NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE OFFICE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86B00269R001300030016-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2003
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: January 1, 1973
• Content Type: OUTLINE

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NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE OFFICE
1. The National Intelligence Office is established as an independent
office reporting to the Director of Central Intelligence. It will replace
the Office and Board of National Estimates, SAVA, and possibly other
selected units.
2. The National Intelligence Office will be made up as follows:
a. There will be some 14 or 15 National Intelligence Officers
(NIOs). At least some of these individuals will be on non-permanent
assignment; their tours of duty will be staggered, as the Director
shall determine, so that each year there will be some turnover.
Most of the NIOs will specialize in particular geographical areas
or functional subjects of major importance. A few will be
generalists, focusing their efforts on projects which cut across
various geographic /functional spheres; on special projects laid
on by the Director or outside requests accepted by him; on assisting
other NIOs in carrying through the time-consuming tasks of
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production and coordination; and on supervising certain office-
wide activities (e.g., consultants' meetings, liaison with foreign
intelligence services). The NIOs will be the Director's personal
representatives and will report directly to him on their specialized
subjects and on all assigned projects. In dealings with USIB member
agencies, they will work through normal command channels. They
will be responsible for assuring the production of the coordinated
products of the Intelligence Community -- NIEs, NIAMs, NSSM
responses, DCI briefings (NSC, WASAG, Congress), etc. In the
production of coordinated National Intelligence, the NIOs shall use
the National Intelligence Office's own substantive/support staff,
task the appropriate agencies and elements of the Community for
inputs, arrange for panels of experts as may be required, and
oversee the process of coordination. The NIOs will assist the
Director in identifying customer needs for National Intelligence,
uncertainties requiring additional intelligence collection or
analysis, and national policy problems on which National Intelligence
might offer assistance. They will maintain close contact with the
NSC Staff and other principal intelligence consumers and will, as
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appropriate, serve as the Director's representatives at NSSM and
ad hoc policy support meetings. The NIOs will be charged with
presenting for the Director's review, products that are fully objective
and take account of alternative views and interpretations that may
obtain in different parts of the Community.
b. Each NIO will be provided with necessary secretarial
assistance, but only those concerned with the most active portfolios
will have staff assistants of their own.
c. The substantive/support staff, serving the office as a whole,
will assist the NIOs in developing substantive .judgment.-,
in levying
requirernents, and in drafting, editing, coordination, and producing
National Intelligence. This staff, in addition to a substantive
complement, will include elements providing central editorial
standards and reproduction -and -printing arrangements. To the
degree feasible, members of the new staff will be drawn from the
present staff of the Office of National Estimates so as to ensure
that existing expertise and drafting/estimating skills are not lost.
Those members of the new staff who are in the professional grade
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levels will. be regionally or functionally specialized; each will
work primarily under the direction of the NIO in that particular
specialty, but will also be available to aid on other projects
(e. g. , those which cut across a number of geographic/functional
spheres). In addition to career ONI staff professionals, the office
may utilize professionals seconded on a rotating basis from other
components of CIA and other parts of the Intelligence Community.
d. One National Intelligence Officer will be named Director of
the National Intelligence Office to exercise administrative authority
within the National Intelligence Office and provide direction to the
substantive/support staff. He will also chair meetings of National
Intelligence Officers for discussion of production planning, work
schedules, quality control, and consumer feedback. He will promote
cooperative working patterns among the NIOs, encouraging joint
projects, constructive criticism of the drafts of others, and cross-
fertilization of ideas. A second NIO will be named to act as
Director, NlO, in the D/NIO's absence.
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3. National Intelligence Officers (tentative):
USSR and Satellites
Europe and NATO
China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan
Southeast Asia
Middle East and South Asia
Latin America and Black Africa
International Trade and Finance
World Energy (especially oil)
Strategic Weapons and SALT
General Purpose Forces and MBFR
Four or five Generalists, one of whom will serve as D/NJO
(The Generalists will perform the kinds of services indicated in
paragraph 2. a. They will, among other things, organize the production
of National Intelligence on such topics as East-West and Sino-Soviet
relations, subversion and terrorism, radicalism and nationalism, and
drug traffic and international crime. )
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4. Certain of the tentative positions indicated in paragraph 3 will
be identified as open to nomination of candidates by the USIB Members,
either from their own agencies or from elsewhere. The remainder will
be filled, at least in the first instance, by CIA people. The selections
will be made by the Director of Central Intelligence according to his
concept of the attributes required and according to individual qualifications.
Any individuals selected from outside CIA will serve on reimbursable
detail.
5. A Memorandum for USIB will be prepared at a later date, describing
the new Office of National Intelligence, explaining its purposes and functions,
and calling upon the heads of the various agencies to make nominations to
the identified NIO positions.
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