MURPHY COMMISSION WISHES TO SEE NSCID'S

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• Publication Date: October 2, 1974
• Content Type: MEMO

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NSA review completed
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NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
October 2, 1974
ACTION
MEMORANDUM FOR: GENERAL SCOWCROFT
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FROM: Jeanne W. Davis(y
SUBJECT: Murphy Commission Wishes to See NSCID's
William Harris, the RAND consultant who is in charge of the greater
portion of the Murphy Commission's study of the intelligence community,
is scheduled to see Dick Ober on Monday morning, October 7. lie has
indicated that he wishes to read the NSC Intelligence Directives. Harris
will have SI and Ts clearances. Copies of the Directives are attached.
CIA believes and our staff agrees, that we have no alternative to showing
the NSCIDls o Harris, without giving him copies or permitting him to take
5.
RE COMMENDATION:
That you authorize Dick Ober to permit Mr. Harris to read the attached
NSCID's when he sees Dick on Monday.
Disapprove
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NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL INTELLIGENCE
DIRECTIVE NO. 1
BASIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
(Effective 17 February 1972)
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 Govern-
ment. For the purpose of coordinating the intelligence activities of the several
Government departments and agencies in the interest of national security, and
pursuant to the provisions of Section 102 of the National Security Act of 1947,
EIS amended, the National Security Council hereby authorizes and directs that:
L Overall Coordination
The Director of Central Intelligence shall coordinate the foreign intelligence
activities of the United States in accordance with existing law and applicable
directives. Such coordination shall include those forms of intelligence that
constitute the foreign intelligence activities of the United States.
2. The National Security Council Intelligence Committee (NSCIC)
The National Security Council Intelligence Committee will be comprised of:
The Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, Chairman; The
Attorney General; The Director of Central Intelligence; The Under Secretary
of State; The Deputy Secretary of Defense; and The Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff. -
? 'The ls.lational Security domicil ?Intetigelice Comniittee 'milli give airection* and'
guidance on national substantive intelligence needs and provide for a continuing
evaluation of intelligence products from the viewpoint of the intelligence
consumer.
3. The Director of Central Intelligence
a. The Director of central Intelligence will discharge four major respon.
.( 1) Planning, reviewing and evaluating all intelligence activities and the
allocation of all intelligence resources
(2) Producing national intelligence required by the President an
other national consumers.
(3) Chairing and staffing all intelligence community advisory boards
and cominitt,-s.
(4) Establishing and reconciling intelligence requirements and priorities
within budgetary constraints
?This Directive supersedes NSCID No. I dated 4 March 1964.
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b. The Director of Central Intelligence shall prepare and submit each year,
through the Office of Many:ement and Budgct, a consolidated intelligence
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1971, In preparing the program/budget, the Director of Central Intelligence
will take into account such considerations as the comparative effectiveness
of collectioi . programs and the priorities of intelligence targets.
c. 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, after appropriate consultation, such sup-
plementary Director of Central Intelligence Directives as may be required.
Such directives shall, as applicable, be promulgated and implemented within
the non-nal command channels of the departments and agencies concerned.
d. The Director of Central Intelligence shall formulate, as appropriate,
policies with respect to arrangements with foreign governments on intelligence
matters.
e. The Director of Central Intelligence shall make recommendations on
foreign intelligence matters to appropriate United States officials..
f. The Director of Central Intelligence shall develop and review security
standards and practices as they relate to the protection of intelligence and
of intelligence sources and methods from unauthorized disclosure.
g. Director of Central Intelligence DireCtives to be issued in accordance
with the provisions of subparagraph c above shall include: . '
(1) General guidance and the establishment of specific priorities for
the production of national and other intelligence and for collection and
other activities in support thereof and their formal transmission to the
National Security Council.
.:?:'.(2):.Establishment of policy procedures.. and practices -.for..the
mainte-
iinde, by the individual cdrnponenis of the intelligence cornintinity. of
continuing interchange of intelligence, intelligence information and other
Information with utility for intelligence purposes.
h. The Director of Central Intelligence, or representatives designated by him,
in consultation with the head of the intelligence or other appropriate coin-
? ponent of the department .or agency concerned, shall make such surveys of
?- departmental intelligence. activities of the .various". departments and agencies
"74.4.110"May deem neteiiary in connection .ivith his duty to advise the National....
Security Council and to coordinate the intelligence effort of the United States.
1. In making recommendations in matters concerning such intelligence ac-
tivities of the departments and agencies of the Government as relate to the
national security, the Director of Central Intelligence shall transmit therewith a
statement indicating the dissenting views of the members of the United
States Intelligence Board and the Intelligence Resources Advisory Com-
mittee in matters relating to intelligence production and resource manage-
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Objection 2 rittl'I 2sources Advisory Committee (IftAC).
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An Int,nce esources CoTranittee is lic.n-cby established to advise
the Director of C,..-zral Ii cIice en le preparation of the inteliv4ence
and the allocation of resources among programs and to ensure that they are -
employed in accordance with approved requirements with no unwarranted
duplication. It rill consist of the Director of Central Intelligence, Chairman, and
senior representatives of the Department of State, Department of Defense,
Central Intelligence Agency, and the Office of Management and Budget.
S. The United States Intelligence Board (US1B).
a. A United States Intelligence Board is hereby established under the
chairmanship of the Director of Central Intelligence. Subject to other
established responsibilities under existing law and directives, the United States
Intelligence Board will advise and assist the Director of Central Intelligence
with respect to:
(I) The establishment of appropriate intelligence objectives,require-
ments and priorities.
(2) The production of national intelligence.
(3) The supervision Of the dissemination and security of intelligence
material.
(4) The protection of intelligence sources and methods.
(5) As appropriate, policies with respect to arrangements with foreign
? governments on intelligence matters.
b. The membership of the United States Intelligence Board shall consist
of the following: The Director of Central Intelligence, Chairman; The Deputy
.Director of Central Intelligence, Vice Chairman; the Director of Intelligence
and Research, Department of State; The Director, Defense Intellizence
Agency; The Director, National Security Agency; a representative of the
tary.. of the Treasury; a. representative of the Atomic Energy commission"; I_
a representative of the DirectOr of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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 United States Intelligence Board whenever matters
'thin the purview of his department or agency are to be discussed.
