DRAFT DIRECTIVE TO SECRETARY OF STATE

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 8, 2003
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: March 12, 1951
• Content Type: REGULATION

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Secretary of Defense
drector of Central Intelligence
12, 1951
e purpose of this directive to authorise and provide
for the more effective planning, coordination and conduct, within
the framework of approved national policies, of psychological
operations.
There is established a Psychological Strategy5oar1 responsible,
within the purposes and terms of this directive, for the formulation
and promulgation, as guidance to the departments and agencies
responsible for psychological operations, of over-all national
psychological objectives, policies and programs, and for the
coordination and evaluation of the national psychological effort.
The board will report periodically to the National iecurity
Council on the Board's activities and on its *valuation of the
national psychological operations, including implementation of
approved objectives, policies, and programs by the departments and
agencies concerned.
For the purposes of this directive, psychological operations
all include all activities (other than overt types of economic
warfare) envisioned under N3C 59/1 and N5C 10/2, the operational
planning and execution of which shall remain, subject to this
directive, as therein assigned,
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a. The Under istiPvtgryfAcTtate, the Deputy Secretary of
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Defense, and the Director of Central Intelligence, or, in their
absence, their appropriate designees;
b. An appropriate representative of the head of each such
other department or agency of the Government aemay from time to
time be determined by the Board.
The Board shell designate one of its northers as Chairman.
A representative of the Joint Chiefs of Staff shall sit with the
Beard as its principal military adviser in order that the planning of
the Board and approved plans for military operations may be correlated.
There is established under the Board a Director of Planning who
shall be designated by the President and who shall receive compensation
C $16,000 per year. The Arector shall direct all activities under
he Board. In carrying out this responsibility, he shall
a* Be reaponsible for having prepared the programa, policies,
reports and recommendations for its consideration,
b. Sit with the Board and be responsible to it for organising
its business and for expediting the reaching If decisions,
0. Promulgate the decisions of the Board,
d. Ascertain the manner in which agreed upon objectives, policies,
and programs are being implememted and coordinated among the
departments and agencies concerned,
e* Report thereon and on his evaluation of the national
psychological operations to the aoard together with his
recommendations,
f. Perform such other duties necessary to carry out his responsi.
bilities as the Board may direct.
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The Director, within the limits of funds and personnel made
available by the Board for this purpose, shall organise and direct a
staff to assist in carrying out his responsibilities. The Director
shall determine the organisation and qualifications of the staff,
which may include individuals employed for this purpose, including
partAtme experts, and/or individuals detailed from the participating
departments and agencies. Personnel detailed for assignment to duty
under the terms of this directive shall be under the control of the
Director, subject only to necessary personnel procedures within their
respective departments and agencies. Insofar as is practicable, staff
work for the Director shall be provided within the agencies concerned
or on an ad hoc task force basis.
The participating departments and agencies *hall afford to such
staff as the Director specifically designates, whatever assistant, and
access to information they may require to carry out their assigned duties.
The heads of the departments and agencies concerned shall examine
into the present arrangements within their departments and agencies
for the conduct, direction and coordination of psychological operations
with a view toward readjusting or strengthening them if necessary
to carry out the purposes of this directive. The Secretary of State
is authorised to effect such readjustments in the organisation *stab.
I shed under *SC 59/l as he deems necessary to accomplish the purposes
of this directive.
This directive does not authorise the Board nor the E)irsctor to
perform any wpwchological operations.4
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