THIRD AGENCY DISSEMINATION BY CIG REQUIREMENTS STUDY NO. 15 PROJECTS MEMORANDUM NO. 21

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THIRD AGENCY DI,SSE YiI~thI tON El Cis
Requirements L ti 3y do. 15
Projects e?nDrancta L. 21
1. Requirements Study No. 15 assigned the problem to determine the appropriate
basis for third agency dissemination by GIG. Projects Memorandum No. 21 ampli-
fied this problem to also consider whether existing directives give CIG authority
to disseminate current intelligence, which includes 00 and OSO reports.
2. The presidential directive of 22 January 19146 is very specific in assigning
to the GIG the responsibility to accomplish the correlation and evaluation of
intelligence relating to the national security, and the appropriate dissemina-
tion within the Government of the resulting strategic and national policy intel-
ligence. The directive further provides that such intelligence received by the
intelligence agencies of the SWAN Departments as may be designated by the NIA
shall be freely available to GIG for correlation, evaluation or dissemination.
It also states, however, that the existing intelligence agencies of the SWAN
Departments shall continue to collect, evaluate, correlate and disseminate
departmental intelligence.
3. NIA Directive No. 1, adopted by the NIA on 8 February 19146, states that
the CIG will furnish strategic and national policy intelligence to the
President and the SWAN Departments, and, as appropriate, to the SAFNCC, the
JCS, and other governmental departments and agencies having strategic and
policy functions related to the national security, and provides that the GIG
will utilize all available intelligence in roducin strategic and national
policy intelligence. In order for CIG to perform its authorized mission, the
directive states that there will be made available to GIG all necessary facil-
ities, intelligence and information in the possession of the SWAN Departments,
and that conversely, all facilities of the GIG and all intelligence pre red
by it will be made available to the SWAN Secretaries, and through arrangements
agreed to between the DCI and the IAB members, subject to any authorized re-
strictions, to the S4AN Departments.
14. These two basic directives reveal very clearly that the mission of CIG is
to develop and prepare national intelligence and to disseminate such national
intelligence to appropriate Government departments and agencies. There is no
allusion whatsoever to GIG disseminating current or staff intelligence, nor is
such dissemination an implied or logical complement to its responsibility to
disseminate national intelligence. Furthermore, the Presidential directive
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expressly says that the existing intelligence agencies shall continue to
collect, evaluate, correlate and disseminate departmental intelligence.
5. A proposed NIA directive (IAB No. 1), captioned "Coordination of Intel-
ligence Production", now under consideration by the Intelligence Advisory
Board, divides the field of intelligence into four sections, viz: basic,
current, staff and national. Basic intelligence is defined as encyclopedic
information of permanent or static nature, and national intelligence is de-
fined as strategic and national policy intelligence. CIG is responsible for
the dissemination of these two types. Current intelligence is defined as
spot information which has not been evaluated or interpreted, and staff intel-
ligence as that information prepared by and of interest to a particular depart-
ment. The proposed directive provides that dissemination of current intelligence
shall be based on interagency agreement, and that staff intelligence of one
agency shall be available to other IAB agencies. Each department's current
and staff intelligence would seem to be included in the phrase "departmental
intelligence" used in the Presidential directive.
6. From the above discussion, it -spears that insofar as material produced
by the IAB member agencies is concerned, CIG does not have authority to dis-
seminate it to third agencies, whether IAB or otherwise. CIG is entitled to
receive all types of intelligence from all agr.cies to use in preparing basic
and national intelligence, and is specifically authorized to disseminate only
the resulting intelligence after evaluation and interpretation.
7. With respect to current intelligence produced by CIG, dissemination to
IAB member agencies appears to be warranted. While, as pointed out above,
the primary mission of CIG is the production and dissemination of national
intelligence and any collection of information it makes is directed to that
end, there does not seem to be any objection to its disseminating immediately
to IAB members only, as a secondary matter, such current intelligence as it
produces which is of interest to the particular agency. This position is
supported by the spirit of NIA Directive No. 7, which, while dealing primarily
with coordination of collection activities by IAB members, has the following
statement, "There shall be free and unrestricted interdepartmental flow of
intelligence information and intelligence to meet the recognized secondary
need of each department for intelligence usually prepared or obtained by other
departments".
CONCLUSION
8. chile CIG may disseminate its own intelligence, either current or national,
to member TAB agencies, it is not at present authorized to disseminate current
or staff intelligence received from another agency to a third agency. However,
a vehicle to accomplish such third agency dissemination if it is desired is
available in the provisions of the proposed paper, IA B No. 1, mentioned above.
This paper specifies that dissemination of current intelligence be covered by
an interagency agreement, and at the time such agreement is prepared CIG can
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present its position and have the matter of third agency dissemination
specifically subjected to a firm agreement. Such agreement can also include
consideration of procedures to be followed in dissemination of staff intel-
ligence prepared by the several agencies.
RECOM&NDATION
9. That if and when IAB No. 1 is adopted as an NIA directive, CIG attempt
to have the interagency agreement therein provided for authori`e third
agency dissemination by CIG, if as a matter of policy, CIG determines that
it should and can assume such responsibility as one of its proper functions.
/s/
STAT
Colonel 177SC (AC)
Chief, Requirements Branch
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