COMMUNITY RESPONSIBILITY FOR COUNTERTERRORISM AND COUNTERINTELLIGENCE

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06789955
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: October 29, 2024
• Document Release Date: August 22, 2024
• Case Number: F-2014-01553
• Publication Date: September 25, 1989

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25 September 1989
MEMORANDUM FOR: NFIC and NFIB Principals
SUBJECT: Community Responsibility for Counterterrorism
and Counterintelligence
. I have decided to place the responsibilities of the. NIO for
Foreign Denial and Intelligence Activities and the NIO for
Counterterrorism into the Counterintelligence Center and the
Counterterrorism Center respectively and to abolish these NIO
functions in the National Intelligence Council effective
25 September. This decision brings arrangements for managing
the Community aspects.. of these.accounts.intcline with the.
arrangement. I decided upon when establishing the
Counternarcotics Center: Final responsibility for preparing'
national estimates in all three areas continues to lie in the
NIC, chiefly with its regional NIOs wbo will rely on the
analytical resources of the centers as well as your agencies
for inputs and drafters.
I have reached this.decision on the recommendation of the
Chairman, NIC, after discussing it with some of you and hearing
his report on more extensive consultations with many of you or
your subordinates.
The chief reason for this move is to place the
responsibility for knitting together Intelligence Community
performance in counterterrorism and counterintelligence
directly into the organizations on which I rely to fulfill my
responsibilities in these increasingly vital areas. I want the
Community to plug in where the action occurs; and I have no
doubt that both Community cooperation and the interests of your
agencies will be better served by doing so.
I am aware that some of you have reservations as to whether
Community concerns can be adequately addressed by this new
arrangement. I am convinced they can be and am determined that
they will be, to which end I have:
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SUBJECT: Community Responsibility for Counterterrorism
and Counterintelligence
Designated all the centers as pc' centers and�fitled their
chiefs special assistants to the DCI (although they will
remain administratively in their present subordination).
Instructed the center chiefs to assign Community .
responsibilities to appropriately senior officers with
adequate staff, to solicit from you candidates to fill
these and other positions in the centers, and to consult
with you or your representatives. on the guidance for
meeting their Community responsibilities.
Designing specific new arrangements for the centers to
perform as they should .and making them work .may_reguire some
experimentation and evolution, for which L ask your active
support. In nine months to a year,. I expect to review with you
how we have done.
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