JOINT ATOMIC ENERGY INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE

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NSCID NO. 'ice
National Security Council Intelligence Directive No. 7s appr old
12 February 1948, which places on CIA the primary responsibility for the
exploitation of US domestic sources for foreign positive intelligence
information, provided for a committee, under CIA chairmanship, to meet
periodically to consider mutual problem and interests in connection
with this program. Accordingly, intelligence components of the Depart-
ments of State, Army, Navy, Air, the AEC end FBI assigned representatives
to the NSCID No. 7 Comittee, under the ahsinnsrtabip of the Chief,
Contact Division, Office of Operations to which CIA regultions assigned
the function of do tic collection. (The Deputy ]Director for Intalli-
gents of the Joint Intelligence Group, JCS, who had concurred as a member
of the IAO in N$CID No. 7s did not designate a representative to serve on
the Com nittee. )
The NSCID No. 7 Committee met ird tiaa .ly in March 19118 and agreed
that the group would henceforth meet monthly, The Ckmdruan usually
opened the meetings with a review of CIA. activities in this field during
the past month, followed by discussion of specific facets of the domestic
collection program. The meetings provided a method of informing the
other agencies of CIA ma progress from the standpoint of policy, organiza-
tion and procedures. The representatives of the other agencies acted as
the focal point for any implementing action required within their respec-
tive agencies, Nirmtes of the meetings were kept and transmitted to the
other agencies.
At a meeting during the fall of 2951, the States IrBI, Navy and
Air Force representatives proposed the dissolution of the Ccueittee on
the grounds that the domestic collection program had reached a state of
such mat .ty as to obviate the necessity for monthly meetings. The
Chairn n noted that the Comdttee could only be abolished by EC action.
He recommended that the Committee remain in a stance, but that m tings
be held only when basic policy issues a e , a recommendation in which
the other representatives concurred. The only problem meriting NSCID
No, 7 Committee consideration since that time has been a proposal by the
Signal Corps Intelligence Agency to take over the exploitation of the
telecommicatione industry in the US, which was discussed in detail at
a meeting in May 1952.
References: NSCIDu17; DCIDm7Af IiSCID I.4, parso 1 &o
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Although the NSCID No 4 7 Committee has not only onos dm-IN
the past three years its existence serves a vital function in
placing responsibility on individuals in the other agencies for
2enmd(nat9 nn and imnlemmtaticc within those aacia ee.
use of the nature of the ass
r uined of the Committee members they moat be at the policy echelon.
to the inf`requerLt *etinga of the WSCID No. 7 Can ttso
a whose, no annual report in submitted to the IAC s
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CONFIDENTIAL
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE SURVEY COMMITTEE
The National Intelligence Survey Program is concerned with the
collection, coordination, and publication of basic intelligence an all
foreign countries and areas needed for high level operational and
strategic planning, national estimates, and policy determinationso The
program tae initiated by the National Security Council in its Intelligence
Directive No. 3 of 13 January 1946, and reflected the experience of
World War II vhen the critical requirements of basic intelligence were
never fully developed because of wartime pressures*
The NIS is a fully coordinated program in which some 40
agencies of the Government participate in accordance with their specialized
capabilities. For example, the Bureau of Nimes contributes is the 25X1
field of minerals, coal, and petroleum; the Army Signal Corps on
telecoms mications; the Navy a a Hi drographic Office furnishes the
intelligence an coasts and lading beaches; and the Air Force produces
the weather and climate section in coordination with the Joint
Meteorological Committee? Duplication is minimized, capabilities are
developed commensurate with the job to be cone, and a product of high
qu L ity results because it has been possible to exploit this great
variety of skills and special talents.
The organization for coordinating this program consists of the
NIS Committee, a permanent interagency policy and requirements body;
Control and Coordinating Staffs in each intelligence agency; and the
Basic Intelligence Division in CIA which discharges the coordinating
reviewing, and publishing responsibilities of the program, The Chief
of this Division is assigned the additional responsibilities as NIS
Coordinator and as Chairman of the NIS Committee.
References: NSCID=3, Para, la; D/r Memo 20D-19,
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The NIS Standard Instructions set forth the full r+equixemente
of the NIS Program including NIS areas, allocations of p duatAon
responsibilities: and the detailed. outlines of basic intelligence
which serve as col'l.ection# production and maintenance requis ents.
The world is divided into 103 land areas and coverage of each area
is analyzed under the nine major topics and related subtopics that
comprise the chapters and sections of the completed NIS. Data:.iled
treatment of certain topics is covered in designated supplements.
