NIXON REORGANIZES INTELLIGENCE WORK

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• Publication Date: November 6, 1971
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eorgar, os xateiligence Work
_ the Federal Bureau of Investi- by Mr. Helms, will advise on
UPI) The White ifou'se an- ation; the._ chief of,the Defense the preparation of a consoli-
noUneed today. that President Intelligence, Agency., and rep- dated intelligence program
Mixon had ordered an overhaul resehtatives' of "other ,agehcies budget.
of. the " Gove}nmerit's inteIli' With a'stalte`1 l iiYtelligence op- The White House said that a
Bence operatifns, assigning erations. National Cr tologic Command 1
Riphar'd Helms; director of the The White House anno lnce- a, code.brealcing organization, I
Central Intelligence `Agdncy a ment listed the following steps would ?be set up underthe Na-
broader over-all supervisory that will. be taken; tional Security. Agency to con-
role.` h ..f elms wi`r,l~assume,:"en sdlidate work now being car-i
anced eadership" in planning, rigid" out in various encies.
Administration officials skid ,
that Mr. Helms would be freed reviewing, coordinating and T-~
t ;hc ? i cnt er-!.
from some operational respon- evaluating all intelligence, prodcr^ the
~ibllities -6t, "the C.I.A."and as- grams and activities. Una S Intelligence
sume "communitywide respon, elAn intelligence committee Board, with the director of the'
sibilities" in the United States will be set up within the Na- CI.A. as chairman. The board
foreign intelligence gathering tional Security. Council, which will consist of the deputy C.I.A.
operations. will be headed by I-fenry A. director, the. director of the
iaa4teII4ence Board Revived Kissinger, presidential adviser Bureau of Intelligence and Re-
on national security affairs. search of xhe State Department,
Conggress has' been sharply The committee will includq the the director of the National Se-
0at it called the' C.I.A. director, the Attorney cur ty Agency, the director of
lack: of'cotfrdmation in the in General, the Under Secrettary the Defense Intelligence Agency,
tE lligenCe gathering field.'Memi; of` State, the Deputy Secretary reppresentatives of the Treasury,
bes.of the "Mouse and Senate,
of
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"watchdogs" &e' not zmmedi 9A "rfet assessment group" the C J A. director on intelli-
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fl#~e1- available for comment,; will 7-* 'established'within the gence, requirements and priori-
'National-'Security Council, ties as well as the protection
TI e reQrganiiation also "re- Which ' wilt 'be 'respdffslble for of intelligence. sources and
vived the United States i8telli reviewing 2nd evalu ?all ip- met.hods.
oePir'd` arhose member= telligenice. ` 'President Nixon also was re-
,ship will include Mr. Helms; 9An "Intelligence Resources ported to have "directed certain
r'oims w ,l,-?, increase and im-
prove quaty, file White House
said,
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By ORR KELLY
The creation of a consolidated
intelligence program budget is
at the heart of the intelligence
shakeup ordered by President
Nixon, informed sources say.
Preparation of the intelligence
budget should for the first time
give the President and other top
officials a clear picture of how
much is being spent for intel-
ligence, where it is being spent
and what it is buying, these of
ficials said.
Richard Helms, who now is
head of the Central, Intelligence
Agency, will be responsible for
preparation of the budget as
part of what the White House
announcement said would be his
"enhanced leadership role" in,
the intelligence field.
Not `Intelligence Czar'
Informed officials cautioned,
however, that the changes order-
make. Helms oAan -intelligence merican ypia~;vc,.aautuCa
and Soviet capabil-
czar" in the sense that he will ities. It will be headed by An-
tell the heads :of other intellig- drew Marshall, a. member of.the
ence agencies within the gov- National Security Council staff.
eminent how to run their jobs. The-changes, designed to bring
His control over the pursestrings greater control over the estim-
will, however, gIve him.'much ated $5 billion a. year spent and
more control of the over-all In- 200,00.0 People Who.. work on in-
telligence activities of gov- telligence, have been the subject
eminent than he has had in the of a lengthy dispute within the
past. administration.
The changes ordered by Nixon
also give his assistant for na- Packard.Unimpressed
tional security affairs, Henry .In a.press,conference Thurs-
Kissinger, an enhanced 'role in day, the. day before the changes
the intelligence field by making .were announced at the White
him chairman of a new Na- House, Deputy Defense Secre-
tional Security Council.Jntel1i- tary David Packard, one of the
gene, Committee-one of a most outspoken government of-
growing number of similar com- ficials, indicated he was not en-
mittees he heads. tirely pleased by the way the
A new Net Assessment Group struggle had worked out.
will be under Kissinger Its jab There have been people.
thinking if we just had someone
is to review and evaluate all the : over in the White House to ride
products of intelligence work herd on this over-all intelligence
r -rvu .LUausra, wuu . agencies is of a tactical nature,
he said. "I don't really support be much of a problem. ;; . invoi' - such
that viewp~After having .expen- But the said the order to things as theday-
ence with;a lot of people in,he set a National today movements of potentially
White House the last con le of Ciyptologic hostile ships.
