NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTIVE NO. 2 COORDINATION OF OVERT COLLECTION ACTIVITIES (EFFECTIVE 17 FEBRUARY 1972)

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NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL INTELLIGENCE
DIRECTIVE NO. 21
COORDINATION OF OVERT COLLECTION ACTIVITIES
(Effective 17 February 1972)
To promote sound and efficient utilization of the several departmental and
agency collecting and reporting facilities in the interests of national security,
and pursuant to the provisions of Section 102 of the National Security Act of
1947 as amended, the National Security Council hereby authorizes and directs that
the following overall policies and objectives shall apply to the interdepartmental
coordination of overt foreign intelligence collection activities (such as open
broadcast monitoring and document collection) not covered by other Na-
tional Security Council Intelligence Directives, such as National Security Council
Intelligence Directives 4, 5 and 6.
1. The Director of Central Intelligence shall ensure that planning for the
utilization of the collecting and reporting capabilities for intelligence purposes
of each of the several departments and agencies avoids undesirable duplication
and uncoordinated overlap and provides adequate coverage for national security
purposes.
2. The Department of State shall have primary responsibility for, and shall
perform as a service of common concern, the collection abroad, i.e., outside
the United States and its possessions, of political, sociological, economic, scien-
tific and technical information.
3. The Department of Defense shall have primary responsibility for, and shall
perform as a service of common concern, the collection of military intelligence
information. Because of the importance of scientific and technical intelligence to
the Department of Defense and the military services, this collection responsibility
shall include scientific and technical, as well as economic information directly
pertinent to Department of Defense missions.
4. The Central Intelligence Agency may collect intelligence information abroad
in support of assigned functions or as a by-product of the assigned functions,
provided that this collection involves no undesirable duplication of any of the
specific assignments in paragraphs 2 or 3 above, and provided that any such
overt collection is coordinated with the Department of State or with the Senior
U.S. Representative.
5. The senior U.S. representative in each nation or foreign jurisdiction where
the United States maintains official representation shall coordinate in his area
the collection activities not covered by other National Security Council Direc-
tives. Full utilization shall be made of the assigned duties, individual initiative,
or favorable contacts of departmental and agency representatives.
'This Directive supersedes NSCID No. 2 dated 18 January 1961.
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6. Intelligence information collected abroad in accordance with the terms of
this Directive by any agency in the field shall, whe ever possible, be trans-
mitted immedig;tely to the field representatives of the agehcy primarily responsible
for carrying out the foreign collection activity as delineated in paragraphs 2, 3
or 4 above, who shall then be responsible for its onward transmission, provided
that the original collector shall not be enjoined from transmitting the information
to his own hea-iquarters.
7. The Central Intelligence Agency, as a service of c mmon concern, shall be
responsible for the selective exploitation within the United States of nongovern-
mental organizations and individuals as sources of foreign intelligence informa-
tion, in accordance with policies, procedures and practice established as provided
in NSCID No. L by the Director of Central Intelligences
8. The Central Intelligence Agency shall conduct, a a service of common
concern, monitoring of foreign radio and television propaganda and press broad-
casts required for the collection of intelligence inform tion to meet the needs
of all departments and agencies in connection with the national security and
shall disseminate such intelligence information to the several departments and
agencies that have an appropriate interest therein.
9. The Central Intelligence Agency shall conduct the exploitation of foreign
language publications for intelligence purposes, as appropriate, as a service
of common concern. The Director of Central Intelligen ?e shall coordinate this
activity with similar activities maintained by the departments and agencies to
satisfy their own requirements.
10. Departments and agencies carrying out the collect on activities mentioned
above shall recognize, in establishing collection programs, the needs of the other
departments and agencies. I
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NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL INTELLIGENCE
DIRECTIVE NO. 31
COORDINATION OF INTELLIGENCE PRODUCTION
(Effective 17 February 1972)
For the purpose of coordinating the intelligence production activities of the
several Government departments and agencies in the interest of national security,
and pursuant to the provisions of Section 102 of the National Security Act of
1947, as amended, the National Security Council hereby authorizes and directs
that the following overall policies, objectives, categories of intelligence and
allocations of responsibility be established.
