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[CITE: 50USC403-3]

 
                   TITLE 50--WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                      CHAPTER 15--NATIONAL SECURITY
 
            SUBCHAPTER I--COORDINATION FOR NATIONAL SECURITY
 
Sec. 403-3. Responsibilities of Director of Central Intelligence


(a) Provision of intelligence

    (1) Under the direction of the National Security Council, the 
Director of Central Intelligence shall be responsible for providing 
national intelligence--
        (A) to the President;
        (B) to the heads of departments and agencies of the executive 
    branch;
        (C) to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and senior 
    military commanders; and
        (D) where appropriate, to the Senate and House of 
    Representatives and the committees thereof.

    (2) Such national intelligence should be timely, objective, 
independent of political considerations, and based upon all sources 
available to the intelligence community.

(b) National Intelligence Council

    (1)(A) There is established within the Office of the Director of 
Central Intelligence the National Intelligence Council (hereafter in 
this section referred to as the ``Council''). The Council shall be 
composed of senior analysts within the intelligence community and 
substantive experts from the public and private sector, who shall be 
appointed by, report to, and serve at the pleasure of, the Director of 
Central Intelligence.
    (B) The Director shall prescribe appropriate security requirements 
for personnel appointed from the private sector as a condition of 
service on the Council, or as contractors of the Council or employees of 
such contractors, to ensure the protection of intelligence sources and 
methods while avoiding, wherever possible, unduly intrusive requirements 
which the Director considers to be unnecessary for this purpose.
    (2) The Council shall--
        (A) produce national intelligence estimates for the Government, 
    including, whenever the Council considers appropriate, alternative 
    views held by elements of the intelligence community;
        (B) evaluate community-wide collection and production of 
    intelligence by the intelligence community and the requirements and 
    resources of such collection and production; and
        (C) otherwise assist the Director in carrying out the 
    responsibilities described in subsection (a) of this section.

    (3) Within their respective areas of expertise and under the 
direction of the Director, the members of the Council shall constitute 
the senior intelligence advisers of the intelligence community for 
purposes of representing the views of the intelligence community within 
the Government.
    (4) Subject to the direction and control of the Director of Central 
Intelligence, the Council may carry out its responsibilities under this 
subsection by contract, including contracts for substantive experts 
necessary to assist the Council with particular assessments under this 
subsection.
    (5) The Director shall make available to the Council such staff as 
may be necessary to permit the Council to carry out its responsibilities 
under this subsection and shall take appropriate measures to ensure that 
the Council and its staff satisfy the needs of policymaking officials 
and other consumers of intelligence. The Council shall also be readily 
accessible to policymaking officials and other appropriate individuals 
not otherwise associated with the intelligence community.
    (6) The heads of elements within the intelligence community shall, 
as appropriate, furnish such support to the Council, including the 
preparation of intelligence analyses, as may be required by the 
Director.

(c) Head of intelligence community

    In the Director's capacity as head of the intelligence community, 
the Director shall--
        (1) facilitate the development of an annual budget for 
    intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United 
    States by--
            (A) developing and presenting to the President an annual 
        budget for the National Foreign Intelligence Program; and
            (B) participating in the development by the Secretary of 
        Defense of the annual budgets for the Joint Military 
        Intelligence Program and the Tactical Intelligence and Related 
        Activities Program;

        (2) establish the requirements and priorities to govern the 
    collection of national intelligence by elements of the intelligence 
    community;
        (3) approve collection requirements, determine collection 
    priorities, and resolve conflicts in collection priorities levied on 
    national collection assets, except as otherwise agreed with the 
    Secretary of Defense pursuant to the direction of the President;
        (4) promote and evaluate the utility of national intelligence to 
    consumers within the Government;
        (5) eliminate waste and unnecessary duplication within the 
    intelligence community;
        (6) protect intelligence sources and methods from unauthorized 
    disclosure; and
        (7) perform such other functions as the President or the 
    National Security Council may direct.

(d) Head of Central Intelligence Agency

    In the Director's capacity as head of the Central Intelligence 
Agency, the Director shall--
        (1) collect intelligence through human sources and by other 
    appropriate means, except that the Agency shall have no police, 
    subpoena, or law enforcement powers or internal security functions;
        (2) provide overall direction for the collection of national 
    intelligence through human sources by elements of the intelligence 
    community authorized to undertake such collection and, in 
    coordination with other agencies of the Government which are 
    authorized to undertake such collection, ensure that the most 
    effective use is made of resources and that the risks to the United 
    States and those involved in such collection are minimized;
        (3) correlate and evaluate intelligence related to the national 
    security and provide appropriate dissemination of such intelligence;
        (4) perform such additional services as are of common concern to 
    the elements of the intelligence community, which services the 
    Director of Central Intelligence determines can be more efficiently 
    accomplished centrally; and
        (5) perform such other functions and duties related to 
    intelligence affecting the national security as the President or the 
    National Security Council may direct.

