KEY INTELLIGENCE QUESTIONS FOR FY 1975

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• Publication Date: August 6, 1974
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KEY I'N T EL1 IGENCE 0UESTIO'1
FOR FY 1Q75
INTRODUCTION
1. These Key Intelligence Questions are designed to be
responsive to and to support the Substantive Objectives of the
Intelligence Community for FY 1975 as noted by the United States
Intelligence Board on June 13, 1974, prior to the submission of
those Objectives to the President.
2. The Key Intelligence Questions for Fiscal Year 1975 are
issued as guidance to the Intelligence Community for the collec-
tion and production of intelligence on subjects of major importance
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to national-level intelligence consumers during t'- - a
Those Key Intelligence Questions obviously do not
exhaust the universe of consumer needs; - there are additional
important categories of intelligence collection and production
which are not included in this priority national intelligence
guidance.
a. Lower priority national intelligence subjects:
These are deliberately omitted in order to em-
phasize the importance of the Key Intelligence
Questions. It is recognized that some attention
must be devoted to lower priority subjects, such.
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tion techniques should be employed.
as developments in Africa,. although wherever pos.-
.sible less expensive and less difficult collec-
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sues deemed likely to beCe importan
some years from now
even- though
they may not; immediate or pressing major problems
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during FY 1975.
Departmental and tactical intelligence: This
includes the intelligence requirements-of the
operational commanders, as well ascertain.
warning and surveillance activities. An ap-
propriate portion of the national intelligence
devoted to meeting these needs,,
and the National Foreig Intelligence Budget
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Recommendations will take account e-.s---_..
act Continuing efforts will be made to
improve the interaction and mutual support
of national and tactical programs ' so that T L &tee s
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each `lmay be served by the same activities
to the maximum extent- possible. In framing
these key Intelligence Questions for FY 1975,
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careful consideration was1paid to departmental
objectives with national implications or over-
tones. The Critical Near-Term Defense Intel-
ligence Objectives of the Department of Defense
were given special attention.
3. The Key Intelligence Questions are circulated for the
following purposes:
a. First, to insure that these subjects are given
priority in the regular collection and production
activities of appropriate elements of the Intel-.
ligence Community.
b._ Second, to enable review of collection and produc-
tion planning by the member agencies of the Intel-
ligence Community via a brief, succinct report pre-
oe~ Qock% btk o,pPr?tot ~si.?~.1 le-dclj-'nte
pare dun er the -aegis of q ' - _ - G a g e In a
few cases involving subjects of particular importance,
a supplementary, more detailed review will highlight
specific matters deemed appropriate for special col-
lection or production attention.
c. Third, to provide the basis for a recapitulation
and evaluation, after the close of the fiscal
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year, of the performance of the intelligence
Community -- and of individual agencies--- on
each of the Key Intelligence Questions.
d. Fourth, to permit the conclusions drawn from the
recapitulation and evaluation of the FY 1975 ef-
fort to be used as factors in Community resource
subj e c: A of Presidential
The Key Intelligence Questions have been grouped, where
possible, under one of the five Subst'ant'ive Objectives for the
Intelligence Community as submitted to the President by the Direc-
tor of Central Intelligence
The order in which the
1Y 1975 questions are listed should not be regarded as-implying
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allocations, and in the preparation of the Na-
tional Foreign Intelligence Budget Recommenda-
tions which the Director of Central Intelligence-
will be sending to the President in November 1976..
response to. some
time frame.
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12 August 1974
MEMORANDUM FOR: The Director
SUBJECT Draft KIQ Evaluation Instructions
expecting from the NIOs in connection. with their
responsibilities in overseeing the implementation
of the KIQ process. -It was my understanding that
you wanted to address this matter at your next
session with the NIOs, now tentatively scheduled
for Monday, 12 August.
Attached is a draft note from you to the
NIOs designed to serve as a basis for and/or
stimulus to discussion of what you need and will be
George A. Carver, Jr.
Deputy for National Intelligence Officers
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DRAFT
?MEMORANDUM FOR: The National Intelligence Officers
SUBJECT: The FY 1975 Key Intelligence Question. Evaluation
Process
1. In connection with the FY 1975 KIQs, I will. be
looking to the NIOs to take the lead in providing me (and the
USIB) with three types of comments:
a. A preliminary review for. each KIQ.
b. The development and articulation of subordinate
questions for some.KIQs.
c. A final summary report on the Community's
performance with respect.to each KIQ.
2. The Preliminary Reviews. After the FY 1975 KIQs
have been approved by the NSCIC, each KIQ should be the subject
of a brief (separate) survey. These surveys should be pre-
by the appropriate NIOs, in consultation with their
pared
Intelligence Community colleagues and drawing on the Intelligence
Community Staff for any staff support needed. I would like-these
surveys submitted to me (and the USIB) by mid-September. Each
survey should succinctly assess the Community's degree of
k- owledge or ignorance/uncertainty with respect to the KIQ in
q_estion. (I emphasize that what is wanted here is a summary
assessment, not a detailed inventory.) Each survey should
then block out the Community's strategy with respect to that
KIG -- touching on all phases of the intelligence process:
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collection, analysis and production. The strategy survey
should identify the Community member agencies accepting an
obligation to work on that KIQ and should incorporate any
recommendations for mprovement in the Community's accepted
strategy that the NIO feels warranted (e.g., in a situation --
should one arise -- in which for resource constraints, or
other reasons, the Community component representatives are
unwilling to agree to undertake certain courses of action
the NIO feels are feasible and necessary in. developing an
optimum response to that KIQ). These preliminary
evaluations are to be brief, simple, subjective and arbitrary.
3. The Subordinate Questions. For some -- not all --
KIQs, an. appropriate number of more detailed, concrete
subordinate questions should be developed by the appropriate
\IOs, working with the Intelligence Community Staff and in
consultation with representatives of the member agencies of
the USIB. These subordinate questions should be designed to
serve either (or both) of two functions:
a. To highlight specific matters or concrete topics
deemed appropriate for.special collection or production
To provide the basis for special, resource-tied
performance evaluation at the end of the fiscal year.
These performance evaluations will be comparable to those
performed cn the pilot KIQs under the FY 1974 KEP program. the
object here is to take a certain number of representative
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slices through the intelligence process to ascertain in some
detail if resources are being properly apportioned to
activities of major substantive importance, i.e., activities
which are of direct benefit in answering key substantive
questions. The total number of subordinate questions should
be in the range of about thirty. There need not be one for
every KIQ nor need there be more than one for any given KIQ on
which the NIO feels some further refinement is advisable.
4. The Final Report. At the end of the fiscal year --
i.e., June 1975 -- the NIOs should submit a short final report
on each FY 1975 KIQ evaluating the performance of the Intelli-
gence Community on that particular question and, where appro-
priate, the performance of the individual member. agencies.
These final reports should be prepared in consultation with
representatives of the USIB member agencies drawing on the
Intelligence Community Staff for such staff support as is
needed. Disagreement within,the Community should be
reflected, but -- in the final analysis -- each report will
be the NIO's and should reflect his or her personal judgments
and assessment. We will develop more detailed guidelines for
the FY 1975 final reports after we have received those for
FY 1974 and can ascertain what modifications or changes
in format or procedure would be helpful. As should be the case
with the preliminary reviews, these final reports are to be
succinct, simple, arbitrary and subjective.
'W. E. Colby
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