PRIORITY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE OBJECTIVES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85G00105R000100130006-4
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 26, 2003
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: July 1, 1966
• Content Type: REQ

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DCID No. 1/3
(New Series)
DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTIVE NO. 1 /3
PRIORITY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE OBJECTIVES
(Revised 1 July 1966)
1. Pursuant to NSCID No. 1, paragraph 3, the following list of Pri-
ority National Intelligence Objectives (PNIOs) is established as a guide
for the coordination of intelligence production, and of supporting re-
search and collection activities. This list replaces that contained in
DCID No. 1/3, 24 June 1965, which is hereby rescinded.
2. This listing of priority objectives presupposes that the bulk of the
intelligence required for the formulation and execution of national
security policy will be the product of normal intelligence collection and
research in response to the list of Comprehensive National Intelligence
Objectives set forth in DCID No. 1/2. Identified for priority treatment
are the most critical substantive problems which confront the intelli-
gence community as a whole.
3. By presenting those intelligence problems likely to persist or develop
over the next several years, the present Directive serves as a stable basis
for long-term planning on both the development of intelligence resources
and the allocation of existing resources. It will be reviewed and revised
annually. It will also be supplemented by a quarterly listing of cur-
rently critical or potentially critical situations. This supplement, looking
forward for six months or so, will seek to anticipate such emergent
changes in the situation as might warrant some shift of emphasis in
the employment of research and collection resources.
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