se ‘ NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTIVE NO. 3° COORDINATION OF INTELLIGENCE PRODUCTION (Effective 17 Februsry 1972) For the purpose of coordinating the intcligence production activities of the several Covernment departments and agencies in the intcrest of national security, and pursuant to the provisions of Section 102 of the National Security Act of 1947, as ainended, the National Security Council hereby authorizes and directs that the following overall policies, objectives, categories of intelligence and allocations of responsibility be established. 1. Basic Intelligence a. Basic intelligence is that factual intelligence that results from the colla- tion of encyclopedic informacon of a fundamental and more or less permanent nature and that, as a result of evaluation and interpretation, is determined to be the best available. -- - b. An outline of all basic intelligence required by the Covernment shall be maintained by the Ceniral Intelligence Agency in collaboration with the appropriate departments and agencics. This outline shall be broken down into chapters, scctions and subsections, which shall be allocated as production and maintenance responsibilities to the Central Intelligence Agency and/or to those other departments or azencies of the Government that are best qualified by reason of mission, production capahility, and primary interest to assume the production and maintenance responsibilities. To ensure the production of the basic intelligence required by the Government and tke fullest possible use of current departmental aud agency capabilities, changes in the outline or allo- cations of production and maintenance responsibilities shall be effected by agreement between the Director of Ceutral Intelligence and the departments and agencies concerned. c. Basic intelligence required in ‘the interest of national security shall be compiled and continuygusly maintziced in National Intelligence Surveys (NIS) . to cover forcign countries, areas or broad special subjects, in accordance with National Security Council-approved NIS Standard Instructions and inter- departmental-approved amendments thercto. The National Intelligence Sur- _veys will be disseminated in such form as shall be determined by the Director of Central Intelligence with the advice of the departments and agencies con- cemcl.  _ . . d. The Director of Central Intelligence shall be responsible for coordinating production and maintenance and for accomplishing the review, publicatioa and dissemination of these National Intelligeuce Surveys, and shall make such ‘This Dicective supersedes NSCID No. 3 dated IS January 19GL. eae
requests of the departments and agencies as are necessary for proper devclop- ment and maintenance of the Surveys. e. Departinents or agencies to be called ¢ on for contributions to this under- taking may include other than these represented perianeatly on the United States Inteiligence Board. 2 Current Intelligence ! a. Current intelligence is that intelligence cf all types and ‘forms of imn- mediate interest usually disseminated without the delays incident to complete evaluation or interpretation. b. The Central Intelligence Ageacy and the several departments and agencies shall produce and disseminate such current ixtelligence as may be necessary to mcct their own internal requirements. The current intelligence produced by the Central Intelligence Agency is produced primarily to meet the needs of the President, National Security Council and other high-level consumers; in additicn, it serves the co:non needs of the interested departments and agencies of the Government for current intelligence that they themselves do not produce. The departinents and agencies will coutribute to the Central Intel- ligence Agency current intelligence items and publications as appropriate and on a Smely basis. 3. Departmental intelligence is that intelligeace any department or agency requires to execute its own mission. 4. Interdepartmeutal intclligeace is integrated departmental intelligence required by departments and agencies of the Government for the execution of their missions but transcending the exclusive competence of a single deparhnent or agency to produce. Joint intelligence is a special category of interdepartmental intclligence jointly produced by defense intclligence organizations in the per- ‘formance of the assigned missions of the Joint Chicfs of Staff. Such subcommittee structure of the United States Intelligence Board as shall be established by the Director of Cental Jutelligence may be utilized for the production and dis- semination of such forms of intelligence. © §. National intelligence is that intelligence required for the fonnulation of nativual security policy, concerning more than one department or agency and transcending the exclusive competence of a single department or agency. The production of national intelligence is covered in NSCID No. 1. Intelligence re- ating to the national sccurity that has been produced as interdepartmental or departmental intelligence may also, when appropriate, be submitted to the Director of Central Intelligence for issuance as national intelligences by the Director of Central Intelligence as provided in NSCID No. 1. 6. Each department or ageney, taking full cognizance of the facilities of the other agencies, shall maintain adequate research Facilities to accomplish its departmental intelligence production imissiva and to provide such addition:l intelligence within its field of primary respomsibitides as may be necessary to satisfy other requirenients relating to the national security.
7. To ensure that the capabilities of the departments and agencies are utilized effectively fur the production of intelligence af common concern, the following division of interests, subject to refinement through a continuous program of coordination and evatuation Ly Ue Directur of Central Intelligence to promote an integration of effort and to avcid undesirable duplication, shall serve as 2 general delineation of prhaasy’ responsibilities: a. The Departinent of State shall produce political and sociological intelli- gence on all countries and cconomic intelligence on countries of the Free World. 1 b. The Depaztinent of Defense shall produce military intelligence. This pro- duction shall include scientific, technical and economic intelligence directly pertinent to the missions of the various caimponcats of the Department of Defense. . c. The Central Intelligence Agency shall produce economic, scientific and technical intclligence. Further, the Central Intelligence Agency may produce such other intelligence as may be necessary to discharge the statutory re- sponsibilitics of the Director of Central Intelligence. d. The production of intelligence on atomic energy is a responsibility of all departments and agencies represented on the US. Intelligence Board with responsibilities for the production of finished intelligence, to be coordinated through the Joint Atomic Energy Intellizence Committee structure. 8. Despite the above-mentioned allocations of primary production responsi- bilities, there will be areas of common or overlapping interest that will require continuing interagency liaiscn and cooperation. In the event that a requirement for intelligence is established for which there is not existing production capa- bility, the Director of Central Intelligence, in consultation with the United States Intelligence Board, shall determine which of the departments and agencies of the intelligence conununity can best undertake the primary respousibility as 2 service of common concern.