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IN  NATIONAL  LiTIiLLIGiiiCL  IlLPCrcTS  A:&  ESTE^.T^S 
Pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  National  Security  Council  Intelligence 
Directive  Mo,  3  and  paragraph  £  of  national  Security  Council  Intelligence 
Directive  i/o.  1,  and  for  clarity  and  uniformity  in  the  preparation  of 
concurrences  in,  or  dissents  from,  national  intelligence  reports  and 
estimates,  the  follov/ing  policies  arc  established: 
!•  Purpose.  Departmental  participation  in  the  preparation  of 
national  intelligence  reports  and  estimates  is  undertaken  to  insure 
that  authorized  recipients: 
a.  are  presented  ^rith  national,  inte.  ligence  v;hich 
comprises  all  the  best  available  expert  knowledge  and 
opinion; 
b.  are  anare,  in  the  case  of  disputed  points,  of  the 
views  of  the  departments  on  substantive  matters  Trithin 
their  special  fields  of  responsibility  and  interest. 
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national  intelligence  report  or  estimate,  departmental  agencies  should 
take  action,  as  promptly  as  possible,  in  one  of  the  follovdng  vrr.ys: 
a#  concur; 
b.  concur  vrith  comment; 
c.  dissent. 
These  actions  should  be  based  upon  consideration  of  the  follcrring 
factors : 
(1)  factual  errors; 
(2)  validity  of  conclusions  reached; 
(3)  oiaission  of  relevant  considerations; 
(h)  matters  of  emphasis  v;hich  produce  misleading 
implications, 
d#     Return  the  paper  vrith  the  statement  that  the  agency- 
has  no  comment. 
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3,  Concurrences.  V/hen  there  is  no  disagreement  v.'ith  the  paper 
and  no  comments  felt  to  be  of  sufficient  importance  for  formal  sub- 
mission, a  simple  concurrence  should  be  returned.  Such  a  statement 
may  be  limited  to  the  aspects  of  the  paper  pertinent  to  the  special 
interests  of  the  intelligence  organization  concerned, 
%»     Concurrence  frith  Comment. 
a,  A  comment  docs  not  qualify  or  licit  the  concurrence 
in  any  respect  but  is  a  suggestion  designed  to  strengthen 
the  substance  of  a  national  intelligence  report  or  estimate. 
Tihilc  comments  are  in  any  case  optional  and  usually  should 
be  limited  to  subjects  within  the  special  fields  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, 
b,  It  is  not  necessary  to  comment  on  a  national  intelli- 
gence report  or  estimate  merely  from  an  editorial  point  of 
view  on  matters  of  punctuation,  phraseology,  or  grammatical 
construction  v/hich  do  not  materially  cha"   the  meaning  of 
the  estimate, 
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a;  The 'purpose  of  a  published  dissent,  aside  from  giving 
eachTintclligcrice  organization  an  opportunity  to  record  its 
position,  is  to  assist  readers  in  reaching  full  understanding 
of  a  question. 
b,  T/hen  a  dissent  is  published,  the  recipient  is,  by 
implication,  asked  to  choose  the  view  he  finds  convincing* 
Unless  the  dissent  is  clear-cut  and  based  on  an  unrcsolvable 
difference  of  opinion  concerning  an  issue  of  major  importance, 
recipients  nay  be  confused  rather  than  aided  by  it, 
c,  Consequently,  a  dissent  published  with  a  national 
intelligence  paper  should  present  a  distinct  difference  of 
opinion  on  which  CIA  and  the  dissenting  intelligence  organi- 
zation have  found  it  impossible  to  agree, 
d,  A  disagreement  should  not  become  a  dissent  unless  the 
dissenting  intelligence  organization  believes  that  the  reader 
will  otherwise  reach  conclusions  v/hich  are  false  or  dangerously 
misleading. 
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6.:  No  Comment;  Should  an  intelligence  organization  foci 
that  the  subject  treated  is  entirely  apart  from  its  interests, 
it  may  return  a  statement  indicating  that.it  has  no  cedent  of 
any  kind  to  offer. 
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Director  of  Centrzl  Intelligence 
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