DCI STUDY MEMORANDUM #4; INTELLIGENCE POSTURE STATEMENT

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2009
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• Publication Date: March 9, 1977
• Content Type: MEMO

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9 MAR 1977
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
Deputy to the DCI for the Intelligence
Community
Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
Director, National Security Agency
Director, National Reconnaissance Office
Director of Intelligence and Research,
Department of State
Deputy to the Special Assistant for
National Security, Treasury Department
Assistant Director, Intelligence Division,
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Deputy Assistant Administrator for
National Security, ERDA
Director of Naval Intelligence
Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence,
Department of the Army
Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence,
Department of the Air Force
SUBJECT . DCI Study Memorandum #4; Intelligence
Posture Statement
1. I would like to explore the desirability and feasibility
of issuing an annual classified and unclassified intelligence
posture statement. The objective would be to provide a common
basis for the subsequent development of budgets-and departmental
posture statements. I recognize that intelligence is an ever
changing matter and that such a document might become badly
outdated before its successor is issued - this would have to
be taken into account. On the other hand, on neither a classified
nor an unclassified basis is such information brought together
even annually today.
2. Please conduct a study to determine whether the President's
and the Secretary of Defense's posture statements (and any others)
do not already contain much of*the information that would go into
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an intelligence posture statement; to assess whether'the infor-
mation that could be compiled and published in an unclassified
statement would add substantially to the purpose of public
debate on major national issues; to assess whether a series of
"white papers" on specific issues of national interest might be
a preferrable way of disseminating classified and unclassified
intelligence to the appropriate audiences; and to consider, if
possible, overlap for duplication with existing publications
such as the DIP.
3. The Deputy to the DCI for the Intelligence Community
is requested to chair a committee with the other addressees
participating in order to conduct this study. The report should
be submitted by 1 May 1977.
STANSFIELD TURNER
Admiral, U.S. Navy
Director of Central Intelligence
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