IMPROVEMENT OF SUPPORT TO DDCI ON NFIB MATTERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M01048A001100170002-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 20, 2006
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 28, 1976
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR:
Special Assistant the DDI
SUBJECT : Improvement of Support to DDCI on NFIB Matters
1. You suggested we get together on subject, which I would like
to do; but, since I sometimes think better on paper, I am submitting
the following thoughts to you in advance:
a. I have the feeling that during his tenure on an NIE
or IMM working group, the analyst who is the CIA rep divorces
himself from the rest of the Agency and acts more or less on
his own. I would suggest that you or someone in your office
keep track of these people, and ensure that the positions they
are advancing are concurred in by other CIA analysts and super-
visors conversant with their topic. What I am looking for here
is coherent CIA positions on NFIB issues. Such positions should
be summarized in briefing papers provided to the DDCI at or
prior to. our pre-pre-NFIB meetings.
b. Additionally, we should request the analysts to keep us
informed in a timely manner of significant disputes between
participating agencies, including those that arise within the
working group and those that NFIB reps, like General Allen, may
raise in the future. Suggested responses to the contentious views (!)
of other agencies could be woven into the CIA position briefing paper.
c. When appropriate, I think your office should also be in
touch with the NIO responsible for the issue to be discussed.
Frankly, I have been disappointed with the failure of the NIO's
to exercise a strong coordinating role and to resolve many of the
issues which have arisen before they got to the NFIB. Perhaps
you could encourage them to do so. Also, it would be useful to
know in advance their views, as the "leading experts", on the
conflicts that have arisen in working group meetings arid elsewhere.
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d. It would appear useful for your office to maintain
regular contact with Walt Elder's shop in order to learn future
agenda topics and be ready to cope with them.
e. Some sort of briefing paper, however short, should be
prepared for the DDCI on each NFIB agenda item. We ought to
make him the best informed person at the meeting, with a
constructive contribution to offer when possible. On informational
items, or papers like the Africa requirements document we con-
sidered today, it would be useful to secure ccmments from DDI or
DDS$T analysts and, as appropriate, DDO desk officers for the DDCI's
consideration. Topics billed as "informational" may turn out to
be otherwise, and you should solicit analysts' views as to what
problems may arise.
2. Of course, we can never do a fully satisfactory job under the
current system, where papers are completed and passed around for discussion
two or three days before an NFIB meeting - or even later than that; where
the NIO's consider it their job to get disputes aired before the NFIB
rather than resolve them in advance; and where NFIB principals save their
choicest compla' IB meeting. With the DDCI's blessing, I am
conferring with n ways in which we might urge the DCI to
correct this si ua.ion.
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