DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTIVE NO. 1/10 COORDINATION STAFF

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 2001
• Sequence Number: 97
• Publication Date: June 28, 1961
• Content Type: REGULATION

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28 June 1961.
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DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTIVE NO. 1/10
COORDINATION STAFF
Pursuant to directives of the National Security Council (NSC),
including paragraphs 1, 2 and 3.c.. of National Security Council Intelli-
gence Directive No. 1 and National Security Council Action No. 2377
of 12 January 1961 (approved by the President on 18 January 1961),
there is hereby established a Coordination Staff under the personal
supervision of the Director of Central Intelligence and headed by his
Assistant for Coordination.
1. The Coordination Staff shall be composed of qualified
senior intelligence professionals from the departments and agencies
of the United States intelligence community., The Director of
Central Intelligence shall request, as appropriate,?the heads of
departments and agencies concerned to nominate senior intelligence
professionals to be detailed for tours of duty with the Coordi-
nation Staff. This Staff shall be separate frcn any operational
responsibilities of the Central Intelligence Agency or other
departments or agencies.
2. The Coordination Staff shall assist the Director of
Central Intelligence in discharging his responsibilities for
coordinating the foreign intelligence activities of the United States.
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affecting the national security and advising the.NSC thereon;
and shall et .ppep-kim. provide staff coordination support to him
in his role as Chairman of the United States Intelligence Board
(USIB). Toward this end, the Coordination Staff shall, in
consultation with and supported by the intelligence elements or
appropriate components of the departments or agencies concerned:
a. R:?e?relee Assist the Director of Central Intelligence
in exercising leadership and initiative and stla.late
stimulating cooperative action throughout the United States
intelligence community in identifying problem areas; resolving
unwarranted duplication; improving existing activities; filling
gaps in intelligence coverage; developing and adapting new
intelligence programs; and otherwise providing for timely
and effective solutions to coordination problems.
b. Make reports to the Director of Central Intelligence
for USIB consideration analyzing and proposing solutions to
community coordination problems dealing with the integration,
organization, management and guidance of the national intelli-
gence effort.
c. Review Assist the USIB in reviewing the future
intelligence plans and programs of each member of the intelli-
gence community for consistency and general allocation of
effort at the beginning of each annual budget cycle, and-make
by making a report and recommendations thereon to the
Director of Central Intelligence for USIB consideration,
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as a basis for guidance to and coordination of the intelligence
community and for reporting to the NSC annually.
d. Assist the USIB in determining those activities which
properly are foreign intelligence and thus subject to coordi-
nation, by making recommendations thereon to the Director of
Central Intelligence for USIB consideration.
e. Keep under continuing review the functions and
activities of USIB committees and make recommendations thereon
to the Director of Central Intelligence for USIB consideration,
including possible changes in the committee structure and
improvement in reporting procedures.
f. Make recommendations gap to the Director of Central
Intelligence for USIB consideration as to revisions or
additions to National Security Council Intelligence Directives
and Director of Central Intelligence Directives which would
achieve better coordination, improve management or inspire
more effective conduct of foreign intelligence activities,
particularly through new or revised assignments of responsi-
bility, joint usage of facilities, or the provision of
services of common concern.
g. Make recommendations to the Director of Central
Intelligence for improvement, through action by USIB or by
certain member agencies, in planning the future work and
anticipating the problems of the intelligence community.
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h. Provide advice and comments to the Director of Central
Intelligence eE to assist him in acting upon specific inter-
agency coordination problems of an organization., ey manage-
ment or operational character pertaining to the foreign
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i. Perform such other staff services relating to the
coordination of foreign intelligence activities as may be
directed by the Director of Central Intelligence.
3. In performing the above functions, the Coordination Staff
shall:
a. Develop and maintain familiarity with the status
of foreign intelligence activities affecting the national security.
b. Make such surveys of foreign intelligence activities
of various departments and agencies, in consultation with the
head of the intelligence or other appropriate component of the
department or agency concerned, as the Director of Central
Intelligence may deem necessary pursuant to paragraph 3.c.
of National Security Council Intelligence Directive No. 1.
4. Directives resulting from aa,preved recommendations of
the Coordination Staff approved by appropriate authority in accordance
with existing laws and applicable Presidential or NSC directives
shall be promulgated and implemented within the normal command
channels of the departments and agencies concerned.
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