'iThe Board shall be provided with a Secretariat staff, which Shall be
-..ktindei the direction' ,of an Executive Secretary appointed by the Director of
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Central intelligence. Subordinate committees and working groupS shall he --
established, as appropriate, by the Director of Central Intelligence.
6. Notional Intelligence
a. National intelligence is that intelligence required for the formulation
of national security policy, concerning more than one department or agency.
and transcending the exclusive competence of a single department or agency.
The Director of Central Intelligence shall produce national intelligence
that will carry a statement of abstention or any substantially differing
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opinion of a United States Ietelligence Board member or of the Intelligence
Chief of a Military Department.
b. Departmental intelligence is that intelligence which any department or
agcncy requires to execute its own mission.
c. Interdepartmental intelligence is integrated departmental intelligence
required by derpartmcrits and agencies of the Government for the execution of
their missions, but transcending the exclusive competence of a single depart-
ment or aeency to produce. Such subcommittee structure of the United
States Intelligence Board as may he established by the Director of Central
Intelligence may be utilized for the production and dissemination of inter.
departmental intelligence.
d. The Director of Central Intelligence shall disseminate national intelli-
gence to the President, members of the National Security Council, as ap-
propriate, members of the United States Intelligence Board and, subject to
existing statutes, such other components of the Government as the National
Security Council may from time to time designate or the United States Intelli-
gence Bo:ael may recommend. He is further authorized to disseminate na-
tional intelligence and interdepartmental intelligence on a strictly controlled
basis to foreign governments and international bodies upon his determination
after consultation with the United States 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, in-
cluding that reflected in international agreements; and provided further that
any disclosure of Federal Bureau of Investigation intelligence information
shall be cleared with that agency prior to dissemination. Departmental intel-
ligence and interdepartmental intelligence produced outside the United States
Intelligence Board subcommittee structure may be disseminated in accord-
a.nce with existing- statutes and Presidential policy, including that reflected in
.. international. agreements. .
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Information that indicates an impending crisis situation that affects the
security of the United States to such an extent that immediate action or
decision by the President or the National Security Council may be required,
he shall immediately transmit the infortnation to the Director of Central In-
telligence and the other members of the United States Intelligence Board,
--,:ars well .a.s?to, the .Natienal..In:dieations Center a,rjel.Ao. other officials or aggncies,, ???., ?
*ea, by the: ?iii:.3.thftlii194-0i. -.41:ScOX PgittA ?IiitelligillPef,::;,.,.117e:,ie-e
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gence estimate of the situation.
7. Protection of intelligence and of Intelligence Sources and Methods
The Director of Central Intelligence, with the ad ice of the members of the
United States Intelligence Board, shall ensure the development of policies and
procedures for the protection of intelligence. and of intelligence sources and
methods from unauthorized disclosure. Each department and Agency shall remain
responsible for the protection of intelligence and of intelligence sources and
methods within its own organization. Each shall also establish appropriate in-
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ternal policies and procedures to prevent the unauthorized disclosure from
within that ..igency of intcrico inf...):-mation or activity. The Director of
Central Lute ince shall e:-.111:7on thc. (iLp..trtrnents and agf.ncies, as appropriate,
to investigate within their department or agency any unauthorized disclosure
of intelligence or of intelligence sources or methods. A report of these investiga-
tions, including corrective measures taken or recommended within the depart-
ments and agencies involved, shall be transmitted to the Director of Central
Intelligence for review and such further action as may be appropriate, including
reports to the National Security Council or the President.
a. Authorized Disclosures
The Director of Central Intelligence, with the advice and assistance of
the United States Intelligence Board, shall establish proceduresfor review
by intelligence authorities of all classified intelligence information con-
templated, proposed or prepared for release to the public or for use or
disclosure in other unclassified activities in the course of which there is
danger that intelligence sources and methods might be revealed. Intelli-
gence information that has been authorized for unclassified disclosure
shall be released, used or utili7ed only in the form and manner authorized
under the established review procedures.
& Community Responsibilities
a. In implementation of, and in conformity with, approved National Security
Council policy, the Director of Central Intelligence shall:
? (1) Seek the attainment of the following objectives as essential to
the efficient and effective functioning of the intelligence community:
(a) The . responsiveness of the United States intelligence effort
with respect to national requirements must be subject to continuing
review.
Aiathori. tative:.and ? responsible leadership ? for the :community
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Whole rnuif be assured. ? ? - 't ?? ? - - ' &? '?
(c) A more efficient use of resources by the community in the
collection of intelligence information must be achieved. Utiliz,tion of
the means available must be in consonance with approved requirements
_ of United States security and national interests.
? ? ? - ?-? ??? -? (4) -Assignment of _intelligence functions within the community
-Oval: be- revieWed and revised to elinrina.te' inefficient, unitecessary.,or -
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(e) The quality, scope and. timeliness of the community's product.
must be improved.
f).- The provision of intelligence and its utilization must enhance
the formulation of the foreign and economic policies of the United
States Government and the planning for and conduct of military op-
tions by United States forces.
(2) Call upon the other departments and agencies, as appropriate, to
ensure that on intelligence matters affecting the national security the in-
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telligence community is supported by the full knowledge and technical
(3) Ensure that the pertinence, extent and quality of the available
talent ava.ilable n or to the Government
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foreign intellig,ence and intelligence information relating. to the national
security is continually reviewed as a basis for improving the quality of
intellig,ence and the correction of deficiencies.
(4) Take appropriate measures to fa.cilitate the coordinated develop-
rnent of compatible referencing systems within the departments and agencies
engaged in foreign intelligence activities. Central reference facilities as a
service of common concern shall be provided by the Central Intelligence
Agency and! or other departments and agencies, as appropriate.
