IG SURVEY ON REQUIREMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85G00105R000100130024-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 30, 1998
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: March 15, 1967
• Content Type: MF

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15 March 1967
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SUBJECT IG Survey on Requirements
1. I have reviewed your proposed DDI comments (dated
7FX1A1O March) on the report and agree with them in
almost all respects. The presentation of the material in
admirably concise and easily relatable to the basic report.
The substance of the comments if adopted, would clearly
increase our chances of bringing about the improvements we
all seek in the requirements field.
2. Having also studied CGS's comments, I commend them
to you for most serious consideration. The burden of making
the system work bears so heavily upon CGS itself that we should,
in my opinion, err on the side of going along with what
Hitchcock believes he needs to bring it off.
3. My main concern has to do with the apparent
inconsistency in the mission and mode of operation of the
Collection Guidance Advisory Group. It is labeled an
"advisory" group--and that is what it should be. In a number
of cases, however, the discharge of management functions are
made its responsibility. To varying degrees this applies to
what is recommended in #6, #7, #8, #10-#12, #13, #24-#25.
4. It is not clear whose advisory group CGAG is. is
it DDI? Is it C/CG*? Clearly it should be the latter's.
5. Rather than charge Chief CGS to take certain actions
"in collaboration with the Collection Guidance Advisory Group,"
I would place the charge on Chief CGS alone, leaving it to
him to decide when and how to use his own advisory group.
6. The exchange of personnel between PI Staff and CGS
should be encouraged on the basis of a full two-year tour.
This is not a substitute for dealing with the quite separate
problem of holding period%eetings to discuss problems of
mutual interest as provided under your revised #9. Both actions
are needed, the first to educate, the second to operate.
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7. CGS and DCS should be directed to jointly recommend
action for DDI consideration designed to short-circuit the
manner in which human resource guidance in provided. If we
start with the proposition that the normal route for a human
resource requirement is (1) to ascertain if the information
is already on hand, (2) then to exhaust DCS potential before
(3) we levy the requirement on the more costly clandestine
resources, perhaps we can operate more effectively if the
management relationship between the HR element of CGS and DCS
is more closely integrated--or even combined.
8. Another matter worth exploring is the desirability
of separating the two essentially independent functions
performed by CGS: (1) guiding collectors, and (2) supporting
the CIA Member of USIB and USIB associated activities. This
need not, however, be an issue in the present exercise, but
would be a useful study conducted an part of the implementation
of the report--deals more with the "how" than with
the "what." 25X1A
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