NSCID AND DCID EXCERPTS OF INTEREST TO R&D NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTIVE NO. 3 (REVISED 18 JAN 61) COORDINATION OF INTELLIGENCE PRODUCTION

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• Publication Date: January 1, 1961
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NSCID and DCID Excerpts of. Interest to R&D
National Security Council Intelligence
Directive No. 3 (Revised 18 Jan. 61)
Coordination of Intelligence Production
Paragraph 6:
Each department or agency, taking full cognizance of the facilities
of the other agencies, shall maintain adequate research facilities
to accomplish its departmental production mission and to provide such
additional intelligence within its field of primary responsibilities
as may be necessary to satisfy other requirements relating to the
national security.
Director of Central Intelligence Directive No. 3/1
(Effective 23 April 65)
Production and Coordination of Foreign
Economic Intelligence
Paragraph 1, a, b.
In carrying out their foreign economic intelligence activities
and responsibilities and in order to effect appropriate coordination
in the production and exchange of foreign economic intelligence,
the interested departments and agencies shall apply the following
basic principles:
a. No complete separation of interests is possible or
necessarily desirable in economic intelligence activities.
b. Full and free interchange of all pertinent information,
finished intelligence, and schedules of research programs,
including external research, among interested departments and
agencies is essential.
Paragraph 3. a. (3)
Responsibilities for Economic Intelligence Coordination
a. To assist-the Director of Central Intelligence in carrying
out his responsibilities with respect to coordination, the EIC of
the Intelligence Board shall:
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studies and related research being conducted within the Government
on the economies of foreign areas; and review external research
projects individually involving more than $5,000 and sponsored by
departments or agencies in support of economic intelligence produc-
tion. Departments and agencies shall submit descriptions of the
scope of such projects to the EIC and the EIC shall endeavor to
present its recommendations in advance of final approval by the
contracting department or agency. In its periodic reports to the
Intelligence Board, the EIC shall include a summary of actions on
these projects.
Director of Central Intelligence Directive No. 3/5
(Effective 23 April 65)
Production of Scientific and Technical Intelligence
Paragraph 1:
The following basic principles shall apply to the discharge of
responsibilities by the departments and agencies concerned:
a. No complete separation of areas of interests is desirable
or possible.
b. Full and free interchange among all departments and
agencies of information which has utility for intelligence
relating to the national security is essential. This includes
intelligence information, finished intelligence, and information
on internal and external intelligence research programs.
c. Each department or agency shall develop special
competence in those intelligence fields related to its primary
departmental responsibilities and shall normally carry out the
bulk of the research in those fields.
d. Each department or agency may make such studies as it
believes necessary to supplement intelligence obtainable from
other departments and agencies in order to meet its own
departmental requirements, but unnecessary duplication and over-
lap shall be avoided.
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Director of Central Intelligence Directive No 1/3
Priority National Intelligence Objectives
(Revised 23 Dec. 1964)
as a guide for the coordination of intelligence production, and of
supporting research and collection activities. This list replaces
that contained in DCID No. 1/3, 14 August 1963, which is hereby
rescinded.
of Priority National Intelligence Objectives (PNIOs) is established
1. Pursuant to NSCID No. 1, paragraph 3, the following list
warrant a priority collection effort.
finally (d). the residual information of such critical importance as to
additional information obtainable through routine collection, and
essential to the solution of the problem indicated, (b) the elements
identification of priority requirements entails further analysis by
research personnel to determine (a) the elements of information
equal urgency; some may be procurable by routine means. The
information somehow related to a priority problem will be required with
general and basic intelligence coverage required by DCID No. 1/2.
3. The identification of specific critical substantive
problems in this Directive is but a first step toward determination
of the priority, if any, to be accorded to particular collection
requirements by particular systems of collection. Not every bit of
gence required for policy planning purposes. In this context,
"priority" means preferment in the allocation of research and col-
lection resources. Such preferment does not warrant neglect of the
2. This listing of priority objectives presupposes that the
bulk of the intelligence required for the formulation and execution
of national security policy will be the product of normal intelli-
gence collection and research pursuant to DCID No. 1/2. The present
Directive identifies, for priority treatment , certain specific
critical substantive problems within the general body of the intelli
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