INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS ADVISORY GROUP (IRAG) MEETING NOTES - NUMBER 3

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79B01709A002200040014-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 13, 2001
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: October 24, 1967
• Content Type: NOTES

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IRAG Meeting Notes - Number 3
1. The third meeting of the Information Requirements Advisory
Group (IRAG) was held on 18 October 1967, and was chaired by Proctor
(A/DDI). Attending were , Brandwein (FMSAC),
2. The purpose of the meeting was to arrange for a 90-day exercise
during which procedures for processing and validating human source
.requirements would be put into effect on a trial basis. Copies of the
proposed procedures and validation pri?teria had been distributed to the
members for their consideration in advance of the meeting.
3. The Chairman described the trial period as a method of providing
working experience with the requirements validation process, commenting
that such direct experience will benefit further discussions of the
validation problems. He stated that all the procedures are subject to
short-cut when time is pressing, but added that the short-cut must be
followed up promptly by the originating office to insure that IRS has
a complete record of the requirements action.
4. Discussion of validation procedures centered on two points:
a. Analyst check of draft requirements with IRS. (Step No. 2
in the validation procedures.) It was agreed that this step need not
be followed in every case but was a service provided by IRS. In this
connection, the Chairman reminded the members of the records and other
advisory services available in IRS and asked them to make full use of
these facilities; such use can help to eliminate problems at an early
stage and to simplify requirements processing.
b. Clandestine Services Evaluations. (Involves Steps 4,.5,
and 8 of the Evaluation Procedures.) A major part of the Clandestine
Services program for evaluating its reporting is based on judgments
obtained in personal interviews with analysts of the DD/S&T and the
DDI. The need for validating the opinions expressed by analysts was
discussed and affirmed, particularly since the collection activity
concerned requires the most selective guidance in the human source
area. Also recognized was the fact that the effectiveness of the
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Clandestine Services program would be impaired by a complicated method of
validation. The Chairman therefore suggested that FI Staff continue to
ask analyst views but then submit the collected analyst judgments in
draft for validation by responsible authority in the production components.
FI/DDP and IRS were asked to work out procedures to permit division chief
review of his analysts' evaluations without disrupting the evaluation
program itself.
5. No changes were suggested in the validation criteria. The
Chairman commented on the need for analysts to consider cost and risk
factors in preparing requirements and on the desirability of validation
at the division chief level. The question of workload on the division
chief was raised, and past experience with numbers of requirements
within components was reviewed briefly. In closing, the Chairman
reminded that the trial period would run from 1 November 1967 to
31 January 1968 and that the experiment would apply to all new requirements
originated during that period for collection by human sources.
HERBERT J. JENNE
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