ADDITIONAL HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE QUESTIONS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 14, 2012
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• Publication Date: March 29, 1979
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Dr. Robert R. Bowie
Director of the National Foreign Assessment Center
Director, Program and Budget ice
Resource Management Staff
SUBJECT: Additional House Appropriations Committee Questions
1. We have received the attached additional questions for the
record from the staff of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee.
These are in regard to the DCI'.s 27 March appearance before the
committee where he presented the NFIP overview of our fiscal year
1980 budget request.
2. Will you please arrange for the preparation of appropriate
answers for this question set to be returned to the Resource Management
Staff by 13 April. You will note that several of the questions will
require DoD observations. Therefore, will you please ensure that your
staff solicits a DoD input where required.
Attachment:
.Memo and Questions from
Chief, Surveys and Investi-
gations Staff, HAC
Memo is unclassified
when separated from
attachments.
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March 23, 1979
2?:EiiORANDUM FOR THE CHAIRMAN
RE: National Intelligence Estimates
I have been advised that-the Director of Central Intelligence
(DCI) is scheduled to appear before the Committee next week.
The Investigative Staff is currently conducting a study of
the procedures used by the U.S. Government to produce
:ational and defense intelligence estimates of the military
-orces which constitute or may constitute in the future
threats to the security of this country.
.e are in the process of preparing two reports for the
Cc:-z-:ittee which address this subject, however, they will not
be completed at the time the DCI testifies before the
Committee. Therefore, the following questions are being
submitted for the Committee's consideration.
Respectfully submitted,
C. R. Anderson
Chief of the Surveys and
Investigations Staff
House Appropriations Committee
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I?:EMORANDUM FOR THE CEAIRN
Re: -Nation=l Intelligence Estimates
The following is prepared for possible use during the
scheduled appearance before the Committee of the Director
scheduled
Central Intelligence (DCI).
COMMMENT :
Executive Order -o. 12036, dated January 24, 1978, makes
clear the -consumers' primary responsibility tc establish
cormunity's
and priorities for
collect or the intellicer-ce
q ., of ;:a ~ional- fore_gn intelligence.
re uectieon nts and pro_ LCtic:-
s
?
~ ITs) cevelcpea by the
The National Intelligence Topics (T: el Council
and a--cre: ea by the National Sa-cu-ity
policymakers, r. ^I is ~,airman,
policy Review Committee, of whicthe. sDCumer priorities.
are expression of these con the formal ekP-
In addition, the^UCI?nas issued
llicencerPriarities1D 1This
captioned "U.S, Foreign In`e .,
directive originates Within the intelligence comj ;unity and
is intended to reflect the relives importance of
information on foreign countries its policy form, and other
planning and operations of the NSC,
Federal- agencies. During the Investigative f
current inquiry concerning national intelligence
it was not possible to evaluate hWeretcharacnerizedrT~aslty s
response to NITS because the NITS,
of
representing privileged oolicymaker andsieas
f
were not available or perusal. Various re r
the intelligence 'co.-z:-.unity advised the enfectivatinegit ff
that both the NITS and DCID 1/2 were in
guidance as to the production and collection of national
foreign intelligence.
? QUESTIONS:
meaningful
a 1. If the Legislative Branch is to
responsiveness
evaluation of the iil k- genc- you advise as to the
to the needs of its users will be
NITS to p
of policymaYers as to their intelligence requirements
and priorities?
lC are factually (rather
2. Can you .EY..G/-'recuirel.;en's and
~icn
,.Lechr:iCal~y ) ---_--at _Y . ~s
than ccrrim ~nit1 -
riorities cn es P. sG
aria collection cf
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3. What procedures are there for insuring that in
the real world of intelligence operations there is adherence
to the intent of Executive Order No. 12036 which makes
it the consumers' primary responsibility to set priorities
for the intelligence corrnunity which are implemented through
the NITs process; or are intelligence requirements and
priorities established by the intelligence community based
on what it assumes are the policymakers'needs as was
the case in the preparation of Key Intelligence Questions
(KIQs), the predecessor to the NITs?
4. What are the procedures used for insuring priorities
as established in DCID 1/2 are consistent with those set
forth in the NITs?
5. Can you show how the NITTs and DCID 1/2 are effective
in prioritizing collection requirements, or are the preroga-
tives of the collection asset manager the principle. factor
affecting tasking priorities?
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