GENERAL: NPIC SPECIFIC : MEETING TO REVIEW PROGRESS ON IMPLEMENTING INSPECTOR GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS

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• Publication Date: January 14, 1966
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14 January 1966
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: General: NPIC
SPECIFIC: Meeting to Review Progress on Implementing
Inspector General Recommendations
1. The Inspector General andi attended a one-hour
meeting beginning at 1400, 14 January 1966, which was called for by the
Executive-Director for the purpose of reviewing progress thus far in
implementing the recommendations of the June 1965 Report of Survey of
NPIC. The participants were: Executive Director, R. Jack Smith John
Clarke, Paul Borel, Ray Cline,
-1 Hanke Knoche, Art Lundahl, and one individual
whom neither of us recognized. He appeared to be associated with
2. The Executive Director opened the meeting by remarking
that every few days the DCI asks him how we are progressing in imple-
menting the Inspector General recommendations on NPIC. He said it seemed
appropriate to him to call a meeting for reports of progress coincident
with Cline leaving and Smith's taking over as DD/I. He asked Cline for
a general report bringing the group up to date.
3. Cline referred to his memorandum of August 1965 outlining
a series of steps that were planned for coping with problems of budget-
ing, exploitation, priorities, etc. and commented that the DCI had ap-
proved the proposals in principle. He had set up a special staff to
monitor progress. He said he felt that in general reasonable progress
had been made on implementing the recommendations, however, actions
have been impeded by two major problems; First, the protracted budget
fight, and , second, a Bureau of the Budget request that a survey be
made of utilization of existing PI facilitie& worldwide. The Joint
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ing at a leisurely pace. Je oug 1 ropriate to take action
on certain of the major recommendations until the JWG Survey was com-
pleted. He specifically mentioned the recommended reorganization of
COMOR as being premature.
4. Cline then asked Borel for a more detailed report, and
Borel tossed the ball to Lundahl. Lundahl then ran through a series
of recommendations on which actions had been taken. He addressed himself
not to the Inspector General's recommendations but to the questions asked
by the Executive Director in his memorandum of 10 January 1966, which led
to the convening of this groups
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a. Recruitment: Art said he felt that NPIC was in
good shape in this area. They had encountered some diffi-
culty in getting a decision on whether advertisements
could carry the CIA seal. The Executive Director said he
had shown the ads to an individual with newspaper experience,
whose name I did not catch,for comment. The comment was that
the ads were poorly done from a professional standpoint. The
matter has been referred to the Director of Personnel.
b. Budget: Lundahl said that the DCI had made a strong
plea to BoB for an expanded budget. The approved R&D figure
for 1966 is low, and NPIC is going through the bureacratic
exercise of reprograming its R&D budget in the light of funds
made available. The Executive Director asked what the speci-
fic problem was. John Clarke made a comment which I unfortu-
nately could not hear. I explained that NPIC got
much less R&D money than it had requested for 1966. There was
much paperwork involved in reprograming the budget. There was
some inconclusive discussion sparked by a question from the
Executive Director as to whether R&D money was being diverted
to operating expenses.
c. Space: II said they had held discussions with DIA
on expanding space in DIA preferred to defer
discussions until the JWQ Survey was completed. Bross com-
mented that he was the stumbling block on this point~Al -DIA.
Lundahl clarified the point by commenting that the DIA in-
volvement concerned an NPIC request that the DIA surrender
part of its present space in Although my under-
standing of subsequent discussion is uncertain, I believe
Bross said that Bob Bannerman favored an addition to
Ikather than moving out the however, it
appears that Secretary McNamara has decreed that no DoD funds
will be spent for new construction not directly related to
Vietnam. The Executive Director then commented that it ap-
peased to him that no real progress had been made on space.
Cline agreed.
d. Systems Analysis: NPIC has a small group working on
systems analysis now. They are in the process of letting
contracts for a simulated or mathmatical model on analysis
and information handling.
e. Relations with Collectors: Lundahl said that NPIC
once had troubles with NRO in getting in early on develop-
ment of new systems. Upon receiving the Inspector General's
recommendation, NPIC drew up a draft agreement covering
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NPIC's relations with NRO. General Stewart, who I gather
is the new Director of NRO, said he saw no need for the
bureaucratic folderol of a formal. agreement since relations
now are excellent. I suggested that NPIC let things
stand as they are and not try to complicate matters. Lundahl
said that relations with NRO were vastly improved within re-
cent months. He cited as examples the fact that the first
NRO manual on =was printed for NRO by NPIC and that NPIC
was now sending technical terms yin R 6w to work with NRO con-
tractors. The Executive Director asked if NPIC was satis-
fied that collection and exploitation is now in phase. Lun-
dahl replied that this was an entirely different question.
