NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTIVE NO. 3 COORDINATION OF INTELLIGENCE PRODUCTION

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• Publication Date: July 22, 1957
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NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTIVE NO. 3
COORDINATION OF INTRUIGENCE PRODUCTION
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 102 of the National Security Act
of 1947, as amended, and for the purposes enunciated in paragraphs (d) and (e)
thereof, the National Security Council hereby authorizes and directs that the
following over-all policies and objectives are established for the coordination
of the production of intelligences
1. In order that all facilities of the Government may be utilized to
their capacity and that the responsibilities of each Department or Agency may
be clearly defined in accordance with its mission, primary interest, and
capabilities, the whole field of intelligence production is divided into the
following categories, and responsibilities are allocated as indicated:
a. Basic Intelligence
(1) Basic intelligence is that factual intelligence which results
from the collation of encyclopedic information of a fundamental and more
or less permanent nature which, as a result of evaluation and interpre-
tation, is determined to be the best available,
(2) An outline of all basic intelligence required by the Govern-
ment shall be maintained by the CIA in collaboration with the appropriate
agencies. This outline shall be broken down into chapters, sections, and
sub-sections which shall be allocated as production and maintenance respon-
sibilities to CIA and those agencies of the Government which are best
qualified by reason of mission, production capability, and primary interest
to assume the production and maintenance responsibility. To insure the
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production of the basic intelligence required by the Government and the
fullest possible use of current agency capabilities, changes in the out-
line or allocations of production and maintenance responsibilities shall
be effected by agreement between the Director of Central Intelligence
and the agencies concerned.
(3) Basic intelligence required in the interest of national
security shall be compiled and continuously maintained-in National
Intelligence Surveys to cover foreign countries, areas, or broad special
subjects, in accordance with NIS Standard Instructions. The National
Intelligence Surveys will be disseminated in such form as shall be deter.
mined by the Director of Central Intelligence and the Departments and
Agencies concerned.
(4) The Director of Central Intelligence shall be responsible for
coordinating production and maintenance and for accomplishing the review,
publication, and dissemination of these National Intelligence Surveys
and shall make such requests of the Departments and Agencies as are
necessary for proper development and maintenance of the Surveys.
(5) Departments or Agencies to be called on for contributions to
this undertaking may include other than those represented permanently on
the IAC.
b. Current Intelligence
(1) Current intelligence is that intelligence of all types and
forms of immediate interest which is usually disseminated without the
delays incident to complete evaluation or interpretation.
(2) The CIA and the several Departments and Agencies shall produce
and disseminate such current intelligence as may be necessary to meet
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their own internal requirements. Normally, the current intelligence
produced by the CIA is produced primarily to meet the needs of the
President and National Security Council; in addition it serves the common
needs of the interested Departments and Agencies of the Government for
current intelligence which they themselves do not produce. However,
the Departments and Agencies may contribute to the CIA current intelli-
gence publications as practicable,
c. ntal Intelligence is all intelligence which any depart-
ment or agency requires to execute its own mission,
d. Interdepartmental Intelligence is integrated departmental intelli-
gence which is required by departments and agencies of the Government
for the execution of their missions but transcends the 'competency of a
single deparment or agency to produce. Where appropriate, production
and dissemination of interdepartmental intelligence will be-carried out
within the subcommittee structure of the Intelligence Advisory Committee.
e. National Intelligence is all intelligence which is required for
the formulation of national security policy, concerns more than one
department or agency, and transcends the exclusive competence of a single
department or agency. The production of national intelligence is covered
in NSCID No. 1,
2. Each Department or Agency., taking full cognizance of the facilities
of the other agencies., shall maintain adequate research facilities to accomplish
its departmental intelligence production mission and to provide such additional
intelligence within its field of primary interest as may be necessary to satisfy
the requirements of other agencies.
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3, To insure that the capabilities of the Departments and Agencies are
utilized effectively for the production of intelligence of common concern, the
following division of interests, subject to refinement through a continous
program of coordination and evaluation by the Director of Central Intelligence
to promote an integration of effort and to avoid undesirable duplication, shall
serve as a general delineation of primary responsibilities:
a. The Department of State shall produce political and sociological
intelligence on all countries, and economic intelligence on countries out-
side the Sino-Soviet Bloc.
b. The Departments of Army, Navy and Air Force shall produce army,
naval, and air intelligence, respectively, including scientific, technical
and economic intelligence pertinent to their departmental missions.
c. The Central Intelligence Agency shall produce economic intelligence
on the Sino-Soviet Bloc and scientific and technical intelligence as a
service of common concern. Further, the Central Intelligence Agency may
produce intelligence supplementary to that produced by other agencies, as
required to support the Director of Central Intelligence in the discharge
of his assigned responsibilities.
d. The production of intelligence on atomic energy is a responsibility
of all Departmnets and Agencies represented on the Intelligence Advisory-
Committee, to be coordinated through the Joint Atomic Energy Intelligence
Committee structured
), Despite the above mntioned allocations of primary production responsi-
bilities, there will be areas of common or overlapping interest which will require
continuing inter-agency liaison and cooperation, In the event that a requirement
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for intelligence is established for which there is no existing production
capability, the Director of Central Intelligence, in consultation with the
Intelligence Advisory Committee, shall determine which of the Departments
and Agencies of the intelligence community can best undertake the primary
responsibility as a service of common conoern.
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