TOMORROW'S MEETING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87-01146R000200090006-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 11
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2005
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: July 8, 1980
• Content Type: MF

EXCO:l, PUSS-8U
8 July 1980
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14EMORANDUM FOR: Agency Long-Range Planning Group
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Special Assistant to the DDCI
SUBJECT : Tomorrow's fleeting
1. We will meet tomorrow at 9:00 in Room 4E05. Attached for dis-
cussion at that meeting are preliminary consolidated foreign policy and
management issues based on inputs from the four directorates and the
Comptroller.
2. U e will discuss the issue lists and do a quick comparative
analysis of similarities, differences, gaps, etc. We will also discuss
further refinement of the issues over the next t ,,..,o or three weeks for
presentation to EXCOFI in early August.
3. We will discuss status of the inventories of existing planning
processes/products, which will be presented to EXCOM.
4. A more complete package of the issues submitted by each direc-
torate will be provided to you by the end of the week.
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A. Forcipn "nlicv Issues (27)
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Soviet domestic developments 1. Soviet strategic capabilities
relations with E. Europa and intentions
Cuban-supported revolution 2. Soviet conventional wenpons
activity in C. America
,ind Caribbean
Political instability in
sub-Sahara Africa
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Soviet military dynamics
Indochina
Terrorism
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Arab-Israeli conflict
. fuclear proliferation
dove lopmcnts
3. Tixipansion of Soviet goals
4. Soviet internal situation
Chaned requirements on China
7. Intelligence'on E. Europe
Fl. Third World
9. Technology transfer, nuclear
proliferation
10. Competition for natural
resourdes
B. Nanaj.-em(nt ?sues (39)
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Clandestine tech equipment
FOIA
CA infrastructure
Physical security (field)
Language training,
Collection infrastructure
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3. I?PAC support to tactical
field commanders
4. Improved quality of Intel
5. l)II!, general support at Hqs.
6. 1'FAC/1)O covert action
coordination
7. Planning for-AT)? needs
8. Office space requirements
1. IIUCIflT I#?,J system
1. 'Iodernize IBIS
2. l xpand FEIS coverage
3. NPIC upgr;lde
1. Secure voice conuno 1
2. Expand transmission
systems
ihhpl,lce commo equip.
Replace PC message
processing system
S. Develop/automate new
financial systems
6. Integrated logistics
management
7. A ency-wide /d)1)
8. Education in intel.
9. Info systems security
10. Records review
methods
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Asterisked issues Were listed by the originating directorates in the opposite issue cater-or,
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PRELIMINARY CONSOLIDATED ISSUES LIST (UNRANKED)
A. Foreign Policy Issues (21)
- The need for sustained intelligence production concerning
Soviet strategic weapons systems and strategies/policies for their
deployment and use (NFAC) (DDO).
- The need for improved intelligence production concerning Soviet
conventional weapons development and use as an instrument of
foreign policy (NFAC) (DDO).
- The need for improved intelligence coverage concerning the
expansion of Soviet goals and the more aggressive manifestations
of Soviet foreign policy (NFAC).
- The need for greater depth in coverage of the Soviet internal
situation - the economy and resultant political and security
implications (NFAC) (DDO).
- the need for improved intelligence coverage of China reflecting
both the increased importance of China and the changed collection
conditions and requirements concerning her (NFAC).
- The need for improved intelligence coverage concerning our
traditional allies (NFAC) (O/Cornpt).
- The need for improved intelligence coverage of Eastern Europe during
this period of its increasing independence from the USSR (NFAC) (DDO).
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- The need for improved intelligence coverage of the flow of commercial
and military technology, including that resulting in nuclear proliferation
(NFAC); the need for intelligence concerning the intentions of
"Second World" powers possessing or aspiring to nuclear status
- The need for improved intelligence and analysis concerning scarce
natural resources and competition for them (NFAC), especially
energy resources (DDO). _
- The need for improved indications and warning capability based on
the detection of Soviet nuclear weapons movements (DDS&T).
