MINUTES OF THE 16 JANUARY 1975 MEETING OF THE STUDY GROUP

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M01133A000500010025-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 27, 2009
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: January 31, 1975
• Content Type: MF

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31 January 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR THE STUDY CRr J P , PILOT STUDY ON NATIONAL
INTELLIGENCE SUPPORT TO FIELD :~ '.IMANDERS
SUBJECT: Minutes of the 16 January 1975 Meeting of the Study Group
1. The minutes of the 16 Januar- Study Group meeting are attached.
2. The Study Group is tentative' y scheduled. to meet at 1000 hours,
5 March 1975 in the DCI Conference -.oom (7E64), CIA Headquarters.
In addition to the members, the ChaA men of the Working Groups and the
computer program support officer -xi, 1 attend. The tentative agenda is:
a . Working Group reportE on progress toward implementing
Study Group guidance of 16 January 1975.
b. Modifications to study iarameters recommended by the
National Working Group.
c. Revision of study mile:
d. Form and content of preliminary' and final Study Group
reports.
e. Intensive review of Stx: dy report prior to Study Group.
approval.
3. At the 16 January meeting of -he Study Group, the members agreed
to continue their effort to identify studies that have been completed., or are
now in progress, that relate to the t=.tical/national intelligence interface.
JCS review completed.
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Request that you provide the Study C: oup executive officers by 25 February
1975 a list of the additional studies the ~ t have been identified . This list
also should include the name of the st _idy; its purpose; the authority
directing it; action officers; the date, or expected date, of completion;
and the classification.
Attachment:
As stated
Distribution:
1 - Each Study Group Member/Ot server (12)
I - Chairman, National Working Croup
I - Chairman, Theater Working Group
1 - Chief, Research and Anslysi Branch, .MPRRD/C
3 - Each Study Group Executive f;f icer
1 - MPRRD Subject
1 - MPRRD Reading
1 - MH Chrono
~e (in turn)
egia ry
DCI/IC/MPRRD:I (31Jar_73)
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STUDY GR SUP
PILOT STUDY ON NATIOI-AL INTELLIGENCE
SUPPORT TO FIELD ;OMMANDERS
Minutes of the Secrnd Meeting
Room 2E1010, Th Pentagon
at 1000, Thursday, 16 January 1975
MEMBERS PET- ESENT
RADM Robert P . Hilton, Co-Chairman, J c int Staff
Jr., USAF, Co-Chairman, Intelligence Community Staff
Central Intelligence Agency, representing the CIA Member
Mr. Merrill T. Kelly, Department of the ~ rmy
Capt. R. W. Bates, Department of the Na' y
BGen J. S. Pustay, Department of the Aii Force
Col. J. A. Macinnis, US Marine Corps, r :presenting Col. Quisenberry
RAt)M J. A. Walsh. USEUCOM/Deputy J2
Defense Intelligence Agency
ational Security Af ency/Central Security Service
Capt. Ronald P. Good, Department of the Navy
OBSERVERS PRESENT
wlr. . Howard Chinn, Defense Mapping Ag ncy
Working Group
OTHERS PF ESENT
Defense Intellige-ice Agency, Chairman of the Theater
USAF (ret.) Inteligence Community Staff, Chairman
of the National Working Group
Maj Perr
Intelligence Community Staff
Intelligence Corr-.-,unity Staff
Central Intelligerce Agency
W. Miles, III, USMC, Intelligence Community Staff
National Security I gency/Central Security Service
tional Security A~; _~ncy/Central Security Service
Col. B. H. Davis, Department of the Army
, Intelligence Community Staff Study Group Executive
Officer
Capt Gerald W. Dyer, USN, Joint Staff y~:udy Group Executive - Officer
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1. INTRODUCTION
Admiral Hilton and opened the meeting. Admiral STAT;
Hilton noted that he had replaced Bri radier General William L. Nicholson,
USAF, as the Joint Staff co-chairman. and that had replaced STAT
USA , as IC Staff co-chairman. Admiral
Hilton briefly reviewed the background of the Pilot Study, and the Study
and Working Group activities to date noted the personal STAT
interest of the DCI and the Secretary of Defense in the Pilot Study, and said
that the co-chairmen would be prepaxed to brief on its progress. An
outline of the briefing will be given t) the Study Group members.
