DISTRIBUTION ABROAD OF THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DIGEST (NID)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79R00971A000100080014-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 14, 2007
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: January 26, 1954
• Content Type: MEMO

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JIBJECT: Distribution Abroad of the National Intelligence
Digest (NIB)
Problem
1. To determine what distribution shall be made to CIA
missions abroad of the National Intelligence Digest (NID).
Facts Bearing on the Problem
2. Except for one exception, the NID has not been distributed
to any CIA missions abroad.
3. The DD/P has requested that the NID, in whole or in part,
be sent to a number of CIA missions abroad (see TAB "A").
4. The Director of Security has recor fended that the HID
not be distributed abroad. The Director of Security has informed
0 NE that the physical locations of the various missions was "not
a deciding factor" in arriving at his reconmiendation.
Discussion
5. The NID is a very sensitive document; the highest of security
measures must be taken to protect unauthorized use of disclosure of
its content.
6. By its nature it is also a document which can be of great
use to key CIA people at home or abroad. The present plan to keep
the ND) current will further increase its usefulness.
7. Many of the missions now receive I\TIE's and other publications
which collectively would seem to be as sensitive as is the NID.
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8. The NID is an extremely sensitive document but can also
be an extremely useful one, particularly to Senior Representatives
in key posts.
9. The decision to authorize or withhold distribution abroad
is a policy decision outside the competence of 0/NE to make.
He c omrnendation
10. That the DCI rule on whether or not the NID may be given
dissemination abroad.
11. If authority is granted to disseminate abroad, that the
dissemination requested by DD/P (TAB "A") be modified to give the
whole NID to major missions, ano area sections (as against indivi-
dual country sections) to minor missions (see TAB "B").
Deputy Assistant Director
National Estimates
Deputy Director/Intelligence
Director of Central Intelligence
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