A Special NIS covers the five principal ocean areas of the world.
The NIS Program has been in full operation for six years.
Essentially, over 40% of the total world coverage has been ccaapletted,
most of 'which is on areas of high priority established by the Joint
Chiefs of Staff. Approximately 18DD NIS sections have been published
to date. NIaS Oasotteers of standard geographic names have ben pro-
duced on more than 70 NIS Areas,# which represent the first world-side
gazetteers; ever developed by this or any other government. In acLtve
maintenance program in under way on published elements of both the
NIS and Gasettecra. To serve a pressing need of the higher co 'sd
and staff levels, a brief of each NIS Area as a whole is being
developed in Chapter Is, the first of which was recently published.
The published NIS renders the essential elements of basic
intelligence available for immediate use to all who need to know.
Beek of these published documents lie the extensive files which are
the reservoir of av& 1 ble knowledge on all countries and areas of
the world, Fundamental in the broad accomplishment of the NIS
Program has been the drawing together of the intelligence c nunity
into a coordinated effort towards a common goal.. The previous hap-
hazard approach to field collection and file collation has been re-
placed by a logical developeent of the whole field of basic intelli-
gences Gape in intelligence disclosed as a result of fulfilling NIS
production requirements becos the basis for direct collection effort.
Files which had formerly been left untouched until ad hoe requirements
were laid on are systematically collated under NIS maintenance. In
substances, the NIS Program acts across-the-board to guide and stimulate
collection and file collation without awaiting crash operations to not
them In motion.
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,TGIi COOTIE OF THE IAC
The interest of CIA in the watch problem way first st.'7t-
lated during the summer of 1948 at the time of the Berlin aixalift.
Members of Planning Staff, ORE, experlmnted with indicator 'lists
and various techniques directed at determining whether the Stwiet
Union was prepared to interfere with the airlift even at the risk
of major war. `, By the early fall of 1949, this work had :dsrcit.e
to the point where an inter-agency Watch Committee cane into
existence under CIA chairmanship to ezadne weekly available
indicationa of Soviet intentions to launch aggressive ware Cca -
clusions reached in this committee's meetings were forwarded to
the DCI and to the heads of other intelligence agencies. In the
period immediately following the outbreak of the Kcwean !tr, this
committee not frequsndy to provide an Inter-agency evaluation of
significant indications developments connected with the In r4w
and elsewhere in the Soviet Orbit. The committee under CIA ['I -?
manshi p was disbanded when the IAC established the Joint In ence
Indications Committee as the IAC Watch Comm tteeir'
At its 7 December 1950 meeting the IAC decided that the JQtnt
Intelligence Indications Committee should thereafter function as the
Watch Committee of the IAG. Tema of reference for the Watch
Committee, which had been circulated to the IAC members,, were approved
1 the TAC in the meeting of 28 December 1950. The Watch Got-m tt e
was assigned the fol7l owing missions to collect, evaluate, as u ,
and report indications of Soviet-Comunist intentions of hos'~:i1e
aattion.
The following paragraph extracted from the "Firat Triomdal
Progress Report of the Watch Committee" provides some backgroLmd on
the kind of mechanism it was that the IAC converted into its Match
Committee.
"Tle Joint Intelligence Indications Committee, which
was converted into the Watch Committee by the 7 Derma.
1950 action of the YACO originated as a 0-2 Intel' Wince
Indications File Coomi.ttee. Representatives of Nwry and
Air Force Intelligence had been full participants in the
activities of the latter committee for several mouths_,
when on 8 August 1950 the Joint Intelligence Ca sn `tt sa
decided that thereafter the Intelligence Indications
File Committee would function as the Joint Intellignce
Indications Committee (JIIC). The JIC at the samo time
References: DOID 1/2; NSCID-1, para. 6; N8C 162/2, para. 103 a(1);
IAC124.
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invited representatives of CIA, State, and FBI to parti-
cipate in the meetings, which they did thenceforth. This
evolution from a t--2 committee into an IAC committee
explains vhy the chairmanshipp the secretariat, and the
place of the meetin :s have been in 04. The personnel of
the secretariat initially was furnished entirely by the
Army but sip January 1952 the secretariat has been
staffed by personnel from CIA, Navy and Air Force as wail
as Army."
