IC STAFF MEMORANDUM: COMMENTS ON PROPOSED LETTER TO GENERAL GRAHAM RE: WARNING MECHANISMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84B00506R000100180031-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 11, 2001
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: October 30, 1974
• Content Type: MF

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October 1974
DIA DECLASSIFICATION/RELEASE INSTRUCTIONS ON FILE
FOR;
SUBJECT
on Proposed DCI Letter to general Graham
no Mechanisms
Attached is a line-in/line-out redraft of the let-tar to General
, draft of which was provided members e of the I ntel l i gam Panel
e ISCIC Working Group on 25 October. As indicated in the margin of
draft, the changes reflect tents from CIA, DIA and ISA/CSS.
2. Mr. McAfee has requested that further consideration of the
draft await Dr. rl and `s return on 4 veaber since he has previously
expressed concern with developments underway to change the watch
mechanisms . Mr. McAfee said he had discussed this matter with I NR
personnel involved with ICS In the development of papers dealing with
warning, and they wondered as to the reason for Intelligence Panel
involvement in the same matter. Mr. McAt' has no specific proposals
for amending the draft he was provided Firday. noted he had been
advised that previous I NR discussions with ICS representatives had not
indicated the scope of the Strategic Warring Committee would be as wide
as was stated in the material within quotes in the last paragraph of
26 October draft. This widening posed no problems to State, however.
3. Also attached is a 29 October letter from General Tighe, which
at paragraph 3 indicates a continuing disagreement with the proposal
that "a separate analytic staff need be organized under the DCI to
prepare the daily temperature reading of the posture of the military
forces of our major adversaries and the i ndi cati on that these forces
MAY be bent on hostile action."
4. General Tighe states that "our concept of the staff required
re the daily temperature reading is one which tans and questi ores
existing community assets, rather than overshadows them. We believe
uch a staff could truly be small and could function on behalf of
integrated into the DIA organization."
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S. The issue which needs to be faced directly is the independence,
or lack thereof, of the analytic staff which would be created. Is it
Merely located in the M IC or is it part and parcel of the #1C.
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