COORDINATION OF INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION ACTIVITIES

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP57-00384R001200030091-8
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• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 14, 2001
• Sequence Number: 91
• Publication Date: January 31, 1951
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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etr};,ction dated April 9, 194ntitled "Coordination of Intelligence/
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Collection Activities. The principles of the above instruction remain in
force, but it is believed that present circumstances warrant. a clarification
of these principles, and the issuance of a more detailed description of the
organization and functions of the (lovergaert and Department relating to intel-
lf.gence collection.
1oference is made to the tmentrs unnumbered Confidential circular
4te111nce M CIA
MUM of Aho .1
Act of 19t ? for the purpose of seeing as a focal point in the Government
,for coordinating the intelligence activities of the various derartnents
.4avipg.intellI4enco responsibilities, and for providing these departments
atilt agencies with certain cry^n intelligence services which can be most
effectively performed on a cot. ,ralized bas ,. The specific functions of
th Central Intelligence Agency was created by the National Security
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-# 4a ..c esori'bed in the A`ct, are Stated in Annex A These functions have
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sire precise y delimited ajd defined, and the relationships between-
CU and the a rtaeents of State, Arsp-, Navy, and Air Force, clarified by
aerrera~;~ National ;SeouFity Council Intelligence Directives*
monitoring of foreign news ,and propaganda radio broadcasts,; (3) collection of
intelligence on foreign areas from. sources within the United States. The
Departments,, particularly the leplertment of State, are "iven primary respon
Ll organised covert intelligence activity outside the United States; (2)
hose directives limit the CIA collection activity tot (1) conduct of
sibility for collecting, by overt (as opposed to covert or clandebtine) :nertns
the difference between
the coluection responsibilities of the CIA and, say, the Department of Stag
in the method of acquir;4 t w irYfornat on, Arid not in the character of
the intorrap.tian, although certain kinds of highly specialized intelligence
t h as coupter-intelligence are properly the responsibility of the CIA
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hot utter how collected., A report prepared by a mission's politica;. report-
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inforr etion and, on the basis of such a^,n4ysis, preparing the finished intel-
ligencereports required for its own policy decisions and activities. It is
also
hoe responsible nis for contributing its knowledge and views to National Intel,
ge (joint interdepartmental intelligence reports on national eec w4~it7 issues) issued by CIA, and for providing the evaluated intelligcnc
r~aquirpd by the Army, Navy an- Air Force on political, sociological, and.
The Depar
agnt is, of course, responsible for analyzing all available
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It is further responsible for the preparation of the political and
sociological seotiols, and for the preWation of portions of the economic
sections of National Intelli,cetwe- sum's. (See Department's circular n-
In accordance with the National Security Act and XSC Intelligence Direc-
tives, the artasnt is rempo title for collecting and furnishing, within
its capabilities, intslligadoe intcrrAticn rem&ssted by CIA, Ar-, Navy, and
Air Farce, within the o.tedoriaa dsscrlbsd in Annexes B and C.
Within the Dent, these rNponsibilities are focused in the Special
Assistant, Intelligence.
+ c Of the Lq:!Iim service
The Foreign Service represents the lamest intelligu ce collection activ
ity of the 0overnaent, having responsibility for scouiring information from
non-covert sources not only for the psp-t, but for all other Oovernmc;nt
departswants and dies, Including the Central Intelligence Aguncy.
National Security Council Irltulligancc Directive No. 2 (NSCID-2), as
amplified ector of Central Intsl,ligence Directive 2/1 (DCI 2/'l), Loth AMLSUMU- 01" State, Arspr, Navy, and _Ar- Force, bear
Inv upon those respotbs. directives are quoted in their
entirety in Annexes B end.C.
In connection with thaw directives, the following points are of partic-
ular.iimportance v
(a) The coordination of intslligeince collection effort et c
Foreign Service post should not be considered merely a passive program
to avoid duplication. It ehovld,'on the contrary, be a positive effort
to use to the fullest possible extent and in the most effective possible
manner the capabilities arlld contacts of all mcmbera of the mission,
including consular staffs and service attaches. Chiefs of Mission ar(:
responsible, and have rooognised authority, for coordinating the work
of the Foreign Service and Are, Davy, and Air Force attacheas, to the
and that unnecessary or wasteful duplication will be eliminated, and
the maximum information furnished to Washington. The essential ingru-
diente to effective coordination are many. Among thorns
(1) A full eaha a of information. The Chief of Mission
should arrange a prooodmrs Mich w insure that All intolliguncc
information collected by or available to any member of the mission,
or officer attached _ thereto, is spade promptly available to all
other masters having a teed for the information.
(2) Resolution of
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(c) lbr+aign publications and maps are a fertile source of Intel' i;'e:r
information. In cases where funds are necessary for acquiring such uswful
items, necessary mono r will -be *ads available by the Department upon re-
quest, - responding witheu. de]q to thr, Dupartasent's requests for publi-
crtions and mipa, To*'vl8n Vice posts r.t only assist tho intelligence
effort, but in the long ro redwo the saasssber of requests for information .
wriich would otherwise be *Kcessarlly placed vm Olin,
(d) 8iogarepbio os aatUm in ezOronsly lapertant to the Mission
itself and to Mesa. : mrectjsss ar r~lwr r and the like are
valuable sources of sub nforsattob, but personal charactaristice can
be determined o through personal soetuts? Mission muster should
the:rufbre fuel an individual weepooibilitir for providin3 to the appre-
;priate Mission officer bi split data Which to his attention,
(e) in some areas, especially in the Far Mot, there scorns to be
need for a more active a p of infomsition laterally between noarby
posts. It is realised, that tero oical difficulties exist, but all officers,
service as well. as Wssion, ehesuld be ssr4e aware of the problem and urged
to make available to adjacent ports at least stslsatriea+e of portiaont
mnaterial,
In meeting its on and CIA'r rognireauntf for intolliCcnec information
from the Pbruign Sorvioe, the Deportment has hitherto relied primarily upon
the knowledge and initiative of officers is the field, rather than upon the
issuance of elaborate and detailed statements of requirements. Specific re-
quests upon the'lbreign Service hens been Cunerall limited (a) to items of
infor w tion which would probably be reported in dual course but which are
urgently needed at the particular moment, and (b) ittes of information the
need .96r. vbMh might not be apparent to the tic 14. Howls r, the urg*.ncy and
complexity of, them problusms meow confronting .the iotclligunoe rr;ereies of the.
Oavernric it make it desirable to furnish increasing guidance to Fortin Service
posts as to the subjects sad itsr:c' on which information is needed, and an cor-
resspo:ndinw increase in the frequtaicy of reque. ' s and suggestions from the
Deepiartnent may be en ticipated.
The D partmont welcomes eoibemaeamts and au ostions from Foreign Surv:tee
posts looking toward iq*'ovesrc;nt th the intelligence functions describee3
wbovc.. The Deepartm ant sill on"i a ` to tarnish Foreign Service posts with
copies of pertinent finished inCrlitiuasee r .ports both from the Dopartz.-nt
i:rd eror other w ashington int :lliCu ace afcnciose inoludiM completed suctions
of the H-ttional Intolligunoa Saarv%os. Bash small real nill serve to indie,,.t'i
the prcbl,ms under consideration lq- i td1i tm agencies iir Ncsiiin., ton, the
vioiwe of 'hshington intalligenos, and the extrsnt of, ' nd ;^pe in, c~urrunt ar,d
} asic information available in lnrhington.
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