ANNOTATIONS TO EXECUTIVE ORDER 11905

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• Publication Date: March 1, 1976
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DCI/IC 76-0121
17 March 1976
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
E. H. Knoche
Acting Deputy to the DCI for the
Intelligence Community
SUBJECT: Annotations to Executive Order 11905
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1. Among the comments on more than 50 paragraphs of
Executive Order 11905 in the "Executive Order Annotations," dated
10 March 1976, which Jack Marsh has provided, are three comments
which apply to the Committee on Foreign Intelligence. Quoted below
are the pertinent materials from the Executive Order and the applica-
ble annotations:
Section 2(d):
"(d) National Foreign Intelligence Program means the programs
of the Central Intelligence Agency and the special offices within the
Department of Defense for the collection of specialized intelligence
through reconnaissance programs, the Consolidated Cryptologic Program,
and those elements of the General Defense Intelligence Program and other
programs of the departments and agencies, not including tactical intelli-
gence, designated by the Committee on Foreign Intelligence as part of
the Program."
"This subsection allows the CFI to determine whether
a certain program (other than those relating solely to
tactical intelligence) should be considered a part of the
National Foreign Intelligence Program. This flexibility
is necessary since current budget classifications may be
changed over the years."
(ICS Comment: The CFI has a free hand to
define those programs under its purview. )
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Section 3 (b) (2) (ii):
The CFI shall: " (ii) Establish policy priorities for the
collection and production of national intelligence. "
Annotation
"In establishing these policy priorities, the CFI will
generally be implementing the findings of the NSC in its
semi-annual review of intelligence policies and the CFI's
resource decisions.
"These policy priorities should not interfere with the
DCI's responsibility for the substantive production of national
intelligence, as detailed in Section 3 (d) (iv).
"The CFI is given no responsibilities for substantive
intelligence; those responsibilities are the DCI's alone.
"A simple example may help demonstrate the
distinction between the CFI's policy priority responsibilities
and the DCI's substantive intelligence responsibilities: The
CFI might issue a policy that more intelligence resources (both
in collection and production) shall be allocated to obtaining
information on the oil policies of Middle Eastern nations.
The DCI alone, however, would be responsible for the actual
intelligence estimates of those Middle Eastern policies."
(ICS Comment: This annotation clearly endows the
DCI with the "third hat, " i. e. , Director of CIA,
Chairman of CFI, and DCI as producer.)
Section 4 (d) (2):
"(2) To assist the Director of Central Intelligence in the
supervision and direction of the Intelligence Community, the position of
Deputy to the Director of Central Intelligence for the Intelligence Community
is hereby established (Committee on Foreign Intelligence). "
"The reference to Committee on Foreign Intelligence
in this paragraph was meant as a cross reference to Section
3 (b) (3) [which states the CFI shall be supported by the
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Intelligence Community Staff headed by the D/DCI/IC] and was not
intended to imply that all activities of the Deputy to the
Director of Central Intelligence for the Intelligence Community
will be related to the Committee on Foreign Intelligence.
(ICS Comment: Recognition that the ICS has a
role other than support for the CFI further strengthens
the concept that the DCI role is far wider than running
CIA and chairing the CFI.)
cc: General Walters
M r. Lehman
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