PROCEDURE FOR DETERMINING INTELLIGENCE REQUIREMENTS FOR AQUATONE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61S00750A000500040007-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 30, 1999
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: December 1, 1955
• Content Type: MF

priority. In order to do to, procedures must be established for (a) accumu-
lating Intelligence requirements and (b) assigning relative priorities to them.
These procedures must not jeopardize the security of the Project and they
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FOR: Director of Operations
Procedure for Determining Intelligence Require-
nel[nts for AQUATONE
L AQUATONE is a claudistine intelligence gatherin
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Accordingly, its operations must be designed to moot as fully as possible
intelligence requirements emanating from the whole intelligence community
committee, which, thus constituted, should be able to make the necessary
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Air Force as a whole and that the SAC representative, will function only as
representative of the Director of Intelligence. USAF Wills ,eat fc
- e rNiil be asked to name a representative.
2. Thor* is already in existence an informal requirements com-
consisting of a representative of A-g, SAC: a repraseft#.Mve of th
believed to meet these -requirements.
e
Director of Intelligence, USAF; and the Project Intelligence Requirements
dicer r. James Reber). This committee will be expanded to include a
representative of the Director of Naval Intelligence and a representative of
G?2 Of Admiral Espy and General Gaither both desire such direct representa-
tion and do not wish the Air Force to present all their requirements). It is
believed that the Project Intelligence Requirements Officer can represent
CIA as a consumer of raw intelligence, but if this Is not satisfactory to the
tages
3. It is proposed that the committee- do its work in the felt
as to the rotative priorities to be attached to its own requirements.
(a) The first task will be to secure intelligence requirements
the several intelligence agencies, together with the judgment of each
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T epperation is already in progress and is being carried
the members of the committee as representatives of their agencies. T
Pro eect Director of Operations will indicate the form in which requirements
would be most useful for the guidance of operational planning.
(b) The second task to be performed will be that of assembling
s requirements in comparable form after their submission and in
way as to indicate the points on which either further information must
d
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;ed of the submitting agencies ar priority judgments Must be ma
This task will involve staff worts ratheer than deliberation
king and wilt be performed by the intelligence staff under the
.or of Operations.
(c) After requirements have been submitted and assembled
in a form s table for consideration, the committee will be asked to meet
for the purpose of resolving questions of priorities and finally putting its
approval an a consolidated statement of requirements in a form that wilt
provide useful guidance for operations under this Project.
d) From time to time while operations are in progress the
mmitteee wilt be asked to review the, original statement of requirements
tight of now intelligence obtained through AQUA.-.LONE..
channels.
4. Aseamptions as to the scope of operations under AQUATONE
and the operational concept to bee eeemployeed will be provided to the committee,
ceded through the Project intelligence Requirements t cer by the
t Director of Operations. 'Without prejudging the enact form in which
auto will be stated, it will clearly be desirable to separate out a
d category of top priority targets, and perhaps to distinguish
two other leevels of priority as well. Moreover, it will be desirable to
astabtish these categories of requirements for each major region within the
what* target area, since the areas accessible at any given time will largely
be doter mined by operational factors.
RICHARD M, B LL, JR.
Project Director
RMB:gjg (25 Nov 55)
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