NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE TOPICS (NITS)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90M00551R001300680034-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 12, 2013
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: May 9, 1988
• Content Type: MEMO

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DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
Intelligence Producers Council
Washington, D.C. 20505
IPC 6902/88
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: National Intelligence Topics (NITs)
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1. Action Requested: Your signature on the attached memorandum
requesting inputs for the ry 1989 NITs.
2. In October 1987, the Senior Interagency Group Committee on
Intelligence Requirements and Priorities (SIG(I)) approved a schedule of
NIT-associated actions for the next fiscal year. One of the approved actions
was the issuance of a call for inputs to the FY 1989 NITs that would be
disseminated in September 1988. To initiate that call, the IPC Staff prepared
the attached memorandum that requests Committee principals to provide a fresh
formulation of questions and issues for the new NITs and specifies the format
for submitting their inputs. As a stimulus for generating items for the FY
1989 NITs, the principals are also provided a background paper--produced
within the National Intelligence Council--that highlights Intelligence
Community projections of world events and issues that could impact on US
national interests.
3. Recommendation: That you sign the attached call to SIG(I) principals
for FY 1989 NITs.
4. For your information, I have enclosed a co f the FY 1988 NITs that
went out under your signature last year.
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The Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D.C. 20505
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Committee on Requirements and Priorities
Senior Interagency Group--Intelligence
SUBJECT: Formulation of New National Intelligence Topics
of Current Interest (NITs) for FY 1989
1. In October 1987, the SIG(I) approved a schedule of NIT-associated
actions that included a call for proposed new NITs for FY 1989. This
memorandum issues the call and provides some background information relative
to the format and content of your submissions.
2. I request that each of your organizations identify the critical
concerns that our government is likely to face over the next year. These
critical concerns will serve as guidance for the Intelligence Community in
planning our production activities. To stimulate your thinking, I am
including a paper, prepared by the National Intelligence Council, that
provides an overview of world events and issues that could impact on the
interests of the United States and its allies (Attachment A).
3. The structure and arrangement of the FY 1989 NITs will be similar to
that of previous years (see Attachment 8), and as you prepare your inputs for
the new NITs, I would ask that you do three things:
a. Review the FY 1988 NITs and make whatever updates or
modifications you think are appropriate.
b. Create any additional NIT items you consider necessary.
c. Identify existing NIT items that are no longer of major policy
interest and should therefore be deleted. In this way we can
ensure the relevance of the NITs and keep them from being an
undiscriminating catalog of topics and issues.
4. As always, we welcome your comments for enhancing producer-consumer
relations. Please send your inputs to the new NITs to Chief,
Intelligence Producers Council Staff by 7 June 1988. His address is BW-09
and he can be reached at
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