DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTIVE 2/1 IMPLEMENTATION OF COORDINATION OF COLLECTION PLAN

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• Publication Date: October 25, 1948
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DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTIVE 2/1
flVEPLEI, NTATION OF COORDINATION OF COLLECTION PLAN
Under the authority of the National Security Council Intelligence
Directive No. 2, and for the purpose of supplying the necessary operating
details for the guidance of the coordinating officials, the agencies, and
their field representatives in their implementation of the policies and
objectives established therein, the following procedures are established:
1. Coordinating officials and their responsibilities:
a, 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 coordination of all normal collection activities in
his area
b? To implement this coordination, each such representative
shall :
(1) Exert every effort to centralize all intelligence
information for the use of all authorized personnel.
(2) Eliminate undesirable duplication of collection
effort and reporting and assure the proper channeling of
information.
(3) Insure that whenever one or more of the depart-
mental intelligence agencies are not represented at a
foreign post, reporting on the appropriate categories is
delegated to the extent possible to other members of the
staff A
2, Collecting agents and their responsibilities:
a, Representatives of Departments or Agencies who are
charged with the collection of intelligence information in
the field, will be responsible to their respective Depart-
ments or Agencies:
(1) To comply in the coordination measures prescribed
by the responsible officer as set forth in paragraph 1 above.
(2) To forward promptly to. their home office and enter
in a central intelligence index or file when established
all intelligence material from any source which falls
within their, departmental agency responsibilities,
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(3) To bring promptly to the attention of the proper
representatives of other Departments or Agencies any intelli-
gence information of concern to them. Nothing in this
directive prevents a representative from reporting any
intelligence information to his own Department or Agency
or maintaining a file of the material for his own official
use.
(4) To make available to the senior U. S. representative
and the field representatives of other agencies all collection
directives and instructions received from their departments,
b. Nothing in this directive shall be interpreted as authorizing
any officer to delay, suppress, or make substantive changes in any
intelligence report vrithout the concurrence of the officer submitting
the report, Intelligence material, which may have no significance to'
field representatives in a single area or which may appear to be at
complete variance with the over-all trend, may have great significance
and form a definite part of an estimate being developed by the
individual department or by the Central Intelligence Agency. Any
dissenting opinion or commentary may either be incorporated in the
-report or submitted separately.
c. No. interpretation of these established over-all 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
intelligence information pertinent to their departmental missions.
3. The agencies and their responsibilities:
ao Each intelligence agency shall be responsible for the
collection of intelligence information within its own categories
of dominant interest for its own needs and for those of any other
intelligence agency requesting it directly or through the Central
Intelligence Agency, it being recognized that other agencies may
have secondary interests in and need for such intelligence material
for the production of their own staff intelligence.
b. Departmental intelligence agencies will issue such directives
to tie field as will insure the implementation of this plan.
R. H. HILLENKOET TER
Director of Central Intelligence
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