DCID NO. 1/5, 'STRATEGIC WARNING'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 4, 2004
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 26, 1975
• Content Type: MF

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UNITED STATES I N T E LL'IGEN CE BOARD
MEMORANDUM FOR THE UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD
SUBJECT DCID No. 1/5, ''Strategic Warning''
REFERENCE USIB-D-5. 1/34, 6 February 1975
1. The enclosed DCID No. 1/5, approved by the Director of Central
Intelligence with the concurrence of the United States Intelligence Board as
of 26 February, is circulated for information and appropriate implementation.
The DCI. made changes to paragraph 3. c. and 3. d. which have been
incorporated in the attached final version which is to become effective on
3 March 1975.
2. Copies of this directive will also be printed in the established
DCID format and disseminated at an early date to holders of the Intelligence
Directives Handbook.
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DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTIVE NO. 1 /5*
STRATEGIC WARNING
(Effective 3 March 1975)
Pursuant to provisions of NSCID No. 1, the position of Special
Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence for Strategic Warning
and a Strategic Warning Staff are hereby established.
The mission of the Special Assistant, with the support of
the Strategic Warning Staff, is to advise and assist the Director of
Central Intelligence in the discharge of his duties and responsibilities
with respect to the provision of strategic warning intelligence.
Strategic warning is defined as the earliest possible warning
that the Soviet Union, the Warsaw Pact, the PRC, or North Korea is
considering military action by its armed forces beyond its borders,
or is employing its military capabilities beyond its borders in ways
that might threaten military confrontation with the U. S.
The functions of the Special Assistant and the Strategic
Warning Staff are:
a. To carry on a continuing analysis of information
and intelligence from all sources which might provide
strategic warning.
*This directive supersedes DCID 1/5, effective 23 April 1965.
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b. When the situation warrants it, to issue strategic
warning notices to the DCI, who will notify the President
and National Security Council or take such other action
as he deems necessary. The DCI will also transmit the
strategic warning notices to the USIB principals for
further dissemination within their departments and
agencies. When time is of the essence, the Special
Assistant may issue such notices directly to the
President and NSC with concurrent dissemination
to the DCI and USIB principals.
c. To make to the DCI (and in time critical situations
laterally to other USIB Principals) such other reports on the
status of strategic warning as the Special Assistant may direct.
d. To conduct and submit to DCI and USIB Principals studies
and analyses with a view to improving the capabilities of the
Intelligence Community to provide strategic warning and with due
consideration for related work being done elsewhere in the
Community.
e. To arrange with appropriate departments and
agencies of the Government for the prompt forwarding
to the Strategic Warning Staff of all the information it
needs to carry out its mission.
4. Community responsibilities
a. The responsibilities of USIB departments and agencies
in support of the Special Assistant and the Strategic Warning Staff
are:
(1) To provide full-time, senior professional
intelligence personnel to the Strategic Warning Staff
and other support as arranged by the Special Assistant.
(2) To provide to the Strategic Warning Staff on
a timely basis all information from every domestic and
foreign source pertinent to the strategic warning mission,
as is prescribed in NSAM 226.
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b. The DIA shall provide the facilities for the Strategic
Warning Staff, including communications, data processing, logistic
and administrative support.
5. Composition and Organization
a. The Special Assistant for Strategic Warning shall be
appointed by the DCI in consultation with the Director, DIA.
b. The Strategic Warning Staff shall be directed by a CIA
officer appointed by the DCI. He shall be directly responsible to
the Special Assistant and shall serve as his deputy for strategic
warning.
c. The Strategic Warning Staff shall be collocated with
the National Military Intelligence Center and shall consist of intel-
ligence officers assigned from appropriate elements of the Community
in consultation with the Special Assistant.
The Deputy to the Director of Central Intelligence for the
Intelligence Community (D/DCI/IC) is hereby assigned responsibility
for the formation of a USIB working group to review the functioning of
the strategic warning process and to report periodically--at least
annually--to the USIB on its findings.
W. E. Colby
Director of Central Intelligence
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