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MEMORANDUM FOR THE MEMBERS OF USCIB: 

Subject: 

References: 

USCIB Master Requirements List. 

(a) USCIB 9.3/30 of 4 March 1955. 

(b) USCIB 9.3/32 of 11 March 1955. 

(c) USCIB 9.3/33 of 18 March 1955. 

1. It will be remembered that reference (a) was submitted to USCIB 

by USCIBEC as a progress report for consideration at the 113th meeting of 

USCIB and that time did not permit discussion at that meeting. 

2. Reference (b) is a paper that the Acting Chairman of the 113th 

meeting intended to present in modification of TAB 11A11 with reference (a). 

3. Assuming that USCIB would have wanted USCIBEC to continue its 

efforts towards a solution of subject problem, USCIBEC has continued 

those efforts and su'l:mits a further progress report herewith. 

4. USCIBEC has noted reference (b) and reconsidered certain aspects 

of reference (a) in the light thereof. In keeping with what it believes 

to be the spirit and intent of reference (b), USCIBEC has agreed to 

proceed forthwith to have each member who desires to do so submit a COMINT 

Requirements List with a view to effecting a marriage that will produce 

one COO.INT Requirements List that can be fitted within the framework of 

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the National Intelligence Objectives presented in DCID 4/4 of 14 December 

1954 and which will be acceptable to the Director, NSA as a basis upon 

which to formulate an Implementing Plan for the allocation of his resources. 

5. As USCIBEC now sees the matter there would be no need to submit 

the.CCMINT Requirements List to th~ IAC for review. Instead USCJ;BEC may be 

expected. to recommend that such a list, when ready, be approved by USCIB 

and transmitted to the Executive Agent for the Production of COMINT for 

action. The Executive Agent would then be expected to obtain the 

Implementing Plan from its producer, the NSA, and transmit that Plan back 

to USCIB for comment and recommendations. 

6. USCIBEC has also addressed itself to the question of a supplemental guidan.ce mechanism and has made progress towards a satisfactory 

solution of that problem. l3ased on a discussion of reference (c) and certain assumptions with regard thereto, the enclosure herewith represents the 

plan USCIBEC recomm.ends for consideration in lieu of TAB 11B" with ref erence (a). Several members of USCIBEC feel that practical experience may 

indicate a need for minor revisions in the enclosure and one or two would 

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have chosen different words to express the idea presented therein; however, 

all agree that the basic idea is correct and that the enclosure will serve 

to permit us to get on with a final solution to our problems. 

7. USCIBEC therefore recommends that, with references (a), (b), and 

(c) in the background, USCIB note this report and by approving it, indicate: 

(a) That USCIB concurs in the report and in its enclosures. 

(b) That it considers the progress made thus far by USCIBEC to 

be acceptable. 

(c) That USCIBEC should continue its efforts along the line set 

forth in paragraph 4 of this report. 

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Recomnendations of USCIBEC for Supplemental Guidance 

Mechanism to Interpret or Amplify Basic USCIB Guidance 

in the Production of COM.INT. 

1. USCIBEC has noted with interest the views of the Director, NSA 

as presented in the enclosure with USCIB 9.3/33 of 18 March.1955, but 

has decided that the mechanism he contemplates establishing may not 

necessarily be the one around which to build the supplemental guidance 

mechanism although experience 11JB.Y indicate otherwise. 

2. USCIBEC recommends that the principles of supplemental guidance 

attached hereto be approved by USCIB. 

3. USCIBEC recommends that the Director, NSA appoint an individual 

empowered to act in the name of the Director, NSA in matters of consumerproducer relations concerning supplemental guidance in amplification or 

interpretation of USCIB1 s stated COMINT r~quirements. 

4. Assuming that the reconnnendations in paragraphs 2 and 3 above 

are approved, USCIBEC recommends that each of the interested members of 

USCIB designate an individual empowered to act in the name of his USCIB 

member in matters of consumer-producer relations concerning supplemental 

guidance and that each USCIB member instruct the individual so desi~ted. 

to conduct his business with the individual similarly appointed by the 

Director, NSA for this purpose. 