1. Basic Intelligence
a. Basic intelligence is that factual intelligence that results from the colla-
tion of encyclopedic information of a fundamental and more or less permanent
nature and that, as a result of evaluation and interpretation, is determined
to be the best available.
b. An outline of all basic intelligence required by the Government shall be
maintained by the Central Intelligence Agency in collaboration with the
appropriate departments and agencies. This outline shall be broken down into
chapters, sections and subsections, which shall be allocated as production
and maintenance responsibilities to the Central Intelligence Agency and/or to
those other departments or agencies of the Government that are best qualified
by reason of mission, production capability, and primary interest to assume the
production and maintenance responsibilities. To ensure the production of the
basic intelligence required by the Government and the fullest possible use
of current departmental and agency capabilities, changes in the outline or allo-
cations of production and maintenance responsibilities shall be effected by
agreement between the Director of Central Intelligence and the departments
and agencies concerned.
c. Basic intelligence required in the interest of national security shall be
compiled and continuously maintained in National Intelligence Surveys (NIS)
to cover foreign countries, areas or broad special subjects, in accordance with
National Security Council-approved NIS Standard Instructions and inter-
departmental-approved amendments thereto. The National Intelligence Sur-
veys will be disseminated in such form as shall be determined by the Director
of Central Intelligence with the advice of the departments and agencies con-
cerned.
d. The Director of Central Intelligence shall be responsible for coordinating
production and maintenance and for accomplishing the review, publication
and dissemination of these National Intelligence Surveys, and shall make such
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requests of the departments and. agencies as are :access ry for proper develop-
ment and mahtenance of the Surveys.
e. Departments or agencies to be called on for contributions to this under-
taking may include other than those represented permanently on the United
States Intelligence Board.
2. Current Intelligence
a. Current :;ntelligence is that intelligence of all t pes and forms of im-
mediate interest usually disseminated without the dela s incident to complete
evaluation or interpretation. I
b. The Ceniral Intelligence Agency and the several departments and agencies
shall produce and disseminate such current intelligence as may be necessary
to meet their own internal requirements. The current intelligence produced
by the Central Intelligence Agency is produced primarily to meet the needs of
the President, National Security Council and other h gh-level consumers; in
addition, it serves the common needs of the interested d partments and agencies
of the Government for current intelligence that th .y themselves do not
produce. The departments and agencies will contribute to the Central Intel-
ligence Agency current intelligence items and publications as appropriate and
on a timely basis.
3. Departmeni:al intelligence is that intelligence any department or agency
requires to execute its own mission.
4. Interdepartmental intelligence is integrated departmental intelligence
required by departments and agencies of the Government for the execution of
their missions bit transcending the exclusive competence of a single department
or agency to pro,luce. Joint intelligence is a special catega'y of interdepartmental
intelligence jointly produced by defense intelligence organizations in the per-
formance of the assigned missions of the joint Chiefs of St ff. Such subcommittee
structure of the United States Intelligence Board as shal be established by the
Director of Central Intelligence may be utilized forte production and dis-
semination of such forms of intelligence.
5. National ii itelligence is that intelligence require for the formulation
of national security policy, concerning more than one department or agency
and transcendin?; the exclusive competence of a single dep rtment or agency. The
production of national intelligence is covered in NSCID No. 1. Intelligence re-
lating to the national security that has been produce as interdepartmental
or departmental intelligence may also, when appropriate, be submitted to the
Director of Cer tral Intelligence for issuance as natio al intelligence by the
Director of Cent cal Intelligence as provided in NSCID No. 1.
6. Each department or agency, taking full cognizance of the facilities of the
other agencies, shall maintain adequate research facilities to accomplish its
departmental intelligence production mission and to p ovide such additional
intelligence with. in its field of primary responsibilities a may be necessary to
satisfy other requirements relating to the national securi.
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7. To ensure that the capabilities of the departments and agencies are utilized
effectively for the production of intelligence of common concern, the following
division of interests, subject to refinement through a continuous program of
coordination and evaluation by the Director of Central Intelligence to promote
an integration of effort and to avoid undesirable duplication, shall serve as a
general delineation of primary responsibilities:
a. The Department of State shall produce political and sociological intelli-
gence on all countries and economic intelligence on countries of the Free
World.
b. The Department of Defense shall produce military intelligence. This pro-
duction shall include scientific, technical and economic intelligence directly
pertinent to the missions of the various components of the Department of
Defense.
c. The Central Intelligence Agency shall produce economic, scientific and
technical intelligence. Further, the Central Intelligence Agency may produce
such other intelligence as may be necessary to discharge the statutory re-
sponsibilities of the Director of Central Intelligence.
d. The production of intelligence on atomic energy is a responsibility of all
departments and agencies represented on the U.S. Intelligence Board with
responsibilities for the production of finished intelligence, to be coordinated
through the joint Atomic Energy Intelligence Committee structure.
8. Despite the above-mentioned allocations of primary production responsi-
bilities, there will be areas of common or overlapping interest that will require
continuing interagency liaison and cooperation. In the event that a requirement
for intelligence is established for which there is not existing production capa-
bility, the Director of Central Intelligence, in consultation with the United States
Intelligence Board, shall determine which of the departments and agencies of
the intelligence community can best undertake the primary responsibility as a
service of common concern.
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