~ SANITIZED COPY DCID No. 2/1 (New Series) DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTIVE NO. 2/1! COORDINATION OF OVERT COLLECTION ABROAD * (Effective 8 March 1960) Pursuant to those provisions of NSCID No. 2 regarding coordination of overt collection activities abroad, the following shall apply: 1. Departmental Responsibilities Each department or agency having a responsibility under NSCID _ No. 2 for collecting certain categories of intelligence shall: a. Employ its own personnel and resources whenever possible in the collection of such inteliigence. b. Take due account of the needs of other departments and agencies in formulating its collection program. ce. Issue the instructions to the field necessary to implement this directive. d. Insure that the information desired is not already available in the intelligence community before sending a collection request to the . Keld. e. Cooperate in the preparation of collection guides and manuals of common concern to field collectors. 2. Senior U.S, Representative’ Ss Responsibilities In coordinating collection activities under NSCID No. 2, the Senior . U.S. Representative shall: a. Take measures to minimize undesirable duplication of intelli- gence collecting and reporting, while at the same time encouraging to the fullest extent possible the application of joint effort to these activities. b. Make the most effective use of the intelligence capabilities and resources of departmental and agency representatives in keeping. with their assigned duties. c. To the extent possible, delegate to members of his staff the re- sponsibility for collecting and reporting on categories of information of ’ interest to intelligence agencies not represented at his post. a./ ¥his Directive supersedes DCID No. 2/1 dated 25 October 1548. *¥For Domestic Exploitation of Non-Governmental Organizations and Individuals ste DCID No. 2/3 ‘(New Series). For Procurement of Fereinn Pudlicatinns see DCID No. 2/5 (New Series). For Monitoring of Foreign Radio and Television Propaganda and Press Broadcasts sce NSCID No. 2, paragraph 8 (New Series.
SANITIZED COPY 3. Collector’s Responsibilities + ; In discharging the primary responsibilities of departments and agencies charged in NSCID No. 2 with the collection abroad of intelli- gence information, their field representatives shal: a. Comply with coordination measures prescribed by the Senior U.S. Representative. : b. Keep the Senior U.S. Representative informed of the scope and nature of their intelNigence collection activities. c. Immediately pass intelligence information collected by them to the field representative of the department or agency primerily charged with collecting such information under NSCID No. 2 for appropriate action. Such information should also be passed to those field repre- sentatives of other departments and agencies who have a need for it. Reports based on information passed laterally in the field should in- clude the identity of the collecting department or agency, unless further confirmed by the forwarding department or agency. However, the original collector may also transmit this information to his own headquarters indicating what lateral dissemination he has made in the field. ad. Meke available to the Senior U.S. Representative and, unless otherwise directed by him, to the field representatives of other depart- ments or agencies pertinent directives and instructions for overt col- lection received from their departments or agencies, as well as their reports. 7 4. Nothing in this directive shall be interpreted as authorizing any officer to clelay, suppress, or make substantive changes in any intelli- gence report without the concurrence of the officer submitting the re- port. Any dissenting opinion or commentary should be incorporated in or accompany the report, or it may be submitted separately to avoid delay in the transmission of the criginal report. ry ALLEN W. DULLES Director of Central Intelligence