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• Publication Date: December 1, 1978
• Content Type: FORM

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ALERT MEMORANDUM
MEMORANDUM FOR: National Security Council
SUBJECT : (Alert Memo Title)
STANSFIELD TURNER
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THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
National Intelligence Officers
ALERT MEMORANDUM*
(Title)
The Alert Memorandum is an interagency publication issued by the Director
of Central InteZZigence on behalf of the Intelligence Community. The Alert
Memorandum was in use from 1974 through 1976 and the procedures for this inteZ-
Zigence alerting device were last approved by the United States Intelligence
Board on 9 January 1975. I recently reorganized the warning structure within
the Intelligence Community and appointed a National Intelligence Officer for
Warning to oversee the development of procedures and to assist the Community in
developing an increased awareness of its warning responsibilities. The revival
of the Alert Memorandum is undertaken as a part of those responsibilities. Com-
ments on the procedures for warning should be addressed to the National InteZ-
Zigence Officer for Warning
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PROCEDURES FOR PREPARING AN ALERT MEMORANDUM
Attached are interim technical procedures for producing
Alert Memoranda. NIO/W wants to emphasize that these memo-
randa normally have a high priority and should be produced
and disseminated as quickly as possible.
1. Alert NFAC Registry that an Alert Memorandum is being prepared and give
them an approximate time when they can expect it.
2. Get an Alert Memo # from NFAC Registry.
3. If codeword, get appropriate # from NFAC Registry.
4. Give NFAC Registry a copy of the Alert Memorandum distribution (see
attachment) on which you have filled in the appropriate office designations
on Pages 2, 3 and 4.
5. The length of the Alert Memorandum will be kept to a minimum; therefore it
is the responsibility of the appropriate NIO secretary to type the copy.
6. When the Alert Memorandum is typed, include on the first page the standard
footnote which explains the purpose and reason for an Alert Memorandum (see
attachment). (This footnote will be modified and reduced in size in the
near future.)
7. The Alert Memorandum package will consist of the Alert Memo itself with a
covering memo for the DCI's signature transmitting the document to the NSC
(see attachment).
8. The correct clearance procedure for an Alert Memorandum is as follows:
A. Appropriate NIO
B. NIO for Warning (can be omitted when matter is urgent)
C. Director, NFAC
D. DDCI
E. DCI (for signature)
9. NFAC Registry will be responsible for the following procedures:
A. Issuing appropriate Alert Memo and Codeword numbers.
B. Xeroxing the copies for distribution.
C. Xeroxing coversheets (if appropriate).
D. Distributing copies both inside and outside the Agency.
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Room 7224 State Department
The President
The White House
International Situation Room
2 The Vice Preside t
The White HouseR .P't-
Room 290 Old EOB
3 The Secretary of State
4 The Secretary of Defense
Room 3E880 Pentagon
5 Chairman, JCS
Room 2E873 Pentagon
6 Hon. Zbigniew Brzezinski
Assistant to the President for
National Security Affairs
International Situation Room
The White House
The Deputy Secretary of Defense
3E944 Pentagon
8 Deputy Assistant to the President
National Security Affairs
International Situation Room
The White House
9 Hon. Warren Christopher
Deputy Secretary of State
Room 7222 State Department
SI ADDRESS
Same Address
* SSO/DIA
Room 1D884 Pentagon
(#4, 5, 7, 11, 25, 31, 32, 33
34, 35, :36, 37)
Same Address
** Mr. William P. Deary
STATE/RCI, Room 6510A
State Department
(#3, 9, 10, 22, 23, 26, 29, 30)
10 Director, INR/STATE
Room 6531 State Department
Director, DIA
Room 3E258 Pentagon
Director, NSA
9A192 Ft. George Meade, Md.
Special Ass't to Secretary Treasury
Room 4328 Main Treasury
*** NSA (#12, 27, 28)
NSOC
Senior Operations Officer
Room 2EO99 Ft. Meade, Md.
O/NATL SEC
Room 4308 Main Treasury Bldg.
ATTN: Secretary of Treasury
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Assistant Administrator for National
Security
GA-257
Forrestal Building
15 Assistant Director, FBI Same Address
Room 4026, J. Edgar Hoover Bldg.
16 ACSI
Department of the Army
Room 2E464 Pentagon
17 IPWO
Navy Command Support Center
Room 4D632, Pentagon
18 ACSI, Department of USAF
Room 4A932 Pentagon
19 Mr. Sam Hoskinson
Room 300 Old EOB
NSC
20 NMCC
ATTN: CIA Representative
Room 2D901A Pentagon
21 Strategic Warning Staff
VIA: SSO/DIA
Room 1D884, Pentagon
22 Mr.
Assistant Secretary of State (Area)
23 Mr.
Deputy Assistant Sec. of State (Area)
24 Mr.
NSC (Area)
25 Mr.
DIA (Area)
26 Mr.
INR Area
SAO/ARMY
Room 2A514
Pentagon
IPWO
Navy Command Support Center
Room 4D632, Pentagon
SAO/USAF
Room BD951 Pentagon
SSO/NSC
Room 383 Old EOB
(#24)
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27 Mr.
