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COORDINATION  OF  COLLECTION  ACTIVITIES  ABROAD  ( 
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January  13,  19^8  •  , 
The  follovir.g  over-all  policies  and  objectives  '  aro  established  "by  t,io 
r-ii'ir*l  SecurJtv  Council  for  the  inter  cienr.rt~ontal  coordinate  on  of  foreign 
.intelligence  collection  activities,   co     that  noaoures  nay  be  taken  promptly  to  j 
effect  sound  and  efficient  utilisation  of  tho     various  departmental  collecting  s 
and  ropcrtir.G  facilities  abroad: 
1.  Thore  chall  bo  an  allocation  vithin  certain  broad  categories  of  i 
agoncy  responsibility  for  collection  abroad,   a3  follows: 
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Political   Department  of  State  I 
Cultural  ..'....  Department  of  Stato 
Sociological  ....  Dcpart:n2nt  of  Stato  j" 
Military  ......  Department  of  tho  Amy  j. 
Naval    Department  of  the  Vcxj 
Air    Department  of  the  Air  Forco  p 
Economic  )  • 
Scientific  ).    .    .Each  agency  in  accordance  ,  ■ 
Technological   )  vith  ito  respective  needs 
2.  All  available  intelligence     information,   no  natter  by  whom  col- 
lected,  shall,  wherever  possible,   be  transmitted  irzzediatcly  to  tho   field  j 
representative  of  the  agency     E03t  concerned.     Rovevsr,    tho  collector  zoy 
also  send  copic.3  to  or  otherwise   infom  hie   own  agency. 
5.       The  senior     US  representative      in  oach  foreign  area     vhcro '  tho  • 
United  States  iraintaine     a  foreign  post  shall,     vithin  the      spirit  of  the 
pinricplcs  enunciated  herein,  be  responsible  for  the  coordination  of  all 
nonial  collection  activities    in  his  area. 
h.       Tho  collecting  and   reporting  facilities  of  each  of  the  agencies  r 
shall  bo   utilized  so  as     to  avoid   unproductive  duplication     and   uncocrdi-  j 
nated  overlnu  and  to  insure  within  budgetary  limitations  that  full  flou 
of  intelligence  information  vhich  is  tho  2:ieJor  r.cod  of  all  departments  and 
agencies  for   the  accomplishment  of  their   respective  missions. 
5.  \  J?ull   utilization,  shall  bo  made   of   tho    individual    initiative   and 
favorablfc  contacts   of  agency   representatives. 
6.  No   interpretation     of   theno   established     over-all      policies   and 
objectives  sinil  negate   tho   basic   prinoiplo      th:it  all   departmental   rcpro-  r 
scr.tativos  al  road  aro    Individually   responsible   l'ov   the   collection   and    for 
tho   appropriate    trr.nn::;l:ic,  Ion    to    their   depart  r.-.e-utn   of   all    intelligence    i:\- 
lornatlon  portliumt    to    their   depnr'u^ntnl   ininsions.    r._c^T^,,.— — — -■■^~"= 
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of  intolllf/.-nco      J  r«f  orr-it  I  o;i   to     moot  tho     recognized      nc.cond»-j-y  ncedo  of 
ci-.ch  dcpurtr/jKt  and   ccer.cy    for   Intelligence      unuclly   obLnir.'_:d   or  propurod 
by  otl;cr  do-.nrl:nojit<j   or  n^oneiu.j. 
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