PERSPECTIVES AND GUIDANCE FOR 1990-94

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90G00152R000100010008-0
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 21, 2011
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: November 17, 1987
• Content Type: MEMO

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Sihvhr COMPT 87-1535
17 N0% 1987
MEMORANDUM kOR: Deputy Director for Administration
Deputy Director for Intelligence
Deputy Director for Operations
Deputy Director for Science and recnnology
Administrative Officer/DCI Area
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SUBJECT: Perspectives and Guidance for 1990-94
1. Current efforts by the Administration and Congress to reduce the
federal budget deficit will have far-reaching implications for the CIA
program. Informatioti available at this point suggests that reductions to our
FY 1988 request from Gramm-Rudman legislation and Congressional actions could
be substantial. This clearly will not be a one-time fix; these cuts will
sharply reduce the availability of new funds over the next several years.
thus, Agency managers will have to make tough decisions on program priorities
to ensure that we are able to meet both the current and future needs of the
focus on critical security, housing, and technology issues. Finally, we
adopted as new priorities the requirement to provide a growing amount of
2. At our planning conference last week, we agreed to modify our existing
priorities to reflect the completion or changing focus of same programs and
tae need to address emerging, new requirements. We noted, for example, that
we had made significant progress in our effort to establish a comprehensive
counterterrorism program, and as a result, this issue is no longer a major
investment priority. We also noted the need to recast our emphasis on
communications and AN systems so that we are able to provide unique
services--such as electronic dissemination of time-sensitive analytic
products--to key policymakers. At the same time, we agreed to continue to
policymakers.
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We now must construct our 1990-94 program to ensure
that we are addressi-ig these priorities within available resources.
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3. The base program. In recent years, we have had several discussions
about the size of our base program and have scrubbed the base to make room for
new investment. In the current resource environment, we will nave to take an
even closer look at how we can absorb new requirements within our base
resources. I urge each of you to take a hard look at those resources to see
if savings can be found to fund new starts in our priority areas.
4. Growth in the workforce. Each year the directorates request
additional positions to cover important new analytic, operational, and support
efforts, aad we have been successful in accommodating these requests and
rebuilding our workforce to an historic high. In their review of our FY 1988
request, however, our congressional committees unequivocally signaled an end
to this era. I recognize that new demands for positions will occur, but in
the future we will have to make a much greater effort to meet new requirements
from within existing resources.
S. My goal is to construct a balanced program for 1990-94. In this
period of fiscal restraint, we will have to examine our resources carefully to
make room for new ideas and new programs. I urge you to review carefully the
proposals made by your program managers to ensure that they are in accord with
our priorities and the realities of a restricted resource environment
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SUBJECT: Perspectives and Guidance for 1990-94
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C/AG/COMP I17 November 1987 (COMFY 87-1535)
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