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DCIDs:
Director of Central Intelligence Directives

Director of Central Intelligence Directives (DCIDs) were formerly the principal instrument for defining intelligence community-wide policies. Since the establishment and the appointment of the Director of National Intelligence in 2005, however, many DCIDs have been updated, modified, replaced or reissued by the DNI as Intelligence Community Directives (ICDs). DCIDs that have been publicly released include the following.

1 - Protection of Sources and Methods - Requirements and Priorities

• 1/1 - Authorities and Responsibilities of the Director of Central Intelligence [19 November 1998]
• 1/2 - US Foreign Intelligence Requirements Categories and Priorities [30 July 1984]
• 1/3 - The Intelligence Community Declassification Program Managers Council [11 March 1999]
• 1/4 - Intelligence Community Officer Programs [4 February 2000]
• 1/5 - National Intelligence Warning [23 May 1979]
• 1/6 - Intelligence Community Chief Information Officer [4 February 2000]
• 1/7 - Security Controls on the Dissemination of Intelligence Information, [30 June 1998] [Replaces DCID 1/7 of 12 April 1995; See also Producing Timely Tailored Finished Intelligence: Writing for the Consumer, 16 April 1996]
• 1/ 8 - Management of National Imagery, Imagery Intelligence, Geospatial Activities, and Related Information [21 March 2001]
• 1/ 9 -
• 1/10 - Security Classification Guidance on Liaison Relationships with Foreign Intelligence Organizations and Foreign Security Services [14 December 1982]
• 1/11 - Community Counterintelligence and Security Countermeasures Office
• 1/12 - U.S. Intelligence Community Physical Standards for Sensitive Compartmented Information [September 1987]
• 1/13 - Coordination of the Collection and Exploitation of Imagery Intelligence
• 1/14 - Personnel Security Standards and Procedures Governing Eligibility for Access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) (superseded by DCID 6/4)
• 1/15 - Data Standardization for the Intelligence Community
• 1/16 - Security Policy for Uniform Protection of Intelligence Processed in Automated Information Systems and Networks (U), [19 July 1988] (superseded by DCID 6/3)
• 1/16 Supplement - Security Manual for Uniform Protection of Intelligence Processed in Automated Systems and Networks (U) (superseded by DCID 6/3 Manual)
• 1/17 - Human Resources Committee [18 May 1976]
• 1/18 - Recognition of Exceptional Service to the US Intelligence Community [18 May 1976]
• 1/19 - Security Policy for Sensitive Compartmented Information and Security Policy Manual [1 March 1995] (PDF)
• 1/20 - Security Policy Concerning Travel and Assignments of Personnel with Access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) [29 December 1991]
• 1/21 - U.S. Intelligence Community Manual for Physical Security Standards for Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities (SCIFs) [30 January 1994] (updated version of 29 July 1994 in PDF format available here) [superseded by DCID 6/9, 18 November 02]
  • Quick Reference SCIF Construction Guide
• 1/22 - Technical Surveillance Countermeasures

2 - Selected Services of Common Concern

• 2/1 - Authorities and Responsibilities of the Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Analysis and Production and the National Intelligence Production Board [7 August 2000]
• 2/2 -
• 2/3 - Authorities and Responsibilities of the National Intelligence Council and the National Intelligence Officers [27 May 1999]
• 2/4 - Terrorist Threat Integration Center [1 May 2003]
• 2/5 -
• 2/6 -
• 2/7 -
• 2/8 -
• 2/9 - Management of National Imagery Intelligence [SECRET], 1 June 1992;
• 2/10 - National SIGINT Committee
• 2/11 - National MASINT Committee Charter [1992]
• 2/12 - Community Open Source Program [UNCLASS, 1 March 1994]
• 2/13 - Communications with Congressional Committees Regarding Intelligence Information Related to Law Enforcement Matters [7 November 1995] (PDF)

