PROPOSED DCI/NFIP STRUCTURE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91M00696R000900060016-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 30, 2004
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: September 15, 1975
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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15 September 1975
PROPOSED DCI/NFIP STRUCTURE
For the purpose of integrating the various aspects of the DCI's
Intelligence Community management responsibilities for the National
Foreign Intelligence Program, a series of substantively-oriented DCI
Programs should be established. These programs would provide the DCI
with a conceptual framework in which the related functions of establishing
objectives, priorities, and requirements; evaluating current and potential
capabilities; and providing guidance to program managers on resource
allocation can be fitted. This conceptual approach would focus the DCI's
role in Community management on those aspects of management where his role is
primary and least disputed--the establishment. of national intelligence..
objectives, priorities, and requirements and the evaluation of national
intelligence capabilities.
Eight DCI programs are proposed:
USSR/Eastern Europe
China
Western Europe
Middle East
East Asia/Pacific
Latin America
Africa
International Economics
These program concepts reflect, for the most part, the substantive divisions
into which the intelligence and foreign policy communities have divided
themselves both in thinking about foreign affairs and in organizing their
efforts. Past and present intelligence guidance (PNIO's, DCID 1/2, IGCP,
KIQ's, etc.), functional descriptions of intelligence resources (CIRIS,CCP
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Subelements, etc.), organization of intelligence collection and
production organizations (DDO Area Divisions, OCI, NIO's, DIA/DI, DIO's,
NSA/PROD, etc.) and intelligence user organizations (State Department
bureaus, OSD/ISA, JCS/J5, NSC Staff, etc.). These program concepts
would not accommodate all intelligence requirements and all resources.
Special requirements, such as narcotics intelligence, general research, and
development of broadly applied intelligence capabilities, are difficult
to fit into such a structure and may better be handled as separate items.
Intelligence resources applied to general support activities, basic R&D,
and contingency reserves can not, for the most part, be related to specific
.intelligence requirements. However, most national intelligence requirements
can be fitted into these eight programs and most intelligence collection,
processing and production resources, as well as certain applied RFD activities,
.can be related to these programs.
Using these substantively-oriented program focuses the DCI's attention
on the substantive aspects of Community management in a manner that would
minimize areas of dispute with Community Program Managers and would
provide a better basis for DCI guidance and influence than the past focus
on appropriation categories and program elements. This approach should also
result in the DCI being better informed on the capabilities of the Community
to fulfill his requirements and on significant gaps in these capabilities
and the efforts being made to fill them.
Adopting the concept of DCI Programs should improve the ability of
the DCI's staffs and committees to support him by providing a unifying and
common conceptual framework into which their complementary capabilities and
responsibilities can fit.
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PROPOSED DCI/NFIP STRUCTURE
DCI PROGRAMS
NEEDS
CURRENT PROGRAM
FUTURE PROGRAM
OBJECTIVES
DESCRIPTION
CAPABILITIES
SIGNIFICANT
GUIDANCE
PROPOSALS
APPROVED
PRIORITIES
-WHO
-CURRENT
GAPS
PROGRAMS/
REQUIREMENTS
-WHERE
-POTENTIAL
BUDGETS
KEY QUESTIONS
-HOW
-$/MP
USSR/Eastern Europe
-Strategic Forces
-Theater Forces
-Political/Economic
China
-Military
-Political/Economic
Western Europe
Middle East
East Asia/Pacific
Latin America
Africa
International
Economics
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