USA (Area)
28 NSOC (ATTN: SOO)
NSA Operations Bldg
Room 2EO99 Ft. Meade, Md.
29 Mr. Leslie H. Gelb
Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs
Department of State
Room 7317
30 Mr,.-David Newson
Under Secretary for Political Affairs
Room 7240 Department of State
31 Assistant Secretary of Defense
(International Security Affairs)
Room 4E806 Pentagon
32 J-5, Deputy Director for Force
Development and Strategic Plans
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Room 1E962 Pentagon
33 Principal Deputy Ass't Secretary of
Defense (Intelligence)
Room 3E282 Pentagon
34 -Mr. Stanley R. Reson
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
Room 4E824 Pentagon
35 Admiral Daniel J. Murphy
Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
Room 2E812 Pentagon
36 National Military Intelligence Center (NMIC)
Attn: ADIN
2D901A Pentagon
Phone: [phone] (24 hours/day)
37 RAdm. William D. Robertson
Vice Director for Production, DIA
Room 3E259 Pentagon
38
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Room 2W126 NSA
Mr. Robert H. Baraz
State/INR
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D/OGCR
1206 Ames Building
SSO/OGCR
1206 Ames Building
D/OER
4F18
D/OSR
3G00
D/OCR
2E60
S0 D/OIA
3N109 Building 213
51 D/ORPA
6G00
52 D/CIA Operations Center
7F33
53 DDO
7E22
54 DDO/Area Division
55 DDO/Area Branch
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DDO/Area Reports Office
C/DDO/OPS Staff
2D48
53 DD/CT
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SSO/OIA
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53 Chairman, NFIB SIGINT Committee
(via IC Registry)
64 HRC Secretariat
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68 NFAC/CS
69 NFAC/RES
70 DD/NFAC
71 NIO/LA
7*2 NIO/AF
73 NIO/NESA
74 NIO/EAP
75 NIO/P-E
76 NIO/NP
77 NIO/WE
78 NIO/SP
79 NIO/USSR-EE
80 NIO/CF
8'1 NIO/CH
82-83_ NIO/W
84 NIO/SS
85 NFAC Registry
86 Agency Archives, A-18
87 Presidential Library, A-18
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DCID No. 1/5
DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTIVE NO: 1/51
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE WARNING
(Effective 23 May 1979)
Pursuant to Section 102 of the National Security Act
12036, there is established a National Intelligence
components and responsibilities of which are establish
of the System is to advise and assist the Directo
discharge of his duties and responsibili es with res
coordinate the warning activities of th Intellig
1. Definitions
947 and Executive Order
arning System, individual
in Paragraph 3. The mission
'of Central Intelligence in the
t to warning intelligence, and to
a. Warning as used herein encompasses those measures taken, and the intelli-
gence information produced, by the Intelligence Community to avoid surprise to the
President, the NSC, and the Armed Forces of the United States by foreign events of
major importance to the security of the United States. It includes strategic, but not
tactical warning.
b. Strategic Warning is intelligence information or intelligence regarding the
threat of the initiation of hostilities against the US or in which US forces may become
involved; it may be received at any time prior to the initiation of hostilities. It does not
include tactical warning.
c. Tactical warning is notification that the enemy has initiated hostilities. Such
warning may be received at any time from the launching of the attack until it reaches
its target.
2. Policy
a. All Community organizations and personnel have substantive responsibility for
the detection of developments requiring warning, especially strategic warning, and for
prompt alerting, through established channels, of such developments. Nothing in this
directive is intended to inhibit the flow of warning in any way. Specifically, the
measures contained in this directive do not require coordination or consultation when
immediate warning is required.
b. The Department of Defense has unique and specific responsibilities for
warning of attack by hostile forces. To carry out that specialized function, the DoD
operates dedicated tactical warning systems within the military command organiza-
tion and independent from the National Intelligence Warning System. These separate
systems are mutually supportive, however.
ORIGINAL CL BY . _ . 005827
^ DECL ? REVW ON 23 May 1999
EXT BYND 6 YEARS BY __005827
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3. Assignment of Responsibilities
a. The Deputy Director of Central Intelligence is assigned oversight of the
National Intelligence Warning System and will exercise his authority with the advice
of members of the National Foreign Intelligence Board.
b. There is established the position of National Intelligence Officer for Warning.
