This document downeraded to  qpeemenerrd UNCLASSIFIED by autho ° rity of Sec 3(8),EO 11652, on abysfbe : Ge yby 246321. | DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTIVE 15/1 PRODUCTION AND COORDINATION OF FOREIGN ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE (14 September 1954; QAR RaIEED ) Pursuant to the provisions of NSCID Nos. 1, 3, and 15, and for-the purpose of strengthening the over-all governmenta! intelligence struc- turé for the production anc coordination of foreign economic intelli- gence relating to the national security, the foilowing policies and operat- ing procedures are hereby established: 1. Policies In carrying out their foreign economic intelligence activities and responsibilities, and in order to effect a better coordination in the pro- duction and exchange of forcign economic intelligence, the interested departments and agencies will apply the following basic principles: a. No complete separation of interests is possible or necessarily de- sirable in economic intelligence activities. b. «ull and free interchange of all pertinent information, finished intelligence, and schedules of research programs, including external research, between ail agencies concerned is essential. c. No one agency is considered to be the undisputed authority in any field; conclusions may be questioned by other IAC agencies and dissents recorded. d. Each agency will be responsible for fulfilling its departmental requirements for economic intelligence; it will give full recognition to the finished intelligence produced by other agencies, but any agency "may make such studies as it believes necessary fo supplement the intelligence produced by other agencies. However, basic research studies should not normally be undertaken or disseminated outside the producing agency without consultation with the agency having primary responsibility for the subject matter involved. e. An agency charged with primary responsibility in a particular field will develop special competence in that field and will normally carry out most of the research in that field. — f. Each intelligence agency will endeavor to coordinate the intelli- gence activities of its Technical Services and its other facilities hav- ing economic intelligence production capabilities with the work of . the IAC intelligence agencies and to make available to those agencies the intelligence produced by such Services and facilities. 2. Allocation of Primary Producticn Responsibilities a. Production of military-economic intelligence on all foreign coun- tries, including by way of illustration intelligence on military require- ments, military materiel production, shipbuilding and ship move- ments, logistic capabilities, econamic vulnerabilities to ali forms of
military attack, and tavcet system analysis (including specific toca- tion, physical vulnerability, sad suppiemontury studies required), is the respensibilily of the desartmants of the Department of Defense. N39) 2 as b. Production of intellisenc2 on all foreign countries on economic doctrines, political and social aspects of economic organizaticns and. instituéicns such as trade unicns, and on the relatioushins between do politica! and econornic policies, is the responsibility cf the Department of State. c. Production of all economic inteligence on the Soviet Bloc? is the responsibility of the Central Intelligence Agency except as indi- cated herein. In addition, if will supplement the intelligence pro- duced by otner agencies by conducting such independent analyses and studies .as may be.necessary to produce jntegratcd economic in- telligence on the Bioc. d. Production of ell econernic intelligence on foreign countries out- side the Soviet Bicc is the responsibility of the Department of State except as indicated in paragraph 2.a. e. Despite the above menticned allocations of primary production responsibilities, thore will be areas of common or overlapping interest (including, fer exarmple, Soviet Bloc economic policies, East-West trade, and inland transpoztation) which will require continuing inter- agency lizison and cooperation. f. The existing allocations of production responsibility for National Intelligence Surveys (NIS) are not changed by this cirective even though such allocations may, in some instances, be at variance with agency responsibilities specified in paragraphs 2.2.,b.,c.,andd. How- ever, the EIC will from time to time examine such allocations and after consulting with the NIS Committee will make appropriate recommendations. . Responsibility for Economie Intelligence Coordination ‘a. To assist the Central Intelligence Agency in carrying out its responsibilities with respsct to cocrdination, the Economic Intelli- gence Committee (EIC) will continue to perform the functions out- lined in IAC-D-22/1 (Revised), 29 May 1951. Further, the EIC will be responsible for (1) reviewing from time to time the allocations of responsibility assigned herein; (2) determining how the provisions of this directive apply, particularly in areas of common or overlapping interest; and (3) recommending to the IAC apprepriate changes in the allocations of responsibility assigned herein. b. In order fo minimize the cuplication of effort and expense: (1) the EIC will prepare and circulate consolidated periodic iists of the economic research being conducted within the intehigence agencies; and (2) azencies snonsoring external research projects, involving more than $5,000, in support of economic intelligence production will sub- ‘As used herein, “Soviet Rice” includes USSR, Communist China, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Ranionis,, pitddpia, Albania, Soviet occupied por- tions of Germany and Austria, and Conuaunist dominated portions of Korea and Indo-China epovias 4) a7 3 uta st JO
mit descriptions of the scope of such projects to the EIC for review. The EIC will endeavor to present its recommendations in advance of final approval by the contracting agency. In its periodic reports to the IAC the EIC will include a summary of actions on these projects. ALLEN W. DULLES Director of Central Inteligence