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f. Reduction of Support and Overtime in NPIC:
spoke to this matter and had nothing meaningful to
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g. Organization: NPIC has some new proposals on or-
ganization involving the consolidation of the National and
Departmental PI shops into a single National effort. They
discussed the proposal with CIA and DIA. Both wanted to
defer consideration until completion of the JWG Survey. The
Inspector General asked if PID had met its commitment to PAG
for PIts. replied that the commitment is for the total
of Q to be vided equally between CIA and DIA. At the
moment the representation is exactly equal, from each shop.
Lundahl commented that he was now faced with the problem of
DIA pulling out experienced, qualified military PI's and
replacing them with inexperienced enlisted men. He said it
t he was about to take up with General Carroll.
remarked that right now would be an excellent
Lundahl then commented that he had a con-
tinuing problem with lack of control over the quality of
military personnel assigned to NPIC by DIA. From the way he
spoke, inferred as not pleased with the perform-
ance of as Assistant for PAG.
h. KOMEX or kOMIREX: Cline said hg, had (raised the
matter ofc OMEX with General Carroll. ine said to wait
for the JWG report. Carroll additionally commented that he
agreed that the function was badly needed but suggested that
a better way to accomplish it would be for CIA and DIA to
get together. He did not favor putting the responsibility
under direct USIB control.
i. The farming out of National PI requirements to other
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Paid that some of this was being done now.
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this involved mapmaking rather than pYoto nterpretation.
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commented that this subject wa,under review by the JWG.
Cline said that the most savings could be gotten from passing
to existing military PI facilities National requirements that
NPIC could not handle.
5. I I said that the JWG Survey report was now in
draft and would reach the DCI perhaps early next week. He- took exception
to Cline's earlier remark that the JWG was moving at a leisurely pace. He
said the due date set by BoB was 31 May and the JWG would beat that date
by a considerable margin.
6. The Executive Director then remarked that regardless of
what the JWG report says, it will not influence the problem to any
appreciable degree. In the meantime we appear to be doing nothing. He
asked if there were any preliminary conclusions that we might now reach.
He noted that the JWQ report may only confirm that the NPIC problem is
real. He said he was afraid that when the JWG is all finished it will
be able to say only that NPIC is in bad shape and that something needs to
be done. He said that merely talking about the problem will not cause it
to go away.
7. Cline then said that the JWG report may reveal such a wealth
of existing military facilities that it would make no sense to expand
NPIC. He said he felt though that we should go ahead and budget for ex-
pansion in the expectation that it will be needed.
8. Cline said he felt that real progress was being made in
implementing the recommendations on NPIC except in two areas: (a) space,
and (b) the validity of requirements for detailed photographic analysis.
9. I I made the observation that NPIC was a bit like
a free bar. When the trade exceeded the bar's capacity, the disparity
was eliminated by refusing to expand the bar and thus making additional
trade impossible. He said that refusing to expand NPIC's space was a poor
way of controling requirements. John Clarke comments that regardless of
the severity of the problem BoB would not approve funds for expansion
until the JWG Survey is completed. The Executive Director said that in
his conversations with BoB it was clear that BoB recognizes the importance
of NPIC but is not yet satisfied that the existence of its need has been
accurately determined. BoreAl commented that we should have internal
planning goals independent of JWG or BoB.
10. The Executive Director then asked what had been done on
Helm's suggestion to reall.ign systems within DDI to meet NPIC's PI needs.
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Bor4l replied th at he did not understand what Helms was getting at in
this suggestion. If it would involve inserting intelligence analysts
into the photo interpretation process, DDI would oppose the move. It
would intrude subjective, analytical viewpoints into an objective inter-
pretation process and was just dead wrong.
11. The Executive Director closed the meeting by remarking
that the DCI was thoroughly taken up with NPIC and its problems and wanted
to see progress toward solving them. The Executive Director said he would
like to see:
1. A concerted effort to sort out and get moving on
incomplet & actions that do not need to await the results
of the JWG Survey.
2. The beginning of planning to take action on the
results of the JWG Survey that we may now reasonably
anticipate; and,
3. Identification of those actions that must await the
issuance of the JWG Report.
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