MEMORANDUM FOR: EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR-COMPTROLLER [AND OTHERS] FROM JOHN A. BROSS

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• Publication Date: July 22, 1966
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22 July 1966
MEMORANDUM FOR:,:' Executive Director-Comptroller
Deputy Director for Plans
Deputy Director for Intelligence
Deputy Director for Science and Technology
Director of National Estimates
General Counsel
Special Assistant to the DCI
1. Circulated herewith is a copy of the proposed agenda
for the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board meeting.
How much or how little preparation by way of briefing memoranda
for the DCI is needed is something only he can decide. I am there-
fore suggesting that it be discussed at the staff meeting Monday
morning.
2. If written briefs are required, items 2 c, d, e and f
are obviously matters of primary concern to the DDI. I presume
that the DCI will, in. any event, want a statement on paragraph 3,
presumably from the DDP and DDI. I presume that he will also
want a report from the General Counsel on para-
graph 4).
JOHN A. BROSS
D/DCI/NIPE
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('RESIDENT'S FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY BOARD
July 22, 1966
Honorable Richard M. Helms
Director of Central Intelligence
Langley, Virginia
As you know the next meeting of the President's
Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board is scheduled for
July 28-29, 1966.
In assordance with our custom it would be very
much appreciated if you would meet with the Board on
the afternoon of July 29 from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m., for
a discussion of the subjects outlined in the enclosure
to this letter.
With respect to the first subject listed in the
enclosure it is my understanding that a CIA represen-
tative has suggested to Mr. Coyne that the Director,
Defense Intelligence Agency, and the Director of the
Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Re-
search be invited to join with you and the Board in
the discussion of that subject. I agree fully with
this suggestion and I have asked Mr. Coyne to extend
an invitation to General Carroll and Mr. Hughes.
I am sure that I speak for all the members when
I say to you that the Board will be looking forward
to this and future meetings with you.
Sincerely,
Clark M. Clifford
Chairman
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SUBJECTS SUGGESTED BY BOARD MEMBERS
FOR DISCUSSION WITH THE DCI WHEN HE
MEETS WITH THE BOARD ON JULY 29, 1966
1. Intelligence Community views on suggestions made by a
Panel of the Board involving procedural modifications relating
to current and long-range intelligence products. (See Memor-
andum to the DCI from. the Chairman, PFIAB, dated June 21, 1966?)
2. The DCI's views and recommendations, if any, concerning
the following questions which have been raised from time to time
within the intelligence community:
'~'(a) Are existing assignments of authority to the
DCI adequate to provide a basis for effective guidance,
direction and coordination of the foreign intelligence
activities of the Government?
?(b) Should National Security Council Intelligence
Directives (and DCIDs) be reviewed and revised in the
interest of providing updated and clear-cut guidance
to the intelligence community?
(c) Can the USIB process of producing coordinated
Intelligence be enlarged and expedited for the purpose
of reducing unilateral (and sometimes duplicative) intel-
ligence productions?
(d) Is it desirable and feasible to seek a reduction
in the number and diversity of reporting channels through
which intelligence information reaches the Washington
Intelligence community from the field?
X (e) Is it feasible to establish a central point in
the intelligence community at the Washington level where
all available intelligence on a given country or subject
can be assembled for access by intelligence consumers?
X (f) Is it feasible to establish a systematized
method for canvassing intelligence users both at Washington
levels and at Ambassadorial and military command levels
overseas, to determine what intelligence they need and
do not have?
(g) Should there be a follow-up system to verify the
performance of agreed collection tasks which have been
assigned to the various intelligence agencies involved?
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(h) Is it feasible to establish a mechanism for a
comprehensive field inspection of all significant intelli-
gence activities to assure that (1) the Government is
receiving a maximum effective return for the aggregate
effort of all agencies; (2) unnecessary duplication is
eliminated; and (3) all agencies are complying satis-
factorily with policy directives from Washington?
3. The DCI's views concerning the best means of providing
:intelligence community support to the Senior Interdepartmental
Group and the Interdepartmental Regional Groups, established
pursuant to NSAM 341.
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A brief report on any recent developments in the
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case which may adversely effect the CIA or other
of the intelligence community.
!a. Such other matters as the DCI may wish to raise with
the Board.
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Remarks :
Confirming my telephone conversation,
I am sending copies of the annexed to the
Deputies and persons concerned with a note to
the effect that I hope that the DCI will be able
to discuss it. at least briefly at the staff
meeting Monday morning.
