DRAFT DCI MEMO ON MOVING NIO ACCOUNTS TO CIC AND CTC

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• Publication Date: September 13, 1989

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Draft DCI Memo on Moving NIO Accounts to--CIC and CTC
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Chairman, NIC
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The Director of Central Intelligence
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NIC #00954-89
National Intelligence Council 13 September 1989
NOTE FOR: DDCI
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FROM: Fritz W. Ermarth
Chairman
SUBJECT: Draft DCI Memo on Moving NIO Accounts to CIC and CTC
Attached for your review and comment is a draft of a memo I
would propose the Judge use to announce the long-planned and
much discussed move of the NI/CT and FDIA accounts into CTC
and CIC (TAB A). This is briefer and more general than a
version the DDCI and I worked on during the summer.
In soliciting the support of:D/DIA for this move last week, I
had to make a pledge to give his people an�advance look at
whatever we might issue on this so that they could at least
comment. Therefore I plan to send this to Gordon Negus at DIA,
but not to the other agencies because the language of this memo
is quite general. You should, however, note a key provision in
the last of three ticks, top of page 3 which obligates the
center chiefs to �consult� with the appropriate people at the
other agencies in actually setting up to accomplish the
transferred tasks. The point to be understood here is that the
agencies should discuss the details of how to do the community
business with the managements responsible (not, as DIA might
prefer, with me) and should expect a voice, but not a a veto,
over the DCI's final organizational and staffing arrangements.
Could I have any comments or reaction by COB Thursday,
14 September?
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MEMORANDUM FOR: NFIC/NFIB members
SUBJECT: Community Responsibility for Counterterrorism
and Counterintelligence
Effective I have decided to place the
responsibilities of the NIO for Foreign Denial and Intelligence
activities and the NIO for Counterterrorism into the
Counterintelligence Center and the Counterterrorism Center
respectively and to abolish these NIO functions in the National
Intelligence Council. This decision brings arrangements for
managing the Community aspects of these accounts into line with
the arrangement I decided upon when establishing the
Counternarcotics Center. Final responsibility for preparing
national estimates in all three areas continues to lie in the
NIC, chiefly with its regional NIOs who will rely on the
analytical resources of the centers as well as your agencies
for inputs and drafters.
I have reached this decision on the recommendation of the
Chairman, NIC, after discussing it with some of you and hearing
his report on more extensive consultations with many of you or
your subordinates.
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The chief reason for this move is to place the
responsibility for knitting together Intelligence Community
performance in counterterrorism and counterintelligence
directly into the organizations on which I rely to fulfill my
responsibilities in these increasingly vital areas.
Counterterrorism and counterintelligence are highly operational
accounts in that analysis and policy deliberations are
intimately related to action, often on a day-to-day basis. I
want the Community to plug in directly where the action occurs;
and I have no doubt that both Community cooperation and the
interests of your agencies will be better served by doing so.
I am aware that some of you have reservations as to whether
Community concerns can be adequately addressed by this new
arrangement. I am convinced they can and am determined to make
it so, to which end I have:
Redesignated all the centers as DCI centers and titled
their chiefs special assistants to the DCI (although they
will remain administratively in their present
subordination).
Instructed the center chiefs to assign Community
responsibilities to appropriately senior officers with
adequate staff and to solicit from you candidates to fill
these and other positions in the centers.
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Instructed the center chiefs to consult with you or your
representatives on the details of guidance, organization,
and staffing for meeting their Community responsibilities.
Designing specific new arrangements for the centers to
perform as they should and making them work may require some
experimentation and evolution, for which I ask your active
support. In nine months to a year, it would be appropriate to
review with you how we have done.
William H. Webster
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