PROPOSED NIA DIRECTIVE ON THE COORDINATION OF INTELLIGENCE PRODUCTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85S00362R000700260007-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 18, 2003
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: April 18, 1947
• Content Type: MF

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18 April 1947
MEWRANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY, INTELLI ( NCE ADVISORY BOARD :
Subject: Proposed NIA Directive on the Coordination of Intelligence
Production
1. The Ad Hoc Committee has prepared the attached draft of a
proposed NIA Directive on the Coordination of Intelligence Production.
It has the unanimous concurrence of the committee except for paragraph
2c(1) on which there is attached a. minority report from the A-2 member.
2. The proposed compilations of basic intelligence will be called
National Intelligence Surveys (NIS). That on the Soviet Union, for
example, would be the National Intelligence Survey of the USSR.
3. In the establishment of arrangements for the production,
continuing revision, and dissemination of the NIS due consideration
should be given, in the interests of economy and efficiency, to the
necessity of closely coordinating the NIS -with the overall intelligence
requirements of the individual intelligence agencies.
14.. An essential preliminary to the initial planning for the
production of NIS will be consultation with the JIC and the ID, WDCS,
with a view to gaining their consent to merging their respective
productions, J.ANIS and SID, with NIS.
5. It is contemplated that in working out the details for producing,
maintaining current, and disseminating the NIS careful consideration will
be given to the intelligence needs of the JCS and all other agencies with
responsibilities involving national security. These needs should be
automatically determined in the course of pursuing the following program
to initiate the production of NIS:
a. Adoption of an outline of the complete contents.
b. Formulation of the procedure for producing, maintaining
current, and disseminating NIS*
c. Establishment of priorities by section and country for
production of NIS.
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d. Allocation of production and maintenance responsibilities
by agreement of GIG and the agencies represented on IAB.
6.
Recommendations:
a. that IAB concur in the attached draft of a proposed
NIA Directive;
b,
that IAB go on record as desiring that members of JIG
consent to merge JANIS with NIS as mentioned in paragraph 1 above;
C. that IAB recommend to the Director of Central Intelligence
that he request the Director of Intelligence, WCE, to consent to
merge SID with NIS as mentioned in paragraph above; and,
do that IAB and. JIG appoint an Ad Hoc Committee with representa-
tives from CIG, ORI (SD), ID (M CB)., ONI (Navy), A-2.(AAF), JIS, and
JTS to plan, with the aid of as many subcommittees as necessary,
the program to initiate the production of NIS outlined in 5a, b
c, d above, the committee to make specific recommendations to
the Director of Central Intelligence regarding the following:
(1) The integrating of the JANIS and SID production-
into the program to be produced under the name of National.
Intelligence Surveys, and
(2) The future production and priorities for the
integrated program for NIS taking into consideration past
production of JANIS's and SID's.
Donald Edgar, Chairman
Mr, Allan Evans
Colonel R. F. Ennis
Captain R. K. Davis, USN
Colonel E. P. Mussett
Inc].:
Draft of Proposed
NIA Directive
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