COMMENTS ON YOUR REVIEW OF THE IG REQUIREMENTS REPORT

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 30, 1998
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• Publication Date: March 16, 1967
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Special Assistant to the DDI
for Special Projects
SUBJECT: Comments on Your Review of the
IG Requirements Report
1. in general, I think you have done a fine job of refocusing, rewording,
and making more meaningful the original recommendations of the 1G. OCR,
being an information processor and not essentially a producer, is not directly
concerned with the majority of the recommendations. Therefore, in the case
of those recommendations where I could see no way to make a meaningful
change in, or addition to, your efforts, I will not offer any comment. These
include Recommendation Nos. 4, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 17, 20, 23, and 27.
2. On the balance of the recommendations, I have the following
comments:
Nos. 1 and 2 - I think your approach to this haunting priorities problem
is sound, and I am particularly interested in the exclusion or negative list as
yet another means of getting at this problem of reducing requirements. Let
me suggest that a further way to enforce an exclusion list is to cease dissem-
ination to analysts of incoming intelligence responsive to requirements which
have been designated superfluous and unnecessary. Since OCR handles the
major portion of the dissemination and distribution of nontechnical intelligence
within the Agency, we can play a role in this matter. Even if USIB were
found unwilling to go along with some of our exclusions, we could at least stop
the flow of the resulting material into the CIA production complex.
Nos. 8 and 26 - Let me start by saying that I cannot wholly agree that
the organizational location of CGS is largely irrelevant to the problem of its
effectiveness. The fact that CGS is located in the DDT, as opposed to a
level above both the DDI and DDS&T, does probably affect its acceptability
as a mechanism to be utilized by S&T offices. By the same token, I do not
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suggest that the problem is insurmountable nor that a working relationship
between DDI and DDS&T can not be achieved. I think the most important
aspect of the matter here is to insure that CGS plays a meaningful role as
a broker between the collection and production functions, encouraging
contact, assisting in the proper channeling of requirements, pointing up
duplication, sampling and monitoring responsiveness, and in general,
assisting the line authorities in helping to control and validate their require-
ments. A staff which attempts to do more, namely to insert itself into the
decision-making chain, will succeed, I fear, only in confusing the effort and
forcing both collector and producer into a pattern of circumvention.
I am in favor of your proposal for an advisory group, and indeed suggest
that you consider expanding it to include OCR. We are striving currently to
retailer our operations to make them more responsive to the priority needs
of the production offices, and, as a major processor, we form a vital link
between collector and producer. I think we can play a useful and necessary
role in the deliberations of such a group, possibly furnishing information on
patterns of incoming flow and dissemination of materials available from no
other source. Further, I feel for our operations to be most responsive to
production needs, it is important that we be aware of the production office
requirements problem. I urge the DDI's earnest consideration of this
proposal.
No. 9 - I have no quarrel with your modification of this proposal.
An equally, if not more important problem, it seems to me, is to insure
the rotation of personnel of CGS with those of the production offices on a
routine basis to fight against the problem of creating a permanent cadre
of staff officers who, as time goes by, become more and more separated
from the line production problems. I submit that a two-year hitch on this
staff should be the maximum and that the staffing of it be handled as a
matter of course by the DDI Career Service Board.
No. 13 - So long as initiation of meaningful collection guides does
not rest solely with CGS, I agree. I think all three parties, that is,
collector, CGS, and producer, have a stake in these guides at id any party
should have the option of initiating action.
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Nos. 24 and 25 - Your rewording is obviously less specific and
more practical. Here again, as in the case of Nos. 8 and 26, I think that
this office could assist the production offices in validating requirements by
helping to insure that responsive information is not available and in sampling
the responsiveness of the nontechnical sources which we process. These
four recommendations, 8, 24, 25, and 26, are all part of the same problem,
and I think we can participate in attempting to solve them.
Deputy Director of Central Reference
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