilling Army commitments Department of Defense, Central Intelligence Agency, State Department,
and other governmental agencies.
1. EEI broken down in collection plan into "readily recognized
indications".
a. Arranged by priority, strategic component, and agency
responsibility.
B. Chief collection agencies for Army information.
Attache system is under supervision of A.C. ofS., G-2,
a. Currently 65 attache and two liaison posts,
b. Attaches attached to diplomatic missions to collect
through overt means.
(1) Specialist officers sent to important posts.
c. Amount and kind of information received depends on
country's relations with U.S.
2. Overseas commands*
a. Important sources in periods of hostilities.
3. Training missions in foreign countries.
4. Other intelligence services:
a. CIA p des intelligence ence collected by clandestine
means
b. Department of State provides intelligence collected
through Foreign Service.
c. Navy and Air Force provide intelligence collected
through their services.
d. FBI provides domestic counter-intelligence.
5, Unofficial sources exploited.
odces intelligence to meet the needs of the
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1. By types based on time element.
a, Current in the form of oral and written briefings
of information of immediate importance.
b. Staff intelligence - reports and articles of less
immediacy.
C' Basic intelligence - reports and studies on relatively
permanent subject matter.
2. By types based on the kind of production.
a, Reports and studies embodying evaluated and analyzed
information.
Estimates.
3, The content of Army intelligence is primarily ground forces
intelligence,
a, Other components of strategic intelligence appear in
production as necessary to mission of G-2.
4. Joint production chiefly contributed to Joint Intelligence
Committee and CIA,
a. Contributions to JIC estimates.
b. Contributions to National Intelligence Surveys and
National Intelligence Estimates,
c, Contr intions to
joint camimi .ee
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