His mission is to advise and assist the Director and Deputy Director of Central
Intelligence on all matters relating to warning, to coordinate national intelligence
warning activities, and to serve as a focal point for warning in the Community. For
organizational purposes, he will be located in the National Foreign Assessment Center.
He will to the maximum extent rely on existing organizations in carrying out his
duties. The responsibilities of the National Intelligence Officer for Warning are:
i. To oversee analysis of intelligence from all sources which might provide
warning. In particular, he should be alert to alternate interpretations within
the Community and assess these with a view to the need for issuance of
warning. He should encourage consultation and substantive discussion at all
levels in the Community.
ii. To recommend to the Director or Deputy Director of Central
Intelligence the issuance of warning to the President and National Security
Council, and to ensure the dissemination of such warning within and by the
organizations of the Intelligence Community. When time is of the essence,
the National Intelligence Officer may issue such warning directly to the
President and the National Security Council, with concurrent dissemination
to the Director and Deputy Director of Central Intelligence and senior
officers of the Intelligence Community.
iii. To advise the Deputy Director for Collection Tasking and Deputy
Director for National Foreign Assessment on appropriate Community
response to developing warning situations.
iv. To develop plans and procedures for support of the Director of Central
Intelligence in crisis situations.
v. To support the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence and the
National Foreign Intelligence Board on warning matters.
vi. To chair the Warning Working Group (Paragraph 3c).
vii. To oversee the warning activities of the National Intelligence Officers
(Paragraph 3d).
viii. To supervise the Strategic Warning Staff (Paragraph 3e).
ix. To arrange for intelligence research and production with respect to
strategic warning.
X. To develop a warning consciousness and discipline throughout the
Community.
xi. To seek improvements in methodologies and procedures for warning,
including communications and dissemination of information.
xii. To arrange with appropriate organizations of the government for
provision to the National Intelligence Officer for Warning and the Strategic
Warning Staff of the information they need to carry out their mission.
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xiii. To promote improved analyst training in indications and warning
techniques and in other analytic techniques that might contribute to
improved warning.
xiv. To advise the Deputy for Collection Tasking and the Deputy for
Resource Management, as appropriate, on warning activities that relate to
their responsibilities.
c. There is established a Warning Working Group, chaired by the National
Intelligence Officer for Warning, to assist him in carrying out his responsibilities and
in coordinating Community warning activities. Its Members shall be senior officers of
the Defense Intelligence Agency; National Security Agency; Central Intelligence
Agency; Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State; Office of the
Secretary of Defense; and Collection Tasking Staff. The Chairman shall invite
representatives of other departments and agencies to attend when matters of concern
to them are discussed.
d. The National Intelligence Officers are specifically charged with substantive
responsibility for warning in their respective fields. They will conduct Community-
wide reviews at least monthly of situations potentially requiring the issuance of
warning, and will keep the Director of Central Intelligence advised of the results, in
consultation with the National Intelligence Officer for Warning. They will be
continually alert to the need for immediate issuance of warning.
e. The Strategic Warning Staff will be under the supervision of the National
Intelligence Officer for Warning. Its principal functions are to assist him in his
reponsibilities with respect to strategic warning and to conduct research with respect
thereto. It may also engage in other warning-related activities within the Intelligence
Community with the concurrence of the National Intelligence Officer.
4. Community Responsibilities
a. Each agency of the Community will establish the necessary structure and
manning to carry out its warning mission and to support the National Intelligence
Warning System.
b. Specific responsibilities of the Community in support of the National
Intelligence Warning System are:
i. To provide full-time, highly qualified professional intelligence personnel
and other support to the Strategic Warning Staff in consultation with the
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence and the National Intelligence
Officer for Warning.
ii. To provide to the Strategic Warning Staff on a timely basis all
information from every source pertinent to the strategic warning mission.
Information of exceptional sensitivity may, with the approval of the Deputy
Director of Central Intelligence, be provided only to the National Intelli-
gence Officer for Warning.
iii. To provide appropriate representation on the Warning Working
Group, and to designate an officer in each agency specifically responsible for
warning matters and charged with support of the National Intelligence
Warning System.
5. Composition and Organization
a. The National Intelligence Officer for Warning shall be appointed by the
Director of Central intelligence in consultation with the Director, DIA.
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b. There shall be an Assistant National Intelligence Officer for Warning. Either
the National Intelligence Officer or his Assistant shall be drawn from the Department
of Defense. The National Intelligence Officer may also be assisted by such staff as the
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence deems appropriate.
c. The Director, Strategic Warning Staff, shall be appointed by the Director of
Central Intelligence in consultation with the Director, DIA. He shall be directly
responsible to the National Intelligence Officer for Warning.
d. The Strategic Warning Staff shall be co-located with the National Military
Intelligence Center.
STANSFIELD TURNER
Director of Central Intelligence
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