UNCINCEUR PROGRESS B UIEFING
RADM J. A. Walsh, the UE EUCOM member, discussed the
theater commander's submissions: tie study scenario, the EEI, and the
identification of theater assets and their tasking. USCINCEUR has forwarded
the final submission of EEi received I rom the component commands. . The
theater submission of assets is now ::.)nsidered adequate, although this is
subject to review by the Theater Wor ping Group. RADM Walsh explained
that the timeliness of USCINCEUR's Study inputs was affected by the
sequential nature of the development of study methodology, difficult
communications with Washington, arid unawareness of the urgency for the
Study in Washington. He also noted `hat USEUCOM's TDY funds had been
significantly reduced. He recomme_-~ied that the Study Group transmit the
time constraints for the Study to USC NCEUR.
3. DISCUSSION
In the discussion that follc vved , PADM Hilton proposed, and it
was agreed, that a message from th CS forward the approved Study
milestones to USCINCEUR to make hire. aware of the time constraints for
the Study.
4. THEATER WORKING GRCL P REPORT
reviewed the i iembership, the assigned tasks and
the progress of the Theater Working :group . He said that his principal
focus is on shortfalls in the theater c,,mmanders' ability to satisfy command
information needs for the scenario sit jation.
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a. He is developing, in coordination with the National
Working Group, a methodology i o identify, in a static display,
specific information needs derived from theater EEI, the theater
assets available for commitment against them, and judgments on
the capability of each asset agai? ist each information need.
b. His progress depends upon the theater inputs identifying
EEI and the tasking of theater assets . Not all EEI have been received.
Component command EEI received on 15 January have not been
analyzed. He estimated that wh,An analyzed the theater EEI will
result in more than 10,000 specific statements of information need
if all phases of the OPLAN are considered.
c. I requested guidance as to the level of organization
and detail to which theater assets are to be identified in the Study.
It was agreed that in considerin;, the expression "commands ,:apable
of independent sustained combat" in the Terms of Reference, the
Working Groups would analyze theater forces at the level of Army
brigades, Air Force wings and i navy task groups, and consider
theater collection and reporting assets responsive to that level.
d. I (pointed oL.t that the Working Groups, on
recommendation of the co-chair-rien, had focused their test of
methodology on the last ten days of OPLAN Phase 2, defensive
operations, and Phase 3X, convt ntional offensive operations (time
period C+25 to C+48 of the scena ?io) . He said that he now believes
the Study must be limited to this time period if the scheduled
completion date is to be met.
5. DISCUSSION
In the discussion that follrwed,l said that he is using
actual weather (stipulated in the sce:lario) and that adequate communications
are assumed. Communications prob.; ems in crisis--availability, capacity
and accessability--were discussed a` some length. It was agreed to assume
com-.,unications for the Pilot Study and to identify this as a 'serious problem
area for further study. It was agree I that the Working Group reports will
include this and all other assumptions they make regarding national and
theater collection and reporting capa:)ilities.
STAT
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6. NATIONAL WORKING GRt )UP REPORT
Group.
reported th progress of the National Working
a. He discussed, in some detail, the methodology developed
by his Working Group, which hiLs been adopted by the Theater
Working Group. In many cases, assets of the same type and
capabilities, such as US Army SiGINT stations in Europe, are
aggregated as a totality. His Wcrking Group has identified ninety
entries for national assets and 2)0 theater and JTF EEI. The resulting
18,000 comparisons will be sign-ficantly increased when the component
command EEI are received and factored. +
modifications to the Study para: niters (attachment 1). His Working
Group believes that parameter 4 type of response/output, need not
be specifically identified. The sensor type will be evident from
entries in the matrix. After discussion, the Study Group agreed that
this will not identify product type, and that the Working Groups should
address product type where it h