LETTER TO THE HONORABLE ALAIN ENTHOVEN FROM W. F. RABORN

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• Publication Date: January 28, 1966
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The Ho rable Alain ,nthaven
Assistant Secretary of I.efense
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The Pentagon
.a hank you for your totter of 19 January concurring
in the recorr. meadationa of the Ad Hoc Review Groan an GON41 N T
rev?uire r:?,ents.
-i4 regards the second paragraph of your Letter,
ve that we should work jointly to ensure continuing
evaluation of COMIN'F prograt a. These matters are the
iity of John Dross of my staff who will be in touch
with you.
JABROSS:ag (28/1/66)
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ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20301
Honorable W. F. Raborn
Director of Central Intelligence
I concur with the recommendations contained in the draft
report on COMINT requirements.
The efforts of the Group in preparing the report represent;
a valuable first step in collating and analyzing the requirements.
However, I think that subsequent work must consider in more quanti-
tative terms such questions as determining the marginal value of
satisfying the more difficult features in each requirement; or
establishing relative priorities for each requirement so that, as
new ones arise, consideration can be given to relaxing performance
requirements or even dropping less urgent requirements. In other
words, we need to develop concepts and procedures that will help
us to judge whether the extra resources required to meet various
COMINT requirements are best used there or in other types of
intelligence collection. Clearly, such analyses will dupond on
developing better procedures for estimating ,he costs of alternative
programs of COMINT collection and production. They will. also depend
on analytic contributions from all users and producers of COMINT.
Sincerely,
Alain Enthoven
Assistant Secretary of Defense
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