NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTIVE NO. 1 BASIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITES

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• Publication Date: September 15, 1958
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NOT TO BE DISTRIBUTED NSCID No. 1
OUTSIDE THE U.S. (New Series)
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL INTELLIGENCE
DIRECTIVE NO. 1
BASIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
(Revised 15 September 1958)
The intelligence effort of the United States is a national responsibility,
and must be so organized and managed as to exploit to the maximum
the available resources of the Government and to satisfy the intelligence
requirements of the National Security Council and of the departments
and agencies of the Government. For the purpose of coordinating the
intelligence activities of the several Government departments and agen-
cies in the interest of national security and pursuant to the provisions of
Section 102 of the National Security -Act of 1947, as amended, the Na-
tional Security Council hereby authorizes and directs that :
1. Over-all Coordination
The Director of Central Intelligence shall coordinate the foreign in-
telligence activities of the United States in accordance with existing law
and applicable National Security Council directives. Such coordination
shall include both special and other forms of intelligence which to-
gether constitute the foreign intelligence activities of the United States.
2. The United States Intelligence Board (USIB)
a. To maintain the relationship necessary for a fully coordinated
intelligence community,2 and to provide for a more effective integra-
tion of and guidance to the national intelligence effort, a United
States Intelligence Board (USIB) is hereby established under the
directives of the National Security Council and under the chairman-
ship of the Director of Central Intelligence. The Board shall advise
and assist the Director of Central Intelligence as he may require in
the discharge of his statutory responsibilities and pursuant to para-
graph 1 above. Subject to other established responsibilities under
existing law and to the provisions of National Security Council direc-
tives, the Board shall also :
(1) Establish policies and develop programs for the guidance of
all departments and agencies concerned.
(2) Establish appropriate intelligence objectives, requirements
and priorities.
1 This Directive supersedes NSCID No. 1, dated 21 April 1958.
'The intelligence community includes the Central Intelligence Agency; the in-
telligence components of the Departments of State, Defense, Army, Navy and
Air Force, and of the Joint Staff (JCS) ; the Federal Bureau of Investigation;
the Atomic Energy Commission; and the National Security Agency. Other
components of the departments and agencies of the Government are included
to the extent of their agreed participation in regularly established interde-
partmental intelligence activities.
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(3) Review and report to the National Security Council on the
national foreign-intelligence effort as a whole.
(4) Make recommendations on foreign-intelligence matters to
appropriate United States officials, including particularly recom-
mendations to the Secretary of Defense on intelligence matters
within the jurisdiction of the Director of the National Security
Agency.
(5) Develop and review security standards and practices as they
relate to the protection of intelligence and of intelligence sources
and methods from unauthorized disclosure.
(6) Formulate, as appropriate, policies with respect to arrange-
ments with foreign governments on intelligence matters.
b. The membership of the U.S. Intelligence Board shall consist of
the following:
(1) The Director of Central Intelligence, Chairman.
(2) The Director of Intelligence and Research, Department of
State.
(3) The Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Special Opera-
tions.
(4) The Director of the National Security Agency (NSA).
(5) The Director for Intelligence, The Joint Staff (JCS).
(6) The Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Department
of the Army.
(7) The Assistant Chief of Naval Operations for Intelligence,
Department of the Navy.
(8) The Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence, Department of
the Air Force.
(9) A representative of the Director of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation.
(10) A representative of the Atomic Energy Commission.
The Director of Central Intelligence, as Chairman, shall invite the
chief of any other department or agency having functions related to
the national security to sit with the U.S. Intelligence Board whenever
matters within the purview of his department or agency are to be
discussed.
c. The Board shall determine its own procedures and shall establish
subordinate committees and working groups, as appropriate. It shall
be provided with a Secretariat staff, which shall be under the direction
of an Executive Secretary appointed by the Director of Central Intelli-
gence in consultation with the members of the Board.
d. The U.S. Intelligence Board shall reach its decisions by agree-
ment. When the Chairman determines that a given position on a
matter under consideration represents the consensus of the Board it
shall be considered as agreed unless a dissenting member requests that
the issue be referred to the National Security Council. Upon such
request, the Director of Central Intelligence, as Chairman, shall refer
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the matter, together with the dissenting brief, to the National Security
Council for decision.
