. bel 3/2 . COPE i o. se 13 Sentember 19L3 ca . Wr DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTIVE 3/2 .- oN POLICY GCVERNTEG DEPARTIZATAL CONCURRECES IN NATIONAL DM SLbLISsiCe REPORTS Anu SST LuTcS icS Pursuant to the provisions of Wational Security Council Intelligence Directive No. 3 and paragraph 5 of National Security Council Intelligence Directive No. 1, and for clarity ard uniformity in the nreneraticn of concurrences in, or dissents from, national intelligence resorts and estimates, the following policies are established: 1. Purpose. Departmental participation in the prep?ration of naticnal intelligence reports and ostinates is undertaken to insure that authorized recipicnts: @e are presented with national. inte. ligence which comprises all the best available cxpert knowledge and opinion; be are aware, in the case of disputed points, of the - views of the departrents on substantive matters within their special fields of responsidility ard intercst. 2 3...7 Na wstan naff Mawnan 2 rr. a es af < arama Vo WV weewriie ta nwo et consaacr Avion wee any 2nGZVE2aus he national Intelligence rcport or cstimate, derertmrental agencies should take action, as sromptly as possible, in one cf the following ways: @ concur; be concur with comnent; c. dissent. es These actions should tc based upon considcration of the folloring factors: (1) factual errors; (2) validity of conclusions reached; (3) omission of rclevant considcrations; (4) matters of emphasis which preduce nislcading inplications. d. Return the paper with the statement that the agency has no comment, This document. downgraded to UNCLASSIFIED by authority of ree . ' Sec. 3(B), E.O- 114052, on 13 Septerber 1918 5 ates Y J2fis12¢.__. BY 246321.
LCI 3/2 13 Sertember 1918 3. Coneurrences. ‘When there is no disagreement with the paper and no comments fclt to be of sufficient importance for formal sub- mission, a simple concurrence should ve returned. Such a statement may be limited to the aspects of the paper pertinent to the special interests of the intclligence organization concerned. ~ DCI > September 19)6 ‘he Concurrence with Coment. a. A comment docs not cualify or linit the concurrence in any respect but is a suggestion designed to strengthen the substance of a national intciligcnce rcport or cstimate. While comments are in any case optional and usually should be limited to subjects within the special ficles of interest of the departmental agencies, each agency may submit comments on subjects or points outside of its special fields of interest if it should elect to do so. be It is not necessary to comment on a national intell- gence report or estimate merely fron an cditorial point of view on matters of punctuation, phraseology, or grammatical - construction which do not materially cher . the meaning of the estinate. 2 4. IANssents. ‘ae The’purpose of a published cissent, aside from givin each intelligence organization an oppcrtunity to record its position, is to assist rcaders in reacning full understanding of a question. be. hen a dissent is publishcd, the recipicnt is, by implication, asked to choose the vicw he finds convincing. Unless the dissent is clear-cut and bascd on an unrcsolvable aifference of opinion concerning an issue of majer importance, recipients may be confused rather than aidcd by it. Ce Consequently, a dissent publishcd with a national intclligence paper should present a distinct difference of opinion on which CIA and the dissenting intclligcnce organi- _ zation have found it impossible to agrce. d. A disagreement should not bccone 2 dissent unless the dissenting intclligence organization believes that the reader will otherwise reach conclusions which are false or dangerously misleading.
6¢ No Comment. Should an intclligence organization feel that the Subject treated is entirely apart fron its intcrcsts, it may return a statmcnt indicating that.it has no cement of any kind to offer. . e IME Ch LIE R. H. HILLENACSTTER Director of Centr2l Intelligence