CIA PLANNING-PROGRAMMING-BUDGETING SYSTEM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000200170016-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 6, 2002
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: October 28, 1965
• Content Type: MF

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2 8 O U 1965
MEMORANDUM FOR: Members of the CIA Planning Group
: CIA Planning-Programming-Budgeting System
1. This summer those people to whom this memorandum is
addressed spent a considerable amount of time and interest in the
preparation of a "Long-range Plan". As far as I know, this was the
first attempt by the Agency to take a look into the future and to try to
think about our long-range objectives on an across-the-board basis.
This study is a very noteworthy and useful first effort.
2. Almost simultaneously with the completion of the "Long-
range Plan" the President announced a new system for planning,
programming, and budgeting to be instituted in the Federal Govern-
ment.
3. Guidelines for installing the new system and a time schedule
for the accomplishment of specific steps were set forth in Bureau of the
Budget Circular No. 66-3 (Tab A). Since the Circular was drafted for
Government-wide application, it is lengthy and complex -- but it
nonetheless represents our basic guidance in launching into this problem.
After a substantial amount of informal clarification and elaboration with
the Bureau of the Budget staff, and discussions with such "experts" as
we have attempted to design a system
which, using the "Long-range Plan" as a base, will build into our
management processes a regular planning schedule involving the Director
and the Directorates. The result of this initial effort is at Tab B. The
system is designed to ensure that the planning process is not subordinated
to the budgeting process, but at the same time is closely allied thereto.
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4. I would particularly like an opportunity to explain the new
system to those of you who participated in the preparation of the "Long-
range Plan", and to review how we propose to build from the worthwhile
beginning which you have made. Accordingly, I would appreciate your
meeting with me in the Director's Conference Room at 11 a. in. on
Monday. 1 November.
L. K. White
Executive Director-Comptroller
25X1 O/PPB:J 1(28 Oct 65)
Distribution:
Copies to all members of CIA Planning Group
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