To date the IAC Watch Committee continues to faction under
its original terms of reference. }k, ever, in the fall of 1953 some
feeling arose in favor of reviewing the wench operations in the light
of the prevailing situation which had substantially changed since
1950. At the IAC suing of 6 October 1953 the Director of Central
Intelligence, as Chairman of the TAO' proposed that a committee be
established "to conduct a thorough and prompt review of the ntch
processes and prepare recommendations for the IAC and, ultimately,
the NSC". (IAC4 421L) Such a committee was formed and, as the
"Ad Hoc SAC Ccmmittee (Watch)", held its first meeting on 3Q Octo-
ber 1953. This committee presented a progress report to the IAC
on 26 April 3,954 outlining its activities and reeomeending IAC
approval of "Terms of Reference" for a reorganised and more oomre,-
hensive watch effort by the IAC agencies. These recammerrdattaas
were approved by the IAC at the meeting of 4 May 1954 and In imple-
mentation of this decision, DCID a/'Z was issued, dated n Nay 1$54.
The significant change in the watch process which restated
from the deliberations and f .nel recommendation of the Ad Doc
Committee was the establishment of a National Indications Center
to support the TAC Watch Committee. Since its inception, the Watch
Committee has been supported by a secretariat which, because of
personnel TbO limitations, has been almost fully occupied with the
essential admixdtrative details of arranging for the meetings, pre-
paring the report of the Watch Cauealttee meetings and ensuring
proper dissemination of the report,
The National. Indications Center with a complement of eleven
fUltime intelligence officers and nine administrative personnel
will be capable of substantially increased support to the Watch
Committee? The personnel of the NIC are directed by the terms of
reference to arrange with their respective parent agencies fbr the
timely forwarding to the NIC of all pertinent information. and in-
telligence relating to the Watch Committee mission. The personnel
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of the NIC will, devote their full time and effort to preparing such
material for presentation to the Watch Committee, Under the pre-
vious arrangement such substantive support was an "in addition to
yo w other duties" assignment for individuals scattered bout
the IAC agencies who were not associated directly with each ather
except during the course of the Watch Committee meetings, a matter
of two to three hours each week.
It is also envisaged that the NIC till e3periment with and
develop the techniques of indications intelligence in order to
increase the effectiveness of such an operation. In addition to
improving the techniques for processing pertinent available
material, the NIC is also charged with developing and operating
a Watch Committee Intelligence Plan for a a ayetematising, energizing,
and coordinating through appropriate channels the world. ide
collection by US agencies of information and intelligence pertinent
to the Watch OUNdtt*$ mission, This latter function of stimniat -
ing the coUeotion efAwt to ar+d acquiring a larger proporrti_on of
information directly pertinent to the watch function will gradually
i rease the capability for providing advance warning of hostile
action,
The DCI designated his nominee for the position of Director,
National Indications Center, and on 1 July 1954 temporary headquarters
for the NIG were provided by CIA in Temporary "qua" Building. At the
present time the Director, NIC9 has a staff comprising two repoesenta-
tives from CIA, one each from State, Ax y, Navy and Air and designees
from ABC, FBI, and JIG available upon request. The problem of pro-
viding a permanent headquarters for the NIC has been resolved to the
extent that adequate space will be provided in the Pentagon as soon
as administrative planning permits,
The Director, NIC, and his staff are formulating methods of
operation and preparing to sea= full. responsibility fcc soppovto-
ing the Watch Committee. The assumption of such responsibi.ity is
dependent upon prior availability of suitable space in o that
the full complement of NIC personnel can be utilised in their
intended role. During this interim period the IAC Watch Co mittAs
continues to meet on a weekly basis and to review world dowlopments
'which are of significance to the watch problem, The terms of
reference for the Ad Hoc Committee provided that there be nro hiatus
during the transition of responsibilities from the present Watch
Committee to the reorganized Watch Committee supported by an
Indications Center.
