REQUIREMENTS SURVEY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01495R000400070009-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 18, 2006
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: March 14, 1967
• Content Type: MF

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14 March 1967
MEMORANDUM FOR:
Special Assistant to the DDI
SUBJECT Requirements Survey
1. We have reviewed the draft Directorate position
on the IG Survey, and find it generally satisfactory.
The CGAG proposal is particularly constructive.
2. We have one reservation, concerning the revised
Recommendations 1 and 2. Para (b) (2) recommends in
favorable terms consideration of a proposal that DCID 1/2
define geographic areas which do not warrant intelligence
collection. I think this is very dangerous. Stepping
through the looking glass from the requirements world into
the real world in which OCI functions, one finds it necessary
to live with the White House, PFIAB, Congress and the press.
None of these bodies is notably understanding of our
problems, and all are pathologically obsessed with "being
taken by surprise." The first coup in an obscure African
capital on which OCI can shed no light because it has no
information, and the world will be told that CIA bungled
again. The DCID will not be a shield, but a bludgeon with
which to bash us for our lack of elementary foresight. It
is easy to envisage USIB in 1959 decreeing that the Belgian
Congo was not worth the trouble.
3. OCI works, and is expected to work, where the
news is. To adopt this proposal is to make a fundamental
change in our mission, one which has ramifications through-
out the executive branch. A massive reeducation of our
customers and overseers will be required, and some pupils
are notable under-achievers in this regard. When Mr. McCone
wanted to know something he tended to be indifferent to
the fact that information was not available. This
characteristic is not unknown in the White House. "It says
right here in DCID 1/2 that we don't have to do that" will
not be an acceptable excuse.
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4. Another question which arises is the impact of
this proposal on the NIS program. To decide that the
US Government is no longer interested in basic intelli-
gence on large pieces of real estate is to transform the
philosophy of the program. I am not saying this is
undesirable, only that the question cannot be considered
solely in the requirements context.
5. Note that I am not addressing myself to priorities.
Clearly some areas are more important than others. I am
concerned about the absolute judgments which this pro-
posal requires.
E. DREXEL GO EY,
Director of Current Intelligence
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