£his    document    downgraded    to  qggSSEESSSEHtQ*  DCID  No.  3/1 
UNCLASSIFIED    by    authority    of        ;  (New  Series) 
Sec    3(B),  EO    11652,     on   jpJtShla 
hy    246321. 
( 
(' 
DIRECTOR  OF  CENTRAL  INTELLIGENCE  DIRECTIVE  NO.  3/1  l 
PRODUCTION  AND  COORDINATION  OF  FOREIGN 
ECONOMIC  INTELLIGENCE 
(Effective  10  June  1958) 
Pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  NSCID  Nos.  1  and  3,  and  for  the  purposes 
of  strengthening  the  overall  governmental  intelligence  structure  and  en- 
suring the  effective  production  and  coordination  of  foreign  economic  in- 
telligence relating  to  the  national  security,  the  following  polices  and 
operating  procedures  are  hereby  established: 
1.     Policies 
In  carrying  out  their  foreign  economic  intelligence  activities  and 
responsibilities,  and  in  order  to  effect- appropriate  coordination  in  the 
production  and  exchange  of  foreign  economic  intelligence,  the  interested 
departments  and  agencies  shall  apply  the  following  basic  principles: 
a.  No  complete  separation  of  interests  is  possible  or  necessarily  desir- 
able in  economic  intelligence  activities. 
b.  Full  and  free  interchange  of  all  pertinent  information,  finished 
intelligence,  and  schedules  of  research  programs,  including  external 
research,  among  interested  departments  and  agencies  is  essential. 
c.  No  one  department  or  agency  is  considered  to  be  the  indisputable 
authority  in  any  field. 
d.  Each  department  or  agency,  taking  full  cognizance  of  the  facilities 
of  the  other  agencies,  shall  maintain  adequate  economic  intelligence 
research  facilities  to  accomplish  its  departmental  intelligence  produc- 
tion mission  and  to  provide  such  additional  economic  intelligence  with- 
in its  field  of  primary  responsibilities  as  may  be  necessary  to  satisfy 
other  requirements  relating  to  the  national  security.  Any  department 
or  agency  may  make  such  studies  as  it  believes  necessary  to  supplement 
the  intelligence  produced  by  other  departments  and  agencies.  How- 
ever, basic  research  studies  should  not  normally  be  undertaken  or  dis- 
seminated outside  the  producing  agency  without  consultation  with  the 
department  or  agency  having  primary  responsibility  for  the  subject 
matter  involved. 
e.  The  IAC  component  of  each  department  or  agency  having  Tech- 
nical Services  or  other  facilities  with  intelligence  production  capabil- 
ities shall  endeavor  to  coordinate  the  intelligence  activities  of  such 
service  or  facilities  with  the  work  of  the  IAC  agencies  and  to  make 
•available  to  those  agencies  the  intelligence  produced  by  such  Services 
and  faculties. 
1  This  Directive  supersedes  DCID  No.  15/1  of  9/14/54. 
Copy      N9
2.     Allocation  of  Primary  Production  Responsibilities 
3l.  The  following  division  of  interests  shall  serve  as  a  general  delinea- 
tion of  primary  responsibilities  for  the  ^production  of  economic  intelli- 
gence of  common  concern: 
(1)  Production  of  military-economic  intelligence  on  all  foreign 
countries,  including  by  way  of  illustration  intelligence  on  military 
requirements,  military  materiel  production,  shipbuilding  and  ship 
movements,  logistic  capabilities,  and  particular  aspects  of  economic 
strength  or  weakness  directly  related  to  military  capabilities,  is  the 
responsibility  of  the  Departments  of  Army,  Navy,  and  Air  Force. 
(2)  Production  of  intelligence  on  all  foreign  countries  on  political 
and  social  aspects  of  economic  organizations  and  institutions  such 
as  trade  unions,  and  on  the  relationships  between  political  and  eco- 
nomic policies,  is  the  responsibility  of  the  Department  of  State. 
(3)  Production  of  all  economic  intelligence  on  the  Sino-Soviet 
Bloc  -  is  the  responsibility  of  the  Central  Intelligence  Agency  except 
as  indicated  herein.  In  addition,  it  will  supplement  the  intelligence 
produced  by  other  agencies  by  conducting  such  analyses  and  studies 
as  may  be  necessary  to  produce  integrated  economic  intelligence  on 
the  Bloc. 
