CRITICAL INTELLIGENCE DEFICIENCIES

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CIA-RDP88B00443R001704340025-9
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RIPPUB
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T
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2
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December 22, 2016
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December 28, 2009
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25
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Publication Date: 
August 18, 1985
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MEMO
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Tf1D CF'CPT Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2009/12/28: CIA-RDP88B00443R001704340025-9 18 August 1985 MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence Director, Intelligence Community Staff Deputy Director for Intelligence Deputy Director for Operations Deputy Director for Science and Technology FROM: Director of Central Intelligence SUBJECT: Critical Intelligence Deficiencies 1. The June 1985 paper turned out by the WSSIC on Critical Intelligence Deficiences is a formidable piece of work but, I fear, so daunting that it can land with a dull thud and disappear. 2. Certainly without direction and focus on the most urgent of 129 pages of deficiencies and selection of those which are most significant and most readily overcome, the work will wind up having little value. 3. I'd like to activate the most knowledgeable senior people, collectors and analysts, to examine closely the specific deficiences in the areas where they have knowledge and assets and pick out where we can most profitably concentrate special effort in working and developing existing and potential sources, capabilities, and analytical task forces. I have in mind parceling specific areas out to OWSR branches, their counterparts elsewhere in the Community, and having SIGINT, IMINT, HUMINT operational people review these deficiences in terms of how their actual and potential assets and capabilities can best be focused on them,etc. William J. Casey cc.: Chairman, WSSIC TOP SECRET Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2009/12/28: CIA-RDP88B00443R001704340025-9 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2009/12/28: CIA-RDP88B00443R001704340025-9 lqql Central Intelligence Copy 1 NFIB 2.1/13 CRITICAL INTELLIGENCE DEFICIENCIES by the Weapon and Space Systems Intelligence Committee Top Secret WSSIC 85-10006JX June 1985 Copy Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2009/12/28: CIA-RDP88B00443R001704340025-9