3 - DCI Advisory Bodies

• 3/1 - National Foreign Intelligence Board [14 January 1997]
• 3/2 - Intelligence Community Policy and Planning Committees [28 July 1997]
• 3/3 - Community Management Staff [12 June 1995]
• 3/4 - Guided Missile and Astronautics Intelligence Committee
• 3/5 - Scientific and Technical Intelligence Committee
• 3/6 -
• 3/7 - Human Resources Committee [12 October 1982]
• 3/8 - Critical Intelligence Problems Committee [6 April 1981]
• 3/9 -
• 3/10 -
• 3/11 -
• 3/12 -
• 3/13 - Community Nonproliferation Committee [12 April 1993]
• 3/14 - Information Handling Committee [4 May 1982, Unclassified]
• 3/15 - Foreign Language Committee [5 March 1982]
• 3/16 -
• 3/17 -
• 3/18 -
• 3/19 -
• 3/20 -
• 3/21 - The Community Personnel Coordinating Committee [1 June 1992]
• 3/22 -
• 3/23 - The National Intelligence Council and the National Intelligence Officer [1 June 1992]
• 3/24 -
• 3/25 -
• 3/26 - National Intelligence Collection Board [1 March 1993]
• 3/27 - The Intelligence Community Training Directors' Consortium (TDC) [13 December 1994]
• 3/28 - Committee on International Organized Crime Intelligence Issues, [13 December 1994]
• 3/29 - Controlled Access Program Oversight Committee [2 June 1995] (PDF)
• 3/30 - The Intelligence Community Diversity Management Council and the Community Diversity Issues Board [3 November 1995]

4 -

• 4/1 - Intelligence Programs and Budgets [11 August 2000]
• 4/2 -

5 - US Espionage and Counterintelligence Activities Abroad

• 5/1 - Coordination of US Clandestine Foreign Intelligence Activities Abroad
• 5/2 - US Clandestine Foreign Intelligence and Counterintelligence Liaison
• 5/3 -
• 5/4 - Cover
• 5/5 - Conduct of SIGINT Liaison with Foreign Governments and the Release of U.S. SIGINT to Foreign Governments [17 May 1983]
• 5/6 - Intelligence Disclosure Policy [30 June 1998]

6 - Security

• 6/1 - SIGINT Committee (old system) [18 May 1982]

• 6/1 - Security Policy for Sensitive Compartmented Information [1 March 1995]
• 6/2 - Technical Surveillance Countermeasures [11 March 1999] (superseded by ICD 702)
• 6/3 - Protecting Sensitive Compartmented Information Within Information Systems [05 June 1999]
  • POLICY
  • MANUAL (also available as MS Word document) [24 May 2000]
  • APPENDICES
• 6/4 - Personnel Security Standards and Procedures Governing Eligibility for Access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) [02 July 1998] (replaced DCID 1/14)(PDF)
• 6/5 - Policy for Protection of Certain Non-SCI Sources and Methods Information (SAMI) [12 February 2001]
• 6/6 - Security Controls on the Dissemination of Intelligence Information [11 July 2001]
• 6/7 - Intelligence Disclosure Policy [20 April 2001]
• 6/8 - Unauthorized Disclosures, Security Violations, and Other Compromises of Intelligence Information (SCI) [9 December 2002]
• 6/9 - Physical Security Standards for Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities [18 November 2002] (PDF) (Administrative Correction, 23 December 2002)

7 -

• 7/1 - Intelligence Community Awards [15 August 1993] (superseded by ICD 655)
• 7/2 - Oversight of the US Intelligence Community's Efforts to Combat the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Their Means of Delivery [7 May 1999]
• 7/3 - Information Operations and Intelligence Community Related Activities

8 -

• 8/1 - Intelligence Community Policy on Intelligence Information Sharing [9 June 2004]
• DCID 8 Series Policy Memoranda 1: Intelligence Community Implementation of Releasable by Information Disclosure Official (RELIDO) Dissemination Marking, issued by DNI Negroponte, June 9, 2005

NSCID
National Security Council
Intelligence Directives

Old Series

1. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES January 19, 1950
2. COORDINATION OF COLLECTION ACTIVITIES ABROAD January 13, 1948
3. COORDINATION OF INTELLIGENCE PRODUCTION January 13, 1948
4. NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE OBJECTIVES December 12, 1947
5. ESPIONAGE AND COUNTERESPIONAGE OPERATIONS December 12, 1947
6. FOREIGN WIRELESS AND RADIO MONITORING December 12, 1947
7. DOMESTIC EXPLOITATION February 12, 1948
8. BIOGRAPHICAL DATA ON FOREIGN SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL PERSONALITIES May 25, 1948
9. COMMUNICATIONS INTELLIGENCE March 10, 1950
10. COLLECTION OF FOREIGN SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL DATA January 18, 1949
11. SECURITY OF INFORMATION ON INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS January 6, 1950
12. AVOIDANCE OF PUBLICITY CONCERNING THE INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT January 6, 1950
13. ??? January 19, 1950
14. ??? 14 March 3, 1950

Sources and Resources

• Thanks to Jeffrey T. Richelson
• Central Intelligence: Origin and Evolution, edited by Michael Warner, CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence, 2001 (via cryptome.org).

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