(5) Make arrangements with the departments and ag,encies 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 irttellig,ence missions, the departments and agencies con-
cerned shall, by agreement, provide each other with such mutual assistarice
as may be within the capabilities and as may be required in the iriterests
of the intelligence 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,
(6) Be provided with all information required from all department5.
and agencies of the Executive Branch required for the exercise of his
b. Insofar OS practicable, in the fulfillmen.t of their respective responsibties
? ..forthe production of intelligence, the several departments and agencies shall
responsibilities.
not duplicate the intelligence activities and research of other departments
and agencies and shall make full use of existing ca.pabilities of the other
..', - ?i.: elecnonts of .thi intelligonce? communal:lc -? -,..-. --- .v. - ? ? ? -: --
' i. The ...depart:mien:is and agencies i)f.the Government shall establish ap? -
propriate policies and procedures to control and limit undesirable publidty
relating to intellig,ence activities.
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tslATICNAL S::::271!TY INTELLIGE.NCE
DIRECTIVE NO 21
COORDINATION OF OVERT COLLECTION ACTIVITIES
(Effective 17 February 1972)
To promote sound and efficient utilization of the several departmental and
agency collecting and reporting facilities in the interests of national security,
and pursuant to the provisions of Section 102 of the National Security Act of
1947 as amended, the National Security Council hereby authorizes and directs that
the following overall policies and objectives shall apply to the interdepartmental
coordination of overt foreign intelligence collection activities (such as open
broadcast monitoring and document collection) not covered by other Na-
tional Security Council Intelligence Directives, such as National Security Council
Intelligence Directives 4, 5 and 6.
1. The Director of Central Intelligence shall ensure that planning for the
utilization of the collecting and reporting capabilities for intelligence purposes
of each of the several departments and agencies avoids undesirable duplication
and uncoordinated overlap and provides adequate coverage for national security
purposcs.
2, The Department of State shall have primary responsibility for, and shall
perform as a service of common concern, the collection abroad, i.e., outside
the United States and its possessions, of political, sociological, economic, scien-
tific and technical information.
3. The Department of Defense shall have primary responsibility for, and shall
? ? -?? perform as a service of common concern, the collection of. military intelligence. ?
? - ? information. Becanie of the' irnivitaneC of ici?ific and -technical intelligence to ?
the Department of Defense and the military services, this collection responsibility
shall include scientific and technical, as well as economic information directly
pertinent to Department of Defense missions.
.4. The Central Intelligence Agency may collect intelligence information abroad
? ? ? in .support of Assigned functions or as a by-product of the assigned functions, .
' pr" ?yid ecl that this collection. involves no undesirable_ duplication of any of , the .
assignments in paragraphs .2 or "3..aboVe., and provided that 'any such7
overt collection is coordinated with the Department of State or with the Senior
U.S. Representative.
5. The senior U.S. representative in each nation or foreign jurisdiction where
the United States maintains official representation shall coordinate in his area
the collection adivities not covered by other National Security Council Diree-
tives. Full utilization shall be made of the assigned duties, individual initiative,
or favorable contacts of departmental and agency representatives
'This Directive supersedes aCID No. 3 dated 18 January 1961
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6. Intelligence information collected abroad in accordance with the terms of
this Directive by any acency in the field shall, wherever possible, be trans-
mitted immediately to t:-ie field representatives of the agency primarily responsible
for carrying out ti.L:re; collection activity as delineated in paragraphs 2, 3
or 4 above, who shall then be responsible for its onward transmission, provided
that the original collector shall not be enjoined from transmitting the information
to his 01Am headquarters.
7. The Central Intelligence Agency, as a service of common concern, shall be
responsible for the selective exploitation within the United States of nongovern-
mental organizations and individuals as sources of foreign intelligence informa-
tion, in accordance with policies, procedures and practices established as provided
in NSCID No. 1 by the Director of Central Intelligence.
8. The Central Intelligence Agency shall conduct, as a service of common
concern, -monitoring of foreign radio and television propaganda and press broad-
casts required for the collection of intelligence information to meet the needs
of all departments and agencies in connection with the national security and
shall disseminate such intelligence information to the several departments and
agencies that have an appropriate interest therein.
9. The Central Intelligence Agency shall conduct the exploitation of foreign
language publications for intelligence purposes, as appropriate, as a service
of common concern. The Director of Central Intelligence shall coordinate this
activity with similar activities maintained by the departments and agencies to
satisfy their own requirements. . .
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10. Departments and agencies carrying out the collection activities mentioned
above shall recognize, in establishing collection programs, the needs of the other
departments and agencies.
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NSC1D No. 3
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL INTELLIGENCE
DIRECTIVE NO. 3
COORDINATION OF INTELLIGENCE PRODUCTION
(Effective 17 February 1972)
For the purpose of coordinating the intelligence production activities of the
several Government departments and agencies in the interest of national security,
and pursuant to the provisions of Section 102 of the National Security Act of
1947, as amended, the National Security Council hereby authorizes and directs
that the following overall policies, objectives, categories of intelligence and
allocations of responsibility be established.
1. Basic Intelligence
a. Basic intelligence is that factual intelligence that results from the colla-
tion of encyclopedic information of a fundamental and more or less permanent
nature and that, as a result of evaluation and interpretation, is determined
to be the best available.
, b. An outline of all basic intelligence required by the Government shall be
rnaintained by the Central Intelligence Agency in collaboration with the
? appropriate departments and agencies. This outline shall be broken down into
chapters, sections and subsections, which shall be allocated as production
and maintenance responsibilities to the Central Intelligence Agency and/or to
those other departments or agencies of the Government that are best qualified
by reason of mission, production capability, and primary interest to assume the
production and maintenance responsibilities. To ensure the production of the
basic.intelligence required by.....the .Government and .,the.. fullest possible
of".current 'departmental and agency.Capabilitiei, 'changes' in the outline or"allo-
cations of production and maintenance responsibilities shall be effected by
agreement between the Director of Central Intelligence and the departments
and agencies concerned.
c.- Basic intelligence required in the interest of national security shall be
? compiled and continuously maintained in National Intelligence Surveys (NIS)
? to cover fqeign countries, areas or broad special *subjectsuin:aceordance with .-
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." ationSecurity -Counii-approv - NIS .Stan ard Instructions an inter-- ?
departmental-approved amendments thereto. The National Intelligence Star-
t,: veys. will be disseminated in such form as shall be determined by the Director
of Central Intelligence with the advice of the departments and agencies con-
cerned.
d. 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
*This Directive supersedes NSC1D No. 3 dated 18 January 1981.
