ACTION ON THE CUNNINGHAM REPORT

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• Document Release Date: July 10, 2006
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• Publication Date: January 18, 1968
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SUBJECT: Action on the eport
1. In accordance with your request of last July, I have reviewed
the progress in implementing the recommendations of the IG Survey
on Foreign Intelligence Collection Requirements. Although a few
measures proposed in the Survey have not been acted on as quickly
or as completely as we might prefer, the record shows real progress
on most of the recommendations. During the past year the Agency
has developed substantial momentum and interest in improving our
requirements processes.
2. The Information Requirements Advisory Group (IRAG),
chaired by the A/DDI with membership comprised of the deputy chiefs
of intelligence production offices and a representative of the Chief,
FI Staff, has been functioning since 1 July 1967. IRAG has taken steps
to make the requirements processes of the DDI and DDS&T more tidy
and systematic. It has also developed new procedures, to be utilized
by the division chiefs of DDI and DDS&T production components,
for reviewing and validating new collection requirements and for
assessing the value of information reports. ("Validation" includes
both the determination that the information is not already available
and the judgment that it is sufficiently important to warrant collection. )
i sl reorted to you, these procedures are being tried out on
I fter which they will be extended or adapted to
Imagery an I T collection requirements. The test period will
conclude at the end of January.
Tasks still facing IRAG are to bring the heads of production
offices into the picture. The A/DDI plans to do this through regular
review of the total requirements generated by each office. IRAG
will also work to refine further the Current Intelligence Reporting
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List (GIRL) and to develop a better procedure with FI Staff on the
preparation of evaluations which go into FI Staff assessment studies.
The transfer of the SIGINT Working Group of the old COMOR
Committee to the SIGINT Committee and its revitalization under
as full-time chairman also appears to be paying off.
4. Our system of Imagery requirements is functioning well. A
major recommendation of the Survey has been carried out by establishing
a new procedure for exchanges of views between Directorates --
primarily DDI and DDS&T -- and for resolution of difficulties at the
A/DD level. COMIREX is also working to computerize its target lists,
a development which should facilitate the formulation of USIB guidance
to the NRO.
5. As I indicated above, the IG Survey and the work to implement
its recommendations have improved substantially our requirements
processes, inspired an awareness of requirements in the Agency, and
raised the status of requirements work. Concurrently, a consensus
has emerged that challenges a basic assumption in the IG Survey:
that a concerted, effective effort to improve the requirements processes
of CIA, or even the community as a whole, will bring the so-called
Information Explosion under control. After a year's work on
intelligence requirements, we have come to realize that they are not
the direct driving force behind the flow of information. Rather, the
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real push comes from the collectors themselves -- particularly the
operators of large, undiscriminating technical collection systems --
who use national intelligence requirements to justify what they wish
to undertake for other reasons, e. g. military readiness, redundancy,
technical continuity and the like. To bring the information explosion
under some semblance of control, it will be necessary to operate
directly on the dollars and manpower allocated for collection, as well
as indirectly via the requirements route. This involves sustained
and effective participation in the whole gamut of program decisions
in such arenas as the NRO ExCom, the Consolidated Cryptologic
Program Review, and the like. John Bross has undertaken to try to
work out a solution to that aspect, i. e. , a new program control
mechanism.
6. The action taken on each of the recommendations in the
Survey is described in Attachment 1. I believe that my work toward
implementing the Survey through the Senior Executives Group is now
essentially complete and that further action on remaining issues should
be taken through the Agency's regular command channels. Unless
you should indicate to the contrary, this will constitute my final report
on the Survey.
fus Tay r
Vice nira U. S. Navy
Deputy Director
Attachments:
1 - Recommendations in the IG Survey and
the Status of Actions Thereon
2 - Procedures for Validation of DDS&T and DDI
Human Source Requirements
3 - Criteria for Validation
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