NITIZED COPY oe . DCID No. 1/3 (New Series) DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTIVE NO. 1/37 PRIORITY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE OPJECTIVES Revised 23 December - 1964) . .FOREWORD oe 1. Pursuant to NSCID No. 1, paragraph 3, the following Jist of Pri- ority National Intelligence Objectives (PNIOs) is established as a Buide for the coordination of intelligence production, and of supporting re search and collection activities. This list replaces that. contained. id DCID No. 1/3, 14 August 1983, which is hereby rescinded. 2. This listing of priority objectives presupposes that the bulk of the intelligence required for the formulation and execution of national security policy will be the product of normal intelligence collection and research pursuant to DCID No. 1/2. The present Directive identifies, for priority treatment, certain specific critical substantive problems within the general body of the intelligence required for policy planning purposes. -In this context, “priority” means preferment in the alloca- tion of research and collection resources. Such preferment does not warrant neglect of the general and basic intelligence coverage required by DCID. Nov 1/2. * 3. The identification of epecific critical ‘substantive problems int. this Directive is but a first step toward determination of the priority, if any, to be accorded to particular collection requirements by particular sys~ ‘tems of coliection. “Not every bit of information somehow related to . a priority problem will be required with equal urgency; sorne may be procurable by routine means. The identification of priority require- ments entails further analysis by research personnel to determine (a) the elements of information essential-to the solution of- the problem indicated, (b) the elements already available or readily obtainable through research, (c) the additional information obtainable througn. - routine collection, and finally (d@) the residual information of such criti-~ cal importance as to warrant .a priority collection effort. . 4, Even when a priority ‘collection requirement has been? this ‘estab- lished, it does not follow that it should be treated as 2 matter of priority by every collection agency. A priority requirement appropriate for one system of . collection may | be of no priority. whatever with Kespect to ; 2 This Directive Supersedes’ DCID No. 1/3 of 14 August 1963. -
another, because unsuited to it. Determinations as to which require-- ments will be accorded priority by particular systems of collection, must be made by responsible collection authorities, under the general guid- ance of the PNIOs, but with regard for operational capabilities and suitabdilities, 5. The present Directive is intended to serve as a stable basis for long-term intelligence planning, with reference.te the development of — intelligence resources as well as to the allocation of existing resources, It seeks to identify the criticai substantive problems likely to persist, or to develop, during the next five years. It will be reviewed and revised ‘annually. It will also be supplemented by a quarterly listing of cur- reutly critical or potentially critical situations, This supplement, look- ing forward for six months or so, will seek to anticipate such emergent changes in the situation as might warrant some shift of emphasis in. the employment of research and collection resources. . OBJECTIVES* ’ REMAINDER OF TEXT EXEMPT FROM DISCLOSURE « ® While this list of objectives is not intended to have internal priority arrange- ment, primary emphasis must continue to be given to those objectives which are so critical 2s to pose an immediate and continuing mulitary threat to the security of the United States. : m7