TRANSITION TEAM FACT BOOK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90M00551R000800400009-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 11
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 3, 2013
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: October 12, 1988
• Content Type: MEMO

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14 OCT 1988
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2 October 1988
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director, Planning & Policy Office/ICS
FROM:
SUBJECT:
REFERENCE:
Director, Requirements and Evaluation Office
Transition Team Fact Book
Your 28 September 1988 memorandum, Same subject
1. As you requested in reference, attached are the updated REO and FIPC
Mission and Function statements, initially provided to you on 6 October, with
supporting one page descriptions of each function or activity.
2. If further assistance is needed, please contact
Attachments:
As stated
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SUBJECT: Transition Team Fact Book
Distribution: (ICS 3804-88)
1 - D/PPO/ICS
1 - REO Subject
1 - REO Chrono
1 - ICS Registry
DCl/ICS/REC
(12 October 1988)
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REO MISSION AND FUNCTIONS
Mission
October 1988
The Requirements and Evaluation Office (REO) supports the Deputy Director
for Requirements and Evaluation (DDR&E) in fulfilling his responsibilities
related to translating policymakers' intelligence needs into requirements,
assigning priorities to these requirements, evaluating collection and
production performance against the requirements, and through these
evaluations, providing feedback to guide current activities and future
Investment strategies.
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Functions
REO MISSION AND FUNCTIONS (Cont)
Functions: REO supports the DDR&E in:
o Identifying and implementing ways to make the intelligence requirements
systems in the Community better.
o Fostering greater emphasis within both the Intelligence Community Staff
and the Community on:
- Understanding, documenting, and tasking consumer requirements for
intelligence help.
- Multidisciplinary approaches to intelligence collection.
o Validating and prioritizing shortfalls in collection, processing, and
analysis as a guide to current activities and future investments.
o Preparing ad hoc studies designed to identify ways of improving the
Community's intelligence capabilities against specific, critical problems
that span collection and/or production disciplines.
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o Identify and implement ways to integrate the structure and process for
requirements in the Intelligence Community (e.g., explore possibility of
merging existing requirement systems into one top-level requirements
system that is simpler and more easily understood).
An extensive review and evaluation of the current intelligence
requirements structure and process has been under way for almost a year,
involving both the Intelligence Community Staff and each member element of
the Intelligence Community. The approach being taken is to have a senior
intelligence officer from the IC Staff take the lead, and in coordination
with principal points of contact within each Community element serving on
a senior level steering group, assess the existing process, prepare a
detailed proposal for improving the top-level portion under DCI control,
and then pursue principal Agency/element coordination of a plan to
implement the proposal. Discussions have involved senior members of the
intelligence and policy Communities in both a group setting as well as
comprehensive one-on-one interviews and briefings. A concrete proposal
for action, originally drafted in the Spring of 1988, is being modified
based on the results of several interview sessions and Steering Group
discussion. A proposal is expected to be ready for DCl/DDCI consideration
in November. The proposal includes the following:
Definition of a coherent process for linking requirements and
evaluation activities, involving:
- More active involvement of US civilian and military
leadership in the process.
- Better use of requirements and gaps in the process for
justifying to the Administration and before Congress our
needs for budgetary growth.
Description of an approach to integrate the National
Intelligence Topics (NITS), the Foreign Intelligence
Requirements Categories and Priorities (FIRCAP), and the
Compendium of Future Intelligence Requirements (COFIR), and to
Index these requirements and priorities to an "Overview of US
Policy Affecting Intelligence".
Proposals to stimulate greater interaction between the
Intelligence Community and the senior and military policymakers
on the subject of longer-range intelligence requirements and
support (i.e., three months to two years).
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o Fostering greater emphasis within both the Intelligence Community Staff
and the Community on:
- Understanding, documenting, and tasking consumer requirements for
intelligence help.
- Multidisciplinary approaches to intelligence collection. (U)
There are currently two principal ways in which emphasis is placed on both
requirements and on the multidiscipline approach to collection: convening
of Community seminars and the publication of Collection Guides. For
selected critical intelligence problems and key geographic areas,
all-source intelligence assessment seminars are scheduled and jointly
chaired by the ICS/REO and the national Intelligence Council (NIC). The
objective is to bring together the personnel involved with all facets of
the process (collection, exploitation, and analysis) to share their views
on a particularly difficult intelligence problem to discuss priorities,
requirements, existing capabilities, shortfalls, and most importantly, to
identify areas where improvements can be made. Where applicable, these
seminars address the issues from all levels of support, from the
"national" to the "tactical", and involves full DoD representation and
participation to insure the tactical operational support aspect of the
problem is being addressed. Follow-up seminars are generally scheduled
six months after the initial session to review progress on actions
assigned.
Within the last year, Community-wide seminars have been held on North
Korea, low observables, Soviet missile production, counternarcotics, and
Soviet advAnced technology weapons. The format of these seminars may
vary. For instance, for the seminar convened this summer on the
counternarcotics problem, and initial session was held with the "consumer
community". The agenda was theirs, expressing the consumer's perspective
of how well the Intelligence Community us satisfying requirements in
support of US counternarcotics activities. In another seminar variation,
we convene special, senior level (SES-4 equivalent or above) seminars,
offering them the opportunity to take a more introspective look at some
large, but less pressing issues, and explore trends and share
philosophical views. A very successful seminar of this type was held at
the ICS headquarters this summer on the subject of Soviet weaponry.
