INDEX NIA DIRECTIVES

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2006
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• Publication Date: January 1, 1946
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NIA DIRECTIVES
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President's Letter of January 22, 1946.
Policies and Procedures Governing the Central Intelligence Group.
Organization and. Functions of the Central Intelligence Group.
NIA Views on Proposed Executive Order "Directing the Cooperation
of Government Agencies in the Coordination of Foreign Intelligence
Activities of the United States.
Policy on Liquidation of the Strategic Services Unit.
Furxtions of the Director of Central Intelligence.
'Provision for Coordinating the Acquisition of Foreign Publications.
Coordination of Collection Activities.
National Intelligence Requirements - China.
Coordination of Intelligence Activities Related to Foreign Atomic
Enemy Developments and Potentialities. (limited distribution)
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11. 4y Action by the Intelligence Advisory Board on matters submitted
to the National Intelligence Authority
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8 February 1946
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AUTHORITY
N.I.A. DIRECTIVE NO. 1
POLICIES AND PROCEDURES GOVERNING THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
Pursuant to the attached letter from the President, dated
22 January 19+6,' designating the undersigned as the National
Intelligence Authority, you are hereby directed to perform your
mission, as Director of Central Intelligence, in accordance with
the following policies and procedures:
1. The Central Intelligence Group shall be considered;
organized and operated as a cooperative interdepartmental
activity, with adequate and equitable participation by the State,
War and Navy Departments and, as recommended by you and approved
by us, other Federal departments and agencies. The Army Air
Forces will be represented on a basis similar to that of the
Army and the Navy.
2. The Central Intelligence Group will furnish strategic and
national policy intelligence to the President and the State,
War and Navy Departments, and, as appropriate, to the State-War-
Navy Coordinating Committee, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other
governmental departments and agencies having strategic and policy
functions related to the national security.
3. The composition of the Intelligence Advisory Board will
be flexible and will depend, in each instance, upon the subject
matter under consideration. The Special Assistant to the
Secretary of State in charge of Research and Intelligence, the
Assistant Chief of Staff G-2, WDGS, the Chief of Naval Intelli-
gence and the Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Intelligence (or
their representatives) will be permanent members. You will
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invite the head (or his representative) of any other intelligence
agency having functions related to the national security to sit
as a member on all matters within the province of his agency.
All recommendations,.-Prior to submission to this Authority,
will. be referred to the Board for concurrence or comment. Any
recommendation which you and the Intelligence Advisory Board ap-
prove unanimously and have the existing authority to execute may
be put into effect without action by this Authority. If any
member of the Board does not concur, you will submit to this
Authority the basis for his non-concurrence at the same time
that you submit your recommendation.
Recommendations approved by this Authority will, where
applicable, govern the intelligence activities of the separate
departments represented herein. The members of the Intelligence
Advisory Board will each be responsible for ensuring that approv-
ed recommendations are executed within their respective depart-
ments.
5_. You will submit to this Authority as soon as practicable a
proposal for the organization ofthe Central Intelligence Group
and an estimate of the personnel and funds required from each
department by this Group for the balance of this fiscal year
and for the next fiscal year. Each year thereafter prior to
the preparation of departmental budgets, you will submit a
similar estimate for the following fiscal year. As approved by
this Authority and within the limits of available appropriations,
the necessary funds and personnel will be made available to
you by arrangement between you and the appropriate department
through its member on the Intelligence Advisory Board. You
may determine the qualifications of personnel and the adequacy
of individual candidates. Personnel assigned to you will be
under your operational and administrative control, subject only
to necessary personnel procedures in each department.
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6. The Central Intelligence Group will utilize all available
intelligence in producing strategic and national policy intel-
ligence. Pll intelligence reports prepared by the Central Intel-
_gence Group will note any substantial dissent by a participat-
ing intelligence agency.
