Director of Central Intelligence Directives (DCIDs)

DCIDs are assignments made by the DCI to various intelligence departments within the U.S. government. The authority for the issuance of DCIDs comes from National Security Council Intelligence Directive (NSCID) No. 1 which details the DCIs responsiblities. The following are examples of the subject matter of various DCIDs:

Num	Description							Date


1/2    "U.S. Intelligence Requirements Categories and Priorities"	1/21/72
1/3    "Committees of the Director of Central Intelligence"		5/18/86
1/5    "Data Standardization for the Intelligence Community"		5/76
1/7    "Control of Dissemination of Intelligence Information  		5/4/81

1/8    "The National Foreign Intelligence Board"  (NFIB)   		5/6/76
        		 Updated version of 1/8 issued 			1/28/82
1/10  "Security Policy Guidance on Liaison Relationships with Foreign	1/18/82
		Intelligence Organizations and Foreign Security Services"
1/13  "Coordination of Collection and Exploitation of Imagery 		Date Unknown
		Intelligence"

The following DCIDs deal with Security Standards: 

Num	Description							Date


1/14  "Minimum Personnel Security Standards and Procedures Governing	4/14/86
         Eligibility for Access to Sensitive Compartmented Information."
1/16  "Security Policy fro Uniform Protection of Inteligence Processed  7/88 
         In Autmomated Information Systems and Networks." (Secret) 1
1/18  "Recognition of Exceptional Service to the U.S. Intelligence	5/18/76 
         Community."
1/19  "Uniform Procedures for Administrative Handling and Accountability     
         of Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI)."
1/20  "Security Policy Concerning Travel and Assignment of Personnel
         with Access to Sensitive Compartmented Information." 
1/21  "Physcial Standards for Sensitive Compartmented Information"      09/01/87
The following DCIDs deal with the mission and functions of various organizations:

Num	Description							Date


2/1   "Coordination of Overt Collection Abroad"				5/8/60
2/9   "Management of National Imagery Intelligence" (Secret)            06/01/92
3/1   "Standard Operating Procedures for Departmental Participation in	7/8/48
      the Production and Coordination of National Intelligence." Later 
      reissued to define the mission and functions of the Economic 
      Intelligence Committee.
3/2   "Policy Governing Departmental Concurrences in National		9/13/48
      Intelligence Reports and Estimates."
3/3   Defines the Joint Atomic Energy Intelligence Committee.
3/4   Defines the Guided Missile and Astronautics Intelligence Committee.
3/5   Defines the Scientific and Technical Intelligence Committee.  
3/7   Defines the Human Resources Committee.				10/12/82
3/8   Defines the Critical Intelligence Problems Committee		4/6/83
3/13  Defines the Technology Transfer Intelligence Committee		12/3/81
3/14  Defines the Information Handling Committee			5/4/82
3/15  Defines the Foreign Language Committee				3/5/82
The following DCIDs deal with Defectors, Clandestine Activities,and SIGINT:

Num	Description							Date


4/1  "Interagency Defector Committee"					5/76
4/2  "The Defector Program Abroad"					5/76
5/1  "Coordination of U.S. Clandestine Foreign Intelligence 		5/76
       Activities Abroad."
5/2  "U.S. Clandestine Foreign Intelligence and Counterintelligence	5/76
       Liaison."
6/1  Functions, composition, and mission of the SIGINT Committee	5/12/82
7/1  "Handling of Critical Information." 				8/76
???  "Intelligence Producers Council."					3/30/83
???  "Intelligence Disclosure Policy."					5/25/83
???  "Establishment of the National Foreign Intelligence Council."	1/28/83

1 DoDIIS Profile, WWW (Online on 4/1/97), Section 2-7 and Section 2-8 found at http://www-library.itsi.disa.mil/dodiis/sec2-7.html
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