TERMS OF REFERENCE OF JOINT STUDY GROUP

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 16, 2006
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: July 18, 1960
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UNITED STATES INT.,ELLIG ENCE BOARD
MEMORANDUM FOR THE UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD
SUBJECT Terms of Reference of Joint Study Group
REFERENCE USIB-M-107, item 7
Following last Tuesday's Board meeting the draft Terms of
Reference of the Joint Study Group, copies of which were distributed
to the individual USIB members, were finally approved with minor
changes suggested by Secretary Gates. The draft Terms of Reference
have since been cleared with the President. A clean copy of the final
form of these Terms of Reference is attached for information of the
Board members on a limited distribution basis. It is requested that
the earlier draft be destroyed.
JOHN HEIRES
Executive Secretary
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APPROVED TERMS OF REFERENCE
JOINT STUDY GROUP
1. To promote the most effective and efficient use of intelligence
resources and to assist the DCI in carrying out his responsibilities for
coordinating the foreign-intelligence activities of the US Government, an
Ad Hoc Study Group is established by agreement of the following Principals,
who will be represented on the Group:
The Director of Central Intelligence, who will provide the Chairman
The Secretary of State
The Secretary of Defense
The Director, Bureau of the Budget
The Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
The President's Board of Consultants on Foreign Intelligence Activities will
have a representative sit as an observer on the Joint Study Group and the
Board will be given an opportunity to comment on the Group's report.
2. The Group, under the direction of the DCI, shall concentrate its
attention primarily upon organizational and management aspects of the following
areas within the intelligence effort. For this purpose all aspects of foreign
intelligence shall be within the purview-of the Group.
a. Inter-departmental, departmental, agency and military service
procedures for handling of intelligence requirements and related
guidance to collectors -- with particular attention to:
(1) Procedures for keeping down the volume of, and avoiding
any unprofitable duplication in, such guidance, and the feasibility
of establishing a central registry of outstanding intelligence
requirements and of collection responses thereto.
(2) Inter-departmental arrangements for selective levying of
requirements on the most appropriate collection facility or
facilities.
b. USIB arrangements for:
(1) Ensuring rapid adaptation, adjustment or re-direction of
existing collection assets to meet changes in current priority
requirements, and for deciding upon and supporting expansion of
existing collection facilities or development of new facilities
needed to meet new agreed high-priority requirements.
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(2) Periodic community evaluation (including the appraisal
of dollar and man-year inputs) of the foreign intelligence effort
as a whole with particular attention to improving the total
program balance, from the geographic and functional points of
view, and to increasing efficiency and eliminating any unprofitable
duplication in the utilization of intelligence resources.
c. The present military intelligence coordinating machinery and
its relationship to the intelligence community -- with particular
attention to possibilities for closer integration under the authority
of the Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1958.
d. The effectiveness of current implementation of intelligence
coordination directives and procedures -- with special attention to the
field coordination of overseas intelligence activities, and to community
support for the intelligence needs of senior US representatives abroad,
including military commanders.
e. Present arrangements for coordinating research and development
conducted in support of the foreign intelligence effort and for
determining the intelligence community interest in, and providing
support to, any R & D for other primary purposes which may also have
significant potential usefulness to intelligence.
3. The Group shall present, by 15 December 1960, its findings and
recommendations for appropriate action to the DCI for consideration by the
Principals, after which time it shall be dissolved. Any actions to implement
approved recommendations shall be the exclusive responsibility of the heads
of the departments or agencies directly concerned.
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