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DIRECTOR  Or  CENTRAL  INTELLIGENCE  DIRECTIVE  3/4 
PRODUCTION  OF  SCIENTIFIC  AND  TECHNICAL  INTELLIGENCE 
(8/14/52;  SECRET) 
Pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  NSCID  No.  3,  and  for  the  purpose  of 
strengthening  the-  over-all  governmental  intelligence  structure  for  the 
production  of  scientific  and  technical  intelligence,  the  following  policies 
and  operating  procedures  are  hereby  established: 
JL  Policies 
In  discharging  allocated  responsibilities  and  effecting  integration  of 
intelligence,  the  interested  departments  and  agencies  will  apply  the 
■  following  basic  principles: 
a.  No  complete  separation  of  areas  of  interest  is  possible  or  neces- 
sarily desirable  in  scientific  and  technical  intelligence  activities. 
b.  Full  and  free  interchange  of  all  intelligence  information  and 
finished  intelligence  between  all  agencies  concerned  is  essential. 
c.  No  one  agency  is  considered  to  be  the  final  authority  in  any 
field;  conclusions  may  be  questioned  by  other  IAC  agencies  and  dis- 
'     sents  recorded. 
d.  Any  agency  may  make  such  studies  as  it  believes  necessary  to 
supplement  intelligence  obtained  from  other  agencies  in  order  to 
fulfill  its  agency  functions,  but  such  studies  should  not  normally 
be  disseminated  outside  the  producing  agency  without  advance  con- 
sultation with  the  agency  having  primary  responsibility  for  the  sub- 
ject-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  all  or  most  of  the  research  in  that  field. 
f.  Each  intelligence  agency  will  endeavor  to  coordinate  the  intelli- 
gence activities  of  its  Technical  Services  and  its  other  facilities  having 
intelligence  production  capabilities  with  the  work  of  the  IAC  intelli- 
gence agencies  and  to  make  available  to  those  agencies  the  intelli- 
gence produced  by  such  Services  and  facilities. 
2.  Procedures: 
a.  Delineation  of  Dominant  Interests.  The  general  field  of  scien- 
tific and  technical,  intelligence  production  is  subdivided  into  three 
basic  major  areas,  and  allocation  of  primary  production  responsibili- 
ties therein  is  made  as  follows: 
(1)  Intelligence  on  all  weapons,  weapons  systems,  military  equip- 
*     ment  and  techniques,  plus  intelligence  on  pertinent  research,  and 
development  leading  to  new  military  material-  and  techniques: 
primary  production  responsibility  of  the  departments  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  Defense,  as  exemplified  in  Annex  A. 
(2)  Intelligence  on  fundamental  research  in  the  basic  sciences, 
on  scientific  resources,;  and  on  medicine  (other  than  military  medi- 
cine) plus  intelligence;  on  pertinent  applied  research  and  develop- 
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merit: — primary  production  responsibility  cf  Central  Intelligence 
Agency,  as  exempiiiied  in-Annsz  3. 
(3)  Intelligence  on  Atomic  Energy  -  production,  responsibility  of. 
all  interested  agencies. 
b.  It  is  recognized  that  despite  the  above-mentioned  specific  alloca- 
tions of  primary  production  responsibilities  to  the  Military  Services 
and  CIA,  the  Military  Services  will  also  require  intelligence  indicating 
trends  from  fundamental  research  in  basic  sciences,  which  they  nor- 
mally will  obtain  from  CIA.  Conversely,  CIA  will  also  require  intelli- 
gence on  applied  research  relating  to  weapons,  weapons  systems,  mili- 
tary equipment  and  techniques,  and  the  technical  characteristics  of 
existing  equipment,  which  it  normally  will  obtain  from  the  Military 
Services.  Accordingly,  there  continue  to  emst  areas  of  common  or 
overlapping  interest  which  require  continuing- inter-agency  liaison 
and  such  working-level  conferences  as  may  be  appropriate. 
c  Coordxjiating  Mechanisms 
(1)  The  Joint  Atomic  Energy  Intelligence  Committee  is  hereby 
reconstituted  as  a  permanent  interdepartmental  committee  with 
the  same  structure  and  functions  as  before. 
