CINCPAC INTELLIGENCE REQUIREMENTS AND THE ALLOCATION OF COLLECTION AND PROCESSING RESOURCES IN PACOM

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01720R000800070022-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 12, 2004
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: May 1, 1973
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1 May 1973
SUBJECT: CINCPAC Intelligence Requirements and the Allocation
of Collection and Processing Resources in PACOM
1. I DDO) has just learned, and advised me,
that Admiral Gayler is scheduled to see you on Wednesday morning, 2 May,
and wants to tall-, with you privately about CINCPAC's intelligence needs and
his allocation of resources.
2. As you may recall, at Admiral Gayler's request, I spent the week
of 20-24 February in Honolulu reviewing these topics for him. With me
(also invited by name) werel of NSA and of DIA.
The three of us worked with Gayler's J-2 -- a bright, able Air Force
Brigadier (on the list for Major General) named Jean Tighe -- to produce
a talking paper, which we went over in detail with Gayler after it was
completed.
3. For your background, a copy of that informal paper is attached.
As you will see, it is basically an extended outline.
a. Throughout our session, which was always amicable
and (for me, at least) enerall informative, there was a basic
running argument with of NSA which surfaces in the
split noted on the paper's third page. iI kept insisting
that how NSA collected COMINT (e . n . , what platforms, how
many slights , circuits monitored, etc.) was no one else's
business, others could and should only concern themselves
with the adequacy of the finished product to their needs. The
rest of us disagreed.
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kept pressing on why our positions were different, so
I finally told him:
b . Okept peddling the line that I should support
his argument with regard to NSA's activities since my position
on CIA's collection activities was logically identical. I disagreed.
(1) NSA is a component of the Defense
Department, CIA is not.
(2) The DCI is the President's senior
intelligence officer, the head of NSA is not.
Ge ge A. Carver, Jr.
Special Assistant for Vietnamese Affairs
c. One thing I learned from our discussions is that very
few of the collection resources (e.g. , airplanes) operating in
PACOM are actually controlled by CINCPAC. Most of the major
collection platforms are flown, hence controlled, by SAC.
d. Annex A to the attached was written (in Washington)
by my associatel who cabled it out for my background
use. My colleagues on the study group liked his survey so much
that they incorporated it as an annex to our paper.
4. Despite the rather cryptic brevity of our format, most of the points
we were making to Gayler should be reasonably clear. If you want any of
them explained or elaborated in more detail, please let me know.
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