Provided: That such appeals to the National Security Council by
representatives from the military departments, the Director of
the National Security Agency, or the Director for Intelligence,
The Joint Staff, shall be taken only after review by the Secre-
tary of Defense.
Whenever matters of concern to the Federal Bureau of Investigation
and/or the Atomic Energy Commission are referred to the National
Security Council, the Attorney General and/or the Chairman of the
Atomic Energy Commission respectively, shall sit with the Council.
The Board may recommend through its Chairman that a sensitive
intelligence matter requiring the attention of higher authority be
dealt with by the Council in a restricted meeting, including only those
officials who have substantive interest in the matter, or directly by the
President.
e. Decisions and recommendations of the Board shall, as appropri-
ate, be transmitted by the Director of Central Intelligence, as Chair-
man, to the departments or agencies concerned, or to the National
Security Council when higher approval is required, or for information.
f. In making recommendations to the National Security Council
in matters concerning such intelligence activities of the departments
and agencies of the Government as relate to the national security, the
Director of Central Intelligence, as Chairman, shall transmit there-
with a statement indicating the concurrence or non-concurring views
of those members of the U.S. Intelligence Board concerned. Such
recommendations when approved by the National Security Council
shall, as appropriate, be issued as National Security Council Intelli-
gence Directives or as other Council directives and, as applicable, shall
be promulgated and implemented by the departments and agencies
of the Government.
g. Decisions of the Board arrived at under the authority and pro-
cedures of this paragraph shall be binding, as applicable on all depart-
ments and agencies of the Government.
3. The Director of Central Intelligence
a. The Director of Central Intelligence shall act for the National
Security Council to provide for detailed implementation of National
Security Council Intelligence Directives by issuing with the concur-
rence of the U.S. Intelligence Board such supplementary Director of
Central Intelligence Directives as may be required (see par. 2d
above). Such directives shall, as applicable, be promulgated and im-
plemented within the normal command channels of the departments
and agencies concerned.
b. Director of Central Intelligence Directives to be issued in accord-
ance with the provisions of sub-paragraph a above shall include :
(1) General guidance and the establishment of specific priorities
for the production of national and other intelligence and for col-
lection and other activities in support thereof, including: (a) estab-
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lishment of comprehensive National Intelligence Objectives gen-
erally applicable to foreign countries and areas; (b) identification
from time to time, and on a current basis, of Priority National In-
telligence Objectives with reference to specific countries and sub-
jects; and (c) issuance of such comprehensive and priority objec-
tives, for general intelligence guidance, and their formal transmis-
sion to the National Security Council.
(2) Establishment of policy, procedures and practices for the
maintenance, by the individual components of the intelligence
community, of a continuing interchange of intelligence, intelligence
information, and other information with utility for intelligence
purposes.
(3) Establishment of policy, procedures and practices for the
production or procurement, by the individual components of the
intelligence community within the limits of their capabilities, of
such intelligence, intelligence information and. other information
with utility for intelligence purposes relating to the national secu-
rity, as may be requested by one of the departments or agencies.
c. The Director of Central Intelligence, or representatives desig-
nated by him, in consultation with the head of the intelligence or other
appropriate component of the department or agency concerned, shall
make such surveys of departmental intelligence activities of the vari-
ous departments and agencies as he may deem necessary in connection
with his duty to advise the National Security Council and to coordi-
nate the intelligence effort of the United States.
4. National Intelligence
a. National intelligence is that 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 Director of Central Intelligence
shall produce 3 national intelligence with the support of the U.S. Intel-
ligence Board. Intelligence so produced shall have the concurrence,
as appropriate, of the members of the U.S. Intelligence Board with
intelligence production responsibilities or shall carry a statement of
any substantially differing opinion of such a member.
b. Departmental intelligence is that intelligence which any de-
partment or agency requires to execute its own mission.
c. Interdepartmental intelligence is integrated departmental intel-
ligence which is required by departments and agencies of the Govern-
ment for the execution of their missions, but which transcends the
exclusive competence of a single department or agency to produce.
The subcommittee structure of the U.S. Intelligence Board may be
utilized for the production and dissemination of interdepartmental
intelligence.
By "produce" is meant "to correlate and evaluate intelligence relating to the
national security" as provided in the National Security Act of 1947, as amended,
Section 102 (d) (3).
