Office of the Historian

194. National Intelligence Authority Directive No. 90

Washington, April 18, 1947.

COORDINATION OF INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES RELATED TO FOREIGN ATOMIC ENERGY DEVELOPMENTS AND POTENTIALITIES

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Pursuant to the President’s letter of 22 January 1946, designating this Authority as responsible for planning, developing and coordinating [Page 511] all Federal foreign intelligence activities so as to assure the most effective accomplishment of the intelligence mission related to the national security, the following policies and procedures relating to Federal intelligence activities in the field of foreign atomic energy developments and potentialities affecting the national security are announced:
a.
The Director of Central Intelligence, subject to the direction and control of this Authority, is hereby authorized and directed to coordinate the collection by agencies subject to N.I.A. coordination of all intelligence information related to foreign atomic energy developments and potentialities affecting the national security, and to accomplish the correlation, evaluation, and appropriate dissemination within the Government of the resulting intelligence. The Director of Central Intelligence is further authorized to arrange with other intelligence agencies of the Government to utilize their collection facilities in this field.1
For the National Intelligence Authority:
J.S. Earman

Acting Secretary, N.I.A.
  1. Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 218, Records of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Leahy Papers, No. 132. Top Secret.↩
  2. On July 25 the NIA agreed to a proposal from the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission that the AEC become a permanent member of the Intelligence Advisory Board. On August 5 the Chairman of the AEC designated Rear Admiral John E. Gingrich, the AEC’s Director of Intelligence, as the Commission’s representative on the IAB. (Memorandum from Hillenkoetter to Leahy, et al., August 12; ibid., No. 131) See the Supplement.↩