REVIEW OF VOL. II OF DIS TEXTBOOK: 'THE U. S. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY'

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• Publication Date: March 27, 1975
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DCI/IC 75-4568
27 March 1975
MDRAN?UM FOR: Chief, External Activities Branch,
B38CTs
Office of Security
Review of Vol. 11 of DIS Textbook :
"The U. S. Intelligence Community"
1. Per your request of 24 March 1975, 1 have
reviewed-the attached textbook, specifically with regard
to Seation VI commencing on page 6B1.
2. A proposed rewrite of that section is attached.
3. There agars to be an organisational/structural
or in chapter S. The Intelli, noe Resources Advisory
C ittee (IRAC) is not a National Security Council
gip. It is an entity simile to USIB in charter,
and, to some extent, members& p.
4. One further item std be corrected. This is
the inclusion of the watch Car {ttoo in the list of
USIB Comod ttees. This ccw=ittee has been abolished,
and its activities assumed by the Strategic Warning
Staff. This Staff is a joint DoD/CIA endeavor, but is
not a committee of USIB, so mention should be made of this
new staff in another section of the text.
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The Intelligence Community Staff (ICS)
The Intelligence Community Staff (ICS) was established.to
support the Director of Central Intelligence in his role as the senior
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'US intelligence officer--the man personally designated by the President
to provide leadership and to coordinate the foreign intelligence activities
of the national intelligence community.
The present IC Staff had its beginning in a small National
Intelligence Programs Evaluation or NIPE Staff which was established in
1963 to look at Community problems. This nucleus was expanded in early
1972 into the Intelligence Community Staff with a far broader mission.
However, in spite of its name, it, like its predecessor, NIPE, was still
for the most part, manned by CIA officers. When Dr. Schlesinger became
DCI in early 1973, he reorganized the Staff to make it representative of
the entire Community.
F1 The present IC Staff is a blend of CIA professional personnel,
active duty intelligence officers from the military services, civilian
representatives from NSA, DIA, and the State Department, plus a few
individuals drawn from private industry. Although housed in the CIA
Headquarters Building, the IC Staff support to the DCI is clearly in a
community sense, and it deals with all agencies anddepartments on an
equal basis, the Central Intelligence Agency being one among several.
The purpose of the Intelligence Community Staff is to provide
continuing support to the Director of Central INtelligence in the dis-
charge of his responsibilities for planning, reviewing, evaluating, and
improving all US foreign intelligence activities and for submitting
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intelligence resources as assigned to him in National Security Council
Intelligence Directives.
The functions of the IC Staff include:
a. Establishing and maintaining procedures for the systematic
evaluation and improvement of Intelligence Community efforts in
analysis and production, in collection and processing, and in dev-
eloping recommendations for resource allocation.
b. Providing a focal point for the identification and resolution
of planning, management and procedural problems of importance to more
than one organization of the Intelligence'Community.
c. Preparing annually the National Foreign. Intelligence
Program Recommendations for submission to the President by the
Director of Central Intelligence concerning (a) the resources required
for execution of Community responsibilities for the provision of
foreign intelligence, (b) the evaluation of Community performance,
(c) means of improving Director of Central Intelligence oversight of
the Community, and (d) issues meriting Presidential attention.
d. Conducting in-depth studies in important Community problem
areas and develop policy proposals and action recommendations as
appropriate.
e. Preparing for the Director of Central Intelligence periodic
statements of objectives, forecasts of the future intelligence
environment, and listings of foreign intelligence priorities, as-such
may be required for Community guidance.
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-resource review process including related program and performance
evaluations, research and analysts; developing methodologies to
support such evaluations.
g. Establishing a system for relating Community resource
expenditures with responses to key intelligence needs of-national
level users in order to enhance both the responsiveness of the
products and the effectivenss and efficiency of resource application.
h. Fostering development of a coordinated Community effort
to improve analytical techniques and methodologies.
I. Reviewing and assessing the performance. of the Intelligence
Community in providing warning of and responding to crisis situations,
and recommend ways to improve the quality, scope and timeliness of
the intelligence products provided both to high-level and to operational
field consumers.
j. Working with Department of Defense agencies on behalf of the
Director of Central Intelligence to enhance mutual contributions
between national intelligence activities and the operational
Intelligence activities which support the readiness of the military
forces..
k. On behalf of the DCI, maintain oversight of and evaluate
the performance of the committees of the United States Intelligence
Board.
1. Maintaining continuing liaison with the President's Foreign
Intelligence Advisory Board and supporting the DCI in his responses
to the Board.
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M. Supporting the DCI in his participation in National
Security Council Intelligence Committee (NSCIC) activities and
providing the chairman of the NSCIC Working Group.
n. Participating in, and providing secretarial support for
the Intelligence Resources Advisory Committee (IRAC).
0.. Preparing presentations as appropriate for use by the
DCI in his Congressional appearances.
p. Monitoring Federal legislative actions which affect the
functioning and effectivenss of the Intelligence Community.
q. On behalf of the DCI,'monitor inputs from intelligence
organizations requested by such special commissions, committees and
panels as may be appointed by the President and/or the Congress to
investigate programs or activities with which intelligence products
or intelligence organizations are involved.
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The IC Staff is organized to support the DCI in the four primary
areas of his Community responsibility--resources management, collection
and processing, production and analysis, and planning, reviewing and
evaluating.
Central Intelligence for the Intelligence Community (D/DCI/IC), designated
by the Director of Central Intelligence. The Staff is operated as a
separate entity, not a part of the Central Intelligence Agency staff
structure- The D/DCI/IC reports directly to the Director of Central
Intelligence.
The IC Staff is directed by the Deputy to the Director of
All files maintained by the IC Staff are centralized and
maintained in the REgistry, Rm 6E 2914, Hqs.
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There is no technical info at all
in this, so no comment is required from
that standpoint.
From the view of MPRRD, it would
seem to me appropriate that the IRAC
discussion should not be included under
National Security Council groups since
it is, in effect, a counterpoint to USIB.
One nit-pick on page 8C1, I believe
the Watch Committee has been abolished,
and its activities assumed by the
Strategic Warning Staff.
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