Q AND A FOR DIRECTOR-DESIGNATE WEBSTER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90B00017R000500130013-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 11, 2013
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: March 12, 1987
• Content Type: MEMO

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Director of Congressional Affairs
NOTE FOR: Bill Baker
John Hotis
FROM: Dave Cries
16 March 1987
OCA 87-0933
Enclosed is more reading material for
Judge Webster.
Enclosure (Article by Gary Schmitt, "Oversight -
What for and How Effective")
Distribution:
On - Addressee (w/enc)
- OCA Record (w/o enc)
1 - D/OCA Chrono "
1 - OCA Chrono "
D/OCA:DDGries:dpt (16 Mar 87)
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NOTE FOR: D/ICS
FROM: Dave Grie
SUBJECT: Q & A for Director-Designate Webster
OCA 87-0961
12 March 1987
The FBI has requested a Q & A as given below. Please folloW
the format of question, answer, background. Each question
should be handled on one page or, in most cases, much less than
one page. Please send your completed answer to D/OCA (7D43 Hqs)
within two working days.
QUESTION:
ANSWER:
BACKGROUND:
What is the origin, objective and future of
the National Intelligence Strategy?
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QUESTION: What is the origin, objective and future of the National
Intelligence Strategy?
ANSWER: The National Foreign Intelligence Strategy (NFIS) was requested
of the DCI by the SSCI in the late summer of 1985. The DCI delivered it to
the SSCI and HPSCI in January 1986. The objective was to provide an overall,
top down view by the DCI of his view of the future, its impact on intelligence
and his strategy for meeting the challenges presented. In doing the latter,
it provided broad priority guidance for the construction of ongoing and future
National Foreign Intelligence Programs (NFIPs) and budgets. The NFIS provided
guidance from the DCI to both the NFIP Program Managers and to the Oversight
Committees.
At the time he presented the NFIS to the Oversight Committees, the DCI
indicated that it was a dynamic document, subject to modification and
elaboration in detail. He commissioned a follow-on effort which has recently
produced the National Foreign Intelligence Strategy--A 1987 Update. This
expands considerably on the NFIS goals and provides a good deal more detail in
the prioritization of the program efforts. Advance copies of the 1987 Update
were delivered at the ADCI's direction to the Oversight Committees earlier
this month. The Update provides a useful bridge between the original NFIS and
the annual, more programmatic, Congressional Budget Justification BOOKS
(CBJEis) for both the Congressional Oversight Committees and the NFIP Program
Managers.
BACKGROUND: Mr. Casey was heavily personally involved in the construction of
the NFIS. He made major contributions to the content, particularly the
prioritization section. The final product of the IC Staff-lead drafting group
was endorsed by the National Foreign Intelligence Committee (NFIC) before the
DCI submitted it to Congress.
Similarly, the 1987 Update was also endorsed by the NFIC in a slightly
different format entitled "Objectives and Priorities." The final version of
the Update was sent to the NFIC members for review and comment. Minor changes
were made by the ICS/Planning and Policy Staff drafters to reflect the NFIC
members suggestions.
The current DCI Annual Report to Congress is structured so that it
provides its Congressional readers with a progress report on the issues and
concerns raised in the original Strategy.
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