CUNNINGHAM REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70B00146R000100180012-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 10, 2006
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: January 5, 1968
• Content Type: MF

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5 January 1968
Report
1. In response to your memo of 4 January we had started action
to bring ourselves up to date early in December. I anticipate that I
will be able to provide you with a final report about the middle of this
month and certainly not later than the end of it.
2. Quite surprisingly, a good deal of progress has been made.
First off, we actually have a revised set of PNIOs now being considered
for an Agency position before being proposed to USIB. As you will
remember, several other actions depend upon this.
3. The Information Requirements Staff (IRS) and the Information
Requirements Advisory Group (IRAG) are doing what we hoped they would,
namely, developing sensible collection guidance. The shift in responsibi-
lities from the old COMOR to the SIGINT Committee seems to be working
out quite satisfactorily with the SIGINT Committee's Intelligence Guidance
Subcommittee making progress in the reduction of duplication between
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4. Inter-Directorate coordination and senior level coordination
on overhead requirements is working very well as is the IRAG effort to
validate and coordinate between production and collection elements
requirements on human resource collection. In this connection we are
now getting towards the end of a 90 day trial period on validatio
procedures applicable to human resources requirements (i. e. ,
collection). The test period ends 31 January. After this IRAG
establish permanent procedures and then turn to work on SIGINT
and Imagery systems.
5. We still have some soft spots which need resolution. One is
the question of whether action is required on the Comprehensive
National Intelligence Objectives (CNIO's). My present view Is. leave
them alone. Another is the practical utility of the IPC list. Still
another is the determination of whether s me additional methods for a
collection guidance program for is really necessary. Last,
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but not least, is facing up to the very strong feeling that even if we
suspended all requirements (possibly excepting imagery) the current
information flow would continue largely because the machinery to
effect collection has become so extensive that it isn't easily turned off.
6. As stated above, I hope to have a full, definitive and
(hopefully) final report for you by the end of this month.
Rufus Taylor
Vice Admiral, U. S. Navy
Deputy Director
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