NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE REQUIREMENTS - (Sanitized)

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01731R003600060079-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 28, 2003
• Sequence Number: 79
• Publication Date: January 23, 1947
• Content Type: MF

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Amal Intellinenoe rswnte
memorandum of - January 19470 abjerat1 CW
royal of CICI ip was originally given subject to the
al of the collection plan drawn up for its inpiementation.
CiU 19 and its an ;)lan Zr collection wore
eccepted as an experiment in the coordination of the eollection
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coriment. This notion was taken with the hope that it might
Lead to a soiation of the fundamental problems of tae domi-
nation of all collection activities and the dolineetion of iri.
telliece responsibilities, although it was recoznised that it
and its coanterIxart, the CIO plan, was more limited in scope
than, and sorsewhat contrary to, gar department doctrines which
are 4obal in nature.
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co GIO 1$ into initiated1 lilA itreotive Wo. 7 has
000rdinatine the entire fie ;xf tooll -on
CIO 23, too, (which coordinates the resp*nsibilities
ction of intelligence) is now in cireulation end
S epproval is in eight. When anroved, Cl)) V,
NIA Directive No, 7, would apccar to obviate the
experiment.
desirability
"4. In viewof the ublication,,f !A DisOtiYeNo. I and
mpeldinK publication of the Lnclosure toczn 23, it is
tended that CI5 19 and its accompanying collect on plan be
awn from the eoneideration of this Intellizence Advisory
or at least postponed for consideraticn to insure tnat
brauAst into full consonanee with the broader directives."
2. Tour proposal that CIG discontinue the preparation or Wtional
Iligenee Requirements indicates a miranderstandinc of the national
11Josnce :-,,rograra as it is being developed bv (1,4 with the advice
and aseistanos cf representatives of the 1AR agencies. Is therefore,
It advisable to explain this zrogrem in sone detail Sin that
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'Avid or th a
seity to the
s miesion, and their expected we:dulness to
rts to comply with the mission assigned to it by
r of 22 January 1946 as interpreted in part by
tees, the CIS, under my direction, has undertaken
assure the most effective accouplishment of the
related to the national semmrity4! and 'Ito furnish
onal policy intelligence to the President and_ the
Departemte. etc." These plane have fallemonder
awls of: (a) collection). (b) research or production'
n* These several specific problems which have been
referred by the gencies to CIG for oeordination have also been tatoeoad
in the Uutht of these three basic categories.
he
L. These three basic plans are designed to fan imple-
meatation or the collection, research, and dissenine a) depart-
mental intelligence; and (b) strategic or national ligence.
the President's letter, departmental intelligence oonoinues to be the
responsibMty of the departments. It has such subdivisions as tactical
intelligence, combat intelligence, operational intelligence, and staff
intelligent*. Strategic and national policy intelligence is allocated
by the President to the Director of Central Intelligence, It is eon-
posed of such oarts as daily digests of currant, intelligence, sitxaticn
reports, special evaluations, and basic intelligence* Newell it is
that intelligence which renults fres an expert correlation, evaluatOns
and analysis of all available intelligence infnrsmtion, including
departmental intellieence, for the Use of the ?resident and top policy
officers of the ikontroment in developing policies for the protection
of the national eecority. de's interests in this national strated?
intelligenoe is paramount since the Director of Central Intelligent*
alone is authorised to produce it. He must, toerefore, determine its
collection reqairements and orocedores, research requirements and
orocodores, and dissemination requirements and procedures. To this
end sell necessary facilities intelligenoe and information In the
swassion of the respective departments" is by VIA Directive No. 1
node available to the DCI.
5. In. developing its plans for the coordination of the tame
basic phases of intelligence work, CIO has attempted and sincerely
believes that it has given careful consideration to the requirenents
of the several agencies as well ae to its own requirements. fvery
effort- has been made to create an appreciation by the aeeneies of
their interdepeodebility and the logic of closer cooperation.