7. As required in the performance of your authorized mission,
there will be made available to you or your authorized represen-
tatives all necessary facilities, intelligence and information
in the possession of our respective departments. Arrangements
to carry this out will be made with members of the Intelligence
Advisory Board. Conversely, all facilities of the Central
Intelligence Group and all intelligence prepared by it will be
made available to us and, through arrangements agreed between
you and the members of the Intelligence Advisory Board, subject
to any authorized restrictions, to our respective departments.
The operations of the intelligence agencies of our
departments will be open to inspection by you or your authorized
representatives in connection with your planning functions, under
arrangements agreed to between you and the respective members
of the Intelligence Advisory Board.
9. You are authorized to request of other Federal departments
and agencies any information or assistance required by you in
the performance of your authorizd mission.
10. You will be responsible for furnishing, from the personnel.
of the Central Intelligence Group, a Secretariat for this
Authority, with the functions of preparing agenda, reviewing and
circulating papers for consideration, attending all meetings,
keeping and publishing minutes, initiating and reviewing the
implementation of decisions, and performing other necessary
secretarial services.
Secretary of State
Secretary of the Navy
Secretary of War
Personal Representative
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E N C L O S U R E
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Je.nuary 22, 19+6
To The Secretary of State,
The Secretary of War, and
The Secretary of the Navy.
1. It is my desire, and I hereby direct, that all Federal
foreign intelligence activities be planned, developed and co-
ordinated so as to assure the most effective accomplishment of
the intelligence mission related to the national security. I
hereby designate you, together with another person to be named
by me as my personal representative, as the National Intelligence
Authority to accomplish this purpose.
2. Within the limits of available appropriations, you shall
each from time to time assign persons and facilities from your
respective Departments, which persons shall collectively form
a Central Intelligence Group and shall, under the direction of
a Director of Central Intelligence, assist the National Intelli-
gence Authority. The Director of Central Intelligence shall
b designated by me, shall be responsible to the National
Intelligence Authority, and shall sit as a non-voting member
thereof.
3. Subject to the existing law., and to the direction and
control of the National Intelligence Authority, the Director of
Central Intelligence shall:
a. Accomplish the correlation and evaluation of intelli-
gence relating to the national security, and the appropriate
dissemination within the Government of the resulting strate-
gic and national policy intelligence. In so doing, full use-
shall be made of the staff and facilities of the intelligence
agencies of your Departments.
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b. Plan for the coordination of such of the activities
of the intelligence agencies of your Departments as relate
to the national security and' t recommend to the National
Intelligence Authority the establishment of such over-all
policies and objectives as will assure the most effective
accomplishment of the national intelligence mission.
Perform, for the benefit of said intelligence
agencies., such services of common concern as the National
Intelligence Authority determines can be :,iore efficiently
accomplished centrally.
d. Perform such other functions and dutiEs related to
intelligence affecting the national security as the Presi-
dent and the National Intelligence Authority may from time
to time direct.
4. No police, law enforcement or internal security functions
5'. Such intelligence received by the intelligence agencies of
your Departments as may be designated by the National Intelli-
gence Authority shall be freely available to the Director of
Central Intelligence for correlation; eval,iation or dissemina-
tion. To the extent approved by the National Intelligence
Authority, the operations of said intelligence agencies shall
be open to inspection bythe Director of Central Intelligence in
connection with planning functions.
6. The existing intelligence agencies of your Departments
shall continue to collect, evaluate, correlate and disseminate
departmental intelligence.
The Director of Central Intelligence shall be advised by
an Intelligence Advisory Board consisting of the heads (or their
representatives) of the principal military and civilian intelli-
gence agencies of the Government having functions related to
national security, as determined by the National Intelligence
Authority.
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8. Within the scope of existing law and Presidential direc-
tives, other departments and agencies of the executive branch
of the Federal Government sh-11 furnish such intelligence infor-
mation relating to the national security as is in their posses-
sion; and as the Director of Central Inte,-lig nce may from time
to time request pursuant to regulations of the National Intel-
ligence Authority.
9. Nothing her e.1-n shall be construed to