INSPECTOR GENERAL'S REPORT ON FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION REQUIREMENTS

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 7, 2006
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: March 4, 1967
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4 MAR 15;7
M lRAlIZ*1M FOR: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT : Inspector General's Report on Foreign
Intelligence Collection Requirements
RIFUMCE : Your memorandum, same subject, dated
18 January 1967
I. This memorandum is for your informatton? It
presents our general reaction to the Report and out-
lines the steps that are being taken in response to
it.
2. The IIDI has reviewed the Report in some
detail and certainly agrees with the basic thrust
of the Report-problems do exist in the areas of
requirements and collection guidance. Although not
agreeing with none of the assertions, be decided
not to argue with those but rather to do what mist
be done to use the Report as a basis for developing
workable actions for remedying the deficiencies that
do exist.
3. As you forecast in your memorandum, it is
taking a good deal of staff a work to consider each of
the recomsendationB._ther
assigned to the DDI for action. These suit be related
one to another and to the total responsibility of the
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Directorate. In order to develop workable actions
the geport, the DDI has established a tear of
senior persons from CO sad the interested producing
and collecting offices in this Directorate. The DDI
has instructed the toss leader, dir. puce Clarke, to
analyze each of the 20 recc endations along the fol-
lowing lines:
a. Define the deficiency the recommendation
is supposed to remedy.
b. Assess degree to which action remanded
In the report is likely to remedy the stated
deficiency.
Restate the action in operable terms.
d. Insure action element is proper.
,e. Determine whether situation otter recon
sonded action is taken viii have undesirable
side effects.
f. aocommea4 acceptance or rejection of
restated action or merits.
4. In addition to reviewing each separate recom--
tion, the tee* is examining the principal problems
and deficiencies to sake certain that appropriate action
Is provided for each.
S. T ere are a number of problem that crop up
giving this kind of a report the serious attention
deserves.
a. Th+e i. -ct of recommendations concern
lection ran ire nts on the other reeaponalb
of management have to be weighed cnrezui Jy .
gree with the thrust of the report that manage-
grit has given this subject area only sporadic
attention in the past. But In righting the balance,
we asset be careful not to awing too for In the
other direction.
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b. It is clear that most of the recossea-
detions require woes restatement it they are to
serve effectively as directives or guides for
action. Turthormorej the recommendations need
to be sorted into categories and priorities.
For example, recommendations No. 1, No. 8, and
No. gd obviously are major matters and they
interrelate. Recommendation No. 2 is a detail
which is easily subaaumed in No. I.
e. The authority responsible for each
recommendation needs careful consideration in
terms of insuring effective action. l ommen
dation No. 16, for eaaaspl-e, calls on the to provide the members of the SIGINT Group
CGa with certain training and entree. We
believe, ho"ver, that the action that Will bar
required if the recommendation is to be offec--
tive rests with the CIA $IGINT Officer.
6. Nine of the 27 recommendations call speci-
fically for joint action by DDI and Dom'.. In others,
the recommendation to be effective will also require
such joint action. I mention this because, although
our review and that of DDS&T been on a unilateral
DireCtoraati basis so far, any Implementation is going
to require the close collaboration of DDI and DDS&T.
The next step probably should involve some staff work
between the two Directorates.
7. 1 believe we can have comprehensive cents
ready for you by close of business, Friday, 10 March
1967. However, I wish to note that the DZ has a koon
interest in this report and its implications for
management responsibilities and resource demands within
this Directorate. Be will return to Headquarters on
20 March. I would prefer to hold off any final reaponso
to your memorandum until after his return. In the moan-
tiaeae, I will be available to participate in whatever
discussions your Senior 2a.cutive Group nay have on
this subject.
EDWARD w. PROCTOR
Acting Deputy Director for Intelligence
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