COMMITTEE ON OVERHEAD RECONNAISSANCE INVOLVEMENT IN PRIORITY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE OBJECTIVES

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on Overhead Reconnaissance Involve-
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4 Nov 63 1 USIB-AM-63/45, subj: Priority
National Intelligence Objectives
28 Aug 63 USIB-D-25.1/9 (Attachment A and B)
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Involvement in Priority National
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Committee on Overhead Reconnaissance
Committee on Overhead Reconnaissance
Involvement in Priority National
Intelligence Objectives
USIB-AM-63/45 of November 19.63
"Priority National Intelligence Objectives"
Attached is the COMOR response to the inquiry
from the Executive Secretargr of the United States Intelligence
Board on the above subject. It was approved at the special meeting
of COMOR on 17 December (see COMOR-M-2l8).
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Executive Secretary
United States Intelligence Board
SUBJECT: Committee on Overhead Reconnaissance
Involvement in Priority National
Intelligence Objectives
REFERENCE: USIB-AM? 03/45 of November 1963
"Priority National Intelligence Objectives"
1. The Committee on Overhead Reconnaissance is
directly and indirectly responsive to the PNIOs4 In view of the
fact that departmental research is closely attuned to the support
of the National Estimates, they in turn a:^e derivative of the PNIOso
Therefore, the participating agencies in COMOR are submitting
requuirementsrelatrdtco,.alhrheitornce removedfrom, the P1\TIOs them-
selves. Furthermore, in resolving issues before COMOR where
.priorities must be established, PNIOs frwqupi7.tly,have a decidi
influence. In the case of COMOR and because the principal col-
lection mechanisms toward which its requirements are directed,,
involve political and physical ::?isk and sei-vsitivity, the work of the
COMOR is constantly u de.r review by the United States Intelligence
Board which is most conscious of the PN1:Os
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2. COMOR has been responsive to the PNIOs in the
scheduling of satellite reconnaissance, the long-range program for
liar Eastern reconnaissance, the activation of the
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gram and the varied use from time to time of the U'-2 in other areas
of the world, not to mention the Cuban reconnaissance. These
recommendations are not only approved by the Board but are fre-
quently in one way or another subject to approval by the Special
Group. In the case of the satellite photography, a provision has
been made for the use of a standby package which can be activated
vaithin. seven days to provide information bearing upon indications-
of the imminence of hostilities, although it is recognized that such
a contribution would not be in the literal m6caning of early warning
as outlined in PNIO No. 1. In the use of the KH-4
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the iU-2 in Cuba. and China the priority of targets within those pro-
grams is closely attuned to the PNIOs
3, Whereas the COMOR itself m d .,n.o;,conscious change
in its procedure or judgment as a result of the most recent revision
of the PNIOs, the foregoing explanation -reveals that COMOR is so
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agencies and by the Board itself that any failure of recommendations
to be responsive to a new orientation could hardly go unnoticed.
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UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD
USIB-AM-63/45
4 November 1963
MEMORANDUM FOR Chairman, EIC
Chairman, GMAIC
Chairman, JAEIC
Chairman, SIC
Chairman, COMOR
Chairman, IPC
Chairman, SIGINT Committee
Chairman, CCPC
SUBJECT Priority National Intelligence Objectives
REFERENCES a. USIB-D-25. 1/8, 9 August 1963
b. USIB-M-283, 14 August 1963, item 4
c. USIB-D-25. 1/9, 28 August 1963
d. USIB -AM-63 /37, 29 August 1963
e. DCID No. 1/3, Revised 14 August 1963,
and Quarterly Supplement thereto
1. The United States Intelligence Board (USIB), as indicated in reference b.
and transmitted to you by reference d. requested the Committees of which you
are Chairmen to report major modifications in procedures adopted and signifi-
cant changes in actions taken or planned by your respective Committees to
discharge their responsibilities with respect to the implementation of DCID
No. 1/3, following its approval on 14 August 1963.
2. The following instructions are provided herewith for the guidance of the
Committees in preparing the requested reports to the USIB. These instructions
have been developed by the USIB Secretariat at the request of the Chairman,
USIB. Mr. John Bross, Deputy to the DCI for National Intelligence Programs
Evaluation, is responsible for reviewing and evaluating for the DCI the actions
reported upon by the USIB Committees. These reviews will be submitted to
the USIB by the DCI for consideration in connection with the USIB Committee
reports.
