Policy and purpose: national intelligence coordination
- The order establishes the need for a central agency to coordinate the intelligence gathering activities of the government’s branches and instrumentalities.
- NICA is charged with coordinating all government activities related to national intelligence.
- NICA must prepare intelligence estimates and summaries reflecting both the local and foreign situations.
- The intelligence estimates and summaries must be made available to the President and the President’s policy-making body.
Core structure: National Intelligence Coordinating Agency
- NICA is placed under the Office of the President and answers only to the President.
- The President shall appoint a Coordinator of National Intelligence to head NICA.
- The Coordinator of National Intelligence coordinates national intelligence activities through NICA’s mandated functions.
- NICA is responsible for making intelligence outputs available to the President and the President’s policy-making body.
Coordinator of National Intelligence powers
- The Coordinator of National Intelligence is authorized to call upon any department, bureau, office, agency, or instrumentality of the government for information and assistance needed for NICA functions.
- The Coordinator of National Intelligence is empowered to request the detail to NICA of trained and qualified personnel from specified departments.
- Personnel details may be requested from the Departments of Foreign Affairs, Interior, Justice, National Defense, Finance, Labor, or other departments, branches, or subdivisions of the National Government.
- The requested personnel details are for the proper and efficient operation of NICA.
Intelligence Consultative Committee role
- An Intelligence Consultative Committee is established to advise the Coordinator of National Intelligence.
- The Committee is composed of:
- The Coordinator of National Intelligence as Chairman;
- The Chief, Military Intelligence Service, Armed Forces of the Philippines as Member;
- The Chief, G-2, Philippine Constabulary as Member;
- The Director, National Bureau of Investigation as Member;
- A representative of the Department of Foreign Affairs as Member; and
- The Chief, Confidential Agents, Office of the President as Member.
- Representatives of other agencies concerned with national intelligence may be invited to attend Committee meetings when matters affecting their agencies are involved.
- The Committee advises on:
- (A) The general objectives of national intelligence;
- (B) The allocation of collection responsibilities among intelligence agencies; and
- (C) The means of establishing and maintaining effective working relations between NICA and other intelligence agencies in furtherance of the national interest.
Reporting and linkage to the President
- The Coordinator of National Intelligence must keep the President advised of the findings of the Committee.
- NICA’s intelligence estimates and summaries on the local and foreign situations are made available to the President and the President’s policy-making body.
Supersession and effectivity rule
- Executive Order No. 235 supersedes Executive Order No. 167, Series of 1948.
- Executive Order No. 235 takes effect immediately.