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requests of the departments and agencies as are necessary for proper develop-
ment and maintenance of the Surveys.
e. Departments or agencieh to be called on for cevtrilmtions to this under-
taking may include other than those represented permanently on the United
States Intelligence Board.
2. Current Intelligence
a. Current intelligence is that intelligence of all types and forms of im-
mediate interest usually disseminated without the delays incident to complete
evaluation or interpretation.
?
. b. The Central Intelligence Agency and the several departments. and agencies
shall produce and disseminate such current intelligence as may be necessary
to meet their own ?internal .requirements. The current intelligence produced
by the Central Intelligence Agency .is produced primarily to. meet the needs of
the President, National Security Council and other 'high-level consumers; in
addition, it serves the common needs of the interested departments and agencies
of the Government for current intelligence that they themselves do not
produce. The. departments and agencies will contribute to the .Central Intel-
ligence Agency current intelligence items and publications as appropriate and
on a timely basis.' ?
3. Departmental intelligence is that intelligence ? any department or: agency?
? requires to execute its own mission. ? ??? ,.??.,. .? ??????"??
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4: Interdepartmental ? intelligence is . integrated ? departmental intelligence ....?
. required. by departments.. and agencies of the Government for the execution of ? ?
? .their missions- but transcending the exclusive competence of a single. department .
or agency to produce. Joint intelligence is a special. category of interdepartmental
. ? intelligence jointl3i. produced .by defense intelligence organizations in the per- ? .
*fratie 0.'5d. the :-4.:Signed. tb*j.e. int:C.411as ea2::- .
stiucture of.the drifted States* IntilligenCeBoard a shall be esiabiished by the
Director ? of Central Intelligence may be utilized for the production and dis-
.sernin. ation .of such forms of. intelligence, .
..5. National . intelligence :... is that intelligence ? required for the. .formulation
of national security.. policy, . concerning ? more than one department or agency .?
ttirriSariditik ti*eteNt ?. ?Cern.oetenc :Of 'i*igt&f-a_qitrriTri.:6:1 Oragency The
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or departmental intelligence may also, when appropriate, be submitted to the
Director of Central Intelligence for issuance as national intelligence by the
Director of Central Intelligence as provided in NSCID No. 1.
6. Each department or agency, taking full cognizance of the facilities of the
other rtgeneies, shall maintain adequate research facilities to accomplish its
departmental intelligence production mission and to provide such additional
intelligence_ within its field of primary responsibilities as may be necessary to
satisfy other requirements relating to the national security.
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7. To ensure that the capabilities of the departments and agencies are utilized
effectively for the production of intelligence of common concern, the following
division of intcrests, subif,ct to refinement through a continuous 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 intelli-
gence on all countries and economic intelligence on countries of the Free
World.
b. The DepartMerit of Defense shall produce military intelligence. This pro-
duction shall include scientific, technical and economic intelligence directly
pertinent to the missions of the various components of the Department of
Defense.
c. The Central Intelligence Agency shall produce economic, scientific and
technical intelligence. Further, the Central Intelligence Agency may produce
such other intelligence as may be necessary to discharge the statutory re-
sponsibilities of the Director of Central Intelligence.
d. The production of intelligence on atomic energy is a responsibility of all
departments and agencies represented on the U.S. Intelligence Board with
responsibilities for the production of finished intelligence, to be coordinated
through the Joint Atomic Energy Intelligence Committee structure.
8. Despite the above-mentioned allocations of primary production responsi-
bilities, there will be areas of common or overlapping interest that will require
continuing interagency liaison and cooperation. In the event that a requirement
for intelligence is established for which there is not existing production cap a-
, biiity, the Director of Central Intelligence, in consultation with the United States
Intelligence Board, shall determine which of the departments and agencies of
the intelligence community can best undertake the primary responsibility as a
peryice oi common concern. .. . ? 0. ? -.*
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OUTSIDE THE U.S.
NATION
L SECURITY COUNCIL INTELLIGENCE
DIRECTIVE NO. 41
THE DEFECTOR PROGRAM
(Effective 17 February 1972)
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 102 of the National Security Act of 1947,
as amended, the National Security Council, with the concurrence of the At-
torney General of the United States regarding the domestic aspects of this pro-
gram hereby authorizes and directs that:
1. For the purposes of this directive:
a. Defectors are defined as nationals of the USSR, People's Republic of
China, Romania, Poland, Albania, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, East Germany,
Hungary, Yugoslavia, North Korea, Cuba, North Vietnam and Mongolia, who
have escaped from the control of any such country, or who, being outside
such jurisdiction and control, are unwilling to return thereto, and who are
? of special value to the U.S. Government because: ?
(1) they are able to add valuable new or confirmatory information to
existing US. intelligence knowledge;
.(2) they are of operational value to a U.S. department or agency; or
(3) their defection can be psychologically exploited to the advantage
Of the United States.
b. Inducement is an act committed or manifestly instigated by a U.S. official
and demonstrably intended to bring about a defection for which the U.S.
. Cosferrunent might, if. the act were discovered, be called upon to account _
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2f T'he:prcivisloni of this directive" may .be '-apPliPir,- in whole or in "pait, to
cases involving nationals of countries other than those listed above when ?the
Director of Central Intelligence determines such action to be in the best in-
terests of the United States.
3. Defections should be encouraged and induced, employing both conventional
and unconventional means, whenever the net effect .on.U.S. political, diplomatic
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^ and security interests would not be. adverse. . ? . ? .
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4. Prior to the- initiation of an inducement operation by any US department
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or agency, consideration should be given to:
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. the possibilities of successfully carrying out i
a productive recruitment n
place rather than an outright defection;
? b. the potential value to the United States of recruitment as opposed to
defection;
e. the danger of possible deception;
41. the propaganda value of the possible defection.
