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matters.11 The establishment of the information section in the North
Atlantic Treaty Council provides the mechanism for close coordination
of the international information activities of the nations parties to
this treaty. Coordination between the United States and other gov-
ernments is provided for in an instruction of the Department of "State
authorizing close coordination with the Government of the United
Kingdom, and other governments as may be agreed, in a broad range
of information activity.
  Inasmuch as the success of these coordinated activities will require
extensive activity in the international information field by all avail-
able resources, and particularly by governments other than that of the
United States, other governments need to be encouraged to develop
and to maintain vigorous international information activities.
  Coordination with private agencies in the United States, including
a wide range of business, professional, civic, labor and youth orga-
nizations and representatives of foreign groups, in the production,
utilization and dissemination of materials and in ithe exchange of per-
sons is carried on in accordance with the provisions of Public Law
402.15
                          ANNEx No. 6:16
          FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE AND RELATED ACTIVITIES
(Prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency, with the concurrence
              of the Intelligence Advisory Committee)
  1. It is axiomatic that the situation appreciated in NSC 68 and
the policy proposed to meet it require the improvement ,and intensifi-
cation of U.S. foreign intelligence and related activities,!as a safe-
guard against political or military surprise, and as essential to the
conduct of the affirmative program envisaged.
  2. The Director of Central Intelligence and Intelligence Advisory
Committee have taken and are taking action directed toward the im-
provement and intensification of foreign intelligence and related ac-
tivities. For reasons of security, the specific programs undertaken and
contemplated, and their budgetary requirements, are not set forth
here. It has been determined, however, that even the substantially in-
creased budgets now projected would be inconsiderable in relation to
the grand total of the other programs projected in this report.
  [1Here follows Annex No,. 7, "The Internal Security Program,"
prepared by the Interdepartmental Intelligence Conference and the
Interdepartmental Committee on Internal Security.]

  I See also the Appendix to Annex No. 2, The ECA Information Program. [Foot-
note in the source text.]
  1' Public Law 402, 80th Cong., 2nd sess., the United States Information
and
Educational Exchange Act of 1948 (the Smith-Mundt Act) (62 Stat. 6).
   I"Dated December 1, 1950.