PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION: INTELLIGENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M01133A000900160033-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 14, 2004
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: March 5, 1974
• Content Type: MEMO

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March 5, 1974
SUBJECT: Problem Identification: Intelligence
1. Covert Political Action.. Should the U.S. Government
have a capability for covert action cverseas, i.e.,
clandestine political intervention or interference
in foreign countries? If so, under what circumstances,
under what safeguards (approval mechanisms), and who
should carry out the activities?
2. Intelligence Collection. How can the collection
of intelligence information for the conduct of foreign
policy -- including particularly Foreign Service, CIA,
and Military Attache reporting -- be made more effective?
There are two major problems:
a. Reporting is now almost entirely responsive to
operational requirements rather than to the needs
of intelligence analysts.
b. The needs of consumers, both operational and
analytical, have not been adequately expressed
to guide the collectors.
3. Special Intelligence Collection Efforts. What control
and coordination is required to assure the effective-
highly sensitive and exceptionally
costly intelligence efforts, managed by the Department
of Defense but important to the conduct of foreign
policy as well as to th, needs of the-military?
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Subject: Problem ... Intelligence
4. Intelligence Research and Analysis. How can the Organizatiop and
procedures for intelligence analysis be made more useful to
policymakers? Specifically, how can policymaker requirements
and evaluation be most effectively related to the offices
producing the intelligence analysis? Where in the community
should intelligence analysis directly in support of the
conduct of foreign policy be carried out -- notably for
political, strategic, economic, and scientific matters?
What should be the proper balance in the intelligence
community between National and Departmental Intelligence?
5. National Intelligence Estimates. Are National
Intelligence Estimates drafted and coordinated in a
way that makes the best use of resources throughout
the community? Do NIE's meet the needs of the
President, other key policy makers, and others
throughout the government involved in the conduct
of foreign policy?
6. Intelligence Oversight. What intelligence activities
need to be subject to more direct and responsible
accountability and review by the Executive Branch
and by the Legislative Branch? What form should such
oversight take (PFIAB, OMB, NSC, Ambassadors, etc.)?
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