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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 7, 2005
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improve intelligence production and collection by.providing a highly
selective list of current, critical questions for a period of special
operational. attention. The purposeful limitation on the number of
questions and their high degree of focus required that difficult
choices had to be made from the many current high priority areas
and questions. This meant that certain issues or problems, although
very important, have been excluded. The estimated duration of an
issue was also used as a factor in the question selection process.
For example, if a problem were considered likely to pass before a
strategy for solving it could be devised, it was excluded. Moreover,
key problems of a critical nature which currently receive substantial
and ongoing attention, such as SAL and verification,were not
the National Intelligence Officers---e~}~ce.,
selected subjects.
The Key Intelligence Questions continue to be formulated by
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INTRODUCTION
The Key Intelligence Questions for Fiscal Year 1977, issued
by the Director of Central Intelligence pursuant to his responsibilities
in Executive Order 11905, represent a departure from past practice
dictated by experience. The new list.is short and highly selective,
the questions having been chosen not only because they are important
to national consumers, but also because a real need for action by
the Intelligence Community exists and because action seems likely
to produce results. The KIQs represent the DCI's guidance to all
Intelligence Community collection and production managers on these
included in the questions.
sin KIQ Strategy Reports aimed at developing special collection
and analytical strategies. The performance of the Intellio nrP
The National Intelligence Officers will produce;
Community Staff program which assesses the timeliness and quality
of intelligence products in terms of the requirements of major
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The K.[Qs and their performance evaluations cannot provide
systematic inputs for resource allocation decisions by program
managers due to their limited number, specificity, and emphasis
on current operations. However- they ran provide valiiahlp incinh+c
Additions, deletions, or modifications to the Key Intelligence
Questions may be issued from time to time during FY 77, depending
on major changes in the international situation or if the foreign
intelligence environment should dictate. The order in which the
FY 77 questions are listed should not be regarded as implying an
internal priority: by definition all the Key Intelligence fs-estinns
are of major importance
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