- The need for expanded intelligence collection and covert action
capability to counteract Cuban-assisted revolutionary activity in
Latin America (DDO).
- The need for improved intelligence coverage of political instability
in Sub-Sahara Africa (DDO).
- The need for clandestine intelligence collection concerning Sino-
Soviet relations (DDO).
- The need for clandestine intelligence ccl7.ection concerning conditions .
in Indochina and the intentions of the Vietnamese leadership (DDO).
- The opportunity for expanded collection concerning international
and transnational terrorist movements and for propaganda activity
against them (DDO).
- The need for intelligence coverage of political instability in
Afghanistan and Iran (DDO).
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- The need for intelligence coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict (DDO).
- The need for identification of the new socio-economic, political, and
philosophical factors constituting the driving forces in
international relations (O/Compt).
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25X1 B. Management Issues (36)
- The need for increased or re-distributed NFAC resources to meet the
requirement for more support to tactical field commanders (NFAC).
- The need to improve overall quality of intelligence analysis as
called for by OMB and Congress (NFAC).
- The need to strengthen the Administration Directorate's ability
to provide general support in the Headquarters area (e.g., secure
voice system, shuttle service to State Department; adequate guard
force, rapidity of cable dissemination) (NFAC).
- The need for rigorous and formal DO/NFAC consultation and coordination
on covert action matters (NFAC).
- The need for planned, significant growth toward fulfillment of
extraordinary ADP requirements generated by substantive analytical
problems of the 1980s (NFAC).
- The inadequacy of Headquarters office space for research personnel
(NFAC).
- The growing need for FBIS to modernize its collection, processing,
and publishing operations to be able to respond effectively
to intelligence requirements (DDS&T).
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- The Operations Directorate need for additional positions to rebuild
or augment its intelligence collection infrastructure to meet
additional requirements levied upon the Directorate (DDO).
- The need for an automated operational and administrative support
system in DO field stations (DDO).
- The need for a net: generation of technical equipment for use in
clandestine operations to improve security and expand operational
opportunities (DDO).
- The need for additional funds and personnel to permit the DO to
meet requirements of the FOIA and Privacy Act (DDO).
- The need for an expanded language training program for Operations
Officers to meet increasing overseas requirements magnified by the
retirement of language-qualified officers (DDO).
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- The need to acquire and retain adequately trained personnel in
consideration of changing personnel requirements and the reduced
availability pre-employment training (O/Compt).
- The need for increased availability of Agency secure voice
communications to metropolitan and foreign
locations (DDA).
The need to expand our present transmission system to support
modernization of the digital portion of our network (DDA).
The need to replace existing communications equipment and switching
systems with a telecommunications network which supports the
information handling requirements of the Agency, the Intelligence
Co:ununity, and others (DDA).
The need to replace existing message processing systems in
the Offices of Coanunications and Data Processing with an integrated
system that will provide a comprehensive, automated, two-way
message-handling and dissemination facility (DDA).
The need to enhance existing or implement new financial and
budgetary processes and to automate improvements, specifically in
bill-paying, payroll, accounting, and liaison (DDA).
- The need for definition and development of a Logistics Integrated
Management System (LIMS) which will co:anunicate inter-directorate
and inter-agency on supply matters, integrate and streamline
supply, procurement, and financial requirements, and provide data
for a flexible management information system (DDA).
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- The need for Agency-wide information-handling and office automation
capabilities (e.g., electronic filing and indexing and electronic
mail (DDA).
- The need for education programs for entry, mid-, and senior-level
personnel to systematically explore the history, organization,
skills, policy, and functions of the practice of intelligence (DDA).
- The need for an improved CIA Information Systems Security Program
to control the inadvertent or deliberate compromise of data in
Agency and contractor information handling systems (DDA).
- The need for acceptably expeditious methods that will enable us,
per E.O. 12065 requirements, to review 80 percent of our 20 year old
permanent records in the Agency's Systematic Classification Review
program by December 1936 and, starting in 1937, to re-review
documents whose classification has been retained (DDA).
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