INTELLIGENCE CONTINGENCY PLANNING FOR VIETNAM THEATER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79M00098A000300040031-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 18, 2006
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: August 16, 1968
• Content Type: MF

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16 August 1968
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chairman, Critical Collection Problems
Committee of USIB
SUBJECT : Intelligence Contingency Planning for
Vietnam Theater
1. The Special Assistant to the President for National Security
Affairs has requested that the Director of Central Intelligence
coordinate the development of a comprehensive plan for the use of
intelligence resources to monitor enemy performance under a possible
agreement calling for a total bombing halt or a general cease-fire in
Vietnam. A copy of the Special Assistant's memorandum to the DCI
is appended hereto for the information of the Committee.
2. The DCI has decided that USIB is an appropriate body to
provide the above-described plan and has asked me to undertake and
monitor action within the USIB structure to develop such a plan.
3. Accordingly, you are requested as a matter of urgency,
and using the resources of your Committee, to undertake the
development of the desired plan for approval by USIB. A status
report on progress made in the preparation of the plan should be
ready for signature by the DCI before the close of business on
9 September.
4. For your information, a good bit of related work on this
problem is already in progress or has been completed. Specifically:
a. Requirements have already been defined in
SNIE 14-3-68, in two COMIREX papers which have been
approved by USIB and are available through the USIB
Secretariat, and in a paper provided by the Joint Chiefs
of Staff to the Department of State dated 9 May 1968 which
should be available through the DIA member of the CCPC.
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b. The SIGINT Committee is now coordinating
for submission to USIB the draft of a paper describing
the SIGINT requirements in Vietnam under the conditions
described above.
c. Intelligence Requirements Staff of CIA has been
considering this problem and should be able to provide the
CCPC with the benefit of the informal suggestions they
have made so far.
5. It would appear to me that something more could be said
about the capability and employment of human collection resources
than is indicated in the programs covered by the above-mentioned
SNIE.
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iral, Z. S. Navy
Deputy Director
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