MEETING WITH CLARK CLIFFORD, 18 NOVEMBER 1966

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• Publication Date: November 17, 1966
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17 November 1966
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: Meeting with Clark Clifford,
1.8 November 1966
The following items might be worth discussing with
Mr. Clifford:
1. Agendas for the President's Board meetings.
(See Tab A.)
Z. Excessive reporting requirements. (See Tab B.)
3. Whether reports from other agencies should not be
routed through the DCI. (See last paragraph of Tab A and
second paragraph of Tab B. )
4. What is the statue of the Presidential letter of
authority, draft of which was sent to Clifford on 10 October
1966?
s Join d'
JOHN A. BROSS
D/DCI/NIPE
Attachments
Tab a A and B
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The agendas for the bimonthly meetings of the Board are
almost always done at the last moment. (This time we have had a
little more advance notice than usual since we have been discussi
possible agenda items for several days, in preparation for the
30 November-I December meeting.)
It is hard to escape the impression that the agendas are put
together in this way without any consistent purpose.
Better responses could be prepared and a lot of last-minute
scurrying around avoided if the Board could do a little more forward-
looking on its agendas. There seams no reason why they could not
at the end of one meeting consider what might be brought up at the
next one. (Obviously, briefings on current subjects which might
come up in the interim would be special cases. )
It would also be useful if the DCI were aware of agenda items
which directly concern other members of the community. As it is,
these are kept a dark secret.
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REPORTS REQUIRED BY PFIAB
A.. We do an annual report on all CIA activities and another
on coordination of the U. S. effort. While the f
of those takes an
of time on the part of various people all through
the Agency, we can hardly object to being required to make such a
report. One can have legitimate doubts as to what attention is given
by the Board, but the requirement would appear to he unassailable.
State and DIA are required to make similar reports.
1,4r. McCone asked that these be routed through him as DCI, especially
so that he could review them before prepay
coordination report.
This proposal was rejected in a letter signed by Clifford.
6. Although attempts have been made from time to time to
get the Board to drop its requirements for numerous other voluminous
odic reports and to be allowed to include such reportin,;
annual document, these efforts have met with no success. The
pattern has been that every time members of the Board make a trip,
or in certain other cases, a series of recommendations result which
require written responses. No sooner have these responses been
made than we receive an acknowledgment and a now date for making
urthe r report. (In this connection there has been a ray of hope
lately. The responses to recommendations resulting from the trip
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made by Gordon Gray and Pat Coyne resulted in an
acknowledgment along with a statement to the effect that we should
report further as we believed desirable--without setting a definite
requirement for doing so. If this procedure could be applied across
the board, we
d save many hundreds of man hours-)
The outstanding requirements for periodic reporting in
addition to the annual reports are as follows:
1. The Nation's Counterintelligence Posture.
This resulted from a recommendation of the Joint Study Group.
The first response was made in 1961. There was a requirement
for a semiannual report, which was changed to an annual baste
in early 1965 at the then NCI's request. The next report is
due the first of Jana
one was made .
1967--about 5 1/2 ears after the first
Z. Audio Burveillance and Countermeasures.
This goes back to the middle of 1962. Three semiannual reports
were made and then the subject was broken down into about
three parts. One of these reports was actually required every
two or three months but these have now been superseded by an
annual report from the Technical Surveillance Countermeasures
Committee.
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One of the parts was on
lation of secure
I be first of these was
made in January 1'964 at which time a semiannual requirement
was established. The me
of these is due in January.
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rit,re required but this one seems to have been laid to rest.
This has been a sesmiannual requirement since the
1961.
4. Recommendations an Southeast Asia and Far Cast.
These were06cornmandations which followed the trip by
Clifford and Coyne
They involved a
number of complicated assignments--some single agency.
some .joint and some by the .DCI in coordination with other
. Middle East.
sponded in October to six recommendations stern
from Dr. Langer's trip. These have not yet been acknowledged.
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1- opefully the acknowledgment might follow the
acknowledgment -Mentioned above I. e. ,
continuing requirement.
n't have a
C.. There are from time to time special reporting require-
ma {ents that come up. These include such things as a report on the
intelligence performance. in connection with the Cuban missile crisis;
responses to allegations of failure to predict the Berlin Wall and a
coup in Syria, etc.
Currently we are coping with responses to "gaps
deficiencies" solicited from State and Defense. Coyne broke these
requirements down into eras covered by various panels of the
Board and gave us compilations for six panels. (There are I2 panels
and it is not clear vvhethe:r they will expect written responses from
r all 12 or, indeed, all six.) We have prepared and presented
nemoranda an the alleged deficiencies of coverage an Latin America,
final wrap-up paper to come. The one on the .Far East is
due next week. We estimate that 240-250 man hours will have been
expended in preparing and presenting the Latin American response,
and 440-450 man hours will be required for the Far East one.
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