MEMORANDUM TO MR. DUCKETT ET AL FROM RICHARD LEHMAN

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• Publication Date: March 11, 1976
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11 March 1976
MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. Duckett`
Mr. Proctor-
Mr. Knoche
Mr. Carver
Mr. Warner
1. Herewith the Options package for Saturday's session
(0900) with the DCI.
2. This came out naturally in briefing form, but there
is no plan for anyone to brief. Rather, the DCI would like to
hear your views on the Options presented. However, the pro and
con statements are entirely mine and the DCI has not seen them.
If you want to-suggest changes in them, please let me know today.
3. I originally gave the DCI a somewhat different pack-
age that incorporated all the proposals put forward at our first
meeting. He specifically rejected two: a proposal calling for
lodging the production function under his Community Deputy, and
one calling for a third Deputy, for National Intelligence.
4. All we are asking him to do at this point is to
decide where the function goes. How we do it will be addressed
in a second round.
RICHARD LEHMAN
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REPORTS TO
THE DCI THROUGH
FUNCTIONS
COMMITTEES
ORGANIZATIONS
USIB
SUB-COMMITTEES
The creation of a second deputy makes it necessary to re-arrange
the various elements below so they match up vertically in some
workable way. But it makes no sense to work on the bottom layers
until the top ones are settled.
IC STAFF
DCI
SP STAFF
OGC, OLC, ETC
DCI
COMMITTEES?
DCI STAFF
HNIO's
OTHER
AGENCY
COMI
REX
SIG
COM
HRC
IHC
COM
EX
DEF
COM
SEC
COM
JAEIC
EIC
WSSIC
STIC
SMG
The recommended approach is to allocate the national production
function. Then the rest, in particular those DCI responsibilities that
lie between the two deputies, will begin to fall into place.
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CFI HANDLES RESOURCES
AND MANAGEMENT
IC STAFF SUPPORTS
OPTION I
ADAPTATION
OF PRESENT SYSTEM
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HOW TO ALLOCATE MISC. FUNCTIONS
AND ORGANIZE DCI STAFF (IG, OLC, ETC.)
1. THE PRESIDENT HAS DECIDED BY
EXECUTIVE ORDER
DCI RESPONSIBLE FOR
EVERYTHING ELSE
2. DCI NOW CAN ALLOCATE NATIONAL
PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS AMONG
HIS SUBORDINATES
OPTION II
NATIONAL BOARD
f
OPTION III
NATIONAL PRODUCTION
UNDER
AGENCY DEPUTY
HOW TO ORGANIZE NATIONAL PRODUCTION
MANAGEMENT
CIA INTERNAL REORGANIZATION
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Location of the National Production Function
- The decision to be taken now is only on location, not
how the system is to work (NIOs, Board of Estimates, etc.).
No weight should therefore be given to the words (NIO, etc.)
in the production box.
- However, a decision on location does have organizational
consequences at lower levels, and these must be considered in
making it.
- To this end, the Option charts show some of the logical
consequences. These are illustrative, however, and certain
features of one could be adapted to another.
- Organizational elements not relevant to this problem
are not shown. No attempt is made to show the organization of
the IC Staff. The boxes represent generalized functions only.
One major question is the USIB Committees; it is quite possible
to visualize the production Committees (EIC, etc.) hanging on
NFIB, and the collection Committees (COMIREX, etc) hanging on
CFI, but it is premature to face this question. The "NFIB Sec-
.retariat" function therefore remains to be defined.
- None of these Options preclude some sort of personal
substantive staff for the DCI.
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Option I
- Sets up Community Deputy as responsible for all Community
matters except production
- Creates National Foreign Intelligence Board, advisory to
DCI, with Agency Deputy as Vice-Chairman. Community
Deputy is responsible for support of NFIB and its Com-
mittees
- Makes Community Deputy a member of NFIB
- Continues NIOs in their present role
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OPTION I
Deputies Divided
Community-Agency
National Production Separate
CFI
DCI Chm
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COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
CIA MANAGEMENT
--- PRODUCTION-EVALUATION INTERFACE
NFIB
DCI Chm
DDCIIA V-Chm
CC0C PESMtw
DCCIIC E110? 5ozy
AGENCY
I DDS & T
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Option I
PRO's
- National intelligence given strong emphasis
- DCI's Community role clearly defined
- DCI has close access to substance
CON's
- NIOs must rely on, and will be viewed
as, an element of CIA
- The affairs of all three subordinates
of the DCI are entangled
- Disruption of CIA chain-of-command
- Some downgrading of CIA
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Option II
- Replaces NIOs with a Board of National Intelligence, chaired
by the Agency Deputy but reporting independently to the DCI
- Makes Agency Deputy Vice-Chairman and Executive Secretary of
NFIB. Community Deputy remains a member
Transfer NFIB support responsibility to DDCI/A
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OPTION II
National Board
CFI
DCI, Chm
BEDE U-( Dom
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DCI
NFIB
OR Chm
DDCI/A V-Ch
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DOCI/A Exec Secy
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Board of National Intelligence
DDCIIA Chm
NFIB
Secretariat
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COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
CIA MANAGEMENT
PRODUCTION- EVALUATION INTERFACE
DDI
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DDS & T
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Option II
PRO's
- Maximum emphasis on national production
- Community Deputy no longer tangled in Agency
Deputy's business
- DCI's Community role distinguished from
Agency
- DCI has close access to substance
- CIA's primary role better recognized
CON's
- Dual role of Agency Deputy administra-
tively awkward
- His association with Board somewhat
obscures its ecumenical image
- CIA chain-of-command still affected
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Option III
- Agency Deputy becomes Deputy for National Intelligence and
is responsible for day-to-day management of Agency
- Divides DCI's responsibilities between his two Deputies on
the general basis of resources to one, substance to the
other
- Recognizes institutionally DCI's need to be impartial in
resource matters and his close link to CIA in substantive
matters
- NIO successor organization placed under DDCI/NI
- NFIB arrangements same as in II
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 OPTION III
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Deputies divided
Management-Substance
CFI
DCI Chm
CCCI/C , U-Chm
DBCI/9Gv1, Euec Sect
DCI
NFIB
DCI, Chm
DDCI/NI V-Ch
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DDCI/NI, Exec Secy
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CFr Sauppcr~
COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
CIA MANAGEMENT
PRODUCTION-EVALUATION
INTERFACE
NIO
or Successor
NFIB
Secretariat
AGENCY
DDS & T
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Option III
PRO's
- National intelligence continues primary
- CIA role recognized
- Balanced responsibilities of deputies and
clear separation of their roles
- Makes possible clear chain-of-command for
production
CON's
- Not as Community-oriented as other Options
- Can be criticized as "CIA in disguise"
- DCI one step further removed from production
- DDCI/NI will give less attention to Agency
management
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