TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR THE NATIONAL/TACTICAL INTERFACE STUDY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01554R003400150002-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 25, 2005
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: September 29, 1977
• Content Type: MF

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Washington, D. C. 20505
29 September 1977
MEMORANDUM FOR: Admiral Daniel J. Murphy, USN (Ret.)
Director of Policy Review
Office of the Secretary of Defense
John N. McMahon
Acting Deputy to the DCI for the
Intelligence Community
SUBJECT: Terms of Reference for the National/Tactical
Interface Study
1. I've read the Terms of Reference for the National/Tactical.
Interface Study, and the attached paper on "The Nature of National/
Tactical Interface." I'd like to express my keen interest in this
study and offer to participate enough to be of assistance but not
interference with the progress of it.
2. To begin with, I'd appreciate knowing who is actually going
to be doing the work of the study.
3. I was concerned with paragraph 6c. of the Terms of Reference.
It seems to me you could read 6c.(1) to say the study should be devel-
oping tactical concepts of employing tactical intelligence systems.
It seems to me that is beyond the bounds of the study and properly a
matter for the Department of Defense. Similarly, paragraph 6c.(Z)
talks about determining requirements for tactical intelligence which
seems to be beyond the scope of this interface issue.
4. Basically, my concerns are that the study cover two points:
a. How we insure that the tactical spilloff from
national collection systems is made available to the
proper tactical commanders.
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b. How we conduct some review in the budget
process to insure that there is not undue duplication
between national and tactical systems.
5. With respect to the first point above, it seems to me that
the issue is quite simple. The NITC tasks all national systems, but
tactical commanders are free to provide advisory tasking or request
tasking which the NITC will have to adjudicate; on the other hand,
the tactical systems are tasked by tactical commanders, but the Director,
NITC, may provide request or advisory tasking which the tactical com-
manders adjudicate. I am still strongly of the opinion, despite all,
the advice I am receiving contrariwise, that it would be desirable for
the Director, NITC, to allocate a portion of the tasking of the over-
head systems to the major unified commanders on a daily basis. Even
though the unified commanders now make a strong input to this tasking,
I believe we should make them feel responsible for tasking to meet their
most urgent needs. Only if we in fact give them a "hand on the wheel"
will they begin to believe that the national systems are and will be
responsive to their tactical needs. In short, if Generals Haig/Huyser
have 25% of a satellite's time when in their geographical zone, they
will begin to feel the utility of having that vehicle and be prepared
for the day when the readout of it will go direct to them. The NITC
could program the other 75% working around the requirements of the
25% levied by CINCEUR, e.g., subtracting overlaps from national and
tactical requirements.
6. On the reverse question of national advisory tasking of
tactical systems, it seems to me this can be worked out between the
NITC and the CCF. The CCF should be keeping the NITC posted at all
times as to what tactical systems are being employed at a given time;
the NITC should be alert to see where that tasking could possibly pick
up national requirements and so advise the CCF.
7. On the budgetary issues, it seems to me the new decision
units that we are instituting in our budget process should be a big
help, at least if Defense is using the same units as the NFIP. I
believe that the IC Staff could take responsibility for checking within
decision units of the IRA and the NFIP as to where there is competition
and then proposing and promoting a review to see whether consolidation
is feasible.
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8. Additionally, I think we should make provision that the
Strategy/Planning Staff of the NITC should be required to take into
account the potential contribution of tactical systems when drawing
up overall collection strategies.
9. I've made a tick on your milestone charts for the points at
which I would like to receive copies of the progress reports. I
appreciate the real effort that's going into this key project.
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Intelligence
FROM: Director of Central Intelligence
Attached is an interesting letter I received from a professor
who is a Micronesian-Melanesian expert.
I'd be interested, on a no-rush basis, to know who is our Papua-
New Guinea expert and to get a short memo on what the situation is
out there.
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Washington , D. C.20505
29 SEP 1977
NOTE FOR: General Counsel
Tony:
When I reviewed your draft letter
of apology on the mail opening, I did
not have available the original draft
from Justice that was published in
the newspapers. My primary concerns
in this endeavor are:
(1) To write a letter that
is entirely different from
the one which was improperly
published in the press;
(2) To make my letter warmer
and less bureaucratic than
that one;
(3) To emphasize the histor-
ical nature of these operations
by citing the specific years
since this has been happening
in each case.
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On behalf of the United States Government and of the Central
Intelligence Agency within that Government, I wish to express my
apologies to you for the past invasion of your rights of privacy
through mail opening activities that took place
years ago. I can assure you that at the time these mail opening
activities took place there was a substantial basis for thinking
that they were being performed under legal authorities. Judge
Weinstein has, of course, ruled that such legal authorities did
not exist; whether there will be additional litigation on this
issue remains to be seen. As you would understand, it would be
imprudent of me to comment on the legalities of this situation
when it could well impact on a number of additional law suits
which are currently pending against the United States.
I do want to assure you, however, that CIA is not today
opening mail in U.S. postal channels and has not for some years.
There is not only no intent to do so again, but there are specific
regulations prohibiting this and measures to ensure full compliance
with those regulations.
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Again, let me express my regret at the intrusion into your
privacy and to assure you that the CIA, as well as all of the
intelligence activities of our country, are pointed toward defending
the rights and the freedoms of American citizens.
Yours sincerely,
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