The other means being used to focus on requirements and the
multidiscipline approach to collection is the publication of National
Intelligence Guides. As with the seminars, these are also produced in
coordination with the National Intelligence Council. These guides are to
increase the Intelligence Community awareness of a particular subject area
and to enhance overall intelligence capabilities against this target. It
is primarily a tutorial for members of both the analytic and collection
communities, including resource, collection, and production managers,
collectors in various disciplines, and novice analysts. It provides
background information on major substantive issues and the collection
activities that support them. Guides have been issues this year on L w
Observables and Counter-Low Observables, and the AIDS pandemic.
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o Validating and prioritizing shortfalls in collection, processing, and
analysis as a guide to current activities and future investments.
An all-source study/evalUation mechanism, involving full participation by
all Intelligence Community players and substantively relating required
capabilities to substantive intelligence gaps and needs, was initially
defined by the ICS/REO in mid-1987. It was used for the first time
formally in the September 1987 Intelligence Community study requested by
the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), where US intelligence
capabilities against the Soviet military in the 1990s was assessed. This
methodology has been enhanced through 1988 as the Community has gaine
experience and applied it to numerous activities during the year:
In April 1988, the SSCI study and recommendations were revisited and
an update provided to both the Senate and House Intelligence
Committees.
In May, 1988, the ICS took the lead in preparing, for the DCI, the
NFIP Enhancement package that the President sent to the Hill to
enhance our capabilities to deal with the challenges of the Soviet
military in the 1990's, especially in light of monitoring current and
future arms control agreements with the Soviets.
This evaluation methodology was key in the Community assessment of
alternative approaches to special compartmented collection system.
This methodology is also being applied as the ICS evaluates and
recommends to the DCI a set of high priority National Foreign
Intelligence Program (NFIP) initiatives that should be supported, as
a part of his FY 1990 DCI's one percent initiatives fund, being used
to place emphasis on a handful of areas that the DCI personally views
as especially important Community-wide
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o Preparing ad hoc studies designed to identify ways of improving the
Community's intelligence capabilities against specific, critical problems
that span collection and/or production disciplines.
REO continues to establish a broad experience base from which to draw.
New senior intelligence staff officers have been assigned this year from
DIA, NSA, CIA and the SAFSS. The Army and Navy are also expected to
provide detailees to the REO staff before the end of the year. These
Individuals bring not only their extensive personal experience and
expertise to the REO mission, but also a wealth of Community contacts from
which to draw in support of many quick reaction tasks. The bottom line is
that the REO staff supports the DDR&E in his role of advising the DCI
about "getting the most bang for the buck". This staff has a good
understanding of the organizations being funded under the NFIP; their
structure, their purpose, their manner of operations. They know well the
capabilities and shortfalls of existing and potential analytic and
collection resources to satisfy consumer needs.
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Foreign Intelligence Priorities Committee Staff
Mission:
Provide Chairman and staff support for the Community mechanism for
establishing and maintaining national foreign intelligence priorities.
Functions:
o Maintain a systematic process for defining foreign intelligence
requirements categories and for establishing the relative priority of
foreign intelligence information topics.
o Support periodic reviews of national foreign intelligence priorities
guidance by the SIG-I.
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Foreign Intelligence Priorities Committee Staff
o Maintain a systematic process for defining foreign intelligence
requirements categories and for establishing the relative priority of
foreign intelligence information topics.
In furtherance of this function the Foreign Intelligence Priorities
Committee (FIPC) staff manages the annual review, revision, and
publication--and quarterly update--of U.S. Foreign Intelligence
Requirements Categories and Priorities. This document contains the DCI's
standing priorities guidance for the U.S. foreign intelligence effort, and
is also a comprehensive statement of the foreign intelligence subjects
currently of interest to the U.S. Government.
In connection with maintaining this document, the FIPC staff:
Serves as the focal point for Community coordination of
intelligence priority change requests.
Advises the DDCI on the merits of proposed priority changes.
Alerts the Intelligence Community to priority assignments that may
require revision by preparing and distributing to FIPC members
monthly a "Priorities Alert List."
Reviews and coordinates the priorities guidance in draft collection
plans and the priorities evaluations in intelligence problem
assessments; mobilizes Community elements and the FIPC to take any
corrective actions that may be necessary.
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Foreign Intelligence Priorities Committee Staff
o Support periodic reviews of national foreign intelligence priorities
guidance by the SIG-I.
The Foreign Intelligence Priorities Committee Staff:
Provides the SIG-I membership with an up-to-date statement of the
DCI's national foreign intelligence priorities guidance on a
continuing basis. This guidance, displayed in U.S. Foreign
Intelligence Requirements Categories and Priorities, is updated
continuously by the issuance of priority change notices that are
distributed to all holders of the document. Replacement pages are
issued quarterly.
Reviews annually the current intelligence information needs of SIG-I
principals as expressed in the NITs of Current Interest and then
initiates and manages a Community review of national priorities
guidance to ensure that the guidance is complete, accurate, and
up-to-date with respect to the NITs. The SIG-I is formally apprised
of the results of the review and priority changes effected.
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