MEMORANDUM FOR GENERAL CUSHMAN FROM L. K. WHITE

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• Publication Date: April 30, 1971
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MEMORANDUM FOR: General Cushman
Attached are:
OMB's report, "A Review of the Intelligence
Community"; and
The Agency's comments on the Review, the
original of which the Director gave to Jim
Schlesinger on 20 April.
L. K. White
30 April 71
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COMMENTS ON "A REVIEW OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY'S
1. The Review raises, on behalf of the President, a valid basis for
examining the intelligence community, with the objectives of improving the
overall quality of intelligence products and reducing the community's size
and cost. While there may be differences of opinion as to the causes of,
and solutions to, the problems the Review describes, it is worth our most
serious consideration to see what we can do to bring about the desired
improvements.
2. The principal thrust of the Review' deals with resource control
and management, and it is here that the most significant improvements
can be made. The law, Presidential letters, and other directives have
been silent as to the role the Director of Central Intelligence was to play
in resource management. Lacking clear direction toward a stronger
position regarding resource requirements and allocation, the evaluation
of their effectiveness, the selection of new systems, and the phasing out
of the old, the Director has had little basis to balance his coordinating
authority over substance with a comparable authority over resources.
The Review quite properly recognizes that nearly eighty-five percent of
the total resources are funded and controlled by the Secretary of Defense.
The Department of Defense must therefore be very heavily involved in
any changes directed toward improvement in resource management and
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the 1`_:1sistant Secretary of Defense for .f darinistration. also respoasibie
for coordinating intelligence. In his posture statement of 9 March 1971,
the S cretary of Defense recommended the creation of a second Deputy
Secretary and two additional Assistant Secretaries of Defense to enhance
civ.i in supervisory management of the Department. An Assistant
Secretary devoting his full time to Department of Defense intelligence
activities and reporting, to one of the two Deputy Secretaries could ve
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to be a considerable improvement over the present arrangement. !s
is probably enough legislation to ask for at this time. In fact, the kind
of lclislation which would be required wilder-either Option I or II of the
Review could well lead to a wrangle in the Congress which might in the
enti emasculate the intelligence effort. There are other drawbacks to
O -,tions I and II, but these alone are enough to rule them out as reali s do
o11utions. And the Review itself seems to recognize that Option III hs
enough built-in problems to rsinimize its chances of being very effective.
It follows that some variant of these three Options which could be acco:.--a-
13i _3eel under existing Presidential authority and without legi latio t,
offers the greatest hope of accomplishing the President's objectives.
4. Given the wide deployment of resources, disparate interests,
and jurisdictional boundaries within the community, it is very doubtful
3. The Secretary of Defense has made a good beginning in r .al:
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that to Director of Central Intelligence can comn:an3 the entire com-
munity. He should, however, under an appropriate mandate be able to
coordinate it effectively.
s. If the President desires that the DCI coordinate the resources
of the intelligence community, this could be done through a Presidential
or National Security Council directive to the ICI, the Secretary of
Defense, and the Secretary of State. Such a directive would as a rrd:::.inaum
need to provide for IDCI coordination of programs, budget preparation,
and final review before submission to the President. It would also need
to provide for continuous program review and coordination of budget
administration. Results would de~cnd in.la.rge part on the cooperation of
the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State and, more importantly,
o:, tiLrong Presidential support.
6. The product will never be as good as we would like it to be. It
should, however, be as good as we can make it. The Review deal;, with
the possibility of separating production units of CIS. from the collectors
in order to ensure objectivity. This would be a great mistake. it is
ad" inistratively quite simple to ensure that the collector is not also t"d(?
evaluator of the information he collects. The fact that the production
components usually have collateral from other, and sometimes several,
sources also minimizes this risk. In any case,. to disembody the Central
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ou.,.'t command of, and intimate association with, those units upon -..dc h
lie mast depend to support production would take away viliat control. he
now has of the intelligence process. The resultant deter oration of the
process and the product is predictable. It simply isn't viable.
7. Some mechanism to bring the consumer closer to the pros ucer
is much to be desired, and the Review's juggcstion that this r- sight be
done through a high-level consumer council has much to eoan~r t.
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If the President should direct that the Director of Cenral
Intelligence assume responsibility for coordinating the resources: o.f t .c_!
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be necessary for the Director to delegate more of his day-to-day
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~* Lt responsibilities for the Central Intelligence Agency, which is per
fect3y feasible.
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I finally got around to asking the Director about
access to the Schlesinger study on the intelligence
community. I reminded him that he had already
given permission to the historians to read it but
said you had had a couple of other requests, e. g. ,
from an IC Staffer. He said he doesn't mind its
being seen by anyone who "has a good reason" to
see it and that Mr. Evans should make such judg-
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 Get a copy of the Schlesinger/Smith report to the White
House entitled "Review of the Intelligence Community"
Date - around March/April 1971
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Schlesinger's "A Review of the Intelligence
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I would appreciate having this document ret-
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