SIGNIFICANT PROBLEM AREAS IN COLLECTION, PROCESSING, AND COORDINATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01138A000100050027-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 12, 2003
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: April 9, 1968
• Content Type: MF

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9 April 1968
MEMORANDUM FOR: D/DC1/NIPE
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Significant Problem Areas in
Collection, Processing, and
Coordination
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2.. How can the intelligence community exploit more
fully industrial and university talent and their in-house funded
research work in order to achieve improved technical capa-
bilities applicable to intelligence problems?
3. In view of the large technological improvements
now or soon to be available, what is the proper balance between
peacetime intelligence collection systems and systems designed
primarily for their potential collection capability during war?
Specifically,
What is the proper balance between
overseas ground or aircraft based
ELINT and COMINT collectors and
low or high altitude satellites
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In the mapping, charting, and geodesy
areas, what is the appropriate balance
(and duplication) between satellite
photography, and other conventional
or non- conventional data sources?
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4. On a national basis, what is the most cost-effective
relationship between covert collection programs (i.e.. photo
eatellikes) and collection systems to meet the needs of the non-
military consumers (Department of Agriculture, USCGS, etc)?
5. How can a closer relationship be achieved between
the needs for intelligence and the capabilities for collection, that
is, how can the ultimate consumers be related better to the
developers and operators?
6. How can a centralized system be set up to deal with
the problems of gaps, duplications, and inefficiencies resulting
from the existing four separate programs? Is it possible to
achieve more uniform and useful planning, programming, review,
evaluation, costing, and decision procedures?
7. In view of the technological promise of achievement
of non-breakable communication codes, should the existing overall
level of effort in COMINT be drastically changed?
8. 'How, can the overall HUMINT effort maintain prompt
and proper focus and realignment in the environment of vastly
expanding technological collection capability?
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