SECRET - Approved For Release 2 1 31 December 1958' DIRECTOR OF CENTRALINTELLIGENCE DIRECTIVE 3 534 PRODUCTION SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE Pursuant to the provisions of NSCID No 3 and for the purpose of strengthening the over-all governmental intelligence structure the following policies procedures and practices are hereby established for the production and coordination of scientific and technical intel- ligence - l Policies The following basic principles shall apply to the di echarge of res-- ponsibilities by the departments and agencies concerned a No complete separation of'areas of interest is desirable or possible b Full and free interchange among all departments-randagencies of information rhich has utility for intelligence relating to the national security is essential This includes intelligence information finished intelligence and information on internal and external-intelligence research programs This Directive supersedes DCID 3 4 of 14 August 1953 For directives pertaining to atomic energy and guided missiles and astronautic intelligence oeelDCID and 3 4 Approved For Release 2000108126 SECRET SECRET Approved For Release 2000108I26 CIA-RDP61005493000200030028-1 2 1 31 December 1958 c Each department or I agency shall deveIOp Special competence in those intelligence fields related to its prirmaryr departmental responsibilities and shall normally carryout the bulk of the research in those fields 1 Each department or agency may make such etu'dies' as it believes necessary to supplement intelligence obtainable from other departments and agencies in order to meet its own departmental require- ments but unnecessary duplication and overlap shallbe avoided 2 Production Responsibilitie a To ensure that the capabilities of the departments'and agencies are effectively utilized in the common interest for the production of scientific and technical intelligence the following division of intereste subject to refinement through a continuous program of coondinati'onand evaluation by the Director of Central Intelligence to promote an integration of effort and to avoid undesirable duplication shall serve as a general delineation of primary re sponsibilitiea a The ice-meal Intelligence Ag'en'cy' aha-11- produce scientific 'and technical intelligence as a service of common concern and 'as required to fulfill the statutory responsibilities of the Director of Central Intelligence -2- Approved For Release SECRET -RDP61-00549R000200030028-1 Approved For Releaee 2000108126 CIA USIB-D-34 2 1 31 December 1958 The other departments or agencies shall produce scientific and technical intelligence pertinent to their departmental missions 3 Establishment of the Scientific Inteiligence Committee The Scientific Intelligence Committee is hereby eetabliehedae a committee of the United States Intelligence Board'to coordinate scientific and technical intelligence activities of the Government as set forth below 4 Mission of the Scientific intelligence Committee The mission of the Scientific Intelligence Committee SIC shall be to foster develop and maintaina coordinated community'approach to- probleme in the field of seientific- and technical intelligence except for 1 atomic energy guided to prombte inter-LAgency liaison and Ito- give added impetus and conirnunity eupport to effort-e of individual agenciee Specirfic reeponeibilitiee of the Scientific Intelligence Committee shall include the following a To provide a mechanism for the exchange of scientific-and technical information for intelligence purposes related to the national security CIA and b I fo develop scientific and technical intelligence objectives and to NSA me mber's' review the scope of collection and production efforts to meet these objectives I -3 Approved For Release 61-00549R000200030028-1 SECRET Approved For Release 2000108126 5 2f1 31 December 1958 Othe'rlfnembere ffo develop scientific and'technicel intelligence objectives and All except Joint Staff and Navy Joint Staff and Navy to evaluate in achieving these objectiveezj' c fife produce 1 coordinated drafts of national intelligence estimates 2- contributions to national intelligence estimates and 3 other inter departmental intelligence ae appropriateJ Ea prep-are drafts of or contributions to national intelligence estimates in the field of foreign scientific and technical activities and to produce interdepartmental intelligence as authorized by the U S Intelligence Board 7 0 Furthermore to 4 coordinate intelligence community Opinion on significant foreign Scientificand technical developments and to produce approspriate reports to the Board thereon In the field of current intelligence SIC responsibility pe rtaina to theevaluation of important eventa in science and technology'and not to the reporting of eucheventa d To determine the important deficiencies inscientific and technical intelligence to take appropriate remedial action and'to recommend to the U S Intelligence Board remedial action beyond the authority of the SIC e To provide a mechanism for coordinating-as appropriate the ecientific and technical intelligence productioneffort'e' of the member agencies including specifically the scientific-and technical portions of the National Intelligence Survey Approved For Release 2000I08126 CIA- 1-00549R000200030028-1 SECRET Approved For Release USIB- 34 2 1 31 December 1958 f To provide staff support as required by the U 8 Intelligence Board for international conferences on Scientifieand technical intel- ligence 5 Membership of the Scientific mtgligence Committee The Scientific Intelligence Committee shall be compoeed of representatives of the U S Intelligence Board departments andegenmes Other departments and agencies may be invited by the Chairman to par- tic1pate in the work of the SIG on a particular problem as agreed by the Commitfaee 6 Chairmanship of the Scientific Intelligence Committee The Chairman of the Scientific Intelligence Committee Shall be de eignated Army Navy Air Force I annually by the U S Intelligence Board 7 and the Joint Staff membe 1 5 CIA St ate OSD and the ir ectOr of Central Intelligence with the AEC members concurrence of the Intelligence Board The Central Intelligence Agency the secretariat 7 of the Scientific Intelligence Committee The Scientific Intelligence Committeef lay establieh subcommittees All except '1 Navy Air Force and working groups as appropriate M7 and Joint Staff 5 A re ed For Release A- 1-00549R000200030028-1 pp 3536 4in SECRET Approved For Release 2000 08l26 Navy Air Force Joint Staff 31 December 1958 establish a hoc working groupsi Ighall establish subcommittees in electronics biological and chemical warfare and medicine and working groups as appropriatei hall establish aghoc subcommittees and working groups as appropriate 8 The Scientific Intelligence Committee shall share with the Joint Atomic Energy Intelligence Committee Guided Missile and Astronautics Intelligence Committee Economic Intelligence Committee and other appropriate Board committees responsibility for the coordina- tion of areas of joint or overlapping concern Care shall be taken to avoid nndesirable duplication in activities and also to ensure that no important scientific technical or economic intelligence matter is neglected or escapee attention by falling between areas of established separate committee activities The chairman of each of these com mittees shall be responsible for ensuring liaison and coordination with the other committees involved on any and all matters of joint or over- lapping one rn Approved For Release 2000I08126 61-00549R000200030028-1                     National Security Archive    Suite 701  Gelman Library  The George Washington University    2130 H Street  NW  Washington  D C  20037    Phone  202 994‐7000  Fax  202 994‐7005  nsarchiv@gwu edu