*.This Directive supersedes NSCID No. 4 dated 15 September 1958.
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5. Overt publicity and propaganda exploitation of a defector proposed by a
department or agency must be approved by the Director of Central Intelligence
in agrecimilt with the 1)._partznent of State and ixnpleinentcd in coordination
with the Department of State and the United States Information Agency.
6. When the President so directs or in active theaters of war where U.S. forces
are engaged this directive is inapplicable.
7. Except as provided in paragraph 9 below, the Director of Central Intelli-
gence shall coordinate all activities authorized herein, including but not limited to:
4. liaison with the intelligence and security services or other interested
elements of foreign governments on defector matters; and
b. utilization of the resources and capabilities of all U.S. Government de-
partments and agencies, in support of the program.
8. Subject to the provisions of paragraphs 9 and 10 below, the Central Intelli-
gence Agency shall have primary responsibility for the conduct of the Defector
Program and shall perform certain services of common concern in support thereof.
? 9. In cases involving defection within the United States the Federal Bureau
of Investigation shall have jurisdiction. The Federal Bureau of Investigation
shall be primarily responsible for inducement, recruitment in place and opera-
tional use in a clandestine capacity, in view of its statutory responsibilities in
the internal security field.
10. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 7 above, other departments and
agencies may conduct supplemental activities abroad in support- of the Detector -
Program, including the inducement of defection and liaison concerning defector
matters. The Secretary of State will advise all U.S. departments and agencies with
regard to U.S. Government refugee and defector policies and programs. Person-
nel of nonintelligence agencies (e.g., Coast Guard, Bureau of Customs) likely
to be in a position involving possible contact with defection candidates should
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1.1. In areas outside the United 'States and its possessions, the Senior U.&
Representative shall be responsible for determining the manner and degree to
which actions contemplated toward a defector may affect the diplomatic and
political interests of the United States.
12. Policies, procedures and practices for the implementation of responsibilities
....outlined, above -shall-be-established by the Director-of Central Intelligence. --
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OUTSIDE TII2:US. LIMITED DISTRIBUTION
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL INTELLIGENCE
DIRECTIVE NO 51
U.S. ESPIONAGE AND COUNTERINTELLIGENCE
ACTIVITIES ABROAD
(Effective 17 February 1972)
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 102(d) of the National Security Act
of 1947, as amended, the National Security Council hereby authorizes and
directs that:
1. For the purpose of this directive:
a. Espionage is defined as that intelligence activity directed toward the
acquisition of information through clandestine means.
b. Counterintelligence is defined as that intelligence activity, with its re-
sultant product, devoted to destroying the effectiveness of inimical foreign
intelligence activities and undertaken to protect the security of the nation and
its personnel, information and installations against espionage, sabotage and
subversion. Counterintelligence includes the process of procuring, developing,
recording and disseminating information concerning hostile clandestine activity
and of penetrating, manipulating or repressing individuals, groups or organiza-
tions conducting such activity.
2. To ensure centralized direction through prior, comprehensive and con-
tinuing coordination of all clandestine activities authorized herein, the Director
of Central Intelligence shall, after appropriate consultation:
. .
? a. Establish the procedures necessary to achieve .such direction ,and
co-
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? oidination; including the assessment of iisk incident upon such 'operations as
compared to the value of the activity, and to ensure that sensitive operations
are reviewed pursuant to applicable directives.
b. Coordinate all clandestine activities authorized herein and conducted
outside the United States and its possessions, including liaison that concerns
? - clandestine activities or that involves foreign clandestine services, except
the provisions of paragraph 8 applr-also coordinate clandestine activities
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with-overt collectIdn abroad...
a Invite departments and agencies not permanent members of the United
States Intelligence Board that have clandestine counterintelligence re-
sponsibilities abroad to participate in deliberations of the Board when clan-
destine counterintelligence matters affecting such responsibilities are under
-consideration.
d. Make mutually agreeable arrangements with other departments and
agencies for such cover support as may be needed by the Central Intelligence
'This Directive supersedes? NSC1D No. 5 dated 18 January 1901.
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Agency and coordinate the arrangements for cover support required by any
other department or agency to carry out the clandestine activities authorized
in paragraph 4 below, except when such cover is to be provided unilaterally
and without utilizing the facilities of, or becoming identified with other de-
partments or agencies of the government or _nongovernmental organizations.
it. Resolve disputes arising in the coordination of U.S. espionage and clan-
destine counterintelligence activities abroad.
3. The Central Intelligence Agency has primary responsibility for U.S. clan-
destine activities abroad. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 8, it is responsible
for the following services of common concern:
a. The conduct of espionage -o-utside the United States and its possessions
In order to meet the intelligence needs of all depm talents and agencies con-
cerned, in connection with the national security.
b. The conduct of clandestine counterintelligence outside the United States
and its possessions.
c. The conduct of liaison with foreign clandestine services or, concerning
the above clandestine activities, with foreign intelligence or security services.
d. The maintenance for the benefit of the intelligence community of central
Indexes and records of foreign counterintelligence information. All depai intents
and agencies shall contribute to this index, on a continuing basis, such material
collected by them as is appropriate for a central file; this material shall be
collated and analyzed for appropriate dissemination. .
e. Upon request and to the extent practicable, assisting other departments
. and agencies in connection with their cover and support needs.
? 4... Subject to the provisions of paragraph 2 above, other departments and
. .
agencies with commands or installations located outside the U.S. and its pos-
sessions may: . . . .
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telligence needs; .
b. conduct clandestine counterintelligence activities necessary for the se-
curity of their personnel, commands, activities and installations;
c. conduct liaison with foreign clandestine services or, concerning the above
' " ? clandestine activities, with foreign intelligence or security services.
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of continuous, timely and specific collection requirements and, as required,
assessments of the value of the information collected. Such departments and
agencies shall provide similar support to each other as required. Conversely, the
Central Intelligence Agency shall assist other departments and agencies by
providing, as practicable, assessments of the value to national intelligence of the
information derived from the activities of other agencies as authorized herein.
