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DIRECTOR  OF  CENTRAL  INTELLIGENCE  DIRECTIVE  2/7 
IMPLEMENTATION  OF  COORDINATION  Or  COLLECTION   PLAN 
(10/25/43; 
Under  the  authority  of  the  National  Security  Council  Intelligence 
Directive  No.  2,  and  for  the  purpose  of  supplying  the  necessary  operating 
details  for  the  guidance  of  the  coordinating  officials,  the  agencies,  and 
their  field  representatives  in  their  implementation  of  the  policies  and 
objectives  established  therein,  the  following  procedures  are  established: 
1.  Coordinating  officials  and  their  responsibilities: 
a.  The  senior  U.S.  representative  in  each  foreign  area  where  the 
United  States  maintains  a  foreign  post  shall,  within  the  spirit  of  the 
principles  enunciated  herein,  be  responsible  for  the  coordination  of 
all  normal  collection  activities  in  his  area. 
b.  To  implement  this  coordination,  each  such  representative  shall: 
(1)  Exert  every  effort  to  centralize  all  intelligence  information 
for  the  use  of  all  authorized  personnel. 
(2)  Eliminate  undesirable  duplication  of  collection  effort  and 
reporting  and  assure  the  proper  channeling  of  information. 
(3)  Insure  that  whenever  one  or  more  of  the  departmental  intelli- 
gence agencies  are  not  represented  at  a  foreign  pest,  reporting  on 
the  appropriate  categories  is  delegated  to  the  extent  possible  to  other 
members  of  the  staff. 
2.  Collecting  agents  and  their  responsibilities: 
a.  Representatives  of  Departments  or  Agencies  who  are  charged 
with  the  collection  of  intelligence  information  in  the  field,  wJl  be 
responsible  to  their  respective  Departments  or  Agencies: 
(1)  To  comply  in  the  coordination  measures  prescribed  by  the 
responsible  officer  as  set  forth  in  paragraph  1  above. 
(2)  To  forward  promptly  to  their  home  office  and  enter  in  a 
central  intelligence  index  or  file  when  established  all  intelligence 
material  from  any  source  which  falls  within  their  departmental 
agency  responsibilities. 
(3)  To  bring  promptly  to  the  attention  of  the  proper  representa- 
tives of  other  Departments  or  Agencies  any  intelligence  information 
of  concern  to  them.  Nothing  in  this  directive  prevents  a  repre- 
sentative from  reporting  any  intelligence  information  to  his  own 
Department  or  Agency  or  maintaining  a  file  of  the  material  for  his 
own  official  use. 
(4)  To  make  available  to  the  senior  U.S.  representative  and  the 
field  representatives  of  other  agencies  all  collection  directives  and 
instructions  received  from  their  departments. 
o.  Nothing  in  this  directive  shall  be  interpreted  as  authorizing  any 
officer  to  delay,  suppress,  or  make  substantive  changes  in  any  intelli- 
gence report  without  the  concurrence  of  the  officer  submitting  the 
report.    Intelligence  material,  which  may  have  no  significance  to  field
•  vi'.*5s»~»r»  >:tv.»l»«*!'. 
representatives  in  a  single  area  or  which  may  appear  to  be  at  complete 
variance  with  the  over-all  trend,  may  have  great  significance  and  form 
a  definite  part  of  an  estimate  being  developed  by  the  individual  depart- 
ment or  by  the  Central  Intelligence  Agency.  Any  dissenting  Gpinion 
or  commentary  may  cither  be  incorporated  in  the  report  or  submitted 
separately. 
c.  No  interpretation  of  these  established  over-all  policies  and  objec- 
tives shall  negate  the  basic  principle  that  all  departmental  representa- 
tives abroad  are  individually  responsible  for  the  collection  and  for  the 
appropriate  transmission  to  their  departments  of  all  intelligence  in- 
formation pertinent  to  their  departmental  missions. 
3.  The  agencies  and  their  responsibilities: 
a.  Each  intelligence  agency  shall  be  responsible  for  the  collection  of 
intelligence  information  within  its  own  categories  of  dominant  interest 
for  its  own  needs  and  for  these  of  any  other  intelligence  agency  re- 
questing it  directly  or  through  the  Central  Intelligence  Agency,  it  being 
recognized  that  other  agencies  may  have  secondary  interests  in  and 
need  for  such  intelligence  material  for  the  production  of  their  own 
staff  intelligence. 
b.  Departmental  intelligence  agencies  will  issue  such  directives  to 
the  field  as  will  insure  the  implementation  of  this  plan. 
R.  H.  HILLENKOETTER 
Director  of  Central  Intelligence 
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