NIS COMMITTEE MEETING NO 185

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• Publication Date: December 7, 1954
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NIS COMMITTEE MEETING NO. 185
? December 1951
1. The following were present:
Mr. Clinton
Mr. 'ain
Colonel Pioknell
Major Jacobson
Neut. Madden
Major Malone
25X1 A9aCola*r:el Hausman
1. Release ofNIS to Major Subordinate NATO Commands
Colonel James J. Iiauaman, who will replace Major Malone, reassigned.
3. Collection coordination LbMrb
Copies of an EIC Report, "Washington Coordination of Economic
Intelligence Collection Requests to the Field" were distributed to the
members. The report sets forth the intelligence collection facilities
and procedures in Washington together with a directory of IAC collection
personnel and assigiments. The Chairman said the report should be helpful
to the members in improving collection coordination of basic intelligence.
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2. The Chairman introduced the Air Force NIB Committee member designate,
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The Committee discuss th release of NIS to major subordinate
NATO Commands as proposed in rand= of 23 November 54 from the' Chief,
Control Section, G-2, to Cha , NIS Committee (refer to paragraph 9 D,
NIS Committee Meeting No. 18 . This memorandum indicates SHAPE has
requested that the USNNR be authorized to release NIS elements to subordinate
NATO Commands without recourse to the Secretariat/State-Defense Military
informat rol Committee. The Department of the ArnEr recommends that
the U , be authorized to determine need-to-know and to release
in the system appropriate NISS elements from among those offered for
release to SHAPE to major subordinate NATO Commands. .
The Chairman reviewed the present policy an release of NIS based
an IAC-D-1i /12 (Revision 1) as set forth in NIS Committee Meetings No. 169
and 170. The release to SHAPE and SACIANT is determined by the respeotive
Executive Agencies on a need-to-know basis. Release to major subordinate
commands will be made by the State-Defense Military Information Control
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Committee as the need-to-know is established by SHAPE and SACIANT. There
is a standing requirement for S/SIAIC to supply D/'B with copies of
releases to SWIPE and SACLANT and, as the need-to-know is established, to
their major subordinate commands.
The Committee held that, since the recommendation of the Depart-
ment of the Army was consonant with the above policy, there was no
objection to SDMIC delegating authority to the USNIIR, SHAPE and USNLR,
SACIANT for release of NIS to the respective major subordinate NATO
commands. The Committee therefore requested the Vice-Chairman to draft a
memorandum for S/SDMIC which reflects these views and, by attachment
thereto, to indicate the status quo of relevant NIS elements in the following
categoriest (1) fully controlled, (2) released to SHAPE, (3) released to
SACIANT. The draft and its attachment will be reviewed by the Committee at
its next meeting.
5. Revision of JCS Priority List
The Chairman said that it has been nearly two years since there
had been a revision of the JCS Priority List. He proposed to draft a
memorandum to the JIC requesting a re-examination of the high priority
areas to reflect current requirements of the Joint Staff. Included in the
memorandum would be a list showing the percentage of completion of each NIS
area. The Committee concurred in this proposal,
6. Designation for Segmented Areas
In considering State's request for appropriate designation for the
NIS elements on China (refer to paragraph 9 C of NIS Committee Meeting No.
184) 9, the Chairman said that a study was being made by the D/B Staff to
determine a general terminology for such situations. Essentially, there
are two general systems which might be used:
A. Designation of segmented areas by area number plus letter,
for examples NIS 39 designates China as a whole, whereas NIS 39 A
would indicate Co?muinist China, 39 B Nationalist China, and 39 C
Hong Kong and Macao. This designation would not affect the
geographic area breakdown used for Chapter II purposes, except that
the Romam numerals would be used with the Chapter and not with the
area designator; for examples Manchuria would be designated NIS 39,
Chapter IT, Part II instead of the shorthand designation 39-II,
since a different part breakdoea might be used in another Chapter,
which would lead to confusion.
B. Designation of segmented areas by Roman numeral at the
Chapter or Section level. This is an extension of the method now
used for geographic breakdown and would permit of a single system
throughout the NIS, although the homan numeral designators could
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refer to different segmented areas in different Chapters. Using
the above examples in the case of Chinas the geographic part
breakdown in Chapter II would remain unchanged, while the political
part breakdown within Chapter V would be, Part I - Communist China,
Part II - Nationalist China, and Part III - Hong Kong and Macao.
The same part designators would be used for Chapters IV and VI.
The members were requested to examine this matter as a basis for
further discussion at the next meeting.
?. Intelligence Control Directive
The Vice-Chairman invited the Committee's attention to DCID No. 11/2
approved 15 November 1954 which establishes uniform procedures to control the
dissemination and use of intelligence and intelligence information. Pursuant
to this directive it will be necessary to use hereafter in the NIS the control
statemnt, NOT RELFASABLE TO FOREIGN NATIONP I$ in place of the control state-
ment, FOR US OFFICIATE ONLY. The Committee approved this change for NIS
purposes.
The. Vice-Chairman said that the new control statement would appear
on all "Comments on Principal Sources" and on the cover and all pages of
NIS elements controlled in their entirety. He noted that, since the
dissemination of NIS to foreign governments is controlled by IAC-D-15/12, it
will be unnecessary for NIS purposes to use "control statements with
exceptions" as provided for in the directive.
Since the Committee members had not had opportunity to study DCID
No. 11/2, the Chairman suggested that further discussion be deferred until
the next meeting.
8, Contributors' Statement.- Key Personalities Elements
The Committee approved the revised standard Contributors' Statement
for NIS Key Personalities elements submitted by State, which is as.followss
"This publication was prepared for the NIS under the general
coordination of the Central Intelligence Agency. Culturl,
political, and economic biographies were contributed by the
Intelligence Organization, Department of State; scientific
biographies by the Central Intelligence Agency; military biog-
raphies by the Office of the AC of S, Q-2, Department of the
Arai; naval biographies by the Office of Naval Intelligence,
Department of the Navy; aviation biographis s by the Directorate
of Intelligence, USAF."
It is understood that only relevant portions of the above standard statement
will be used with each Key Personalities element.
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9. NIS 66
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Following up on specific production questions?rd
in connection with the development of the NIS State
submitted a written statement recommending coverage on certain sections
of Chapters IV and V. The other members will shortly submit written
statements of their requirements, When these statements are received
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the Chairman will prepare a comprehensive statement of the NIS position
in a memorandum addressed for Committee 25X1X7@
approval before release.
10. MiscellarXyr
A. In line with procedure outlined in NIS Committee Meeting
No. 181, Paragraph 9 G, the Army member was advised of two sections which
were overdue beyond the six weeks' period established for review. The
Army member will look into this matter and advise the Chairman of his
findings.
B. In accordance with a request by Navy, Section 80 (M) of
NIS 18 (Czechoslovakia) was postponed until February 1956.
0. The Arty member requested permission to return copies of
NIS for which they do not have storage facilities. The Vice Chairman
will take the matter up with Ricords Center as soon as the Armin member
has advised him 'on the approximate amber of NIS elements involved.
D, The State member wished to remind all contributors of the
fact that a Key Personalities Unit is scheduled on NIS 39 A in 1956.
It is expected that this will be a particularly large unit, requiring
considerable time in preparation.
E. The State member requested the members to consider the
possibility of substituting MIS 4 (Netherlands) for NIS 5 (Belgium) in
the schedule for Chapters I for FY 1956, This would result in scheduling
N1S 5 in FY 1957, The members will report on this matter at the next
meeting.
11. The next meeting of the NIS Committee will be. held at 1000 hours
on Tuesday, 21 December 1954.
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