(July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title I, Sec. 103, as added Pub. L. 102-496, 
title VII, Sec. 705(a)(3), Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 3190; amended Pub. 
L. 103-178, title V, Sec. 502, Dec. 3, 1993, 107 Stat. 2038; Pub. L. 
104-293, title VIII, Secs. 806, 807(a), Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3479, 
3480.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 103 of act July 26, 1947, was renumbered section 107 
and is classified to section 404 of this title.


                               Amendments

    1996--Subsec. (b)(1)(B). Pub. L. 104-293, Sec. 806(1), inserted ``, 
or as contractors of the Council or employees of such contractors,'' 
after ``on the Council''.
    Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 104-293, Sec. 806(2), added subpar. (B) and 
redesignated former subpar. (B) as (C).
    Subsec. (b)(4). Pub. L. 104-293, Sec. 806(3), added par. (4). Former 
par. (4) redesignated (5).
    Subsec. (b)(5). Pub. L. 104-293, Sec. 806(3), (5), redesignated par. 
(4) as (5) and inserted at end ``The Council shall also be readily 
accessible to policymaking officials and other appropriate individuals 
not otherwise associated with the intelligence community.'' Former par. 
(5) redesignated (6).
    Subsec. (b)(6). Pub. L. 104-293, Sec. 806(3), redesignated par. (5) 
as (6).
    Subsec. (c)(1). Pub. L. 104-293, Sec. 807(a)(1), added par. (1) and 
struck out former par. (1) which read as follows: ``develop and present 
to the President an annual budget for the National Foreign Intelligence 
Program of the United States;''.
    Subsec. (c)(3) to (7). Pub. L. 104-293, Sec. 807(a)(2), (3), added 
par. (3) and redesignated former pars. (3) to (6) as (4) to (7), 
respectively.
    1993--Subsec. (d)(3). Pub. L. 103-178 substituted ``provide'' for 
``providing''.


   Standards for Spelling of Foreign Names and Places and for Use of 
                         Geographic Coordinates

    Pub. L. 105-107, title III, Sec. 309, Nov. 20, 1997, 111 Stat. 2253, 
provided that:
    ``(a) Survey of Current Standards.--
        ``(1) Survey.--The Director of Central Intelligence shall carry 
    out a survey of current standards for the spelling of foreign names 
    and places, and the use of geographic coordinates for such places, 
    among the elements of the intelligence community.
        ``(2) Report.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
    enactment of this Act [Nov. 20, 1997], the Director shall submit to 
    the congressional intelligence committees a report on the survey 
    carried out under paragraph (1). The report shall be submitted in 
    unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.
    ``(b) Guidelines.--
        ``(1) Issuance.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
    enactment of this Act, the Director shall issue guidelines to ensure 
    the use of uniform spelling of foreign names and places and the 
    uniform use of geographic coordinates for such places. The 
    guidelines shall apply to all intelligence reports, intelligence 
    products, and intelligence databases prepared and utilized by the 
    elements of the intelligence community.
        ``(2) Basis.--The guidelines under paragraph (1) shall, to the 
    maximum extent practicable, be based on current United States 
    Government standards for the transliteration of foreign names, 
    standards for foreign place names developed by the Board on 
    Geographic Names, and a standard set of geographic coordinates.
        ``(3) Submittal to congress.--The Director shall submit a copy 
    of the guidelines to the congressional intelligence committees.
    ``(c) Congressional Intelligence Committees Defined.--In this 
section, the term `congressional intelligence committees' means the 
following:
        ``(1) The Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate.
        ``(2) The Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the 
    House of Representatives.''


                    Periodic Reports on Expenditures

    Section 807(c) of Pub. L. 104-293 provided that: ``Not later than 
January 1, 1997, the Director of Central Intelligence and the Secretary 
of Defense shall prescribe guidelines to ensure prompt reporting to the 
Director and the Secretary on a periodic basis of budget execution data 
for all national, defense-wide, and tactical intelligence activities.''


                        Database Program Tracking

    Section 807(d) of Pub. L. 104-293 provided that: ``Not later than 
January 1, 1999, the Director of Central Intelligence and the Secretary 
of Defense shall develop and implement a database to provide timely and 
accurate information on the amounts, purposes, and status of the 
resources, including periodic budget execution updates, for all 
national, defense-wide, and tactical intelligence activities.''


  Identification of Constituent Components of Base Intelligence Budget

    Pub. L. 103-359, title VI, Sec. 603, Oct. 14, 1994, 108 Stat. 3433, 
provided that: ``The Director of Central Intelligence shall include the 
same level of budgetary detail for the Base Budget that is provided for 
Ongoing Initiatives and New Initiatives to the Permanent Select 
Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives and the Select 
Committee on Intelligence of the Senate in the congressional 
justification materials for the annual submission of the National 
Foreign Intelligence Program of each fiscal year.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 401a, 403-1, 403-5, 403f, 
403g, 404g, 411, 2011 of this title.
