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DIRECTOR  OF  CENTRAL  INTELLIGENCE  DIRECTIVE   15/7 
PRODUCTION  AND  COORDINATION  OF  FOREIGN 
ECONOMIC  INTELLIGENCE 
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(14  September  1954;  dmnMMnHJfflP1^ 
Pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  NSCID  Nos.  1,  3,  and  15,  and  for~the 
purpose  of  strengthening  the  over-all  governmental  intelligence  struc- 
ture for  the  production  and  coordination  of  foreign  economic  intelli- 
gence relating  to  the  national  security,  the  following  policies  and  operat- 
ing procedures  are  hereby  established: 
1.  Policies 
In  carrying  out  their  foreign  economic  intelligence  activities  and 
responsibilities,  and  in  order  to  effect  a  better  coordination  in  the  pro- 
duction and  exchange  of  foreign  economic  intelligence,  the  interested 
departments  and  agencies  will  apply  the  following  basic  principles: 
a.  No  complete  separation  of  interests  is  possible  or  necessarily  de- 
sirable in  economic  intelligence  activities. 
b.  Full  and  free  interchange  of  all  pertinent  information,  finished 
intelligence,  and  schedules  of  research  programs,  including  external 
research,  between  all  agencies  concerned  is  essential. 
c.  No  one  agency  is  considered  to  be  the  undisputed  authority  in 
any  field;  conclusions  may  be  questioned  by  other  IAC  agencies  and 
dissents  recorded. 
d.  Each  agency  will  be  responsible  for  fulfilling  its  departmental 
requirements  for  economic  intelligence;  it  will  give  full  recognition 
to  the  finished  intelligence  produced  by  other  agencies,  but  any  agency 
may  make  such  studies  as  it  believes  necessary  to  supplement  the 
intelligence  produced  by  other  agencies.  However,  basic  research 
studies  should  not  normally  be  undertaken  or  disseminated  outside 
the  producing  agency  without  consultation  with  the  agency  having 
primary  responsibility  for  the  subject  matter  involved. 
e.  An  agency  charged  with  primary  responsibility  in  a  particular 
field  will  develop  special  competence  in  that  field  and  will  normally 
carry  out  most  of  the  research  in  that  field. 
/.  Each  intelligence  agency  will  endeavor  to  coordinate  the  intelli- 
gence activities  of  its  Teclinical  Services  and  its  other  facilities  hav- 
ing economic  intelligence  production  capabilities  with  the  work  of 
.  the  IAC  intelligence  agencies  and  to  make  available  to  those  agencies 
the  intelligence  produced  by  such  Services  and  facilities. 
2.  Allocation  of  Primary  Production  Responsibilities 
a.  Production  of  militaiy-economic  intelligence  on  all  foreign  coun- 
tries, including  by  way  of  illustration  intelligence  on  military  require- 
ments, military  materiel  production,  shipbuilding  and  ship  move- 
ments, logistic  capabilities,  economic  vulnerabilities  to  all  forms  of
military  attack,  and  trivet  cystcm  analysis  (including  specific  loca- 
tion, physical  vulnerability,  .".nc!  £upn:-m2nl:uy  studies  as  required), 
is  the  i-enpcnolbiiif-y  o:"  the  departments  or  the  Department  of  Defense. 
b.  Production  of  intelligence  on  ail  foreign  countries  on  economic 
doctrines,  political  ana  social  aspects  of  economic  organizations  and 
institutions  such  as  trade  unions,  and  on  the  relationships  between 
political  and  economic  policies,  is  the  responsibility  of  the  Department 
of  State. 
c.  Production  of  all  economic  intelligence  on  the  Soviet  Bloc  x  is 
the  responsibility  of  the  Central  Intelligence  Agency  except  as  indi- 
cated herein.  In  addition,  it  will  supplement  the  intelligence  pro- 
duced by  other  agencies  by  conducting  such  independent  analyses 
and  studies  .as  may  be.  necessary  to  produce  integrated  economic  in- 
telligence on  the  Bloc. 
d.  Production  of  all  economic  intelligence  on  foreign  countries  out- 
side the  Soviet  PSIoc  is  the  responsibility  of  the  Department  of  State 
except  as  indicated  in  paragraph  2.a. 
e.  Despite  the  above  mentioned  allocations  of  primary  production 
responsibilities,  there  will  be  areas  of  common  or  overlapping  interest 
(including,  for  example,  Soviet  Bloc  economic  policies,  East-West 
trade,  and  inland  transportation)  which  will  require  continuing  inter- 
agency liaison  and  cooperation. 
/.  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 
agency  responsibilities  specified  in  paragraphs  2.a.,  b.,  c,  and  d.  How- 
ever, the  EIC  will  from  time  to  time  examine  such  allocations  and 
after  consulting  with  the  NIS  Committee  will  make  appropriate 
recommendations. 
3.  Responsibility  for  Economic  Intelligence  Coordination 
a.  To  assist  the  Central  Intelligence  Agency  in  carrying  out  its 
responsibilities  with  respect  to  coordination,  the  Economic  Intelli- 
gence Committee  (EIC)  will  continue  to  perform  the  functions  out- 
lined in  IAC-D-22/1  (Revised),  29  May  1951.  Further,  the  EIC  will 
be  responsible  for  (1)  reviewing  from  time  to  time  the  allocations  of 
responsibility  assigned  herein;  (2)  determining  how  the  provisions  of 
this  directive  apply,  particularly  in  areas  of  common  or  overlapping 
interest;  and  (3)  recommending  to  the  IAC  appropriate  changes  in 
the  allocations  of  responsibility  assigned  herein. 
&.  In  order  to  minimize  the  duplication  of  effort  and  expense:  (1) 
the  EIC  will  prepare  and  circulate  consolidated  periodic  lists  of  the 
economic  research  being  conducted  within  the  intelligence  agencies; 
and  (2)  agencies  sponsoring  external  research  projects,  involving  more 
than  $5,000,  in  support  of  economic  intelligence  production  will  sub- 
lAs  used  herein,  "Soviet .  ni<;c"  includes  USSR,  Communist  China,  Poland, 
Czechoslovakia,  HvLvi^aiT?,  Rur.'-inic.,'  .p>.u£s):a,  Albania,  Soviet  occupied  por- 
tions of  Germany  and  Austria,"  and  Cor:i;.ian!ot  dominated  portions  of  Korea 
and Indo-China.        . .  -_-, -.-,  n . ,  .    ,    ,  r  ,
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mit  descriptions  of  the  scope  of  such  projects  to  the  EIC  for  review. 
The  EIC  will  endeavor  to  present  its  recommendations  in  advance  of 
final  approval  by  the  contracting  agency.  In  its  periodic  reports  to 
the  IAC  the  EIC  will  include  a  summary  of  actions  on  these  projects. 
ALLEN  W.  DULLES 
Director  of  Central  Intelligence