DCI APPEARANCE BEFORE THE PFIAB, 25 JANUARY

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 22, 2002
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• Publication Date: January 20, 1966
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20 January 1966
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: DCI Appearance Before the PFIAB, 25 January
1. Proposed as item 1. for discussion with the PFIAB at
their 25 January meeting:
Major problems affecting over-all coordination of
the U. S. foreign intelligence effort, and prospects for
their timely resolution.
2. Some of the more important problems of immediate
interest are:
a. Improvement and strengthening of totality of
intelligence effort in priority areas.
Probably the DCI's most important responsibility
in the coordinating field is to ensure a concerted intelligence
effort, involving all existing or potential resources of the
community, against priority targets. This problem has two
elements:
(1) The first element of the problem is to
determine what the priority objectives of intelligence
ought to be. The procedures and competence of the
community to accomplish this purpose have greatly
improved in the course of the past few years and
function smoothly. For example:
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(a) USIB continues to review the list of
Priority National Intelligence Objectives (PNIOs)
every three months for the purpose of ascertaining
the most important geographic areas of current
intelligence interest.
(b) The Board of National Estimates reviews
National Intelligence Estimates from time to time
to ascertain retrospectively the validity of these
estimates. These "Post Mortems" identify gaps
which appear to have existed in the information
available during the formulation of particular
e stimate s.
(c) The attention of the community is directed
to specific problems by senior officials of the
Government concerned with the formulation of
national policy. We are responding to an increasing
number of requests from the Secretary of Defense,
Secretary of State and others for coordinated
studies, many of which involve concerted effort
by the community. The most recent example of
such a request, which involves an evaluation of our
collective capabilities for intelligence coverage, is a
request, addressed to me personally by the Secretary
of Defense and concurred in by the Secretary of
State, which calls for an expansion and intensification
of intelligence programs aimed against Cambodia.
(d) In this general connection I have recently
initiated a searching review of the process by which
requirements are identified and formulated in the
-~, Central Intelligence Agency and will extend this
study to include a review of the adequacy of com-
munity procedures in this field.
(2) The second element of the problem of achieving
a concerted effort against an important target is the
adequacy of the arrangements for reviewing and evaluating
existing :programs and activities of all components of the
community; ensuring their appropriate interrelationship
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and stimulating additional activity, including the
redeployment of existing resources and, where
appropriate, the development of new resources.
We have assigned this responsibility to the
Critical Collection Problems Committee (CCPC)
of USIB which functions as a senior committee
was to this committee, for example, that the prob em
of evaluating and improving our intelligence effort
against Cambodia, referred to above, was referred.
Another area with which the CCPC has been particularly
concerned recently is China. As part of its charter
responsibilities, it has developed and maintains a
complete inventory of all U. S. foreign intelligence
installations and activities.
(3) The CCPC is not the total answer to the
organization required to ensure appropriate focus
and total. coordination of the intelligence effort against
a given target. This is partially because the CCPC is
concerned exclusively with collection and is therefore
not competent to deal with the analytical or production
aspects of intelligence problems. Secondly, although
functioning with increasing effectiveness, it is
inevitably subject to some of the weaknesses of
committee action. In important areas, therefore,
requiring staff action to review all aspects of the
intelligence effort in a given area, I have adopted the
device of designating a senior officer to act as my
personal. re resentative. For example, I have
designated to be responsible for a
continuing review and evaluation of the intelligence
effort focused on China. As required, I can appoint
other members of my personal staff to act in this
capacity or, if desirable, can assign qualified and
senior officers of the community to this staff to
serve as long as may be required.
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The new committee which has been constituted to
improve the community effort and resources required to,
counter hostile technical surveillance activities against
American installations is functioning smoothl and
effectively under the Chairmanship o
c. Programming and resource management.
For a number of reasons, it does not appear desirable
or practical to try to combine the budgets and programs of
the Central Intelligence Agency with the intelligence budgets
and programs of the Defense Department into a single con-
solidated intelligence program or budget presentation. On
the other hand, the DCI has participated with increasing
effectiveness in the formulation of the two large Defense
Department intelligence programs, the Consolidated Cryptologic:
Program (CCP) and the Consolidated Intelligence Program (CIP).
As a result of this participation, the DCI is now able to afford
rather specific: and effective guidance to the Defense Department
concerning the level of effort required to meet important
intelligence objectives. A very thorough review of require-
ments for COMINT has recently been completed and recommen-.
dations are now pending before USIB which, if adopted, will
establish USIB as the sole source of intelligence guidance
for COMINT programming. The DCI of course participates
through the Executive Committee of the NRO in the development
of the NRP.
In addition to participation in the formulation of the
large individual intelligence programs of the Government, the
DCI has, on an informal basis, proceeded with the centralized
collection and collation of data concerning the size, deployment
and objectives of all the national intelligence programs of
the Government.
3. An organizational development of interest which relates to
the coordinating responsibilities of the DCI concerns the Board of
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National Estimates. As the Board is the vehicle for achieving
coordinated estimates it performs a coordinating function of the
highest importance. In view of the ever increasing pressures
on the DCI and the community to provide national intelligence
estimates on a variety of strategically important subjects, I
have recently established the Board as a separate component of
CIA, reporting directly to me. The Board will of course continue
to function in very close collaboration with the DDI and the sub-
stantive intelligence components which are under the DDI.
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JOHN A. BROSS
D/DCI/NIPE
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