LETTER TO THE HONORABLE RAY S. CLINE FROM JOHN A. BROSS

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• Publication Date: December 22, 1969
• Content Type: LETTER

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THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
22 December 1969
The Honorable Ray S. Cline
Director
Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Department of State
Washington, D. C. 20520
Dear Ray:
Thank you for your comments on "The Effectiveness of ABM
Collectors. " They are useful indicators of the problems we must
solve as this kind of work continues.
I agree that in addition to the problems of extending the method-
ology and enlarging the scope of such work, future efforts need to
resolve some of the questions pertaining to value. At this point, I am
thinking of proposing a group comprised of members of CIA, DIA and
the State Department, possibly chaired by Jack Thomas, to handle
the problem of structuring needs and determining their relative values.
Such a group might act under the auspices of USIB, obtaining USIB
approval for its final product. The group, in effect, would be
responsible for parts aand b of Recommendation 4. NIRB, on the
other hand, might assume responsibility for evaluating the effective-
ness of collection systems (parts c and d of Recommendation 4).
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has recommended a panel of independent
experts to evaluate the methodology and I have asked to
pursue this recommendation with the ABM Special Study Committee.
It seems to me to make sense.
I also agree that NIRB should evaluate the Study and discuss
the pertinent issues. Nevertheless, I believe that a start could be
made on work which relates to structuring and valuing needs and
determining capabilities of collectors--it has value and is necessary
in its own right.
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Finally, it seems to me that your concern with Conclusion 2
boils down to judgment about the values assigned to the information
we expect to collect. Certainly the Study
shows that these systems should collect some information not hereto-
fore collected. The question is simply how valuable an addition this
will be to our over-all base of knowledge. At this point, all I can say
is that we need to investigate further.
Sincerely,
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