text: Chapter 4
  To help intelligence sharing, staffs establish and adhere to procedures, specific guidelines, and policies. These
  guidelines and policies improve interoperability, trust, and operational effectiveness in a multinational force.
  4-6. To avoid intelligence and information sharing becoming a contentious issue, commanders address
  sharing from the planning phases to ensure everyone understands national policy limitations and the risks
  versus rewards. Timely sharing of intelligence products and combat information enables prompt responses
  to situations. For example, a multinational force establishes processes to rapidly modify, validate, and
  downgrade classification, and to release imagery to one or more partners with a need to know. Commanders
  educate themselves on the positions of allies and partner nations regarding intelligence sharing and ensure
  that intelligence is shared to the degree necessary for mission accomplishment and force protection. Early
  information sharing during planning ensures that forces receive requirements that are clearly stated, guidance
  supports the commander’s intent, and the multinational force uses procedures supportable by other nations.
  (Refer to ATP 3-39.21 for more on expeditionary forensics, ATP 2-22.82 for more on biometrics-enabled
  intelligence, and ATP 2-22.85 for more on tactical employment of biometrics.)
  4-7. Multilateral and bilateral security sharing agreements fall under the purview of a combatant command
  but are the results from policy agreements between the United States and one or more partners. These
  agreements cover security cooperation initiatives and operations planned for allies and partner nations. A
  combatant command can request that intelligence reports, products, and assessments be made releasable to
  multinational partners as necessary. The intelligence officer, in coordination with the foreign disclosure
  officer, understands existing agreements (established at the earliest time of UAP formation) before
  articulating disclosure guidance to operations planners and facilitates clear communications and
  interoperability among elements within a coalition. Intelligence officers consider how national laws and
  policies of individual coalition members affect the sharing of information and intelligence. These officers
  recognize that each coalition or multinational force will develop unique procedures for intelligence sharing
  since sharing authorities vary depending on partners involved. These authorities may also change over time.
  Disclosure guidance for a multinational force should maximize existing authorities and include guidelines
  for writing for release.
  4-8. Writing for release means developing products specifically for disclosure to the partners involved. Often
  it carefully excludes information that might reveal sources, collection methods, or other protected
  information to reduce the risk of misclassifying information. Intelligence planners apply writing for release
  to intelligence production and all aspects of the operation, such as operation orders and update briefings.
  Writing for release applies to more than just intelligence production, such as a releasable version of the same
  product or a tear line within the product. In situations with diverse UAPs, complicated sharing guidance and
  planners often produce multiple versions of the same product with different dissemination controls. These
  precautions ensure that every coalition member gets some degree of shared understanding while limiting
  risks. Writing for release works best with a command policy that requires planners to prepare products with
  releasable versions at their creation instead of requestors asking for releasable versions after the fact.
  4-9. A multinational force maximizes potential contributions of each partner through coordination. Although
  the communications architecture is an essential element in this area, there are specific intelligence areas
  requiring extensive coordination that include—
  • Friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
  • Use of space assets, location of intelligence assets, and location of known or templated threat
  locations to collect against.
  • Verification that the intelligence effort serves both the multinational and national needs.
  4-10. Priority intelligence requirements focus on intelligence concerning the adversary and environment.
  Commanders find answers by coordinating at all levels. An established joint center provides TTP available
  to commanders to enable improved collaboration and information sharing. Joint centers enable collection and
  promote intelligence and information sharing across multiple intelligence sources or nations. Multinational
  commanders at various echelons create joint centers to manage the flow of information and intelligence, to
  focus information collection to satisfy information requirements, and to process, exploit, analyze, and
  disseminate the resulting collection.