DRAFT KEY INTELLIGENCE QUESTIONS FOR FY 1975

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• Publication Date: July 3, 1974
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THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
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3 July 1974
MEMORANDUM FOR THE UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD
SUBJECT: Draft Key Intelligence Questions for FY 1975
1. Attached for each principal of the United States
Intelligence Board is a set of draft Key Intelligence
Questions for Fiscal Year 1975 prepared by the National
Intelligence Officers. These draft KIQs will be reviewed
at an early meeting of the USIB. It would be helpful if
comments or editorial suggestions were all sent to the
Deputy for National Intelligence Officers so that we can
compile a consolidated compendium of such inputs. Queries
with respect to specific KIQs should be addressed to the
NIO responsible for the geographic or functional area to
which those KIQs relate.
2. Specific procedural guidelines for Community
action following the issuance of these KIQs will be provided
later. These guidelines will change certain procedures
of the fiscal year 1974 "baseline" experiment. These
changes -- dictated by the results of that experiment --
will be designed to simplify the procedural-aspects of the
review process but still provide an adequate basis for a
general evaluation of Community performance and resource
utilization. These new guidelines will also provide a
vehicle, for giving special attention to matters of specific
detail where detailed analysis is pertinent and warranted.
3. After the KIQs have been collectively endorsed by
the USIB and formally issued, each KIQ will be given an
initial Community review, conducted under the aegis of
the appropriate National Intelligence Officer with
Intelligence Community Staff support. Following this
review, the NIO will prepare a brief, succinct report,to
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the USIB outlining -- with respect to that KIQ -- the NIO's
assessment of the Community's collection and production
strategy on it, identifying the agencies accepting an
obligation to work on it and making any appropriate
recommendations for improvements in the Community's
collection or production strategy for it.
4. With respect to some KIQs, the NIO -- working
with the IC Staff and in consultation with representatives
of the member agencies of USIB -- will develop a few, more
detailed subordinate questions. These subordinate questions
will highlight specific matters or concrete topics deemed
appropriate for special collection or production attention
and for a special, resource-tied performance evaluation
at the end of the fiscal year. (These evaluations will
be comparable to those performed on the pilot, experimental
KIQs under the FY 1974 KEP program.) I stress that there'
will not be subordinate questions chosen for more detailed
evaluation under all of the FY 1975 KIQs. Also, the
number of subordinate questions developed under any given
KIQ which is so treated will vary and may not be more
than one.
5. At the end of the fiscal year, short reports on
each KIQ will be submitted by the National Intelligence
Officers -- with Intelligence Community Staff support and
USIB member agencies' participation -- evaluating the
performance of the Community and its individual member
agencies. To the degree feasible, the Intelligence Community
Staff will identify through CIRIS data (perhaps somewhat
modified) and through consultations with the individual
agencies, the resources expended against each KIQ. (The
"subordinate questions" under certain individual KIQs will
be the subject of specific, separate evaluations of
performance and resources utilized.) The DCI will then
report to the NSCIC his evaluation of the performance of the
Community on the KIQs and the appropriateness of the
resources expended by the individual agencies thereon.
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6. The KIQ approach is a concept subject to evolutionary
refinement in the light of experience, whose success is
clearly dependent on the understanding and cooperation of
all members of the Intelligence Community. If we are
successful, we will develop a vehicle through which the
Community's activities cah be driven by substantive
requirements, as they ought to be, and a process which
helps us all without imposing an undue managerial workload
on the Community or any of its components.
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Mr. Carver, D/DCI/NIO
George:
Copies of both of these documents
have gone to the DCI. The top document
is the draft of a briefing to USIB which
he requested covering the results of the
pilot exercise on the 74 KIQs. The bottom
document is a more detailed report which
could be distributed in the community.
We have requested time on his calendar
to get his reactions and guidance and will
advise you when we know the hour and the
day.
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1$ MAY 1974
The Honorable William Clements
The Deputy Secretary of Defense
Washington, D. C. 20301
Thank you for your letter of 20 April in response to my request
for concurrence and comments on the Key Intelligence Questions. As
you have recognized, more work will be necessary before we are all
satisfied with the KIQs and the KIQ Evaluation Process. I believe,
however, that we are making progress, and this should be apparent
in the KIQs for FY 1975 and in the revised version of the Evaluation
Process which will accompany them.
As you have noted, some of the questions which DOD suggested
in December 1973 were not_ added (in explicit form) to the KIQs for
FY 1974. One of the reasons for this was that the total-number of
KIQs must be severely limited. Nevertheless, a feature of the KIQ
Evaluation Process does, in effect, permit an expansion of the contents
of the KIQs and allow quite specific questions--of the sort you mention->
to be addressed. Thus, during the discussion of information deficiencies,
which is a major aspect of the Evaluation Process, the NIOs and your
representatives will be able to deal with specifics and add them to the
baseline report.
We are of. course familiar with the Critical Near