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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. Somewhat awkwardly, they are indexed by CIA in "old" (P) and "new" categories, as listed below.

Old Category 1 - Protection of Sources and Methods - Requirements and Priorities

• DCID 1/1 - The Authorities and Responsibilities of the Director of Central Intelligence as head of the U.S. Intelligence Community [19 November 1998]
• DCID 1/2P - US Foreign Intelligence Requirements Categories and Priorities [30 July 1984]
• DCID 1/5P - National Intelligence Warning [23 May 1979]
• DCID 1/10P - Security Classification Guidance on Liaison Relationships with Foreign Intelligence Organizations and Foreign Security Services [14 December 1982]
• DCID 1/11P - Community Counterintelligence and Security Countermeasures Office
• DCID 1/12P - U.S. Intelligence Community Physical Standards for Sensitive Compartmented Information [September 1987]
• DCID 1/14P - Personnel Security Standards and Procedures Governing Eligibility for Access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) (superseded by DCID 6/4)
• DCID 1/15P - Data Standardization for the Intelligence Community
• DCID 1/16P - Security Policy for Uniform Protection of Intelligence Processed in Automated Information Systems and Networks (U), [19 July 1988] (superseded by DCID 6/3)
• DCID 1/16P Supplement - Security Manual for Uniform Protection of Intelligence Processed in Automated Systems and Networks (U) (superseded by DCID 6/3 Manual)
• DCID 1/17P - Human Resources Committee [18 May 1976]
• DCID 1/18P - Recognition of Exceptional Service to the US Intelligence Community [18 May 1976]
• DCID 1/19P - Security Policy for Sensitive Compartmented Information and Security Policy Manual [1 March 1995] (PDF)
• DCID 1/20P - Security Policy Concerning Travel and Assignment of Personnel with Access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) [29 December 1991]
• DCID 1/21P - 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
• DCID 1/22P - Technical Surveillance Countermeasures

Old Category 2 - Selected Services of Common Concern

• DCID 2/1P - Relationship with Nongovernmental Organizations [24 November 1982]
• DCID 2/2P -
• DCID 2/3P - Foreign Broadcast Information Service [30 July 1982]
• DCID 2/4P - Terrorist Threat Integration Center [1 May 2003]
• DCID 2/5P -
• DCID 2/6P - Biographic Intelligence [4 August 1982] (via GovernmentAttic.org)
• DCID 2/7P -
• DCID 2/8P -
• DCID 2/9P - Management of National Imagery Intelligence [SECRET], 1 June 1992;
• DCID 2/10P - National SIGINT Requirements and Policy Coordination [1 June 1992] (via GovernmentAttic.org)
• DCID 2/11P - Management of National MASINT [December 1992] (via GovernmentAttic.org)
• DCID 2/12P - Community Open Source Program [UNCLASS, 1 March 1994]
• DCID 2/13P - Communications with Congressional Committees Regarding Intelligence Information Related to Law Enforcement Matters [7 November 1995] (PDF)

Old Category 3 - DCI Advisory Bodies

• DCID 3/1P - National Foreign Intelligence Board [14 January 1997]
• DCID 3/2P - Intelligence Community Policy and Planning Committees [28 July 1997]
• DCID 3/3P - Community Management Staff [12 June 1995]
• DCID 3/4P - Management Oversight of National Intelligence Advanced Research and Development [01 August 1993]
• DCID 3/5P - Scientific and Technical Intelligence Committee
• DCID 3/6P - SIGINT Committee [12 May 1982] (superseded by DCID 2/10P, 1 June 1992)
• DCID 3/7P - Human Resources Committee [12 October 1982]
• DCID 3/8P - Critical Intelligence Problems Committee [6 April 1981]
• DCID 3/9P - Foreign Atomic Energy Intelligence [1 June 1992] (via GovernmentAttic.org)
• DCID 3/10P - Foreign Scientific and Technical Intelligence [1 June 1992] (via GovernmentAttic.org)
• DCID 3/11P - Foreign Weapon and Space Systems Intelligence [1 June 1992] (via GovernmentAttic.org)
• DCID 3/12P -
• DCID 3/13P - Community Nonproliferation Committee [12 April 1993]
• DCID 3/14P - Intelligence Systems Board and Intelligence Systems Secretariat [20 October 1994] (superseded by DCID 1/6, 4 February 2000), previously entitled Information Handling Committee [4 May 1982, Unclassified]
• DCID 3/15P - Foreign Language Committee [5 March 1982] (rescinded by the DCI, 28 March 2001)
• DCID 3/16P - Foreign Denial and Deception Analysis [1 June 1992] (via GovernmentAttic.org)
• DCID 3/17P -
• DCID 3/18P -
• DCID 3/19P -
• DCID 3/20P - Committee on Narcotics Intelligence Issues [24 January 1990] (via GovernmentAttic.org)
• DCID 3/21P - The Community Personnel Coordinating Committee [1 June 1992]
• DCID 3/22P - Interagency Intelligence Committee on Terrorism [1 April 1997] (via GovernmentAttic.org)
• DCID 3/23P - The National Intelligence Council and the National Intelligence Officer [1 June 1992]
• DCID 3/24P -
• DCID 3/25P -
• DCID 3/26P - National Intelligence Collection Board [1 March 1993]
• DCID 3/27P - The Intelligence Community Training Directors' Consortium (TDC) [13 December 1994]
• DCID 3/28P - Committee on International Organized Crime Intelligence Issues [13 December 1994] (via GovernmentAttic.org)
• DCID 3/29P - Controlled Access Program Oversight Committee [2 June 1995] (PDF) (superseded by DCID 6/11, 14 November 2002)
• DCID 3/30P - The Intelligence Community Diversity Management Council and the Community Diversity Issues Board [3 November 1995]