P Command under Vice Adm.
years, trying to coordinate all Noel. -Gayler, director of the The White House said Helms
kinds of'things; I think if any- National Security Agency, would a career intelligence officer,
thing' we need a'little less coor- "take some doing" because the iwould turn over most of his
dination from that point than Defense Department's"code- `CIA! operational responsibilities
more. But that's my own per- breaking activities now are so to his deputy, Marine Lt.?Gen.
sonal view," ? ,fragmented. Robert E. Cushman Jr., so he
Because the Defense Depart- Similarly, hey said, : the De- can devote more time to the
ment spends, most of the money fense Department faces some leadership of the over-all in-
and employsn ost of 'the peo 'difficulties in reorganizing its :'telligence community.
pie and.: machines:.involved . in ; , tactical intelligence-the infor- Rep. Lucien N. Nedzi, D-Mich.,
intelligence, the' ;changes will . mation used by field command- chairman of a House Armed
have a major impact there. ers rather than top officials in Services subcommittee that has
Consolidation Is Key Washington., been looking into the nation's
The President ordered the National Terms intelligence
is that e operations
anges his
or-
consolidation of'all Defense De- Although the tendency is to dered by the President place
partment security investigations think in. terms of national in- an added burden on Helms-who,
into a single Office of Defense telligence-he kind of informa- he said, already has a. "super-
Investigations ; and the consoli- tion on which the President human job."
dation of all mapping and chart- bases major decisions, for ex `One wonders if any human is
ing activities into a Defense ample-the bulk of the intel- capable of that kind of respon-
Map Agency. Defense officials ligence gathered by the various sibility," he said.
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HELMS TOLD TOWT
GLOBALEXPENSES
Nixon Order Alms at Better
Intelligence Gathering
By BENJAMIN WELLES i
Special to The New York Times
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 -
President Nixon has given
Richard Helms, his Director of
Central Intelligence, new or-
ders` and new authority - to
trim costs and improve the out-
put of the nation's global in-
telligence system.
In a statement issued yester-
day by the White House -
under circumstances strongly
suggesting it was designed to
attract as little public notice as
possible-Mr. Nixon disclosed
details of, a far-reaching re-
organization.
Intelligence experts here be-
lieve that Mr. Helms, armed
with his new Presidential back-
ing, may be able in the coming
months to cut $1-billion from
ivioorer, chairman of the Jointl
Chiefs of Staff, and Mr. Helms.
Mr. Iielms's duties here will be(
assurtled* by his deputy, Lieut.
Gen. Robert E. Cushmaf, Jr.
3. It creates anew IntelIi-:
fence subcommittee under the
National Security Council with
the aim of tailoring the daily
"product" garnered by the na-
tion's vast overseas intelligence
network closer to the needs of
the "consumers". President
Nixon and his top staff..
Presumably, intelligence sour-
ces say, the Forty Committee
will be merged into the coun-
cil's stew subcommittee since
the membership of each is iden-
tical.
Not Always Responsive
"The President and He
intelligence we were collecting '
wasn't always responsive to
their needs," said one source
"They suspected that' one rea-
son was because the intelli-
g ence. community had no way
f knowing day to day what
the President and Kissinger
needed. This is a new link be-
tween producers and consumers
We'll have to wait and see if
it works."
Mr. Kissinger will add the
chairmanship of the new sub-
committee to several others he
already holds.
Another development In the
president's reorganization is the
creation of a "net assessment
group" inside Mr. Kissinger's
National Security Council staff.
Resources Committee
Under the new plan Mr.
Helms wil also head an Intel-
ligence Resources Advisory
Committee" on which will be
represented the state and De-
fense Departments; the office
of Management and Budget and
the C.I.A.
The white house announce.
ment said that the committee
will "advise the D.C.I. on the
preparation of a consolidated
program budget." This, in the
view of experts, is Mr. Holm's
new authority to supervise and,
at least partly, control tare
volved in collecting inteligence.
The Pentagon spends $3-bil-
lion yearly on intelligence if all
its activities are counted,. said
one source.
"This is 80 per cent of ev-
erything the United States
spends for intelligence," he
said. The President hasn't giv-
en Helms control of the. D.O.D.'s
Intelligence budget, but at least
he can now see It and advise
on It before it's presented as a
fait accompli."
Prof '~
the $5-billion to $6-billion thatI
the United States spends Year- i
ly to ascertain, with sky satel-;
JAes, electronic eavesdropping,
vecret agents and other sour-
ces, 'Soviet and Chinese Com-
munist military developments.
