[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 158, November 19, 1968 ]

CREATING THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE BOARD



Pursuant to the powers vested in me by law, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby create a National Intelligence Board to supersede the National Intelligence Consultative Committee which was created on July 1, 1949, under Executive Order No. 235.

The Board shall be composed of the following members:

The Director, National Intelligence Coordinating Agency

Chairman

The Director, National Bureau of Investigation

Member

The Chief, Division of Intelligence and Research, Department of Foreign Affairs

Member

The Assistant Chief of Staff, J-2, Armed Forces of the Philippines

Member

The Assistant Chiefs of Staff for Intelligence of all the major services of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and a representative each from the Presidential Economic Staff, and the Presidential Agency for Reforms and Government Operations shall act as Technical Advisers of the Board.

The Board shall advise the Director of the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency on matters pertaining to the integration and coordination of intelligence activities and make recommendations on such other subjects as the NICA Director may from time to time submit for study and consideration.

Done in the City of Manila, this 19th day of November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-eight.

(SGD.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President of the Philippines

By the President:
(SGD.) JOSE J. LEIDO, JR.
Acting Executive Secretary