LETTER OF INSTRUCTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M01048A001100030007-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 7, 2005
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: February 17, 1977
• Content Type: MF

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17 February 1977
MEMORANDUM FOR: Cord Meyer, Jr.
Special Assistant to the Deputy Director
SUBJECT Letter of Instruction
In your role as Special Assistant to the Deputy Director,
I expect you to carry out the following duties and responsi-
bilities:
1.. Continue, as stated in my letter directed to you
dated July 1976, to review the functioning and product of
the Strategic Warning Staff and to ensure that the SWS receives
full support and cooperation from the collection and analytical
resources available within the Agency. I expect you to bring
to my attention any deficiencies in the Strategic Warning Staff's
performance and to propose such changes as may be necessary to
improve our ability to cope with the strategic warning problem.
2. Continue to review the crisis management procedures
and to propose and coordinate such new procedures as may be
necessary to improve the ability of the DCI to provide coordina-
ted intelligence support to the policymakers in crisis situations.
Specifically, I wish you to follow up with the IC Staff on the
implementation of the procedural reforms that you and your
working group have proposed. Also, I wish you to keep under
review the Emergency Planning function recently assigned to the
CIA Operations Center.
.3. Continue to serve as the Agency's principal official
through whom liaison is conducted with the Department of State
on matters concerning prevention and control of international
terrorism. You.should continue to work closely with Ambassador
Heck, Director for Combatting Terrorism, in ensuring that the
collection and analytical resources of the Agency are effectively
coordinated and concentrated on the terrorist target.
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4. As specified in my letter to the Assistant to the
President for National Security Affairs, 15 February 1977,
you will also serve as the Agency's principal referent on
matters concerning Human Rights in the international field
and function as the Agency's point of contact for the NSC
in supplying intelligence support on this subject.
5. I also expect you to be available from time to time
to carry out such other duties and functions that I may assign
to you.
E. H. Knoche
DDCI
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