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,'C( ,o xc IPlT9ELLLICE CE C 1XTA ^ i+
Huy l95la tat need for bettor coordination of U.S. fa ign
eac :.d ? -xt A. v;(Wscc wa-3 out .3ned to the Natio Security Col' " c
an. :t f pec a:g vepoart of ttt,.q Director of Certrasl. Intelli.ncoo
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~, f;, : dr n?e a its the a,-e3c cyr.a renda.tio ns of this report the H SC aeaigued
b : ~ ~~~-,~c r anks .Si l - X i e s for the continuous review and coordination of
mar: i. n eca z c inteUi antce to C o The Economic Intelligence
Oor; was an h iahed 'trader I &C as the principal irate g cy
.,;-;n i o . fcr :.a p lemrz nti ig theoo responeibilitieco The l11C tey of
~ : ~.^ Rrce for the BIC d :act its () to arranga for the mobilization
o ble aupport for major economic intelligence probleme; (b) to
review economic intelligence research programs to identify
Cap., end recomr and action r esponei biliti es therefore; and (c)
to contluWaely review f ig.. economic intelligence activities, and
u ad,~-',xt,nke epe ial revie a of pr:.>c acing and distributing proced e
in order to recon nd igxrcmemsnts o
Since Its creation BIC has completed some twenty -roordinated
st 1ea on major problei of national security , primarily focusing on
(a) the economic capabiLitiea and vulxu rabilities of the Soviet Bloc;
b) the economic sign,i.fimmee of selected foreign areas from the
stV&agd *fLnt of their pose ible loss to the Free World a accretic to
t Soviet Bloc; and (c) emerging economic relations among Soviet
e'e as and betwe e . the Bloc and the Free Worldo Most of these were
w,ie ,6~rt en at the specific request of the Board of National Estimates
(in support of National inteni.gence Estimates) or at the regtu st of
the I GO A major continuing EIC activity has been the systematic
o y of economic intelligence on the Soviet Bloc and a ement on
ae-W.cm responsibilities to cover priority research and collection
def:.ciencies
The BIC Secretariat periodically publishes incursive listings
o: :maternal and external governmental research (completed and planned)
ca soviet areas including studies by allied intelligence office:,
(1-11 lint Intel i genus Bureaus of the U Canada. an+.,d...ustral.i,a )
Thee listings b e been a major add to more efficient programming of
rosseas ch by. individual agencies and have helped to m nimize duplication
of cfforto
Each BIC subcommittee has teen a ssigted the "first priority"
ta'A: of sur ^ey- ng its out field of responsibility to identify
sparaific priority gaps in research and collect o Six such aurveys
e rc ca S NSA; sa"; x I ,C 2 .; Draft DCID 15/1
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of research deficiencies have nor been fox l,ly approved by the BIC
eit;h acceptance of detailed responsibilities for re dial action by
individual I&C a s eieso The BIC has assigacd acti ? responsibility
for priority collection deficiencies to its Subcommittee on Requree
manta and Facilities for Collation ' o instructing it to develop
procedures for t .nelating BIC-apprcved et eye into coordinated
requireta levies that will actually produce more pay dirt.
Several surveys have been published of the facilities and
proi'c:sslonal pwsonnel.(by specialized fields) available within the
economic i me ll.igence com uni tyo
In co ction with review, of foreign economic intelligence
activitAies,q and of procedures for processing and distributing
Intelligence data., the BIG has developed a number of special activi.?
ties in support of the Intelligence city as a dole. The SIC
Subcommittee on Requirt nts and Facilities for Collation (1951)
represented the first continuing body of interagency collection
repz sentativea since 1947. Its services have included (a) systematic
guidance for economic-intelligence reporting through the Foreign
Service from Free World countries; (b assistance to the Peripheral
Reporting prc ran of the State Department covering reports on the
Soviet Bloc from adjacent arm (c )
rand d a variety of detai le d
arrangements to improve the efficiency of interagency coordination
and the availability and usability of special materials (e.g., foreign
language documents central indexes and depositories, and specialized
collction manuaI35-
The crg=isational arrangements of the BIC include more than
a dozen regular eubccmmitteea plus a number of special working parties,
The regular activities of these various bodies are proving increasing y
effective in coordinating a gnat number of separate econado=
intell.igenc a research compartments scattered among the different
agencies into more close mit and better-informed professional groups.
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ECONOMIC IDITEI,LI( ENCE C( :iITTEE
In May 1951,, the need for better coordination of U.S. foreign
economic Intelligence was outlined to the National Security Council
in a opeoial report of the Director of Cs rtral Intellige -c eo In
accordance with the recommendations of this report the NSC assigned
broad responsibilities for the continuous review and coordination of
foreign economic intelligence to CIA. The Economic Intelligence
Co: ittee was established under IAC as the principal Inter-agency
n o' ,sm for implementing these responsibilities. The IkC terms of
rsffrozce for the SIC di:sct it: (a) to arrange for the mobilization
of available support for major economic intelligence problems; (b) to
continuously review economic intelligence research programs to identify
priority gaps and recomrnnd action responsibilities therefore; and (c)
to continuously review foreign economic intelligence activities, and
undertake special reviews of pr messing and distributing ;procedures
in carder to reco xd i ovementso
Since its creation EIC has completed some twenty coordinated
studies on major problem of national security - primarily focusing on
(a) the economic capabilities and vulnerabilities of the Soviet Bloc;
(b) the economic significance of selected foreign areas from the
stsadpoint of their possible loss to the Free World or accretion to
th