COORDINATION OF COLLECTION REQUIREMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61S00750A000700060022-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 11, 1999
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: February 25, 1955
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Special Assistant to the Director for
Planning and Coordination
SUBJECT: Coordination of Collection Requirements
REFERENCE: (a) Memorandum of Conversation, same
subject, 18 25X1A9a
February 1955
(b) Memorandum, same subject, from
SA/PC/DCI, 23 February 1955
1. In response to your request in reference (b) for
the views of this Office regarding the proposals in Tab B
of the paper dated tF February, I must point out that we
have reservations regarding the workability and effective-
ness of the proposals. We favor more participation by the
substantive elements of intelligence producing offices in
any coordinated effort to formulate improved guidance for
collection activity. We recognize the complexity of the
collection effort and believe that further coordination,
if undertaken with discretion, might be beneficial.
2. We originally interpreted the proposal for an
Intelligence Requirements Committee as being directed toward
the problem of establishing priority requirements for col-
lection. The procedures by which such a Committee would
fulfill this task are not clear. In our mind, this Com-
mittee would be hard pressed to develop the competence
necessary for advising intelligence producing components
regarding their respective research and production pro-
grams. We feel that the National Intelligence Objectives
provide the guidance necessary for the formulation of such
programs within the appropriate components and specialized
groups, such as the EIC, of the intelligence community.
Coordinating groups for specific fields of interest are
appropriate mechanisms for examining production capabilities
and for initiating action to produce intelligence in re-
sponse to priority objectives in their respective fields.
Consolidated intelligence requirements formulated by an
over-all Requirements Committee would not significantly in-
crease the effectiveness of guidance for programming re-
search and production.
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3. To belabor a point made by you on 18 February, we
agree that the intelligence production components and
specialized groups, such as the EIC, in orienting their pro-
grams toward the National Intelligence Objectives, will pro-
vide requirements for collection which reflect the National
Intelligence Objectives.
4. It seems to us that a Collection Committee, com-
posed of responsible officials of the various collection
agencies, might provide a useful mechanism in arranging for
the placement of emphasis by these agencies toward fulfill-
ment of priority collection requirements of recognized
community interest. Responsible officers from the intelli-
gence producing components and specialized groups could,
when necessary, explain to this Committee problems in
respect to the placement of their priority collection needs
within the framework of- the total collection effort of the
community. The Committee could then examine existing col-
lection capabilities and agree on specific collection actions
by individual agencies.
OTTO E. GUT16( ,
Assistant Director
Research and Reports
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