Intelligence Community Directive 301
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Intelligence Community Directive 301 is a rescinded United States Intelligence Community Directive issued in 2006 to emphasise open source intelligence as the source of first resort among the intelligence community. The directive was motivated by the 9/11 terrorist attacks, creating interest for intelligence disciplines to work collectively to assess and predict threats to the United States. Intelligence Community Directive 301 outlined responsibilities and established policies for the intelligence community regarding open source intelligence activities. It was rescinded in 2012.
Intelligence Community Directive 301 (ICD-301) took effect on July 11, 2006 when it was signed by the first Director of National Intelligence, John Negroponte, under the Bush Administration.[1] The directive outlines responsibilities for oversight and management needed for open-source intelligence activities within the intelligence community.[2]
The goal of ICD-301 was establishing priority of open source information as the intelligence community's first consulted source type, or "source of first resort".[3] Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks motivated a movement for the intelligence community to utilize many different disciplines of intelligence collectively to better assess and predict threats to the United States.[4][3]
ICD-301 outlined responsibilities of the Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Open Source, the Open Source Committee, the Open Source Advisors Board, the Director of National Intelligence Open Source Center (now the Open Source Enterprise)[5] and the remainder of the intelligence community.[2] These entities are responsible for the effective and efficient conduct of open source activities.[2] The directive repealed the Director of Central Intelligence Directive 1/7 intelligence community open source program established on September 26, 2000.[6]
ICD-301 was rescinded in 2012, as ICD 113 provided sufficient responsibility and oversight guidelines.[5] ICD 301 was the second directive in the 300 series, which addressed methods of collection. Among this series are; ICD-300 concerning management of intelligence collection and covert action this ICD prefaced ICD-301 being signed in 2006.[7] ICD-302 concerning media exploitation was signed in 2007 and ICD-304 on human intelligence collection signed into action in 2009 were the two ICD's that followed ICD-301.[7] ICD-310 and ICD 311 dealt with human based foreign intelligence collection and counter intelligence within and from outside the United States respectively.[7]