RATIONALIZATION OF THE WATCH COMMITTEE AND THE NIC

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• Document Release Date: June 30, 2005
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• Publication Date: November 8, 1973
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8 November 1973
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
FROM Director of Current Intelligence
SUBJECT Rationalization of the Watch Committee
and the NIC
1. In our discussion last week I mentioned to you
an idea we had for meeting Kissinger's request to you
for some form of broader warning document. A draft pro-
posal is attached. This has not been fully staffed, but
I thought it would be useful to surface this early version
to show how our concept is developing.
2. Partly by serendipity and partly by conscious de-
sign this proposal contains the seeds for a possible solu-
tion to several other related problems: what to do about
an obsolete National Indications Center; where to locate
an institutionalized "devil's advocate" function; how to
produce a Community Weekly that will not be muscle-bound
by the need for coordination of masses of text. In addition,
your own developing interest in more short-term Community
assessments is tending to produce some overlap between the
present Watch Report and other items on the USIB agenr]d,.
The kind of Watch Report that is envisaged in this proposal
might well provide the Community structure for handling
such assessments systematically.
Richard Lehman
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