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3. In order to make your separate Committee reports generally
comparable and compatible, it is requested that each Committee answer
the questions set forth below regarding procedures adopted and actions
taken or planned under its auspices with respect to each PNIO or
Quarterly Supplement listing germane to the mission of the Committee
concerned.
a. Which of the PNIOs and Quarterly Supplement listings are
germane in whole or in part to your Committee's responsibilities?
b. What extra and. unusual efforts, beyond normal coverage, have
been made or are planned with respect to each of the PNIOs and Quarterly
Supplement listings identified in a. above ?
c. What problems or impediments are being encountered or
anticipated in the process of implementing each of the above PNIOs and
Quarterly Supplement listings?
4. In your responses, please indicate when pertinent to your terms of
a. Revised priority collection or research requirements which have
been derived from the above PNIOs or Quarterly Supplement listings.
b. How such requirements were identified, whether by the further
analysis by research personnel described in paragraph 3 of the Foreword
of DCID No. 1/3 or by other means.
c. Which revised priority collection requirements have been
identified as appropriate for a particular collection system and levied upon
it, with due regard to that system's operational capabilities and suitabilities.
d. Based upon revised priority collection or research requirements,
any shift, augmentation, or reduction which has been taken or planned in
the allocation of existing collection or research resources, or the develop-
ment of new collection or,processing resources.
5. In making the above request, it is recognized that the missions of the
Committees vary widely in subject matter and focus and that many of the
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topics set forth in the PNIOs and the Quarterly Supplement are either
outside the jurisdiction of a particular Committee or only partially
applicable within a given Committee structure. For that reason, it is
important in this first report that each Committee take care to include
in its responses those items for which it,. has an assigned responsibility
and those implementing actions which are clearly a part of its mission.
In reporting actions taken or planned, Committees should report not only
the activities actually conducted by the Committee or its subordinate
interagency groups ,but also supporting actions by member agencies
taken under the auspices of the Committee or its members.
6. The Committee reports should be submitted to the USIB Secretariat
not later than 2 December 1963, for review and analysis by Mr. Bross and
his Staff and for reporting to the USIB.
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DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTIVE NO. 1/31
PRIORITY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE OBJECTIVES
(Revised 14 August 1963)
1. Pursuant to NSCID No. 1, paragraph 3, the following list of
Priority National Intelligence Objectives (PNIOs) is established as a guide
for the coordination of intelligence production, and of supporting research
and collection activities. This list replaces that contained in DCID No. 1/3,
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9 January 1963, which is hereby rescinded.
2. This listing of priority objectives presupposes that the bulk of
the intelligence required for the formulation and execution of national
security policy will be the product of normal intelligence collection and
research pursuant to DCID No. 1/2. The present Directive identifies, for
priority treatment, certain specific critical substantive problems within
the general body of the intelligence required for policy planning purposes.
In this context, "priority" means preferment in the allocation of research
and collection resources. Such preferment does not warrant neglect of
the general and basic intelligence coverage required by DCID No. 1/2.
This Directive supersedes DCID No. 1/3 of 9 January 1963.
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3. The identification of specific critical substantive problems in this
Directive is but a first step toward determination of the priority, if any, to be
accorded to particular collection requirements by particular systems of
collection. Not every bit of information somehow related to a priority problem
will be required with equal urgency; some may be procurable by routine means.
The identification of priority requirements entails further analysis by research
personnel to determine (a) the elements of information essential to the solution
of the problem indicated, (b) the elements already available or readily obtainable
through research, (c) the additional information obtainable through routine
collection, and finally (d) the residual information of such critical improtance
as to warrant a priority collection effort.
4. Even when a priority collection requirement has been thus established,
it does not follow that it should be treated as a matter of priority by every
collection agency. A priority requirement appropriate for one system of
collection may be of no priority whatever with respect to another, because
unsuited to it. Determinations as to which requirements will be accorded
priority by particular systems of collection must be made by responsible
collection authorities, under the general guidance of the PNIOs, with the
regard for operational capabilities and suitabilities.
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5. The present Directive is intended to serve as a stable basis for
long-term intelligence planning, with reference to the development of
intelligence resources as well as to the allocation of existing resources.
It seeks to identify the critical substantive problems likely to persist, or
to develop, during the next five years. It will be reviewed and revised
annually. It will also be supplemented by a quarterly listing of currently
critical or potentially critical situations. This supplement, looking forward
for six months or so, will seek to anticipate such emergent changes in
the situation as might warrant some shift of emphasis in the employment
of research and collection resources.
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*While this list of objectives is not intended to have internal priority
arrangement, primary emphasis must continue to be given to those
objectives which are so critical as to pose an immediate and continuing
military threat to the security of the United States.
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DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTIVE NO. 1/3
QUARTERLY SUPPLEMENT
14 August 1963
1. DCID No. 1/3, revised annually, is intended to serve as a stable
basis for long-term intelligence planning by identifying critical intelligence
problems deemed likely to persist over a period of five years or so. Such
guidance must necessarily be expressed in relatively broad terms.
