THE FIFTEEN-YEAR PLAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000700100027-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 16, 2006
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: June 1, 1965
• Content Type: MF

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1 June 1965
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
THROUGH: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: The Fifteen-Year Plan
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1. In response to your instruction, attached hereto is an outline
for a Fifteen-Year Plan for U. S. intelligence. This outline and the
supporting illustrative material have been prepared in the Office of
Budget, Program Analysis and Manpower with the participation of all
CIA components as represented on the ad hoc panel appointed for this
purpose.
2. Given the time-frame under which this task was undertaken,
there is little further polishing that can be done. It is believed that
this submission is responsive to your request for a proposed planning
mechanism which would be community-wide in scope and long-ranged
in nature. The procedures outlined provide for a logical sequence
of data collection and development which, when refined and assembled,
should provide an amalgam of U. S. intelligence programs against
which progress can be charted, alternatives considered, policy issues
illuminated, and managerial decisions formulated.
3. Should the attached be accepted as a first cut at the problem,
I recommend that responsibility for refinement, implementation, and
coordination be assigned to the D/DCI/NIPE. As you are aware,
during the past two years Mr. McCone, with the assistance of a small
staff, took several significant steps in furtherance of the DCI's
responsibility for coordinating and guiding the total U. S. intelligence
effort. Among these were:
- The strengthening of the USIB structure and of other
coordination entities;
- Participation, with appropriate Sec Def elements, in a very
thorough review of COMINT requirements which should
surface some fundamental choices in this field;
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- Representation at the formal Defense Department reviews
of the Consolidated Cryptologic Program and the Consolidated
Intelligence Program;
The sponsoring of a series of surveys of representative
intelligence activities (e. g. the Nolting and Shute Reports);
The initiation, with the Defense Intelligence Agency, of an
effort to establish compatible categories of intelligence
facilities and assets so as to make possible a community-
wide index, based on common denominators.
These measures, useful as they have been, represent essentially only
first steps toward putting the DCI in a position to discharge his full
responsibility for coordination and direction of the community. Successful
development of the proposed Fifteen Year Plan will be a major step
toward this goal.
(signed) Lyman B. Kirkpatrick
Lyman B. Kirkpatrick
Executive Director-Comptroller
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