IC STAFF COMMENTS ON DRAFT KIQS FOR FY-77

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• Publication Date: October 14, 1976
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14 OCT 7.3ry
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy to the DCI for National
Intelligence
erector, Office of Policy and Planning,
IC Staff
SUBJECT: IC Staff Comments on Draft KIQs for
FY-77
1. The IC Staff has reviewed the draft KIQ package
and recommends the following changes in the Introduction.
Add the following sentence at the end
of paragraph two:
"Thus, the KIQs emphasize economies
of operation and management efficiencies
within fiscal year resource constraints
without altering the totality of existing
intelligence operational priorities."
Reason: To emphasize that K:[Qs do not
change priorities nor do they imply
decreased concern in other subject areas.
b. Replace paragraph three with the following
new paragraphs:
The National Intelligence Officers
in collaboration with the intelligence
Community Staff, will produce KIQ
Strategy Reports aimed at developing
special collection and analytical
strategies to enhance the information
gain and improve the analyses in each
KIQ area of concern.
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The Performance of the Intelligence
Community on the KIQG will be evaluated
to assess the effectiveness of the actions
taken. These evaluations will be
undertaken as part of a regular
Intelligence Community Staff program
which assesses the timeliness and
quality of intelligence products in
terms of the requirements of major
users.
are
a question.
number.
These changes are keyed to each KIQ by
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1Zeason: To separate different ideas
and to accommodate the OPEI/IC desire
to participate in KIQ strategy
development.
2. Specific changes relating to the KIQs themselves
recommended to make them clearer, or to add or delete
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3. If you agree with these modifications, we will
undertake to forward the revised KIQ paper to the DCI
for approval and recommend that he refer it to the
NFIB for comment.
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KEY INTELLIGENCE QUESTIONS FOR FY 1977
INTRODUCTION
The Key Intelligence Questions for Fiscal Year 1977, issued
by the Director of Central Intelligence pursuant to his responsibilities
in Executive Order 11905, represent a departure from past practice
dictated by experience. The new list is short and highly selective,
the questions having been chosen not only because they are important
to national consumers, but also because a real need for action by
the Intelligence Community exists and because action seems likely
to produce results. The KIQs represent the DCI's guidance to all
Intelligence Community collection and production managers on these
selected subjects.
The Key Intelligence Questions continue to be formulated by
the National Intelligence Officers. The primary purpose of the
KIQs is to improve intelligence production and collection by providing
a highly selective list of current, critical questions for a period
of special operational attention. The purposeful limitation on the
number of questions and their high degree of focus required that
difficult choices had to be made from the many current high priority
areas and questions. This meant that certain issues or problems,
although very important, have been excluded. If a problem were
considered likely to pass before a strategy for solving it could
be devised, it was excluded. Also excluded were key problems
of a critical nature which currently receive substantial and ongoing
attention and which were not considered to require or lend themselves
to Community action beyond that already underway. Examples are
SAL and verification, as well as individual current weapon systems.
The National Intelligence Officers will produce KIQ Strategy
Reports aimed at developing special collection and analytical
strategies. The performance of the Intelligence Community on the
KIQs will be evaluated as part of a regular Intelligence Community
Staff program which assesses the timeliness and quality of
intelligence products in terms of the requirements of major users.
The KIQs and their performance evaluations cannot provide
systematic inputs for resource allocation decisions by program
managers due to their limited number, specificity, and emphasis
on current operations. However, they can provide valuable insights
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for programming and planning. It is important to note that the
KIQs do not derive their priorities from those appearing in the
attachment to DCID 1/2, "U.S. Foreign Intelligence Priorities for
Fiscal Years 1979-1933." Broad national intelligence planning
priorities are based on a perspective of the foreign environment
for the planning period and not on current operational needs.
Additions, deletions, or modifications to the Key Intelligence
Questions may be issued from time to time during FY 77, depending
on major changes in the international situation or if the foreign
intelligence environment should dictate. The order in which the
FY 77 questions are listed should not be regarded as implying an
internal priority: by definition all the Key Intelligence Questions
are of major importance, and are singled out for special operational
attention.
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