2. The purpose of this Quarterly Supplement is to provide more
current and specific guidance within the context of DCID No. 1/3, by
calling attention to situations which, within the next six months or so, may
require some adjustment of present intelligence attention and coverage.
The Supplement is intended to guide short-term intelligence planning by
anticipating changes in specific situations which may justify either some
reduction or some augmentation of effort.
3. It is not the function of this Supplement to present a complete
listing of all matters of intelligence interest. Like DCID No. 1/3 itself,
the Supplement presupposes that the bulk of the intelligence required for
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the formulation and execution of national security policy will be the product
of normal coverage pursuant to DCID No. 1/2.
4. This Supplement will be superseded. by another in December 1963.
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MEMORANDUM FOR,. Executive Secretary
United States Intelligence Board
SUBJECT: Committee or. Overhead Reconnaissance
Involvement in Priority National
Intelligence Objectives.
REFERENCE.' USIB-AM-63145 of November 1963
"Prix lty National Intelligence Objectives"
to USIB?-AM-63/45 raquest:ed a report on "major
modifications in procedures adopted and significant changes in
actions taken or planned by your respective Committees to discharge
their responsibilities with respect to the implementation of DCIC No. 1/3."
r Z. COMR involvement with the :PNIO is secondary. The
last sentence of the third paragraph of the 28 August PNIO0 which is
quoted below, is a good statement of what is accomplished by COMOR
members before a requirement ip, brought to COMOR:
"The identification of priority requirements
entails further analysis by research personnel to
determine (a) The ele, natats of information essential
to the solution of the problem indicated, (b) The
elements already available or readily obtainable
through research, (c) The additional information
obtainable through routine collection, and finally
(d) The residual information of such critical
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3. Answers to the reference memorandum are given
Para 3a. --"Which of the PNIOs and Quarterly Supplement
listings are germane in whole or in part to your Committee's
responsibilities ? "
The majority of the highest priority
requirements reaching COMOR are in satisfaction of
OBJECTIVE 2 of the PNIOO Additional requirements
conning to COMOB. contribute to la and 2 of the
Quarterly Supplement. COMOR is also a contributor
to 6 of the Supplement and makes contributions to
4 and 5. In the case of 4 and 5, CC)MOR has been
particularly careful in its insistence that it be
established that other sources are temporarily
failing to meet an emergency situation, and that
there therefore seta a justification for the use of
overhead reconnaissance.
Para 3b. --"What extra and unusual efforts, beyond nor:,n .l
coverage, have been made or are planned with respect to each of the
PNIOs and Quarterly Supplement listings identified in the above
question? "
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it cannot claim efforts or plans.
Para 3c. --"What problems or impediments are being
encountered or anticipated in the process of implementing each of the
above PNIOs and Quarterly Supplement listings?"
COMOR has no problems as, it has no
responsibility for implementing the PNIOs.
4, With reference to pares 5 of the action memorandum.
The admonition to report supporting actions by
members leads back to our previous statements on how
COMOR acts. It does not specifically charge any member
with action to determine what other collection facilities
are being used to satisfy a requirement but expects each
member to have done this before submitting a requirement
to COMOR for consideration.
Para 4a. --"Revised priority collection or research
requirements which have been derived from the above PNIOe or
Quarterly Supplement listings. "
The COI%IOR typo of priority, has been
unaffected by PNIO revision.
Para 4b.--"How such requirements were identified, whether
by the further analysis by research personnel described in para. 3
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Para 4c. --"Which revised priority collection requirements
have been identified as appropriate for a particular collection system
and levied upon it, with. due regard to that system's operational
capabilities and suitabi]lities. "
Virtually all of COMOR's priority collection
requirements have been identified as appropriate for
one of its collection systems and have been accepted
with due regard to the operational capabilities and
suitabilities of those systems. CO.IMOR specifies
"virtually all" because under some emergency
conditions and because of pressure.from higher
authority COMOR sometimes shares the responsibility
for a requirement on Which it may :feel its contribution
would be minimal.
Para 4d. --"Based upon revised priority collection or research
requirements, any shift, augmentation, or reduction which has been
taken or planned in the allocation of existing collection or research
resources, or the development of new collection or processing
resources.
The collection resources known to COMDR.
and in general coming under its cognizance are sensitive
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and their development and use are only justifiable if
deployed against highest priority'targetso It is felt
that there is little likelihood of there being a change
in the PNIO itself likely to affect the major collection
efforts. Changes in emphasis and importance of areas
outside the Sino-Soviet Bloc may occur and have some
affect on the use of existing collection devices.
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