CONCEPT OF DDI ORGANIZATION AND MISSION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00211R000800140001-6
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 14, 2005
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 20, 1963
• Content Type: REGULATION

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DD/I NOTICE
CONCEPT OF DDI ORGANIZATION AND MISSION
The primary duty of the Directorate of Intelligence, delegated to the DDI
by the DCI, is, as stated in the National Security Act of 1947, "to correlate
and evaluate intelligence relating to the national security, and provide for the
appropriate dissemination of such intelligence within the Government . . . "
In discharging his responsibilities connected with this task, the DDI must
carry out three essential functions:
(1) Organization: Efficient organization of all intelligence
resources placed at his disposal to carry out his mission;
(2) Production: Direction of these organized activities to
produce the most accurate reports and authoritative
evaluations possible;
(3)
Polic Support: Guidance of the productive capabilities
of the organization to insure that the intelligence output
meets in appropriate and timely fashion the most critical
needs of policy makers and of operations in support of
policy related to the national security,
The intelligence production effort is the heart of DDI activity, Collection
and collation of data, research and analysis all have as their main aim the
production of finished intelligence reports and evaluations in support of the DCI
and National Security Council officials. As the Agency's and DCI's principal
substantive intelligence adviser, the DDI cannot delegate to others the
responsibility for the intellectual process by which he uses information at his
disposal to arrive at his best judgment regarding foreign developments affect-
ir,.g the national security..
Short of this, however, much can be delegated, indeed, must be and is,
and the total impact of Directorate of intelligence output depends on the skill-
ful performance and careful coordination of many vital intelligence production
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tasks. The delegated portion of the production process is carried out by the
various offices supporting the DDI. Thus ONE makes those evaluations ',which
reflect the considered judgment of the entire Intelligence Community particularly
long-term forward projections; OBI correlates the output of members of the
Community to produce basic intelligence; OCI, ORR and OSI meet the diverse
needs of the Agency for intelligence evaluation and reporting not falling into
either of the above categories. The direction and coordination of this total
productive effort is the primary function of the DDI himself and the staffs
which support him in the O/DDI.
The organizational effort, that is the deployment of resources, is a function
touching each DDI component. Its central characteristic is that it is procedural
(how things are done) rather than substantive (what view is expressed). The'
need for relating procedural matters and introducing some uniformity in them
points to the desirability of assigning this problem area to one key official; the
separability of substance and procedure makes this possible. This area is
therefore established as the primary concern of an Assistant Deputy Director
for Management (A/DDI/M), with the following responsibility:
Assistant Deputy Director (Management)
The A/DDI/M is responsible for the organization of DDI
resources and their general management for accomplishing
the DDI mission.
Functions
(1) Develop anc' evaluate DDI plans and programs
(2) Chair 1-14N Career Service Board
(3)
Represent DDI on CIA Financial Policy and
Budget Committee
Policy support, in its highest and most useful sense, combines the identi-
fication of need for intelligence at the National Security Council level of the
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Government with its subsequent timely satisfaction by the dissemination of intelli-
gence. The importance of relating the productive capabilities of the DDI organiza-
tion to the needs of top policy makers is self evident. This function, while
substantive in nature, and intimately related to production planning, is separate
from the function of intelligence production itself (and of course independent of
the pursuit of organizational problems). It is therefore established as the
primary concern of a separate officer, an Assistant Deputy Director for
Policy Support (A/DDT/PS), with the following responsibility:
Assistant Deputy Director (Policy Support)
The A/DDI/PS is responsible for insuring that the productive
effort of the DDI is geared effectively to the needs of the policy
maker.
Functions
(1) Represent DDI at White House Staff and at other policy
group levels.
(2) Identify and levy on the production offices requests
for intelligence needed in support of policy and
operations.
(3) Supervise activities of Executive Staff and Senior
Intelligence Support Officer Team.
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Attachments:
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Deputy Dir or (Intelligence)
TAB A Staff Organization and Procedure
TAB B Organization Chart
TAB C Personnel Assignments
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