ANNUAL REPORT TO THE NSC ON THE STATUS OF THE FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 29, 2005
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• Publication Date: July 25, 1960
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SECRET
15 July 1960
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chairman, The United States
Intelligence Board
SUBJECT: Annual Report, Interagency Clandestine
Collection Priorities Committee (IPC)
Pursuant to the provisions of USIB-D-3. 2/6, dated 7 July
1960, the report of the activities of the Interagency Clandestine
Collection priorities Committee for the period 1 July 1959 -
30 June 1960 is submitted.
Chairma
Interagency Clandestine Collection
Priorities Committee
Attachment
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Activities of the Interagency Clandestine
Collection Priorities Committee
for the period
1 July 1959 ? 30 June 1960
Re er?ence:' DCII) No. 5/5, Charter for Interagency Clandestine Collection
Priorities Committee (Effective 14 February 1.959).
1. In accordance with the provisions of reference, the interagency
t`clandestine Collection Priori -ies Committee since its last report has
continued to provide community guidance for the priority collection of
information by the Clandestine Services, Central Intelligence Agency.
Z. In. the course of its efforts to improve such guidance, the
Committee concluded that current IPC Lists, hitherto prepared in
accordance with Priority National Intelligence Objectives but restricted
to individual countries of major intelligence interest, should be so re .
rstituted as to set forth requirements and targets can a worldwide
ia:a As following the category sequence of tine Priority National Intelligence
Objectives. The Committee reasoned that such lists will give collectors
the advantage of single statements of priority requirements and 'targets
1`mo:4 e in keeping with the concept that clandestine collection activitie
should not be confined to geographic or political. boundaries. In addition,
the Committee, reflecting the trend of the intelligence community to
concentrate assets on priority objectives, encouraged a reduction in
these lists of the numbers of objectives and targets, emphasizing only
"hose that are most important] This trend will prove most useful in
refining guidance for clandestine collection.
3. At present, the Committee Secretariat is concluding an 'PC List
which will include those requirements and targets pertinent to Category I
of the Priority National Intelligence Objectives. Lists to cover C:ate,-
gories 11 and III will, be undertaken next,
4. Prior to adoption of the principle of arranging requirements and.
targets by PNIO category, the Committee prepared and released an 1PC
List on Poland followed by a Special Requirernents List, (IPC,mSPR.) to
emphasize highest priority requirement;) and targets in respect to
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Poland. Special Requirements Lists (IPC-SPR's) dealing with information
needed on International Communism were released on an additional eleven
countries. In addition, the Committee has continued to provide the
mechanism by which guidance in respect to free-world areas is secured
from .'.,ember agencies for incorporation into the annual revision of
die ectives to chiefs of CIA field stations.
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