NIS COMMITTEE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01083A000100130030-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 10, 2005
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: June 19, 1962
• Content Type: MF

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19 June 1962
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director (Intelligence)
SUBJECT: NIS Committee
REFERENCE: My memorandum, same subject,
dated 21 February 1962
1. Attachment to USIB- D- 27. 1/18 of 28 May 19 62 recommends
(paragraph 8. f.) that the National Intelligence Survey (NIS) Committee
be disestablished and its functions reassigned to CIA.
2. The views expressed in referenced memorandum (copy
attached) are still pertinent to the question of whether the NIS Com-
mittee is to remain an official USIB committee or to become an
unofficial instrument of the DCI.
3. It is particularly important that the NIS Committee should
continue its well-established role at a time of major changes in the
NIS Program and new relationships in connection with DIA's assump-
tion of NIS production responsibilities from the Services. Present
Service representatives on the Committee would provide needed
continuity during the extended transitional period we are just entering.
4. In my judgment it would be reasonable and prudent to
continue the NIS Committee under its present terms of reference
until these major changes have been accomplished and the new
interagency relationships firmly established.
Assistant _D1rec or
Basic Intelligence
Enclosure:
Ref. memo
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OR :
SU*JZCT:
RETERENC
I submit the follow
fox your consideration.
NIB Cow
Draft Report fro
to Ch atrz xan,
? on the reference memorandum
t. The NIS Prcbrssm was begun in 1944 pursuant to N It3 Na. 3.
Authority for establishment of the NIS Cana ttee derives
approved Standard Instructions which were developed
direetive. Although the MS Program is indeed well?e
scope and magnitude rewire the constant e
Corn ;acre provides.
Z. The hallmark of the NIA' Progrs m has been the high degree
of interagency collaboration toward a mutely beneficial end ?- the
production of basic national intelligence which, by definitiosa, transcends
the *xclusive competence of a single departmsat and is the reap utihlity
of the UW& Moreover, the NIS Committee clearly meets the criteria
set forth in psragrepb 7. c. of the reference.
"118113 neeeeds, on a permanent basis, only those
committees that are clearly required to support functions
specified for t1I8 is P CID I or to coordinate certain
important functional programs (other than services of
cocoa concern) which are carried out by several
agencies to meet their own and community needs.
"
3. Similarly, the reference rnerraoran+wn stat,
_
i h,)Ar 44104 of tat. gsnce prc du ticn for which responsibility to
necessarily assigned to a number of agencies and therefore
community coordination are scientific and ecaao ic. '* The
fails into this category and is considerably broader to to
examples cited. The reason ;urea for retaining the EIC --
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its work involves the coordination of important
nec.ssarsly conducted by moat UMB a eencies as well as by some
9 n4m- agowtes" -- to valid and a coca e'lling reason for
retaining the t Ce mittee.
4. boamwe the NIS I lvers the active pr oa of
nmW agencies, both U$IB and non- t I , some moo ka sso to
oerd1 to the efforts Of the a rib*tars is aMUk4*tsrry.
etionia g affect vely for over 14 years and
I see as valid reason for chaaging its terms of refere e. As an
instrument of the USIB, it does strengthen the 'eoncapt of co-
ordiaatod support for the rirector of Coatrat Intelligence and for
the USIA that is workable, ?ffielest, and compatible
top strn ctnre. `'
4ssistarA Z) r*e
zasic Inte;se
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