(2)  Subject  to  the  foregoing,  there  i3  hereby  established  the? 
Scientific  Estimates  Committee,  a  permanent  interdepartmental 
committee,  to  integrate  scientific  and  technical  intelligence,  as  and 
when  required,  for  the  production  of  national  intelligence,  to  stimu- 
late and  guide  inter-agency  liaison  and  such  working-level  confer- 
ences as  may  be  appropriate,  and  to  coordinate  the  production  of 
Chapter  VH  of  the  NIS. " 
<3)  The  Scientific  Estimates  Committee  shall  be  composed  of 
designated  representatives  as  members  from  CIA,  the  Joint  Staff, 
the  Departments  of  State,  Army,  Navy,  and  Air  Force,  the  Atomic 
Energy  Commission,  and  such  other  ad  hoc  representatives  as  may 
be  determined  necessary  by  the  regular  committee  members.  In 
order  to  maintain  continuity  and  stability,  each  department  and 
agency  mentioned  above  will  designate  a  regular  member  and,  if 
desired,  an  alternate  by  transmitting  names  and  titles  to  the  Direc- 
tor of  Central  Intelligence.  This  action  will  not  preclude  the  desig- 
nation of  such  additional  persons  as  may  be  technically  and  other- 
wise qualified  to  discuss  or  report  on  a  particular  subject  under 
consideration  by  the  Committee.  The  Chairman  will  be  elected 
annually.  The  Committee- will  establish  its  methods  of  procedure. 
The  Central  Intelligence  Agency  shall  provide  an  executive  secre- 
tary and  secretariat  as  required. 
(4)  It  is  recommended  that  the  SEC  concentrate  on  the  Integra- 
lion  of  intelligence  opinion  (other  than  that  for  which,  the  JAEIC 
is  responsible)  as  and  when  required  for  the  purposes  of  national 
intelligence,  and  only  incidentally  assist  in  the  coordination  of  pro- 
duction of  other  intelligence  in  scientific  and  technical  field?.  The 
principal  occasion  for  activity  on  the  part  of  the  committee  will 
arise  when  contributions  are  required  for  national  intelligence  pur- 
poses.   The  Committee's  activities  will  be  directed  to  synthesizing 
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departmental  intelligence,  and  ^hile  so  doing  to  bring1  to  light  any 
inconsistencies  resulting  from  the  production  activities  of  the  re- 
spective departments  and  agencies,  each  operating  within  its 
assigned  sphere  of  responsibility,  and  to  resolve  conflicting  con- 
clusions, or  have  appropriate  dissenting  view3  registered,  for  ths- 
benefit  of  the  national  intelligence  production  organization. 
(5)  The  SEC  can  best  assist  in  the  coordination  of  production 
of  intelligence  in  scientific  and  technical  fields  by  stimulating  and 
guiding  inter-agency  liaison  and  \70rking-level  conferences. 
3.  Director  of  Central  Intelligence  Directive  3/3*  is  herewith  rescinded. 
-    -  ■     •  WALTSR  B.  SiGTH 
Director  of  Central  Intelligence 
ANNB2  A 
Responsibilities  of  the  departments  of  the  Department  of  Defense 
for  intelligence  on  all  weapons,  weapons  systems,  equipment  and  tech- 
niques, plus  intelligence  on  pertinent  research  and  development  leading 
to  new  military  material  and  techniques,  inclining  far  example: 
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ANNEZ  B 
Responsibilities  of  CIA/OSI  for  Intelligence  on  Fundamental  Re- 
search in  the  Basic  Sciences,  Basic  Scientific  Resources,  and  Medicine 
(excluding  Military  Medicine),  plus  Intelligence  on  Pertinent  Applied 
Research  and  Development,  including,  for  example: 
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•  (Note:  DCI  3/3,  "Scientific  Intelligence,"  v*s  issued  23  October  194fc> 
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