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Mr. Allen Dulles stated that the statute which set up the
Central Intelligence Agency and which provided for the coordination
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of intelligence, had to be somewhat general in nature.
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the duty of spelling out in detail the exact duties of the CIA and
the other intelligence agencies. He said that these duties were
spelled out in the Council's Intelligence Directives; that over the
past ten years, the intelligence community had been proceeding under
the NSCIDs; and, although it had encountered some problems, they had
not been of such a nature as to require their being brought before
the Council, which was the court of last resort in matters of this
kind.
Mr. Dulles indicated that the President's Board of Consul-
tants on Foreign Intelligence Activities (the Hull Board) recommen-
ded wisely the recodification of the NSCIDs. With the exception of
the draft directive on Communications Intelligence, the NSCIDs had
been revised, improved considerably, and approved by the intelligence
community. Mr. Dulles then mentioned the subjects with which the revised draft NSCIDs dealt, and stated, with respect to draft NSCID
No. 6, that he concurred in the suggestion that action thereon be
deferred until work was completed on the draft NSCID dealing with
COMINT and until action was taken on the Baker Report recommendations.
General Cutler next called on General Hull, Chairman of the
President's Board of Consultants on Foreign Intelligence Activities,
who summarized the comments of the Board. These comments were circulated to the Council om March 6, 1958. He indicated that the Board
believed that the revised NSCIDs constituted a real forward step in
the direction of improving coordination of foreign intelligence.
General Hull mentioned the Board's concern lest the repeated
requirements in the draft NSCIDs, for consultation by the Director of
Central Intelligence with the Intelligence Advisory Committee, should
dilute Mr. Dulles' responsibility as Director of Central Intelligence.
He said that the Board would leave to the Director of Central Intelligence discretion as to whether and when he should consult with the IAC.
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General Hull cited the National Security Act on this point, not-
ing that that statute explicitly assigned such responsibility to the
Director of Central Intelligence. He said it was the understanding
of the Board, however, that this statutory assignment wes being interpreted by CIA to refer only to intelligence which the Director of
Central Intelligence received from other agencies.
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General Hull indicated, with respect to draft NSCID No. 1,
that the Board was increasingly concerned over recurring serious leaks
of intelligence and, accordingly, would fix more explicitly in NSCID
No. 1 responsibility for protection of intelligence sources and meth-