THE FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM

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No. - THE FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM
(Prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency and concurred
in by the Intelligence Advisory Committee)
CONTENTS
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Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I
I. Coordination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
II. National Estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
III. Political, Social, and Cultural Intelligence. . . 4
IV. Military Intelligence. . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
V. Economic Intelligence.
VI. Scientific and Technical Intelligence. . . . . . 6
VII. Psychological Intelligence
VIII. Basic Intelligence.
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IX. Warning of Attack-Current Intelligence . . . . 8
XI. Support and Collation Facilities .
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OBJECTIVES
1. National Security Act of 1947, as Amended:
For the purpose of coordinating the intelligence activities of
the several Government departments and agencies in the interest
of national security, it shall be the duty of the Agency, under the
direction of the National Security Council.
(1) to advise the National Security Council in matters con-
cerning such intelligence activities of the Government depart-
ments and agencies as relate to the national security;
(2) to make recommendations to the National Security Council
for the coordination of such intelligence activities of the depart-
ments and agencies of the Government as relate to the national
security;
(3) to correlate and evaluate intelligence relating to the
national security, and provide for the appropriate dissemination
of such intelligence within the Government using where appro-
priate existing agencies and facilities: Provided, That the
Agency shall have no police, subpoena, law -enforcement powers,
or internal- security functions: Provided further., That the
departments and other agencies of the Government shall con-
tinue to collect, evaluate, correlate, and disseminate depart-
mental intelligence: And provided further, That the Director
of Central Intelligence shall be responsible for protecting intelli-
gence sources and methods from unauthorized disclosure;
(4) to perform, for the benefit of the existing intelligence
agencies, such additional services of common concern as the
National Security Council determines can be more efficiently
accomplished centrally;
(5) to perform such other functions and duties related to
intelligence affecting the national security as the National
Security Council may from time 'to time direct.
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OBJECTIVES (Continued)
2. NSC 162/2, paragraph 10:
Develop and maintain an intelligence system capable of:
(1) collecting and analyzing indications of hostile inten-
tions that would give maximum prior warning of possible
aggression or subversion in any area of the world;
(2) accurately evaluating the capabilities of foreign coun-
tries, friendly and neutral as well as enemy, to undertake
military, political, economic, and subversive courses of
action affecting U. S. security;
(3) forecasting potential foreign developments having
a bearing on U. S. national security.
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V. ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE
1. The recent revisions of economic policy and plans in the
Soviet Bloc countries have led to an increase in the flow of
Soviet and Satellite data on production, trade, and consumption.
A considerable amount of these data was reported in absolute
terms of production, trade, and consumption. These new data
should permit improved estimates on rates of development and
trends in particular sectors of the Bloc economies.
2. Intelligence needed for enforcement of economic defense
measures has been improved during the last six months by the
operation of interagency organization to (a) provide rapid collation
and analysis of intelligence on illegal transactions with the Soviet
Bloc, (b) speed the dissemination of intelligence to appropriate
action agencies, and (c) improve the receipt of information on
priority requests to the field.
VI. SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE
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VII. PSYCHOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE
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VIII. BASIC INTELLIGENCE
1. One-third of world-wide coverage, most of which is
on the JCS high priority areas, is now complet
Z. Increasing emphasis is being given to revision of
published NIS under the ma.inten.nce program, and to the produc-
tion of Chapters I (Summary Brie.-.'Q .
3. The NIS Committee has authorized a survey of all. NIS
users for guidance in the long range development of the Program.
The survey is now being conducted by the several IAC agencies.
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IX. WARNING OF ATTACK
1. The enemy?s choice of the type of attack and the
origin of his attack greatly affect our early warning capa-
bility. We are largely dependent for early warning onI radar
and forward observation stations for furnishing information
on air attack, in lieu of "inside" sources which in the past
have frequently been available for warning that an enemy
was about to decide to go to war. However, generally our
advance warning largely depends on the sifting of masses of
material in our search for those indications of enemy activity
which suggest that they are taking measures to implement a
decision to attack, We are exploiting all available sources of
information and constantly striving to develop new and improved
means of detection of attack.
2. In October 1953 the IAG established an ad hoc com-
mittee to review, in the light of the present international
situation, the mission and operating procedures of the IA(
Watch Committee. Progress has been. made in revising the
"mission and functions" of the Watch Committee, including
detailed methods of operation and nature of support.
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XI. SUPPORT AND COLLATION FACILITIES
1. Library Facilities
Lexical inventories for most of the languages of intelli-
gence interest, and annotated lists of intelligence serial publications
produced by some of the member agencies, have been prepared.
2. Industrial Information
Indexing by tabulating machine methods to speed the analysis
of data is two-thirds complete for the Soviet Union. Coding and index-
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with China to follow. 1
4. External Research
The External Research. Staff, Department of State, is
stepping up its function of apprizing the Intelligence Community of
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economic, political and related research on foreign areas sponsored
by foundations, universities, and individual scholars. It is preparing
periodical inventories of similar research sponsored by the Federal
Government and reports on research on psychological and uncon-
ventional warfare.
The EIC has compiled an inventory of government sponsored
external economic research projects on the Soviet Bloc for the period
1 January 1952 through 30 September 1953.
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