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d. The Director of Central Intelligence shall disseminate national
intelligence to the President, members of the National Security Coun-
cil, as appropriate, members of the U.S. Intelligence Board and, sub-
ject to existing statutes, to such other components of the Government
as the National Security Council may from time to time designate or
the U.S. Intelligence Board may recommend. He is further author-
ized to disseminate national intelligence and interdepartmental intelli-
gence produced within the U.S. Intelligence Board structure on a strict-
ly controlled basis to foreign governments and international bodies
upon his determination with the concurrence of the U.S. Intelligence
Board, that such action would substantially promote the security of
the United States: Provided, That such dissemination is consistent
with existing statutes and Presidential policy including that reflected
in international agreements; and provided further that any disclosure
of FBI intelligence information shall be cleared with that agency prior
to dissemination. Departmental intelligence and interdepartmental
intelligence produced outside the U.S. Intelligence Board subcommit-
tee structure may be disseminated in accordance with existing statutes
and Presidential policy including that reflected in international agree-
ments.
e. Whenever any member of the U.S. Intelligence Board obtains
information which indicates an impending crisis situation which
affects the security of the United States to such an extent that im-
mediate action or decision by the President or the National Security
Council may be required, he shall immediately transmit the informa-
tion to the Director of Central Intelligence and the other members of
the U.S. Intelligence Board as well as to the National Indications
Center and to other officials or agencies as may be indicated by the
circumstances. The Director of Central Intelligence shall, in con-
sultation with the U.S. Intelligence Board, immediately prepare and
disseminate as appropriate the national intelligence estimate of the
situation, in accordance with the procedures outlined above.
5. Protection of Intelligence and of Intelligence Sources and Methods
The Director of Central Intelligence, with the assistance and support
of the members of the U.S. Intelligence Board, shall ensure the develop-
ment of policies and procedures for the protection of intelligence and of
intelligence sources and methods from unauthorized disclosure. Each
department and agency, however, shall remain responsible for the pro-
tection of intelligence and of intelligence sources and methods within
its own organization. Each shall also establish appropriate internal
policies and procedures to prevent the unauthorized disclosure from
within that agency of intelligence information or activity. The Direc-
tor of Central Intelligence shall call upon the departments and agencies,
as appropriate, to investigate within their department or agency any
unauthorized disclosure of intelligence or of intelligence sources or
methods. A report of these investigations, including corrective meas-
ures taken or recommended within the departments and agencies in-
volved, shall be transmitted to the Director of Central Intelligence for
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review and such further action as may be appropriate, including reports
to the National Security Council or the President.
6. Community Responsibilities
a. In implementation of, and in conformity with, approved National
Security Council policy, the Director of Central Intelligence in con-
sultation with and supported by the other members of the U.S. Intelli-
gence Board and by other appropriate offices, shall:
(1) Call upon the other departments and agencies as appropriate
to ensure that on intelligence matters affecting the national secu-
rity the intelligence community is supported by the full knowledge
and technical talent available in or to the Government;
(2) Ensure that the pertinence, extent and quality of the avail-
able foreign intelligence and intelligence information relating to
the national security is continually reviewed as a basis for improv-
ing the quality of intelligence and the correction of deficiencies;
(3) Take appropriate measures to facilitate the coordinated
development of compatible referencing systems within the depart-
ments and agencies engaged in foreign intelligence activities. Cen-
tral reference facilities as a service of common concern shall be
provided by the Central Intelligence Agency and/or other depart-
ments and agencies, as appropriate; and
(4) Make arrangements with the departments and agencies for
the assignment to, or exchange with, the Central Intelligence
Agency of such experienced and qualified personnel as may be of
advantage for advisory, operational, or other purposes. In order
to facilitate the performance of their respective intelligence mis-
sions, the departments and agencies concerned shall, by agreement,
provide each other with such mutual assistance as may be within
their capabilities and as may be required in the interests of the in-
telligence community for reasons of economy, efficiency, or opera-
tional necessity. In this connection primary departmental interests
shall be recognized and shall receive mutual cooperation and
support.
b. In so far as practicable, in the fulfillment of their respective
responsibilities for the production of intelligence, the several depart-
ments and agencies shall not duplicate the intelligence activities and
research of other departments and agencies and shall make full use of
existing capabilities of the other elements of the intelligence com-
munity.
c. The departments and agencies of the Government shall establish
appropriate policies and procedures to control and limit undesirable
publicity relating to intelligence activities.
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