PROPOSED NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTIVE NO. 2 COORDINATION OF COLLECTION ACTIVITIES ABROAD

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• Document Release Date: April 26, 2002
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• Publication Date: November 24, 1947
• Content Type: REGULATION

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PROPOSED NATIONAL SECURITY CCXJNCIL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTIVE NO. 2
COORDINATION OF COLLECTION ACTIVITIES ABROAD
The following overall policies and objectives are established by the
National Security Council for the interdepartmental coordination of foreign
intelligence collection activities, so that measures may be taken promptly
to effect sound and efficient utilization of the various departmental col-
lecting and reporting facilities abroadr
1, a. There shall be an allocation within certain broad
categories of agency responsibility for collection abroad, as
follows:
Political . . . . . . . . . Department of State
Cultural. . . . . . . . . . Department of State
Sociological. . . . . . . . Department of State
Military. . . . . . . . . . Department of the Army
Naval . . . . . . . . . . 0
Economic ) v' , F1
Scientific ) . . . . . . . As in b below
Technological)
b. Each agency in accordance with its respective needs.
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2. /intelligence information, no matter by whom collected, shall,
wherever possible, be transmitted immediately to the field representa,-
tive of the agency most concerned, However$ the collector may also
send copies to or otherwise inform his own agency.
3. The senior U, S? representative in each foreign area where
the United States maintains a foreign, post shall, within the spirit
of the principles enunciated herein, be responsible for the coordina-
tion of all normal collection activities in his area.
4. The collecting and reporting facilities of each of the
agencies shall be utilized so as to avoid unproductive duplication
and uncoordinated overlap and to insure within budgetary limitations
that full flow of intelligence information which is the major need
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of all departments and agencies for the accomplishment of their
respective missions.
5. Full utilization shall be made of the individual initiative
and favorable contacts of agency representatives.
6. No interpretation of these established overall policies and
objectives shall negate the basic principle that all departmental
representatives abroad are individually responsible for the collection
and for the appropriate transmission to their departments of all intel-
ligence information pertinent to their departmental missions.
7, There shall be free and unrestricted interdepartmental
exchange of intelligence information to meet the recognized secondary
needs of each department and agency for intelligence usually obtained
or prepared by other departments or agencies.
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