FY 1985-89 NATIONAL FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM

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• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Document Release Date: April 24, 2008
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: August 11, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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The Director of Central Intelligence
Washington. D. C. 20505
11 August 1983
MEMORANDUM FOR: National Foreign Intelligence Program Managers
SUBJECT: FY 1985-89 National Foreign Intelligence Program
Attached are notes I made on the Off-Site Conference last
William J.GCasey
Attachments:
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FBIS OR NPIC FOR OPEN SOURCE LITERATURE - INFORMATION HANDLING COMMITTEE
One information source on which additional effort seems called for is
open literature. This source is vital to help us catch up on Soviet science
and technology and to rebuild our rundown data bases.
Step A is to form a small group to review present efforts of_the
Intelligence Community to tap open sources of information. This includes hot
only identifying and translating literature and tapping commercial and private
libraries and data bases but also compiling a list of knowledgeable informa-
tion sources that might be interviewed or otherwise sought out for special
information. This undertaking probably requires a team
The Information Handling Committee. should refocus its concentration
from the computer as a tool to the identification sources of information,
mining those sources and identifying information products which are being
packaged and made available today from a multiplicity of sources. Are we
still in the forefront in the advancing art of information handling and
methods of exploiting open literature? Are our contacts with industry and
academia good enough today? How can we expand our translators and free lance
researchers? One of the things brought out was the need for special talents
and sources of research minded individuals, i.e. handicapped workers who
have good minds but are more or less forced to be sedentary. Butell it said
to have the best unclassified library index. Are we making enough use of
available common data bases? Can we improve our overall performance by
delegating matters of common concern so that various elements of the
Community are specializing rather than having everybody try to work everything?
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INTELLIGENCE TO FIELD COMMANDS
We need a broad look, particularly in the light of the looming budget-
ary pinch, at processing communications and dissemination capabilities and
our ability to make national intelligence useful to field commanders. There
are three ways of tapping intelligence in the field - in text, in pictures,
in digital data. We seen to be headed the third route, oblivious to the
enormous funding requirements and regardless of whether we can afford it or
not. Perhaps we need to build a firm foundation by trying the cheapest way
first. Certainly we need to synchronize the size of the pipe available for
taking intelligence from the source. to the field with the ability to collect
and the essential needs of the commander. Mention was made of a letter from
General Faurer to General Vessey on the relationship between intelligence and
communications capabilities and a study on information needs of tactical
commanders as mentioned by General Williams. Can we get copies? Also a Navy
Tactical Intelligence effort was cited as something which should be looked at.
Some commanders say give me the raw data and I'll put it together,.' That
enormously increases the common requirements and it is uncertain whether it would
work in the field under pressure of the battle. One can visualize trying to do
this with a computer in a van twenty miles down the road, scrambling to put it
all together, then passing it to someone to run to a command post or wherever
the stuff is needed on a Harley Davis motorcycle. There is need to define a
minimum workable level which reasonably meets the need and is doable and
fundable. General Williams suggested running an exercise on the basis of
providing a limited quota of intelligence which is specified as all the
intelligence we would be able to give.
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This is a subject on which across the board decisions are likely to
be required and an exercise may be the vehicle to make commanders aware
of what is practical and attainable.
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PROGRAM MANAGERS
353 913-2532
mint General James A. Williams, U.S. Army
tar, Defense Intelligence Agency
3E258,. Pentagon 20301
want General Lincoln D. Faurer, U.S. Air Force
9A192, Fort- George G. Meade., Md.,
tor, National Security Agency/
of, Central Security Service
9953-3111.
C. Aldridge, 3r:` ~_~
.:Secretary of the Air Force
4E964, Pentagon
913-2319
Admiral John L. Butts
tar of Naval Intelligence'`
50600, Pentagon .20350
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or of Intelligence & Research
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t of State
igton, D.C. 20520
342 9-5209
6531, Main State
Herman Roser
,or Intelligence Officer
2177 ?9-0, state KY70, 252-8402
ton. I. C. 20330
IMnr, or energy
~4A014, Forrestal Building 20585
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