(4)  Production  of  all  economic  intelligence  on  foreign  countries 
outside  the  Sino-Soviet  Bloc  is  the  responsibility  of  the  Department 
of  State  except  as  indicated  in  paragraph  2a(l). 
b.  Despite  the  above-mentioned  allocations  of  primary  production 
responsibilities,  there  are  areas  of  common  or  overlapping  interest  (in-  ^ 
eluding,  for  example,  Sino-Soviet  Bloc  economic  policies  and  doctrines, 
economic  cost  studies  of  Bloc  military  programs,  East- West  trade,  Sino- 
Soviet  Bloc  economic  activities  in  non-Bloc  areas,  and  transportation) 
which  require  continuing  interagency  liaison  and  cooperation. 
c.  The  existing  allocations  of  production  responsibility  for  National 
Intelligence  Surveys  (NIS)  are  not  changed  by  this  directive  even 
though  such  allocations  may,  in  some  instances,  be  at  variance  with 
department  or  agency  responsibilities  specified  in  paragraph  2a.  How- 
ever, the  Economic  Intelligence  Committee  may,  on  occasion,  examine 
such  allocations  and  make  appropriate  recommendations  to  the  NIS 
Committee. 
3.     Responsibility  for  Economic  Intelligence  Coordination 
a.  To  assist  the  Director  of  Central  Intelligence  in  carrying  out  his 
responsibilities  with  respect  to  coordination,  the  Economic  Intelligence 
Committee  (EIC)  of  the  IAC  shall: 
(1)  Review  from  time  to  time  the  divisions  of  responsibility  in- 
dicated herein,  determining  how  the  provisions  of  this  directive  ap- 
ply, particularly  in  areas  of  common  or  overlapping  interest,  and 
recommending  to  the  IAC  appropriate  changes  in  these  divisions  of 
responsibility. 
'As  used  herein,  "Sino-Soviet  Bloc"  includes  USSR,  Communist  China,  North 
Korea,  North  Vietnam,  Albania,  Bulgaria,  Czechoslovakia,  Hungary,  Poland, 
Rumania,  and  Soviet-occupied  portions  of  Germany. 
(:   )
(2)  Periodically  survey  the  facilities  and  arrangements  available 
to  support  the  production  of  foreign  economic  intelligence  relating 
to  the  national  security  and  make  recommendations  to  the  IAC  con- 
cerning such  improvements  as  may  require  IAC  action. 
(3)  In  order  to  minimize  the  duplication  of  effort  and  expense: 
prepare  and  circulate  consolidated  periodic  lists  of  intelligence 
studies  and  related  research  being  conducted  within  the  Government 
on  the  economies  of  foreign  areas;  and  review  external  research  proj- 
ects individually  involving  more  than  $5,000  and  sponsored  by  de- 
partments or  agencies  in  support  of  economic  intelligence  produc- 
tion. Departments  and  agencies  shall  submit  descriptions  of  the 
scope  of  such  projects  to  the  EIC  and  the  EIC  shall  endeavor  to  pre- 
sent its  recommendations  in  advance  of  final  approval  by  the  con- 
tracting department  or  agency.  In  its  periodic  reports  to  the  IAC, 
the  EIC  shall  include  a  summary  of  actions  on  these  projects. 
(4)  Review  the  needs  for  economic  research  and  analysis  pertain- 
ing to  foreign  areas  and  of  importance  to  the  national  security,  arid 
develop  ways  in  which  recognized  deficiencies  could  be  corrected. 
(5)  Make  such  special  reviews  of  economic  intelligence  collection 
requirements  and  of  the  distribution  and  processing  of  economic 
intelligence  information  as  may  appear  useful,  and  develop  ways  in 
which  improvements  could  be  made. 
(6)  Ensure  that,  on  intelligence  matters  affecting  the  national 
security,  the  intelligence  community  is  supported  by  the  full  eco- 
nomic knowledge  and  technical  talent  available  in  the  Government. 
(7)  Produce,  as  appropriate,  interdepartmental  economic  intelli- 
gence on  subjects  which  transcend  the  competency  of  a  single  de- 
partment or  agency.  Arrange,  as  appropriate,  for  the  coordination 
of  individual  IAC  agency  reports  deemed  of  sufficient  national  secu- 
rity importance  to  warrant  the  solicitation  of  concurrences  from  the 
representatives  of  other  IAC  agencies. 
b.  The  Central  Intelligence  Agency  and  the  intelligence  components 
of  the  Departments  of  State,  Army,  Navy,  and  Air  Force,  and  of.  the 
Joint  Staff  (JCS)  shall  each  furnish  one  member  and  an  alternate  to 
the  EIC.  Any  other  department  or  agency  whose  interest  or  compe- 
tence may  be  relevant  to  problems  under  consideration  may  also  be 
invited  to  participate  in  the  work  of  the  EIC.  The  representative  from 
the  Central  Intelligence  Agency  shall  serve  as  Chairman,  and  the  Cen- 
tral Intelligence  Agency  shall  provide  the  Secretariat. 
c.  In  carrying  out  its  responsibilities,  the  EIC  shall  set  up  such  sub- 
committees and  working  groups  as  may  be  judged  necessary. 
d.  Any  matter  may  be  referred  to  the  IAC  at  the  request  of  any  mem- 
ber department  or  agency. 
4.     DCID  15/1  is  herewith  rescinded. 
ALLEN  W.  DULLES 
Director  of  Central  Intelligence 
Copy      NO