The reorganization plan, which
has been under study at the
Office of Management and
Budget for at least a year, f
makes three main changes, in-
formants say:
14 It gives Mr. Helms, who is
58 years old, the first authority
ever given an intelligence chief
to review-and thus affect-
the budgets of all the nation's
foreign intelligence agencies as
well as the Central Intelligence
Agency, which he will continue
to head. The other agencies in-
clude units. within the Defense
and State Departments, the
Atomic Energy Commission and
It will be headed by Andrew
M. Marshall, a consultant with
the Rand Corporation of Los
Angeles.
"Net assessment means com-
paring over-all U.S.S.R. forces
and capabilities with those of
the U.S.," said an American.
inteligence expert. "It's as com-
placated a calculus as exists.
We in the inteligence world of-
ten know more about Soviet
forces and capabilities than we
do about our own-and this
new group is intended to pull it
al together in one place for the
President,"
the Federal Bureau of Investi-
gation.
2. ' It will. free Mr. Helms
from much dayato.day respon
sibility for espionage, counter-
I espionage and such covert ope-
rations as the White House
periodically.. orders through it..
secret "Forty Committee." i
This committee, named for a
numbered memoran4um, in-1
eludes Henry A. Kissinger, the,
White House national security
assistant, Attorney General
John N. Mitchell, Under Secre-
tary of State John N. Irwin 2d,
Deputy Defense Secretary Da-
vid Packard, Aden. Thomas H.1
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Intelligence Under
Kissinger's Wing
By GEORGE SHERMAN
Star Staff Writer
President Nixon's drastic reordering of the intelligence com-
munity brings still more power to that White House adviser-
extraordinaire-Henry A. Kissinger.
People most intimately involved see the erstwhile profes-
sor's passion for order and efficiency triumphing.
On one level CIA Director Richard Helms was given a man-
date to become director of all
American intelligence in fact,
as well as in name.
But: on the White House level,
Kissinger was put at head of the
new "National Security Council
Intelligence Committee" provid-
ing "guidance and direction" to
Helms.
In other words, under the re-
shaping ordered Friday? Helms
has the job of coordinating the
work of the often-warring intel-
ligence agencies, inside and out-
side the Pentagon. For the first
time, with an expanded per-
sonal staff, he will be in charge
of drawing up one intelligence
budget-now unofficially reck-
oned at $5 billion yearly.
Kissinger at Helm
But the direction in which his
machine goes will be deter-
mined by Kissinger's commit-
tee. This group, of which Helms,
Attorney General John N. Mitch-
ell, undersecretaries from the
State and Defense Departments,
and the chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff also are mem-
bers, will determine the intel-
ligence assessments which get
to President Nixon.
The new committee is simply
the latest addition to that na-
tional security council system
Kissinger has systematically set
up in almost three years in the
White House. It is roughly akin
to the Senior Review Group,
which Kissinger also heads, re-
for filtering the for-!
sponsible
eign policy options which reach!
the President.
According to 'most insiders,
this Review Group has been the
vehicle for Kissinger's virtually'
taking. control of foreign policy
away from more passive secre-
tary of State William P. Rogers.
"" Interdepartmental groups from
the state, defense and other in-
terested departments feed pol-
icy options into the Kissinger
shop, which reviews them for,
decision by the President.
Kissinger's driving energy and
devotion to detailed staff work
-plus his undisputed intellec-
tual power-have given him the
upper hand. He and his staff
initiate government-wide policy
studies, and precious little na-
tional security policy is decided
by the President against Kissin-
ger's advice..
In the intelligence shake-up
the Kissinger apparatus will
also get powers at the lower
levels. The mechanism is a new
Net Assessment Group (NAG)
headed by Anthony Marshall, a
senior member of Kissinger's
White House staff.
"The functions of NAG will
be just. what the name sug-
gests," said one insider - "to
nag the intelligence commu-
nity."
That means'the group is to be
responsible for suggesting to
Helms & Co. that they should
assess what results might flow
abroad from any policy under
consideration in the White
House. Naturally, Kissinger,
chairman of the Senior Review
Group, will be in a position to
know what those possible. pol-
icies are. So the Kissinger shop
becomes practically the coordi-
nator between policy and intel-
ligence.
The job of NAG also will be
to produce comparative assess-
ments of the relative strength
of various world powers. It will
do this by pulling together in-
telligence estimates from all
over the government-political,
military and economic. For in-
stance, NAG would assess the
strategic balance between the
U.S. and Soviet Union, or be-
tween the Arab world and
Israel.
All of which adds up to a ma-
jor new responsibility for Kis-
singer. It also, marks a major
step in Nixon's drive to put cen-
tralized control over every vital
government function in the
White House.
The options also are dis-
cussed by the National Security
Council-whose chairman is the
President, and whose members
include the secretaries of State
and Defense. Furthermore, the
State Department, through Rog-
ers, has the power to submit its
own recommendations directly
to the President on any given
option.
But in
nearly three years,)
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