INSPECTOR GENERAL'S RECOMMENDATION, PAGE 19

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62-01094R000200020005-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 16, 2000
• Sequence Number: 5
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Recommended DGI Action: a. Disapprove
b. Disapprove
a. The DD/P create an Intelligence Staff responsible
for the annual development of a clandestine intelligence
collection program allocating basic missions, targets
and priorities to the area divisions, and conducting
periodic reviews of CS reporting for conformance to
the basic program and for substantive quality. This
Staff should be drawn in part from some of the ablest
officers in FI/RQM and and 25X1A8a
should consist of no more than 25 individuals headed
by a very senior and experienced officer. It should
strive constantly to upgrade the intelligence awareness
of operating personnel and the status of the intelligence
function in the DD/P. The Chief, Intelligence Staff,
should chair the Interagency Priorities Committee.
b. The DD/P transfer present RQM responsibilities
for establishing standards of CS reporting and for
expediting the movement of such reports to Operational
Services or should this prove initially infeasible, dele-
gate the responsibility to a separate branch of not more
than ten personnel in the Intelligence Staff.
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DD/P Comment
a. Non-concur: The functions which this
recommendation would assign to the proposed
Intelligence Staff are now assigned, with others,
to the FI Staff, and it would seem unnecessary to
establish a new unit to perform them. Further-
more, in the current Staff reorganization RQM is
being reshaped into the Intelligence Staff element
of the CS with greater concern for obtaining and
levying requirements as well as evaluating the
information collected by the CS. FI Staff is now
"headed by a very senior and experienced officer",
and so is FI/RQM. Thus clearly proper staffing
of positions for the performance of these functions
does not necessitate the establishment of a new unit,
The Chief, Foreign Intelligence, now chairs the IPC,
so that on this score, also, no change in the present
organizational structure is necessary. Certain difficulties
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 which have handicapped RQM in its performance of
guidance and assessment functions are referred to
on pages 16 and 17 of the Inspector General's re-
port; i. e. , the cumbersome nature and other
shortcomings of the project system; the excessive
flow of paper through the Division; and the diffi-
culties of recruiting qualified personnel. These
conditions are now in process of being corrected
within the present organizational structure and with-
out any change in assignments of mission. Other
improvements in RAM's performance of its eval-
uative function are also now well under way. A
standard form for Special Studies on reporting has
been devised; agreed criteria for judging reporting
are being worked out; experienced senior officers
are exercising closer supervision over the prepa-
ration of the studies; and personnel of the Division
are being employed, in the preparation of Special
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Studies, in new ways which bring greater expertise
to bear on them. These and other changes now being
made have already resulted in improvements in as-
sessments of reporting and will result in still
further improvements in future.
b. Non-concur: The functions which this recom-
mendation would transfer to Operational Services
can be more effectively performed by personnel
intimately associated with the guidance and assess-
ment functions properly performed by FI Staff. They
should continue to be performed, as at present,, by
FI/RQM.
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