NSC SEMI-ANNUAL SUPPLEMENTARY STATUS REPORT ON THE FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM

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• Publication Date: January 25, 1954
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INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
(NSG STATUS REPORT- WORKING GROUP')
NSC Semi-Annual Supplementary Status Report
on the Foreign Intelligence Program
1. The attached draft attempts to reflect changes
discussed at the Working Group meeting of 20 January and
also includes. sections drafted by State and the Military .
:Agencies since that meeting. '
2. It would be .appreciated if the representatives
would- meet to discuss this draft in Room X468, The
Pentagon, at 2:00- P, M , on Thursday, 28 January. A
revised draft based on discussion at that meeting should
be circulated 1 Febxuary for IA.C concurrence and DCI
dispatch by 5 February. .
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No. -THE FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM
(Prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency and concurred
in by the Intelligence Advisory Committee)
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Objectives
I. Coordination ...
II. National Estimates.
III. Political, Social, and Cultural Istelligence .
IV. Armed Forces Intelligence .
V. Economic Intelligence .
VI. Scientific and Technical- Intelligence.
VII.. Psychological Intelligence .
VIII. Geographic Intelligence
IX'. Basic Intelligence.
X. Warning of Attack--Current Intelligence .
XL Collection
XII. Support and'Collation Facilities.
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OB JEC~TI~7'ES
1. National Security Act of 1947, as Amended:
F'or.the purpose of coordinating the intelligence activities of
the several Government departments and agencies in the intexest of
national security, it shall be the duty of CIA, under the direction of
the National Security Council --
(1) to advise the 1VSC in matters concerning such intelligence
activities of departments and agencies as relate to the national
security;
(2} to make recommendations to the NSC for the coordination
of such intelligence activities of the departments and agencies
as relate to the national security;
(3) to correlate -and evaluate intelligence relating to the
national security, and provide for the appropriate dissemina-
tion of such intelligence within the` Ciovernrnent using-where
appropriate existing agencies and facilities: provided, that
-CIA shall have no police, subpoena, Iaw enforcement powers,
or internal security functionns: provided further, that the
departments and other agencies shall continue to collect,
.evaluate., correlate, and disseminate departmental intelli-
gence: and provided further, that the Director of Central
Intelligence shall be responsible for .protecting intelligence
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
NSC determines can be more efficiently accomplished cen~
trally;
(5} to perform such other functions and duties related to
intelligence affecting the. national security as the NSC may
from time to time direct.
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OBJECTIVES (continued)
NSC 162 /2, paragraph 10:
Develop and maintain an intelligence system capable of:
(1) collecting and analyzing indications of hostile inten-
bons 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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NQ. -THE FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. PROGRAM
(This report states the most significant changes which have
occurred during the period 30 June - 31 December 1953; it
,supplements the full report submitted 3 Auguat 1953 as
No. 9 in NSC-161. )
I. G OORDTNA TION
'1.. When the IAC agencies concurred in the last report submitted,
they pointed out that the effects of budget cuts then recently imposed
on intelligence activities could not be assessed at that time. Since
then, the agencies individually have experienced the effects of budget
reductions and now conclude that these have been possible of assimi-
lation by shifting assets or curtailing peripheral activities. -The only
serious effects -have been felt in the collection activities of the Foreign
Service and even these are being met, at least partially, by alterna-
tive activities.
2. Collectively, the agencies, at the request of the Bureau of
the Budget, have developed a suggested listing of categories of in-
~telligence activities as an aid to the Bureau in its pr?posed budgetary
analysis of intelligence programs. It is hoped that this analysis will,
among other results, aid the agencies in their continuing appraisal
of the costs of the foreign intelligence- program.
3. Two Director of Central Intelligence Directives .were
issued, and one revised, .with the concurrence of the IAC, during
this period. DCID 7/1 establishes. procedures-for insuring that all
non:-governmental individuals offering foreign intelligence informa-
tipn are referred to CIA for exploitation in accordance with NSCID ?.
DCID 3/5 refines roceduxes for the production of national intelli-
ence estimates.
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IL NATIONAL ESTIMATES
1. During the period of this report th.e IAC approved
19 national estimates (8 special estimates and 11 NIE's ).
2. At the request of .the IAC, the Board of National Estimates,
CIA, has undertaken a review of DCID's 4/ 1 and 4/2, issued under
NSCID-4, on national intelligence objectives.
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III. POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE
The quality of analysis by the staffs producing political,
sociological, and cultural intelligence has been fully-maintained
and even improved. In part, the pressure of demands on reduced
staffs -has been met by a stepping- up of the long-term trend toward
the merging of economic, political, and sociological analysis in
dealing with individual intelligence problems.
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V. ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE
1. The recent revisions of economic policy and plans in the
Soviet Bloc countries have -led to a temporary increase in the flow
of Soviet and Satellite data on production, trade, ancf, consumption.
Although many of these data continue to be stated in terms of per-
tentage change from undefined bases, a considerable amount was
reported in absolute terms of production, trade, and consumption.
These new data should perrn.it 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
establishment of machinery 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..
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