S. In a foreign area, except where paragraph .8 applies, the Director of Central
? -Intelligence shall, after consultation with the Secretary of State, ensure that
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the senior U.S. representative, or his designated representative, is appropriately
advised on a timely basis of U.S. espionage and clandestine counterintelligence
activities conducted in or affecting the area.
7. In a foreign area where major U.S. military commands are stationed, the
designated representative of the Director of Central Intelligence shall keep the
senior U.S. military commanders, or their designated representatives, appropri-
ately informed of the espionage and clandestine counterintelligence activities
and operations conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency in or from such
areas, including liaison between the Central Intelligence Agency and foreign
military establishments.
8. In active theaters of war where U.S. forces are engaged, or when the
President so directs:
. a. Except as provided in subparagraph b below, the entire Central Intelli-
gence Agency organization conducting espionage and clandestine counter-
intelligence operations in or from a theater shall, as a component force, be
under the direct command of the U.S. Theater Commander, in accordance
with agreements separately reached between the Director of Central Intelli-
gence and the Secretary of Defense, and shall pryide espionage and counter-
intelligence support to military operations.
b. Espionage and counterintelligence operations that because of some
exceptional political, diplomatic or other implications, are conducted inde-
pendently by the Central Intelligence Agency, shall be coordinated by the
Director of Central Intelligence with the Secretary of Defense and with the
Secretary of State. ? -
a. The Secretary of Defense and the Director of Central Intelligence shall
:?establish general procedures for the coordination of liaison? on clandestine
activities between U.S. military commanders and foreign services that engage
in such activities.
kin. addition to the above, .the Director of. Central Intelligence shall
"a..bevelop appropriate policy recommendations for National Security Coun-
cil consideration with respect to the overall U.S. counterintelligence effort
conducted outside the 'U.S. and its possessions.
b. To the extent necessary to ensure conformity with policies approved by
the National Security Council, provide for the coordination of all types of
? US. counterintelligence activities conducted abroad and for the coordination .
;.i0fisuch activities. witILthose conducted .by the departments and. agencies ?
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VIAIMING
This document contains classified information affecting the national?
security of the United States within the meaning of the espionage
? laws, US Code, Title 18, Sections 793, 794, and 798. The law prohibits
Its transmission or the revelation of its contents in any manner to
an unauthorized person, as well as its use in any manner prejudicial
to the safety or interest of the United States or for the benefit of any
foreign government to the detriment of the United States.
THIS DOCUMENT MUST BE KEPT IN COMMUNICATIONS
INTELLIGENCE CHANNELS AT ALL TIMES
It is to be seen only by US personnel especially indoctrinated
and authorized to receive COMMUNICATIONS INTELLIGENCE
information; its security must be maintained in accordance with
COMMUNICATIONS INTELLIGENCE REGULATIONS.
No action is to be taken on any COMMUNICATIONS INTELLI-
GENCE which may be contained herein, regardless of the advantages
to be gained, unless such action is first approved by the Director
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NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL INTELLIGENCE
? DIRECTIVE NO. 61
SIGNALS INTELLIGENCE
(Effective 17 February 1972)
Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), which comprises Communications Intelligence
(COMINT) and Electronics Intelligence (ELINT), and the activities pertain-
ing thereto are national responsibilities and must be so organized and managed
as to exploit to the maximum the available resources of the Government, to satisfy
the intelligence needs of the National Security Council and the departments and
agencies of the Government, and to provide for efficiency and economy in the
use of technical resources. Therefore, pursuant to the National Security Act of
1947, as amended, the National Security Council authorizes and directs that
SICINT activities shall be conducted as prescribed herein.
L Definitions
For the purpose of this directive, the terms "Communications Intelligence" or
? *CUMIN!'" shall be construed to mean technical and intelligence information
derived from foreign communications by other than the intended recipients.
? COMINT activities shall be construed to mean those activities that produce
COMINT by the collection and processing of foreign communications passed by
radio, wire or other electromauietie means, with specific exceptions stated below,
and by the processing of foreign encrypted communications, however transmitted.
Collection comprises search, intercept and direction finding. Processing com-
prises range estimation, transmitter/operator identification, signal analysis, traffic
analysis, myptanalysis, decryption, study of plain text, the fusion of these processes,
and the reporting of results.
COMINT and COMINT activities as defined herein shall not include (a) any
intercept and processing of unencrypted written communications, press and
propaganda broadcasts, or (b) censorship.
FLINT activities are defined as the collection (observation and recording),
and the processing for subsequent intelligence purposes, of information derived
from foreign, non-communications, electromagnetic radiations emanating from
other than atomic detonation or radioactive sources. ELINT is the technical and
intelligence information product of ELINT activities.
2. The Director of Central Intelligente
?
Consistent with his responsaulities as set forth in NSCID Nos. 1, 2 and 3,
the Director of Central Intelligeneethiah
a. Establish with the advice of the .United States Intelligence Board and
Issue appropriate intelligence objcctivies, zequirements and priorities to guide
the conduct of all United States SWINT activities.
This Directive superrefles WSC1D ND. 6 asrle4,35 September 1038, revised 18 January 1981.
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b. Review the needs and performance of United States SIGINT activities
as a basis for preparing a consolidated intelligence program budget.
c. Establish policies and procedures for the conduct of SIGINT arrange-
ments with foreign governments with the advice of the L'ilit;2d States Intelli-
gence Board.
d.. Develop and establish policies and procedures for the protection of
SIGINT including the degree and type of security protection to be given
SIGINT activities through the protection of information about them or derived
from them.
3. The Secretary of Defense
a. The Secretary of Defense is designated as Executive Agent of the Govern-
ment for the conduct of SIGINT activities in accordance with the provisions
of this directive and for the direction, supervision, funding, maintenance and
operation of the National Security Agency. The Director of the National Se-
curity Agency shall report to the Secretary of Defense and shall be the prin-
cipal SIGINT adviser to the Secretary of Defense, the Director of Central
Intelligence, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Secretary of Defense may dele-
gate in whole or part authority over the Director of the National Security
Agency within the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
b. The Secretary of Defense may determine, after consultation with the
Secretary of State and the Director of Central Intelligence, that a SIGINT
matter forwarded by the Director of Central Intelligence to the National Se-
curity Council for decision presents a problem of an emergency nature and
requires immediate action. His action will be implemented and will govern,
pending a decision by the National Security Council.
