STATUS REPORT ON EFFORTS TO IMPROVE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY COVERAGE OF CUBA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M01048A001100200090-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2006
• Sequence Number: 90
• Publication Date: January 6, 1977
• Content Type: MF

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I'BDRANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
6 JAM T V7
E. H. Knoche -
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
Deputy to the DC1 or the Intelligence Community
SUBJECT : Status Report on Efforts to Improve Intelligence
Community Coverage of Cuba
ments and related guidance/action strategies for each of the collection
there is no U.S. mission. It seeks to establish new national require-
imagery, SIGINT and human resources, and deals with a country in which
regular FOCUS review, which deals only with human resources and which
evaluates the performance of a particular mission abroad in meeting
intelligence requirements, this Special FOCUS is all-source, covering
intelligence coverage of Cuba, called a.Special FOCUS. Unlike a
2. National Intelligence Office-Intelligence Community Staff
Special All-Source Review: The Community is con ucting a review of
to date and our plans for future action.
the need to improve our coverage, analysis and reporting. 'Accordingly,
we began a deep look at our Cuban work in CIA and this led to Community
consideration of the subject. We have put in train some important
actions. The following is a status report on what has been accomplished
Communist Party, and intelligence activities. Of .particular concern,
are the limitations of the Community's knowledge of Cuban affairs and
1. As you will recall., in October we grew ccacerted about the
growing role of Cubans internationally in paramilitary, political,
1976.
abroad, after discussions with key policymakers in November
Cuba, including both internal matters and Cuban activities
establishing tentative future major national requirements on
A. The Special FOCUS began with the NIO for Latin America
disciplines.
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B. On 9 and 13 November the NI0/LA held requirements
and evaluation seminars on Cuba, which were attended by
consumers of intelligence from both policy and production
elements. Two reports are being completed based on these
seminars:
(1) A summary of prioritized future national
requirements on Cuba, to be submitted shortly to the
NFIB for validation and for revision of related priority
authorizations; and
three OCI Committee inputs, including any appropriate trade-offs
and other resource implications.
3. CIA Actions: CIA has followed up its initial review of Cuban,
of an all-source collection guidance/action Strategy using the
these include upgrading the exploitation priority of ^ existing
Cuban targets and the addition of one new target.)
D. The final step in the Special FOCUS exercise will be the
development, by mid-February 1977, and subsecuent implementation
ments. Proposals derived from this review are under considerations
imagery coverage in November 1976 on the basis of current require-
resource implications. (COMCREX made a preliminary review of
C. The DCI SIGINI?, COTIrREX and Human ReF ource Committees will
draw on these reports and by the end of Janub.ry will have developed.
separate collection guidance/action strategy packages, including
(2) An evaluation of recent reporting on six vital
issues pertaining to Cuba.
coverage without awaiting the results of the Special FOCUS. The CIA
efforts involve both collection and production, and, except as noted below,
can be handled from existing resources. CIA production efforts will be
only minimally affected by the Snecial FOCUS, which is collection-oriented.
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