LETTER TO W.F. RABORN, JR. FROM CHARLES L.SCHULTZE

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
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• Publication Date: October 13, 1965
• Content Type: LETTER

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EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
BUREAU OF THE BUDGET
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20503
OCT 1 3 t!,
Honorable W. F. Raborn, Jr.
Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
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I am enclosing Budget Bulletin No. 66-3, which spells out
guidelines for establishing a Planning-Prograrmrning-Budgeting
system in all the major agencies within the Executive Branch.
This system ties together program planning and budgeting in a
way which we have not done before.
As you know, on August 25th at a Cabinet meeting, the President
directed that this system be institutes: throughout the Govern-
ment. He has expressed a keen interest in seeing it carried
through into the formulation of program plans and budget reco?.m--
mendations for the 1968 budget. This system will permit a
much more orderly, careful, and concrete formulation of program
and budget recommendations. Most importantly, it is designed
to minimize the problem of short-time deadlines under which
summer budget previews and fall budget reviews have been carried
on.
I am convinced that the new system will prove extremely valu-
able to each agency head, as well as to the President, as an
instrument around which to organize in a systematic manner
program and budgetary decisions. But its successful inaugura-
tion and functioning depend crucially upon your own personal
involvement. If it is treated simply as a routine change in
instructions for preparing budgetary submissions, it will
never reach its potential. I urge you, therefore, to take a
personal interest in getting the system firmly established.
It is particularly important that the actions to be taken
under the attached Bulletin to get this system underway be
completed by the dates specified.
The first step, as the Bulletin specifies, is to inform the
Bureau of the Budget of the name of the official you have
designated to be responsible for the development of the system
within your agency. As soon as those names have been submitted
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for the various departments and establishments, I plan to
meet with those officials, and with others who will be in-
volved, to discuss in more detail the Planning-Programming-
Budgeting system.
You will note that the Bulletin refers to questions which
should serve as the starting point for the preparation of
in-depth analyses of programs or parts of programs. The
first list of questions for your agency will be transmitted
to you shortly. The analyses should result in "issue papers"
which are similar to those requested by the Bureau of the
Budget in connection with the last two budget previews.
However, we will now want to receive them over a longer
period during the year.
Sincerely,
Charles L. Schultze
Director
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Colon?_l-I Vhite
We have sent a copy to BPAM to staff and
work up a response.
Also will disseminate, via Executive Memo,
to DCI, DDCI, and all components. This should
help muffle some of the sounds raised at FPBC
this morning.
HK
18 October 65
(DATE)
FORM NO. REPLACES FORM 10-101
I AUG 54 101 WHICH MAY BE USED.
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