INPUT TO THE DCI'S ANNUAL REPORT (U)

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The Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D.C. 20505
Resource Management Staff
DCI/ICS 78-1198
18 October 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. Anthony A. Lapham
General Counsel
Acting irec or, Policy Guidance Office
SUBJECT: Input to the DCI's Annual Report (U)
1. (C) Preparation of the DCI's Annual Report for calendar year 1978,
due to the President and the Congress by 25 January 1979, is now under way.
The DCI has approved 'a concept for this year's Annual Report which is more
selective than last year's, both because this seems more appropriate to a
1978 characterized by attention to key intelligence issues rather than the
comprehensive report approach used for 1977 as a year of extensive community
restructuring, and also to limit length for a busy reader to a manageable
30-40 pages (last year's ran 80 plus). The DCI has also approved an outline
for this year's report (Attachment 1). Part I is designed'to allow the DCI
to highlight the particular characteristics and emphases of 1978 in intelli-
gence; Part II is intended to air several issues of great importance to him,
his key Executive users, and the Congress. The Annual Report will carry
a high classification and receive extremely limited distribution.
2. (U) Additionally, in a 15 September 1978 letter to the DCI on his
Annual Report generally, Chairman Boland of the HPSCI listed six special
topics on which the HPSCI desired additional information in the Annual Report
or appended to it. (Attachment 3.) The fifth of these is: "All reports
from the Attorney General to the President regarding any intelligence
activities which raise questions of legality and decisions made or actions
taken in response to reports from agencies within the intelligence community
forwarded to the Attorney General by the Intelligence Oversight Board."
Your office would seem the most appropriate focal point for staffing out
this particular request with the White House, Justice and the Intelligence
Oversight Board, and resolving any questions of jurisdiction and/or appro-
priateness that may arise in preparation of a response. We will probably
want to make a general statement on this subject in the body of the Annual
Report, appending a full response to the HPSCI's (only) copy of the Annual
Report. 25X1
3. (C) We would also appreciate input from your office on two sections
of the Annual Report outline -- Legal and Propriety Issues and some aspects
of Security and Counterintelligence Issues. Please address the following
specifics, but feel free to raise other matters you feel should get attention
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SUBJECT: Input to the DCI's Annual Report (U)
in the DCI's Annual Report this year:
a. What strike you as highlights of 1978 on the legal and propriety
fronts? We would like to note, and air insofar as DCI comment may be
appropriate in an Annual Report, major legal issues rather than cataloguing
categories and volume of legal activity.
b. Are there particular concerns and emphases of the Intelligence
Oversight Board's 1978 activities that should be noted in the Annual Report?
c. Is the volume or thrust of litigation significantly enough different
from 1977 to be worth mention?
d. Beyond specific cases, are there general points to be made from the
legal perspective on security and counterintelligence issues involving
espionage, ex-intelligence officer authors, other kinds of leaks, etc? How
are we doing. at coping with the perennial dilemma of legal recourse to
exposure of sensitive intelligence data without further damaging disclosure
of sources and methods?
e. Are more effective legal remedies to these problems under considera-
tion? If so, should the DCI so note in his Annual Report?
4. (U) We are asking the OLC for input on Congressional relations, including
charter legislation, but you may have comment on some congressional' matters as
well.
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5? (C) is responsible for producing
this year's UU1 Annual Report. Please identify a principal'point of contact for
her to work with. We shall need your overview comments for the Annual Report by
COB 6 November, in order to accomplish integrated drafting of the entire Annual
Report in November, review in December, and DCI clearance and production in
January. An early idea of the rough dimensions of the response to the HPSCI's
5th task would be helpful in order to write any appropriate highlights into the
text of the Annual Report, but the full response will not be needed until January
in time to append to the HPSCI's copy of the Annual Report.
Attachments:
1.
DCI Revised Outline - AR for
1978
2.
DCI letter to NFIB principals
help on Annual Report
requesting
3.
Boland letter to DCI (15 Sep w/att &
DCI interim reply)
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Distribution: DCI/ICS 78-1198
Original & 1 - GC w/atts
1 - OLC w/atts
1 - IG w/atts
1 - SA/DCI/CI Watts
1 - DCI Security Committee via.Exec. Secy. w/atts
1 - RM/EO Watts
1 - RM/CLLO w/atts
1 - RM/REG w/atts
1 - RM/PGO w/atts (78 AR Production/Tasking)
1 - RM/PGO Chrono Watts
DCI/RMS/PG 1(18 October 1978)
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DCI REVISED OUTLINE - ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1978
I. 1978 in Intelligence
A. Execution of the E.O. and Other Organizational Questions
1. evolution of the PRC(I); work on user priorities
2. resources: experience. in use of DCI's budjet authority
3. production
a. NFAC's first full year
b. DIA
c. INR
d. DCI substantive, committees (EIC, JAEIC, ST.IC, WSSIC)
4. collection
a. status of NITC
b. 3 DCI collection committees
5. other management
a. DDCI
b. NFIB: shifting membership/concerns
6. I&W
B. New or Altered Emphases in Analysis
1. strategic balance: new developments & experience in
communicating them
2. proliferating support for arms limitation talks
3. emergence of China as an active world player
4. world-petroleum supply
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5. substantive support for crises--e.g., Ogaden, Shaba II
(Afghanistan?)
C. Intelligence and the Congress
1. activities in support of both-. oversight committees
2. activities in support of other committees
3. charter legislation
D. Legal and Propriety Issues
E. Security and Counterintelligence Issues
1. Espionage
a. Kampiles
b.. "moles,".etc.
c. counterintelligence initiatives
2. Leaks
a. Authors
b. Others
c. Remedies?
3. Other security measures; e.g., implementation of new
industrial security measures
4. New directions in foreign counterintelligence program
1. role of new DCI CI coordinator
2. PRC (CI)
F. Covert Action - emphasis on mission and programs
G. Intelligence and the public - new emphases
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H. Major Accomplishments 1978
a.
b.
II. KEY ISSUES (lead into with NFIP graphics)
The early 1980s budget bow wave and trade-off issues on technical sensors
~i issues, outcome,
rationale;
COMINT/ELINT upgrade needs, appropriate packages
HF modernization
Quality of Analysis and Policy Support
including progress on improving interdisciplinary analysis
collection/production: an appropriate budget balance?
Community. ADP
National/Tactical Interface Issues
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NATIONAL FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE BOARD
NFIB-6.1/10
2 October 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR THE'NATIONAL FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE BOARD
SUBJECT: My Annual Report
I very much appreciated the help that you and your organizations
provided a year ago in the preparation of my first report as DCI on
the Intelligence Community to the President and the Congress. Prepara-
tion of this year's Annual Report is now underway, and I would be
grateful if you and your-organizations would assist with input and/or
review as requested. The staff of my Deputy for Resource Management
will be in touch with you shortly on ,nprifir nPPdc
TANSFIELD TURNER
//U Chairman
(29 September 1978)
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