Old Category 4 -

• DCID 4/1P -
• DCID 4/2P -

Old Category 5 - Espionage, Counterintelligence and Foreign Liaison Activitiesd

• DCID 5/1P - Coordination of US Clandestine Foreign Intelligence Activities Abroad
• DCID 5/2P - US Clandestine Foreign Intelligence and Counterintelligence Liaison
• DCID 5/3P -
• DCID 5/4P - Cover
• DCID 5/5P - Conduct of SIGINT Liaison with Foreign Governments and the Release of U.S. SIGINT to Foreign Governments [17 May 1983]
• DCID 5/6P - Intelligence Disclosure Policy [30 June 1998] (renumbered as DCID 6/7 on 20 April 2001)

Old Category 6 - Warning, Critical Communications, and Emergency Planning

• DCID 6/1P -
• DCID 6/2P -
• DCID 6/3P -

Old Category 7 - Other DCI Policies and Procedures

• DCID 7/1P - Intelligence Community Awards [15 August 1993] (superseded by ICD 655)

DCIDs with New Numbers

Category 1 - Management

• DCID 1/1 - The Authorities and Responsibilities of the Director of Central Intelligence as head of the U.S. Intelligence Community [19 November 1998]
• DCID 1/3 - The Intelligence Community Declassification Program Managers Council [11 March 1999]
• DCID 1/4 - Intelligence Community Officer Program [4 February 2000]
• DCID 1/6 - Intelligence Community Chief Information Officer [4 February 2000]
• DCID 1/7 - The Intelligence Community Open Source Program [26 September 2000]. Previously entitled 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]
• DCID 1/ 8 - Management of National Imagery, Imagery Intelligence, Geospatial Activities, and Related Information [21 March 2001] (via GovernmentAttic.org)
• DCID 1/ 9 - Biographic Intelligence [18 May 1976] (via GovernmentAttic.org)
• DCID 1/10 - Mission Requirements Board [03 October 2001]
• DCID 1/13 - Coordination of the Collection and Exploitation of Imagery Intelligence [18 May 1976] (via GovernmentAttic.org)

Category 2 - Analysis and Production

• DCID 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]
• DCID 2/2 - Authorities and Responsibilities of the National Intelligence Council and the National Intelligence Officers [27 May 1999] (formerly DCID 2/3)

Category 3 - Collection

• DCID 3/1 - Authorities and Responsibilities of the Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Collection and the National Intelligence Collection Board [07 August 2000]
• DCID 3/2 -
• DCID 3/12 - Foreign Economic Intelligence [1 June 1992] (via GovernmentAttic.org)

Category 4 - Program and Budget

• DCID 4/1 - Intelligence Programs and Budgets [11 August 2000]
• DCID 4/2 - The Defector Program Abroad [18 May 1976] (via GovernmentAttic.org)
• DCID 4/2 (Second Revision) - The Defector Program Abroad [4 August 1953] (via GovernmentAttic.org)

Category 5 - Relationships

• There are no DCIDs in this category

Category 6 - Security

• DCID 6/1 - Security Policy for Sensitive Compartmented Information [1 March 1995]
• DCID 6/2 - Technical Surveillance Countermeasures [11 March 1999] (superseded by ICD 702)
• DCID 6/3 - Protecting Sensitive Compartmented Information Within Information Systems [05 June 1999]
  • POLICY
  • MANUAL (also available as MS Word document) [24 May 2000]
  • APPENDICES
• DCID 6/4 - Personnel Security Standards and Procedures Governing Eligibility for Access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) [02 July 1998] (replaced DCID 1/14)(PDF)
• DCID 6/5 - Policy for Protection of Certain Non-SCI Sources and Methods Information (SAMI) [12 February 2001]
• DCID 6/6 - Security Controls on the Dissemination of Intelligence Information [11 July 2001]
• DCID 6/7 - Intelligence Disclosure Policy [30 June 1998] (via GovernmentAttic.org)
• DCID 6/8 - Unauthorized Disclosures, Security Violations, and Other Compromises of Intelligence Information (SCI) [9 December 2002]
• DCID 6/9 - Physical Security Standards for Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities [18 November 2002] (PDF) (Administrative Correction, 23 December 2002)
DCID 6/11 - Controlled Access Program Oversight Committee [14 November 2002]

Category 7 - Other

• DCID 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]
• DCID 7/3 - Information Operations and Intelligence Community Related Activities [01 July 1999] (via GovernmentAttic.org)
• DCID 7/6 - Community Acquisition Risk Center [2 March 2005]

Category 8 - [?]

• DCID 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

• NSCID 6: SIGNALS INTELLIGENCE, 17 February 1972

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

• NSCID 6 obtained by GovernmentAttic.org)
• Thanks to Jeffrey T. Richelson for an updated index of DCIDs and several directive texts
• DCID 6/8 obtained by Wikileaks.org
• Central Intelligence: Origin and Evolution, edited by Michael Warner, CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence, 2001 (via cryptome.org).

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