6. one of the forces behind_ the original creation of the central
intelligence organisation was the lack of some central point 'where the
intelligence of the four egenciee could be correlated objectively, free
froo departmental pressures, and evaluated as a whole,
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collection plan cn proyide for the coordination of
ion activities and erocederes whether they are for the co11ion
terial for departmental or national strategec intelligence. . t
tinutug plan not rewirine frequent chane it cannot cantata
a as to at intelligence material is most desired (kering any
iod. The reggirements of today are not the reqeirements of
At moat it can allocate broad fields to specialised eollocters.
provision mast be made for ad hoc reallocatien on epeaal oc-
The mass of intelligence material available to efficient col
s teach that selection must be made. That selection can be made
as havine the perspective of distance and a knowledo of the
r operational efficers' demand for estimates, no basic rlan for
coordination wets this requirement. only some epicene
ch as tee ele proeidine periodic guidance, weich can be imple-
y the collection coordination plan, will do this. By conselta-
the aeencies the RIR mill insane* as possible include is
their relative importance the intelligence requiremmats cf
several agencise and of Clas The Rational Intelligence Requireftents
will also serve as guidance for the general activities 4:4f Special epera-
tions. Their absence will leave the coerdinatore desimated by VIA
Directive No. 7 -without the guidance they must have for the 12121eienta-
tion of that .Aan. Recause of the above and because of sy reseensibIlity
to produce national strategic intelligence, I believe in the neoeseley
of the prompt issuance of the National intelligence Reqpirements for
the strategic areas of the lead and must take much steps as ap-?car
appropriate to that and. It is nry understanding that other ,telli-
genes Agencies represented in IA3 concur in this opinion.
The production plan is a natural companion of the collect-dm
tthout that coordination which establishes sound and sere
odebility, each aleeney must operate as a selfecontatned
by and for itself all the collection sed rrodlIcti-yrt
()cation in one field rewires conceerent Sllocatiea in
t be expected that the intelligence requiremeete
es for their own departmental intelligence will
prOtttlee in inteUigerice necessary for the productien of national
strategic intelligence. Conversely, there ie no intention that tils
RIK will restrict the reporting by eeency representetives abroad in
fulfillment of their parent agency's requests for intelligence of
current value to departmental intoliteence. Nor will theNJIT replaoe
the standing instructions providing for the steady flew of facteal
data destined fer the collation or revision of basic or static
intelligence. The NIR are intended onlyte Live guidance as to selteL
emphasis should be placed within the vast field. They have to servo
as a current eeriadic eroeraa for the implementation of the basic
lo-range Nan. Tnis does not preclude the loolsecttre whereby basic
estimates will be eerther treated by am. or all of the agencies in
the !reparation of their departmental intellieence. Rut the eere
possession of intelligence in no matter what feem is not an end in
itself. There must, therefore, be a dissemination erocedure.
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The dissemination plan must insure the rapid dissemination
c.,.f all inoominF intellienee InforwatiJn to thc)se agencies that may
require it in tat form, It :should eqw-lly discontinue the dissemina-
tion of intelligence material unit* is not wanted and ?=.1.all only confteme
by its opprcentivs voImms. In addition, it should Intl:re the ttesemination
of basic estimates rnItt,lirei:.. f6r te development clf departmental intent-
ce. And finally, it ez)ouid inc;Jre the receipt 'ay CIC of all del'art..
1,!ontal tfl.imce.t' di apd estimatos so that ;Toper strategic and
national t-2olicy intelligence naiy be i.,1"Mgd by 'the Director of Cmtrsa
Intelligence for the 'irefticisrat.
1, therefore, req...est thtit yclA issue ouch directives as nay
be aecessal7 to the individ.als tiread,y desigiuted iy you to assist the
CIG in preparing !'1ITLi; for the t;R and the 'addle if.tat, Init?tjo fcr
inter44;s4cy noetircato tArkr,744re then 11IR ifl be iseled in the next
fee days.
U. I slue 1e4T2est that you sive y4Y_Ir concurrence ti the imliediato
?f ttIRChims As you are aware, the propfiratiDn of NIR China
was initiated on 30 A.-utolst 1946 with the idea they Antlld be rrivived
quarterly, The NIR China as afTroved by the JAB on 7 Nvvember 1P-46
and the subuetriert delay 1-as beer the result r!,11 ennsidereti*,,e r;-f the
implementing directive, AlthnuFb I believe the detailed implementing
directives for the NIRi1i,men the :Aan is evertually perf7cted,
insure toe most efficicAt fritelligence .:irodacti.my I em thdmj
the iplemeotine dlrective to ER China and shall refer the problem
of their implementation to CIO Assistant Director for Collection and
Dissemination abs will *ueh eollectlor regaests a* MACJ apl.eor
reeeacary.
DE/nhb,
17-20 Jan 1947
How S. VANDEr.I.7.1G
Director of Ccntralligence
Central Records (2)
Registry
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