5. USCIBEC recommends, further, that the NSA representative for 

supplemental guidance matters, in conducting his business, be instructed 

to deal with similarly accredited representatives either individually or 

collectively, at his discretion, to keep a full record of all such 

transactions available to all supplemental guidance representatives and 

if unable to resolve a matter of supplemental guidance to his own and to 

their satisfaction to ref er it directly to USCIBEC for immediate consideration. 

6. It would be expected that accredited representatbrAA, if dissatisfied with the action of the Director, NSA 1s representative for 

supplemental guidance, would have the same recourse open to them through 

their USCIBEC members. 

7. If 8.Z11' matter of supplemental guidance should be referred to 

USCIBEC as the result of the above and if USCIBEC should find itself 

unable to arrive at a Unanimous decision in the space or one meeting, the 

Chairman thereof would be expected to ref er the entire matter to USCIB 

for resolution μnless USCIBEC should be able to unanimously agree that 

the matter is not of ~ urgent nature and can be handled in accordance 

with the procedure se~ forth in paragraph 7 of USCIB Directive #2. 

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PRINCIPLES OF SUPPLEMENTAL GUIDANCE 

1. Supplemental guidance must be consistent with the basic guidance 

provided by the CCMINT Requirements List, and be within the limits established by the approved Implementing Plan. 

2. The primary purpose or Supplemental Guidance is to enable the 

National Security Agency to adjust operational emphasis between the 

several specific Inf'ormational Subjects which may be encompassed in a 

stated COMINT Requirement. 

3. Supplemental guidance will thus be, in the main, in the f'orm or 

supplemental or amplifying details about the needs or a USCIB agency(s) 

for information to be produced in fulfillment or an item on the CCMINT 

Requirements List. Such details will be originated and furnished by the :~te~estei ;·members of US~IB, individually or collectively; and instigated either by them or by the request of the National Security Agencr. 

4. Therefore, the mechanism designed to provide supplemental 

guidance must be responsive both to the needs of' the USCIB agency(s) for 

specific intelligence information on specific subjects; and to the needs 

or the National Security Agency for advice on, and interpretation and 

clarification of', basic guidance. 

5. Coordination of' supplemental guidance among the USCIB agencies 

is essential in those cases where two or more agencies have a common 

interest in the information which might be produced in response to a 

listed COMINT Requirement. Provision must be made to facilitate such 

coordination. 

6. USCIB should empower USCIBEC, or a standing group created by 

USCIBEC, to act authoritatively on matters of' supplemental guidance. 

7. Each item of supplemental guidance should be prepared in writing 

and be related directly to a requirement on the COMINT requirement list. 

8. Any supplemental guidance which so increases the needs for 

information under any Requirement as to require a significant reallocation of resources from that approved in the Implementing Plan must 

be treated the same as a change in basic guidance, must be approved by 

USCIB and forwarded to NSA as a change to the basic guidance. 

9. In those cases where the standing group or USCIBEC approves 

unanimously of' an item of' supplemental guidance which would require a 

significant re-allocation of' COMINT resources, and specifically designates 

it as being of emergency nature, it should be empowered to deliver it to 

NSA in advance of USCIB consideration, and NSA to act upon it in advance 

or its inclusion in the basic guidance. 

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10. Any NSA re-allocation of COMINT production facilities reflecting 

a significant change to the approved Im:Rlementing Plan should be reported 

to USCIB by NSA, whether the change results from a modification in the 

basic guidance or results from technical COMINT considerations. NSA should 

not be required to report changes in allocation not reflecting a significant change in the Implementing Plan to USCIB, except in summary fu its 

annual report. Any individual member agency should, of course, be empowered to raise such changes for consideration in USCIB as it sees fit. 

11. The Director, NSA should be empowered to carry out changes in the 

NSA Implementing Plan in advance of their consideration by USCIB when time 

does not permit prior consideration by USCIB. 

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