INTERDEPARTMENTAL INTELLIGENCE PRODUCTION PROGRAM

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01731R003400070042-6
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 10, 2003
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: January 27, 1948
• Content Type: MF

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Subject: Interdepartmental Intelligence Production Program
GENERAL CHAMBERLIN
ADMIRAL INGLIS
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1.. The program for the production of intelligence contained in
National Security Council Intelligence Directive Ycan be considered as
no more than a statement of overall policies and objectives for the Central
Intelligence Agency and the several intelligence agencies of the National
Security Council departments. It defines the several types of intelligence
and indicates rich departments have dominant interest in certain fields
of intelligence. It leaves the highly important scientific, technological
and economic fields of intelligence unallocated except as to the individual
needs-of each department. The paper does not, nor was it intended to,
provide a definite intelligence production schedule. However, such a
schedule is highly desirable and procedures should be perfected now to
insure that all fields are properly and adequately covered and that each
department receives the material outside its field of dominant interest,
which it requires for intelligence purposes.
2. It is the opinion of the Director of Central Intelligence that a
prompt and positive approach must be made to a solution of this problem
and that he must advise and make recommendations in this field to the National
Security Council in fulfillment of his statutory duty as set forth in
Section 102(d) of the National Security Act of 19470
3. It is proposed that the Central Intelligence Agency prepare an
interagency intelligence production program, that the preparation be carried
out in close cooperation with the intelligence agencies represented on the
National Security Council, that it be submitted to the Intelligence Advisory
Committee for concurrence or comment prior to issuance for implementation.
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b. As a first step in the development of this plan, the Director
of Central Intelligence requests that each department intelligence chief
submit a comprehensive and detailed statement of the intelligence production
program of his department, clearly defining (a) the intelligence require-
ments of his department; (b) the internal production schedule of his agency
to meet these requirements; (c) the existing interagency agreements to
augment (1) the internal production with external material and (2) the
external requirements with internal production; and (d) the requirements
not adequately or satisfactorily met by (b) and (c).
5. The Central Intelligence Agency will attempt to correlate these
departmental programs and prepare an integrated plan, with full regard to
the existing basic intelligence program, for study, comment and possible
revision by the Standing Committee of the Intelligence Advisory Committee
for subsequent presentation to the Intelligence Advisory Committee.
6. With a view toward eliminating undesirable duplication of effort
in the production of intelligence, particularly in regard to publications,
consideration is being given to the proposal previously made by the JIC
that the Central Intelligence Agency assume the functions of the Publication
Review Subcommittee.
7. It is requested that each recipient of this memorandum inform the
Director of Central Intelligence promptly as to the date by which he will
be able to comply with 4 above.
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