NNBIS COORDINATING BOARD MEETING ON 14 DECEMBER 1984

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
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• Publication Date: December 17, 1984
• Content Type: MEMO

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 National Intelligence Council
The Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D.C. 20505
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
u bert E Meyer
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17 December 1984
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Vice Chairman, Natilondl Intelligence Council
SUBJECT: NNBIS Coordinating Board Meeting on 14 December 1984
1. The Coordinating Board met to consider the revised draft of the
Joint Surveillance Committee (JSC) Report. Admiral Murphy began the
meeting by stating that he was pleased with the report and wanted to
present it to the Executive Board on 19 December so that decisions to
implement the report's recommendations would be in step with the January
budget cycle. Admiral Murphy then asked Nick Showengerdt, NNBIS Staff
Director, to review the content of the revised report. These are
highlights of Nick's briefing:
Based on Executive Board decisions on 9 August, a chapter has
been added to the report which provides a synopsis of three
contract studies initiated by Treasury: study of
interdiction assets and the roles of agencies involved in air
interdiction; study to define requirements and develop an
acquisition plan for a ground-based command and control system to
support Customs air operations; and Navy's operational assessment
of the P-3A for Customs.
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Assistant National ntelligence Officer for Narcotics
go. The specific JSC recommendations inclu a ~n
draft have been amended to reflect study results available to
date.
study is complete, results of study are
expected in March, and the P-3A evaluation s has a way to
d d ' the revised
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-- Also added to the report are tables that list costs and relative
cost efficiencies of individual detection and surveillance
assets; cost figures for each of the four enhancement policy
options included in the report; and data on the relative
capabilities and effectiveness of individual surveillance and
detection systems against air and maritime targets.
-- The JSC believes that all conclusions included in the initial
draft of the report remain valid.
-- The JSC continues to recommend a policy option that would provide
an enhancement package ensuring sufficient additional detection
assets to increase the air interdiction rate to between 30 and 40
percent of estimated smuggling aircraft, with an
interdiction/apprehension mix capable of achieving a 20 percent
pilot apprehension rate. Increased assets in this package, which
is listed as Option C in the report, also would significantly
enhance maritime enforcement capabilities. This policy option
has a price tag of $677.2 million in acquisition costs and $132.7
million in operating costs.
-- Whatever policy the Executive Board decides to pursue, the JSC
still recommends that there be no change in the responsibilities
of individual agencies. NNBIS would ensure interagency
coordination during the acquisition process.
2. Admiral Murphy then called for discussion of the revised report.
From this point on, the pressure of budget constraints was pervasive.
Here are the main points raised during the discussion:
-- Assistant Secretary of Treasury, John Walker, noted that the
acquisition costs for the enhancement packages in the report did
not include substantial R&D costs that must be addressed.
Treasury agreed with the concept of better surveillance and
detection but questioned the level at which we should begin.
Walker pointed out that Customs' share of the recommended policy
option would be about $219 million; that was more than Treasury's
budget could handle.
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The JSC was mandated to focus its report on the air threat.
Treasury felt that since trafficking modes obviously would change
to adjust to our increased air interdiction capabilities, we
should plan for that too. Since we know very little about these
potential modal shifts, Walker felt we should set our initial
enhancement sights much lower.
Treasury has just completed its own study which recommends an
enhancement package costing $99 million in acquisition costs and
$44 million in recurring costs.
Admiral Murphy asked for details on the Treasury plan, but Walker
said he couldn't provide them because the results of the Treasury
study had just come in. Murphy then said we should look at
Treasury's analysis and compare its proposal to overall NNBIS
needs.
OMB reiterated concern about future changes in trafficking
patterns that have not been addressed. OMB warned that the
Coordinating Board should not get itself in an "option box" it
clearly can't afford.
3. It was clear that Treasury's announcement of an alternate proposal
to those included in the JSC Report had taken some of the wind out of
Admiral Murphy's sails. He said he still felt the Coordinating Board
should "lay its cards on the table and tell our bosses what we think makes
sense," regardless of cost. He noted that all we were trying to do is
give the Executive Board the full spectrum of choices; the Executive Board
has no authority to tell individual agencies how to spend money. But
based on what he had heard from the Coordinating Board, he wondered if he
was premature in going forward to the Executive Board with the JSC Report.
4. Admiral Murphy concluded the meeting by saying that the manner in
which policy options are presented to the Executive Board obviously has
become more important in view of budget and other considerations raised at
the meeting. He asked attendees to give him a call on 17 or 18 December
with specific suggestions on how to take the JCS Report forward. He said
that while there were problems with the report, it should not be discarded.
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5. Especially in view of the current budget climate, it seems that
there is a more fundamental question regarding enhanced narcotics
initiatives that was not fully addressed by the Coordinating Board. That
is: given the entire gambit of possible narcotics control enhancements,
does front loading a sizeable investment in surveillance and detection
really make sense? For example, a case can be made for investing in more
enforcement personnel or increased intelligence and operational
capabilities to disrupt the trafficking infrastructure and production
capabilities in source areas. The JSC was not mandated to consider such
tradeoffs, but perhaps they should be discussed by the Executive Board.
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