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PRESIDENT'S FOREIGN IN:'ELLI:C1E uCE ADVISORY BOARD
June 21, 1966
MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
SUBJECT: Suggested Procedural Modifications Relating to
Current and Long-Range Intelligence Products 11
For your information there is enclosed a paper prepared
by a Panel of the Board. The recommendations contained in
,;he enclosure will be considered by the Board at its meeting
of July 28-29, 1966.
At the time the Board considers the recommendations,
it would be helpful to have your views thereon, as well as
the views of the Directors of the Defense Intelligence
agency and the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the
Department of State.
Accordingly, it would be appreciated if you would
undertake to obtain CIA-DIA-INR views on the recommenda-
tions. It is requested that you furnish such views to
the Board by July 22.
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Clark M. Clifford
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SUBJECT: Suggested Procedural Modifications Relating
to Current and Long-Range Intelligence Products
Current Intelligence Products, Including Intelligence Assessments:
1. There appears to be an increasing tendency on the
part of CIA, DIA and INR (State) to prepare unilaterally
r:c.nd to disseminate outside their respective agencies a
significant number of current intelligence documents,
including current Intelligence assessments, which are not
coordinated with other appropriate agencies in the prepara-
tion stage. This absence of coordination persists even in
instances where the particular current intelligence product
includes subject matters which are not only outside the
primary intelligence production responsibility of the
preparing agency, but are also of such a nature as to be
of interest to the intelligence community as a whole.
(Noteworthy exceptions to this widespread practice. include
the Weekly Watch Report, which is always coordinated by the
intelligence community, and the daily Central Intelligence
Bulletin, which is normally coordinated with DIA and INR
by CIA, except when shortage of time precludes coordination
of "last minute" items which CIA considers of such moment
as to warrant inclusion in the Bulletin.)
2. It is recommended that the President's Board explore
with the D I and the Directors of INR and DIA the desirability
and feasibility of establishing within the intelligence com-
munity the following policy requirements with respect to
the publication and dissemination to other agencies of current
intelligence items, including current intelligence assessments:'
(1) all such current intelligence issuances shall be coordinated
with other appropriate agencies of the intelligence community
prior to their dissemination by the preparing agency, with
a notation in the finished product as to the identities of
the agencies consulted; and (2) if emergency situations or
other reasons preclude such advance coordination, the dis-
seminated item should clearly reflect that fact.
Long-Range Intelligence Assessments:
3. In the field of long-range intelligence assessments,
particularly National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs), and
Special National Intelligence Estimates (SNIEs), it has long
been the practice of the intelligence community to look to
the staff of CIA's Office of National Estimates (ONE) and to
the staff of CIA's Board of National Estimates (BNE).for the
preparation of the initial draft of such long-range estimates..
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It is believed that adherence to this practice fails to
make full utilization of the intelligence and technical
expertise which is avail.ablc: in the Departments of State
and Defense. To assure better utilization of such
expertise, it would appear c.esira.ble that the initial
drafting of the varied and. .ignificant segments of such
:long-range estimates should be divided among the components
(.-f State, Defense and CIA having such special expertise.
While a hard and fast rule cannot in every instance be
applied for the designation of the drafting agency,
it would appear, genera:l.ly speaking, that the following
ground rules should apply:
a. The Department of State should prepare the
initial drafts of those segments of a long-range
estimate which are concerned primarily'with political
or sociological matters, or with economic develop-
ments in countries outside the Sino-Soviet Bloc.
b. The Department of Defense should prepare
the initial drafts of those segments of a long-range
estimate which are concerned primarily with military
matters, including military capabilities, military
systems, force structures and orders of battle.
c. The Central Intelligence Agency should
prepare the initial drafts of those segments of
a lon -range estimate which are concerned primarily
with (1) economic developments in the Sino-Soviet
Bloc, or (2) other matters which are assigned to
the CIA as a service of common concern to the entire
intelligence community.
d. Once these initial drafts on segments of
long-range estimates have been prepared, responsibility
for assembling them into an integrated estimate for
final USIB consideration should continue to be assigned
to the Central Intelligence Agency as a service of
common concern to the entire intelligence community.
4. It is recommended that the President's Board explore
with the DTI and the Directors of INR and DIA the desirability
and feasibility of modifying procedures for the preparation
of long-range intelligence estimates along the lines
suggested above.
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