4. The National Security Agency
a. There is established under the Secretary of Defense and subject to his
authority and control a National Security Agency with a Director who shall
be head thereof and a 'Deputy Director who shall act for, and exercise the
powers of, the Director during his absence or disability, The Director and
Deputy Director shall be designated by the Secretary of Defense subject to the
approval of the President. The duration of their appointments shall be at the
pleasure of the President The Director shall be a commissioned officer of the
armed services, on active or reactivated status and shall enjoy not less than
three star rank during the period of his incumbency. The Director shall have a
Deputy who shall be a career civilian with SIGINT experience.
b. It shall be the duty of the Director of the National Security Agency to
provide for the SWINT mission of the United States, to establish an effective -
unified organization and control of all SIGINT collection and processing activi-
ties of the United States, and to produce SIGINT in accordance with objec-
tives, requirements and priorities established by the Director of Central Intelli-
gence with the advice of the United States Intelligence Board. No other or-
ganization shall engage in SICINT activities except as provided for in this
directive.
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c. Excillts provided in paragraphs 5 and 6 of W t c irective, the Director I' ?
of the National Security 1ency shall exercise full control over all SIGINT
collection and Processing activities, except the operation of mobile SIGINT
platforms which will normally be exercised through appropriate elements of
the military command structure. The Director of the National Security Agency
is authorized to issue direct to any operating elements engaged in SIGINT
operations such instructions and assignments as are required. All instructions
issued by the Director imdcr the authority provided in this paragraph shall
be mandatory, subject only to appeal to the Secretary of Defense.
d- In consonance with the aims of maximum overall efficiency, economy
and effectiveness, and to the extent he deems necessary and desirable, the
Director shall centralize and consolidate the performance of SIGINT functions
for which he is responsible. To this end, there is established a Central Security
Service under the Director of the National Security Agency, which shall be
organized in accordance with a plan approved by the Secretary of Defense.
It shall be principally collection oriented and shall include SIGINT functions
previously performed by various Military Department and other United States
governmental elements engaged in SIGINT activities. The Director of the
National Security Agency shall determine the appropriate division of respon-
sibilities among the elements under his direction.
e. The Armed Forces and other departments and agencies often require
timely and effective SIGINT. The Director of the National Security Agency
? shall provide information requested, taking all necessary measures to facilitate
its maximum utility. As determined by the Director of the National Security
Agency or as directed by the Secretary of Defense, the Director of the National
Security. Agency shall provide such SIGINT either through the direction of
activities under his control or through the delegation to an appropriate. agent
-of specified SIGINT facilities and resources from among the elements under
his direction for such periods and for such tasks as appropriate.
j. Specific responsibilities of the Director of the National Security Agency
include the following:
(1) Formulating necessary operational plans, policies and procedures
? to provide for integrated operations.
- (2) Managing SIGINT resources, personnel and programs.
? (3) Conducting research and development to meet the needs of the
United States for SICINT.
(4) Determining and submitting to the authorities responsible for
logistic. support for activities under his control requirements together with
specific recommendations us to what each of the responsible departments
and agencies of the Government should supply.
(5) Prescribing within his field of authorized operations requisite
security regulations covering operating practices, including the transmission,
. handling and .distribution of SICINT material within and among the ele-
ments under his control; and exercising the necessary monitoring and su-
pervisory control to ensure compliance with the regulations.
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(6) Providing the Director of Central Intelligence with such informa-
tion as I,- zy req-_:re on the past, current and proposed plans, programs
and costs of the SICINT activities under the control of the Director of the
National Security Agency.
g. The intelligence components of individual departments and agencies
may con14.nue to conduct direct liaison with the National Security Agency
in the interpretation and amplification of requirements and priorities within
the framework of ob'sectives, requirements and priorities established by the
Director of Central Intelligence.
h. It is the intent of this directive that the National Security Agency not
engage in the production and dissemination of finished intelligence, but be
limited to the production and dissemination of COMINT and ELINT.
5. Relationship to other SICINT Activities
a. (Distributed separately through Restricted channels.)
b. Nothing in this directive shall be construed to encroach upon or inter-
fere with the unique requirements for clandestine operations covered under
NSCID No. 5. Those SIGINT collection and processing activities (other than
cryptanalysis) that are specifically designated by the Director of Central
Intelligence to be essential and integral to the operation of clandestine espio?
-
nage and counterintelligence activities abroad, including arrangements with
foreign clandestine services, shall be conducted under the provisions of that
directive. To the extent practicable, however, information pertaining to the
activities and derived therefrom shall be handled so as to give suitable protection
to related SICINT activities. Material collected under these circumstances
that would have been considered COMINT or ELINT will be passed to
the National Security Agency to the extent desired by the Director of the
National Security Agency as soon as special security requirements of the
collector have been satisfied.
?c. The Director of the National Security Agency shall conduct such COMINT
and ELINT activities as are required to support electronic warfare activities.
- The conduct of such search, intercept, direction-finding, range-estimation, and
signal analysts of non-communications electromagnetics radiation as must be
undertaken to permit immediate operational use of the information in support
of electronic measures and countermeasures and rescue operations, if delegated
by the Director of the National Security Agency, shall be the responsibility
of the Military Departments or Commands, as appropriate. The responsibility
for such activities with respect to electromagnetic radiations of COMINT
interest shall normally not be delegated and shall remain the responsibility
of the Director of the National SecurityAgency.
43. The Federal Bureau of Investigation
Nothing in this directive shall be construed to encroach upon or interfere
with the unique responsibilities of the .Federal Bureau of Investigation in the
field of internal security, including such intercept and processing activities as
may be undertaken by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in connection with
its functions.
