DRAFT NSCID NO. 8, 'PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION'

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• Publication Date: January 9, 1961
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UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD
OFFICE OF THE CHAIRMAN
C 0 P Y January 9, 1961
MEMORANDUIMi FOR: Executive Secretary
National Security Council
SUBJECT : Draft NSCID No. 8, ('Photographic
Interpretations
1. It is recommended that the attached draft directive
on "Photographic Interpretation" be approved and issued as
National Security Council Directive No. 8.
2. The members of the United States Intelligence Board
concurred in this draft directive on 4 January 1961, except for
the differing views expressed by certain Board members with
respect to paragraphs 2.a., 2.a.(l) and 2.a.(2). Their differing
views are set forth in a footnote to those paragraphs.
/s/ Allen W. Dulles
ALLEN W. DULLES
Chairman
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USIB-D-69.2/1 (Rev.)
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UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD
MEMORANDUM FOR THE UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD
SUBJECT: Draft NSCID No. 8, "Photographic Interpretation"
Attached is the draft NSCID No. 8, as approved by the United
States Intelligence Board on 4 January 1961.
Executive Secretary
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(DRAFT) NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL INTELLIGENCE
Directive No. 8
Photographic Interpretation
For the purpose of ensuring the most effective, timely and economic
exploitation of photography as a source for foreign intelligence relating
to the national security, and pursuant to section 102 of the National
Security Act of 1947, as amended, the National Security Council hereby
directs that the following policies, responsibilities, and procedures
shall be recognized and established:
1. Policies
To ensure that the capabilities of the departments and agencies
represented on the Intelligence Board are most efficiently utilized for
the foreign intelligence exploitation of photography the following basic
principles shall apply:
a. No complete separation of interest is possible or desirable in
photographic intelligence activities.
b. Departments and agencies represented on the U. S. Intelligence
Board shall continue to be individually responsible for photographic
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interpretation and the production of photographic intelligence in support
of established departmental or agency responsibilities and the utilization
of such photography and related collateral information in the production
of intelligence, such as, warning intelligence, orders of battle, estimates,
technical intelligence, precise geodetic data, targeting, maps, charts,
matrices or other targeting materials and related research and develop-
ment.
c. To promote an integration of effort and to avoid unnecessary
duplication and expense, a coordinated interdepartmental approach to
the exploitation of photographic intelligence shall be established.
d. Subject to applicable security measures and on. a "need-to-know"
basis, there shall be full interchange of all pertinent photographs and
photographic intelligence analysis among the departments and agencies
concerned.
e. Certain photographic intelligence functions can be best
performed as a central service of common concern, for the maximum
benefit of the entire intelligence community.
2. Centralized Responsibilities
a. A National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC) shall be
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provided as a service of common concern by'the Director of Central
Intelligence in consultation with the interested members of the USIB,.
(1) The Director of the NPIC shall be designated by the Director of
Central Intelligence after consultation with the interested USIB members
and with the concurrence of the Secretary of Defense.
(2) The Intelligence Board departments and agencies engaged in
photographic intelligence production shall jointly provide appropriate
personnel and other support for the Center, as agreed by them with the
Director of Central Intelligence-. Such supporting personnel shall be
The Assistant for Special Operations to the Secretary of Defense, the
Director for Intelligence, Joint Staff, the Assistant Chief of Naval
Operations (Intelligence) and the Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence,
USAF would substitute the following language for the underscored portions
of paragraphs 2.a., 2.a. (1) and 2.a.(2)t
2.a. - substitute "the Secretary of Defense."
2.a.(l) - substitute "the Secretary of Defense with the concurrence
of the United States Intelligence Board".
2.a.(2) - substitute "the Secretary of Defense".
The Director, National Security Agency, and the Federal Bureau of
Investigation representative to the USIB abstained on these paragraphs.
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functionally under the direction of the Director, NPIC, for joint activities,
but shall remain administratively responsible to their parent organizations.
(3) The administration of NPIC in time of war shall be trans-
ferred to the Secretary of Defense.
b. Foreign intelligence related photography shall be made available
from photographic processing facilities to the Center and to designated
photographic intelligence units of Intelligence Board departments, agencies
and commands simultaneously, and without delay for preliminary analysis,
within the bounds of any special security controls required.
c. The NPIC shall provide on a selective basis for the preliminary,
rapid interpretation of photographic detail, including where possible
tentative identification of such detail; and shall make appropriate distribu-
tion of such preliminary interpretations, with supporting references to
appropriate related collateral information, to interested elements of the
community.
d. It is the intent of this directive that NPIC not engage in the
production and dissemination of finished intelligence. Photography
which appears to be primarily of departmental or agency significance
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shall be the primary exploitation responsibility of the department or
agency concerned. The Center, itself, shall produce and disseminate
NPIC photographic interpretation reports (based on an analysis of
photography using other sources to assist in this interpretation) and
provide other materials and services, in support of the national
intelligence effort and approved Priority National Intelligence Objectives.
e. The NPIC shall also furnish such additional support to der art-
mental and agency interests as can be provided without degradation
of activities already specified in para. 2.c. and d., above.
f. The NPIC shall maintain on a selective basis a consolidated
central file of photographic data as a service of common concern. It
shall make arrangements for the exchange of photographs and photo-
graphic data with other photographic collections in the Intelligence
Community, and shell make appropriate recommendations to facilitate
the coordinate development of compatible codes, indexes, and mechanized
systems for the efficient recovery, selection and collation of available
photographic data.
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g. The NPIC shall engage in or sponsor, as appropriate, the
development of specialized equipment for the intelligence exploitation
,f photography, and shall provide information about such specialized
equipment to interested elements of the intelligence community for
their own possible use or further adaptation.
h. The 1PIC shall examine and make recommendations to the U. S.
Intelligence Board, as appropriate, as to any special security controls
required.
3. Coordination
In discharging its responsibilities the NPIC shall consult, as appropriate
with individual departments, agencies and committees of the U. S.
Intelligence Board. The intelligence chief of each department or
agency represented on the U. S. Intelligence Board shall coordinate
photographic intelligence activities within his parent organization
with the National Photographic Interpretation Center.