THE WARSAW PACT THEATER FORCE PROBLEM (BEAN COUNTING AND DISTRIBUTED DATA BASES)
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March 25, 1975
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SUBJECT. The Warsaw Pact Theater Force Problem
(Bean Counting and Distributed Data
Bases)
1. Per our conversation at the 24 March NIO meeting
and your request levied immediately thereafter, attached
is thoughtful study on the whole "Bean.
Counting" problem which you said you wanted to look at
again, plus some related correspondence. Also attached
is a short note on the issues involved, prepared by my
Conventional Forces colleagues.
2. As we have discussed on several previous occasions,
I strongly recommend that in your capacity as DCI you
appoint an interagency group to survey the whole theater
force intelligence problem and make recommendations to
you -- with copies to USIB members -- on the way the Intelli-
gence Community ought to structure itself to discharge
responsibilities associated with this problem, particularly
in light of I recommend that this group be
chaired by your ssis ant NIO for Conventional Forces with
appropriately senior but knowledgeable representation from.
CIA/OSR, DIA, NSA and NPIC. The group should be small
enough to work effectively, senior enough to have clout and
yet not so senior that its members do not know the details
of the issues involved. I think there should be preferably
one and in any event not more than two representatives of
each Intelligence Community component on. the group, with a
member of the IC Staff participating either as an observer
or as a full working member.
3. Unless he completely reverses past practice, Danny
will resist the formation of such a survey group. Indeed,
it will probably take a flat statement from you that such
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a group is being convened before he will be willing to
go along. We tried to get such a body organized on
6 December when I met privately with Danny, Lew Allen,,
John Hicks, Hank Knoche and Danny was adamant 25X1
in opposition then and has not, to my knowledge, changed
his mind since then. Speculation about motives is always
a chancy enterprise, but in this case I believe he does
not want an interagency look at the problem until his
distributed data base concept is well enough launched so
that he can assert any such look is unnecessary because
alternative possibilities have been overtaken by events.
4. Neither I nor, to the best of my knowledge, any
of my colleagues (other than Danny) has made up his mind
on precisely how this national intelligence problem ought
to be handled. All of us feel it can be handled by some
process better than that now being employed. What we now
have is not a system (ever designed as such) but an
accretion of programs and practices which built up over
time. The theater force problem is national in scope,
particularly in light of its MBFR dimension, which goes
well beyond "military matters" narrowly defined. It is
one to which all members of USIB can make a contribution
and which affects the responsibilities of them all in their
contributions to national judgments. It, therefore, ought
to be addressed by a national system developed as such,
rather than in a manner dictated by the departmental
activity or requirements of any single Intelligence
Community member.
George A. Carver, Jr..
Deputy for National Intelligence Officers
TS-0039/DR,- Series B,
Cy 1 (for DCI.only)
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SUBJECT: The Warsaw Pact Theater Force Problem
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