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21 March 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR: Recipients of NSCID No. 6
SUBJECT
Prohibition on Overseas Distribution
Distribution of NSCID No. 6 outside of the forty-
eight contiguous States is prohibited. Recipients are
requested either to insert this notice under the security
cover sheet or to make an appropriate entry on the first
page of each copy of the directive.
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Downgraded to CONFIDENTIAL
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? NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL INTELLIGENCE
DIRECTIVE NO. 7'
CRITICAL INTELLIGENCE COMMUNICATIONS
(Effective 17 February 1972)
Pursuant to Sections 101 and 102, as amended, of the National Security Act
of 1947, in order that the President and other members of the National Security
Council may be provided with timely "critical intelligence," the National Security
Council hereby authorizes and directs that:
1. There shall be established communications means for the most timely trans-
mission of critical intelligence as defined by the Director of Central Intelligence.
2. The Director of Central Intelligence shall establish uniform criteria for
the identification, selection and designation of relative priority for the trans-
mission of critical intelligence. The definition and establishment noted above will
be subject to continuing review under procedures to-be established by the Di-
rector of Central Intelligence.
3. The Secretary of Defense shall be the Executive Agent of the Government
.? to provide for the establishment, operation and perfection of such communica-
lions means necessary to provide the most timely transmission of critical intelli-
gence to higher authorities. In the execution of this responsibility, he shall effect
coordination with other Government agencies in order that their communica-
tions facilities may be utilized to the extent deemed practicable and efficient.
4. The Director of Central Intelligence shall provide the Secretary of Defense
with continuing guidance as to the communications requirements of the intelli-
*puce" community for the transmission of critical intelligence. ? ? ;.
111th Directive supersedes NSCID No. 7 dated 15 September 1958.
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NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL INTELLIGENCE
DIRECTIVE NO. 8
PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION
(Effective 17 February 1972)
For the purpose of ensuring the most effective, timely and economic exploita-
tion of photography as a source for foreign intelligence relating to the national
security, and pursuant to Section 102 of the National Security Act of, 1947, as
amended, the National Security Council hereby directs that the following policies,
responsibilities and procedures shall be recognized and established:
1. Policies
To ensure that the capabilities of the departments and agencies represented
on the United States Intelligence Board are most efficiently utili7ed for the
foreign intelligence exploitation of photography, the following basic principles
shall apply:
a. No complete separation of interest is possible or desirable in photographic
intelligence activities.
10: Departments and agencies represented on the United States Intelligence
' Board shall continue to be individually responsible for photographic inter-
pretation and the production of photographic intelligence in support of
established departmental or agency responsibilities and the utilization of such
photography and related collateral information in the production of intelligence,
such as, warning intelligence, orders of battle, estimates, technical intelligence,
precise geodetic data, targeting, maps, charts, matrices or other targeting
^ matexials and related research and development. ? ? ;
c. To prOinoth an integratiOn of effoil and to avoid uniieceisary "dupliCation ?
and expense, a coordinated interdepartmental approach to the exploitation of
photographic intelligence shall be established.
d. Subject to applicable security measures and on a "need-to-know" basis,
there shall be full interchange of all pertinent photographs and photographic
Intelligence analysis among the departments and agencies concerned.
'4:..9ertain. photographic. intelligence functions, can be best performed as
at:Cential service .of common concern, for the MaxiMnin benefit, of the cutire-',....*
intelligence community.
2. Centralized Responsibilities
a. A National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC) shall be provided
as a service of common concern by the Director of Central Intelligence.
? (1) The Director of the National Photographic Interpretation Center
shall be designated by the Director of Central Intelligence with the eon-
CUITeliCe of the Secretary of Defense.
'This Directive supersedes NSCID No. 8 dated 18 January 1961.
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(2) The United States Intelligence Board departments and agencies
engaged in photographic intelligence production shall jointly provide
api;ropriate personnel and other support for the 1\TIC, as agreed by them
with the Director of Central Intelligence. Such supporting personnel shall be
functionally under the direction of the Director, NPIC, for joint activities, but
shall remain administratively responsible to their parent organizations.
(3) The administration of NPIC in time of war shall be transferred
to the Secretary of Defense.
. b. Foreign intelligence related photography shall be made available from
photographic processing facilities to the NPIC and to designated photographic
intelligence units of United States Intelligence Board departments, agencies
and commands simultaneously, and without delay for preliminary analysis,
within the bounds of any special security controls required.
c. The NPIC shall provide on a selective basis for the preliminary, rapid
interpretation of photographic detail, including, where possible, tentative identi-
fication of such detail, and shall make appropriate distribution of such pre-
liminary interpretations, with supporting references to appropriate related col-
lateral information, to interested elements of the community.
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d. It is the intent of this directive that the NPIC not engage in the production
and dissemination of finished intelligence. Photography that appears to be
primarily of departmental or agency significance shall be the prim_ari explpita:_ :-
lion responsibility of the department or agency concerned. The Center, itself,
shall produce and disseminate NPIC photographic interpretation reports (based
on an analysis of photography using other sources to assist in this interpreta-
tion) and provide other materials and services, in support of the national in-
telligence effort and approved Priority National Intelligence Objectives.
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already specified in paragraphs 2.c. and 2.d. above.
. I 4.- The NEC shall maintain on a selective basis a consolidated central file
of photographic data as a service of common concern. It shall make arrange-
ments for the exchange of photographs and photographic data with other
. photographic collections in the intelligence community, and shall make ap-
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g. The NPIC shall engage in or sponsor, as appropriate, the development
of specialized equipment for the intelligence exploitation of photography, and
shall provide information about such specialized equipment to interested ele-
ments of the intelligence community for their own possible use or further
adaptation.
.k The _NPIC shall examine and make recommendations to the Director of
Central Int7lhiiince, as appropriate, as toany special security controls required.-
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3. Coordination
In discharging its responsibilities the NPIC shall consult, as appropriate, with
individual departments, agencies and committees of the United States Intelligence
Board. The intelligence chief of each department or agency represented on the
United States Intelligence Board shall coordinate photographic intelligence ac-
tivities within his parent organization with the National Photographic Interpreta-
tion Center.
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