COORDINATION OF COLLECTION ACTIVITIES

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
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• Publication Date: January 2, 1947
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2 Jaxzuary 1947
TARX OF STATE
TAM OF WAR
'ART OF THE NAVY
THE t 'AL ?R N T1 ; OF 2.19 M' 6iT N '
Subject: Coordination of Collection Activities
P' buant to the aut .ori ty contained in paragraph 3 of
H.I.A. Directive No. 1, the Director of Central Intelligence
and the Intelligence Advisory Board have vnani usly agreed
to act for the National Intelligence Authority in approving
the enclosed Directive, *4c h is circulated herewitq.
Acting Secretary, N ? I . .
N.I.A. Directive 17, Copy No. ;:*
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NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ,UTItORITY
N.I.I.. DItlECTIVE NO.. 7
COORDINA'`,TION OF COLLECTION IA CTIVITIES
1.,The followin over- 11 _olic cs and objectives arc es-
tablishec_ by the Notional Intelligence Authority for the inter-
depa..rtriental coordination of collection activities so that
measures may be taken Proriptly to effect sound and efficient
utilization of the various departmental overseas collecting and-
reporting services:
a.. There shall be an allocation within certain broad
categories of agency responsibility for collection in the
field, as follows:
fo11-tical State Depa.rtr:-_ent
Cu_Lturel St,-to D rtm nt
r . De ~_ r tment
Sociological St,,tr, a
Military ar De Artr:.cnt
Navel M-l vy Depportrmiont
Scientific)
Each a enc-%r in accordance
with its respective
nocd_s
Intelligence information end material reg _rc'lcss of the
collector, shy ll, wherever possible, be transrlittec_ iuuec,i-
a,tely to the field representative of the agency most c ~ncerne
to his own egency.
7ioT~revcr, the collector may also son(:, o1~les t~.
c. The senior U. S. re ppresenta.tive in each foreign
where the United States r cintains a foreign service 1~_)st sh, 1_._
be, res??ensible for the coordination of all collection activi-
ties in his area and the , r. o ,er iril ler:cent lion cf that co-
ordinaaation within the spirit of the principles enunciate
herein.
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a. In o:der to avoid unproductive duplication and un-
coordinated overlap all collection facilities will be utilized
to their maximum within b1dgeta,ry limitations for the produc-
tion of that full flow of intelligence material which is the
major need of all departments.
e. There shall be free and unrestricted interdepartmental
flow of intelligence information and intelligencp to meet the
recognized secondary need of each department for intelligence
usually prepared or obtained by other departments. At present
this Directive is interpreted to apply only to those depart-
ments represented by the permanent members of the Intelligence
Advisory Board.,
f. Common sense shall be applied in the implementation of
those established over-all policies and objectives to insure
the full- utilization of individual initiative and favorable
contacts by collecting agents,
G. No interpretation of these established over-all policies
and objectives shall negate the basic principle that all
departmental representatives abroad are individually re-
sponsible for the collectJ-on and for the appropriate trans-
mission to Washington of all intelligence material of possiblcc
usefulness to their departments and to the effective accom-
plishraent of the national intelligence mission.
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