DCI AND DOD: THE NATIONAL-TACTICAL RELATIONSHIPS AND PEACE-WAR ISSUES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79M00095A000100040008-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 21, 2005
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: March 1, 1977
• Content Type: AG

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1 AR 1977
PRM-11, Task 2
Working Group Discussion
Date: 22 March 1977
Time: 2:00
Place: Room 6E0708 CIA Hqs. Bldg.
DCI and DOD: The National-Tactical Relationships and
Peace-War Issues
1. What de facto definitions currently apply with respect
to national versus tactical intelligence:
a. Products or kinds of intelligence?
b. Users?
c. Resources or assets?
2. Is it better to admit we are dealing with an unbroken
continuum or must we hammer out some definite distinctions?
3. What are good examples of.(a) programmatic, and (b)
tasking issues that illustrate current relations between
the DCI and DOD on the national-tactical problem?
4. Are there not serious confusions and disagreements within
DOD about program and tasking issues in the national-
tactical relationship?
5. What basic model, of US government decisionmaking would
apply in a major war short of an unlimited nuclear
exchange? A tight, vertical NCA concept? in which such
authorities as Secretary of State and DCI seem to
disappear? Or a crisis-management variant of peace-time
government in which they would continue to operate?
How do these models govern our thinking about peace-war
transitions for intelligence?
6. Why have DCI's and CIA given so little attention to
war-time functions?
7. How would present national-level, Washington-based
intelligence production and collection management systems
really work in a major war or deep crisis of more than
some days duration?
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