YOU MAY BE INTERESTED IN THE ATTACHED ADVANCE COPY OF A JACKSON COMMITTEE REPORT ON "INTELLIGENCE AND NATIONAL SECURITY", SCHEDULED FOR RELEASE ON FRIDAY, JUNE 17.

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2013
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: June 16, 1960
• Content Type: MEMO

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NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
MEMORANDUM FOR MR. AMOR
June 16, 1960
You may be interested in the attached
advance copy of a iacisson Committee report
on 'Intelligence and National Security",
scheduled for release on Friday, June 17.
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CHARLES A. HASKINS
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For release: A.M. 's
Friday, June 17, 1960
From the Office of
Senator Henry M. Jackson (D? Wash.)
Chairman, Subcommittee on National
Policy Machinery
CApitol 4-3121, Ext. 3481
Senator Henry M. Jackson, Chairman of the Subcommittee on
National Policy Machinery, today made the following statement in connec-
tion with the release of a unanimous Subcommittee report on the subject of
"Intelligence and National Security."
"From the time it was established almost a year ago, the Subcom-
mittee on National Policy Machinery has been making a nonpartisan
study of the problem of relating intelligence activities to our over-all
planning for national security. Recent events have focused public attention
upon this matter.
"The Subcommittee has agreed that a constructive purpose can
now be served by setting forth certain cardinal principles which must
govern a free society's use of intelligence activities.
"They are contained in the attached unanimous report.
"In identifying these principles, the Subcommittee has devoted a
portion of its series of hearings to seeking counsel of ranking government
officials, past and present. In addition, the Subcommittee has consulted
with representative intelligence experts and other distinguished Americans."
The Subcommittee on National Policy Machinery was established last
year for the purpose of making the first full review of the national security
process since the passage of the Nat'l Security Act of 1947. Its study is
nonpartisan. Serving with Jackson on the Subcommittee are Senators
Hubert H. Humphrey (D., Mimi.), Edmund S. Muskie (D., Me.), Karl E.
Mundt (R., S. Dak. ), and Jacob K. Javits (R., N. Y.).
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Friday, June 17, 1960
INTELLIGENCE AND NATIONAL SECURITY
REPORT
Submitted to the
COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
UNITED STATES SENATE
By its
SUBCOMMITTEE ON NATIONAL POLICY MACHINERY
Senator Henry M.. Jackson, Chairman
(Pursuant to S. Res. 248, 86th Cong. )
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INTELLIGENCE AND NATIONAL SECURITY
For almost a full year, the Subcommittee on National Policy
Machinery has been making a nonpartisan study of how our government
should best organize to develop, execute and coordinate national security
policies. The role of intelligence in national security policy-making has
been an area of concern from the outset. The Subcommittee has received
the counsel of ranking government officials and other distinguished
Americans uniquely qualified in this field.
Long experience has established the validity of certain principles
governing the relationship of intelligence activities to national security
policy.
The future work of the Subcommittee will include recommendations,
classified where required, for improving the review and coordination of
intelligence activities and national security planning. Our work will be
guided by the following tested principles:
1. The free world needs intelligence activities to assure its sur-
vival. Intelligence is as important as armed strength. In this age of
push-button weapons, intelligence is more than ever our first line of
defense.
2. Intelligence operations are instruments of national policy. They
must be subject to effective and continuing higher review and coordination.
This includes a weighing of gains against risks.
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3. The collection and evaluation of intelligence is a job for profes-
sionals. Intelligence organization should be tight, centralized, responsive,
and to the greatest possible extent anonymous.
4. Officials who depend upon intelligence must be professional in
handling the problems which it raises.
5. The conduct of diplomacy must be insulated from sensitive
intelligence operations. Intelligence is a source of information for
diplomacy -- not a part of it.
6. Public revelation of sensitive intelligence is never a harmless
act. It both jeopardizes the normal conduct of foreign relations and com-
promises the sources of vital intelligence. If public statements have to
be made at all, they must be made only in response to overriding national
interest and on the responsibility and under the control from the outset
of one high authority.
7. The golden word of intelligence is silence. More can be lost
by saying too much, too soon, than by saying too little, too slowly.
Recent events have not altered the need for adherence to these
principles. They have, in fact, attested to their wisdom.
Henry M. Jackson, Chairman
Hubert H. Humphrey Karl E. Mundt
Edmund S. Muskie Jacob K. Javits
June 14, 1960
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