OBJECTIVES OF THE SIC

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00022R000300110025-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 30, 2000
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: November 30, 1949
• Content Type: REQ

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Approved by SIC
30 November 1949
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1. DCI 3/3, dated 28 October 1949, establishes an interdepartmental
Scientific Intelligence Committee which is charged with developing its
methods of procedure. As a forerunner to the establishment of methods, it
is believed necessary to outline the scope of interest of the SIC and
delineate the problem with which it must deal.
2. As set forth in paragraph 3 of DCI 3/3, the SIC is charged with
determining the scientific fields in which intelligence effort is required,
establishing working committees of experts, providing a framework of operation
for those committees, and resolving differences arising within or among the
working committees.
3. The SIC is responsible for the proper operation of its working
committees in carrying out the functions outlined in paragraph 4 of the
directive. (Paragraph 3 and 4, therefore, indicate the pu,~pose of the
working committee arrangement; namely, to leave the working committees of
experts free to get on with the substantive aspects of scientific intelli-
gence and put the resnonsibility for policy, planning, coordination, and
proper operation on the SIC).
4. Paragranhs 3 and 4 of DCI 3/3 summarize the areas in which the
SIC must operate and point out the philosophy which should guide its actions.
The objectives of scientific intelligence which are to be accomplished by
the SIC then become the following:
a. To achieve coordination of the scientific intelligence effort
by directing emphasis toward fields of greatest urgency and along lines
which make greatest possible use of existing and planned resources.
b. To satisfy the needs of the users of scientific intelligence
by disseminating well-organized, coordinated and pertinent intelligence.
c. To develop scientific intelligence so that it will make the
most effective contribution to national security.
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