NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AUTHORITY COORDINATION OF INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES RELATED TO FOREIGN ATOMIC ENERGY DEVELOPMENTS AND POTENTIALITIES

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• Publication Date: August 13, 1946
• Content Type: MEMO

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NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AUTHORITY
COORDINATION OF INTELLIGENCE.
ACTIVITIES RELATED TO FOREIGN 'ATOMIC ENERGY
DEVELOPMENTS AND POTENTIALITIES
Memorandum by the Director of CcentralInt ;lligence
With the Unanimous Concurrence of the Intell.iL`ncc 1"advisor , Board
Foreign atomic energy developments and potc ntielitic s con-1
stitut; a paramount field of intelligence- related to the- national
security. As such, the National Intelligence Authority is
responsible for planning, dc:evel:opinp.;, and coordinating Federal
,Tf'reign intelligence activities in this field.
To date; the Foreign. Intellig: nco Branch of the office
of Major General Leslie R. Groves, the Commanding General of
the Manhattan Engineer District, has been the agency performing
functions of collecting and evaluating intelligence role-ted to
foreign atomic energy developments and potentialities. This
Branch has operated under the personal direction of G::noral
Groves, who is in turn responsible, by Presidential directive,
to the Secretary of War.
The newly created Atomic Energy Commission will bo con.
cern.ed with the entire field of atomic energy in the United.
States, including commercial as well as military aspects. The;
Commission will, upon Presidential directive, take over th,_;
responsibilities of the Manhattan Engineer District. It is C on-
sidered appropriate at this time that the: National Intelligence;
Authority should authorize and direct the Director of Central
Intelligence to coordinate the collection by agencies subject
to N.I.A. coordination of all intelligence information relat=ec'd.
to foreign atomic energy developments and potentialities
affecting the national security, and to accomplish the
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correlation, evaluation and appropriate dissemination w .thin
the Government of the resulting intelligence. To accomplish
this function, the personnel and working files of the Foreign
Intelligence Branch operated by General Groves should be trans--
:rerr.ed to the Central Intelligence Group.
The enclosed draft N.I.A. Directive is designed to carry
out the conclusions contained in the above paragraph. This
Directive has been unanimously concurred in by the Director
of Central Intelligence and the Intelligence Advisory Board,
which in this case included the Commanding General of the
Manhattan Engineer District.
It is recommended that the National Intelligence AuthoriI'y
approve the draft directive in the Enclosure.
HOYT S. VANDENBERG
Lieutenant General, USA
Director of Central Intell Bence
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E N C L O S U R E
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PROPOSED N.I.A. DIRECTIVE
COORDINATION OF INTELLIGENCE
ACTIVITIES RELATED TO FOREIGN ATOMIC ENERGY
DE ELO.. HEFTY STD - POTENTIA ITIES
'Pursuant to the President's letter of 22 January 1946,
designating th`s Authority as responsible for planning, developing,
and coordinating all Federal foreign intelligence activities so
as to assure the most effective accomplishment of the intelligence
mission related to the national security, the following policies
and procedures r. elating to Federal inte11.-J_gence activities in.the
field of foreign atomic energy developments and potentialities
affecting the national security are announced:
1. The Director of Central Intelligence, subject to the caircc-
tion and control of this Authority, is hereby authorized and
directed to coordinate the collection by agencies'subject to
N.I.A. coordination of all intelligence information r. elated to
foreign atomic energy developments and potentialities affecting
the rational security, and ,to accomplish the, correlation,
e valuation., and appropriate dissemination within the Go :crnment
of the resulting intelligence. The Director of Central Intelli-
gence is further authorized to arrange with other intelligence
agencies of the Government to utilize their collection facilitic s
-in. this field.
2. To accomplish the function jssigned in paragraph 1, the
Secretary of War and. the Commanding General of the Manhattan
Engineer District have authorized the transfer to the Central
Intelligence Group of the personnel and working files of the
Foreign Intelligence Branch opC-rated by the Commanding General
of the Manhattan Engineer District, effective at the earliest
practicable date.
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RECEIPT
2 December 191_6
Received from the Central Intelligence Group the follow-
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