UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73B00296R000300250040-7
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 5, 2001
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UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD
Chairman
Mr. Richard Helms
Director of Central Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Lieut. Gen. R. E. Cushman, Jr.
Deputy Director
Department of State
Mr. Ray S. Cline, Director
Bureau of Intelligence Research
*Defense Intelligence Agency
Lieut. Gen. Donald V. Bennett
Director
National Security Agency
Vice Adm. Noel Gayler
Director
Atomic Energy Commission
Mr. Howard Brown
Asst. Gen. Mgr.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Mr. William C. Sullivan
Deputy Director
*Since March 1964 the Intelligence Chiefs of the Army, Navy and Air
Force have not been formal members of USIB but they continue to
participate in meetings as observers, and retain the privilege of
recording any substantial dissent in national intelligence.
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The United States Intelligence Board was established under
directives of the National Security Council to advise and assist the
Director of Central Intelligence in establishing intelligence policy
and program guidance including objectives, requirements and
priorities; and reporting to the National Security Council on the
foreign intelligence effort. The Board meets two or three times
a month.
The Board also assists the DCI in making recommendations
on foreign intelligence matters to appropriate United States officials,
developing and reviewing security standards and practices relating
to intelligence, and formulating policies with respect to arrangements
with foreign governments on intelligence matters.
A principal USIB function is to support the DCI in producing
national intelligence required for the formulation of national security
policy, indicating concurrence or any substantial dissent therein.
This may take the form of strategic estimates (e. g. on the probable
course of Sino-Soviet relations), of basic encyclopedic descriptions
(terrain, religion, labor force, harbors, military organization,
etc.) or of current intelligence assessments.
There are fourteen standing committees of the USIB comprising
representatives of the agencies and departments participating in the
Board. These committees deal with specialized fields and report to
the Board in such matters as economic intelligence, scientific
intelligence, photo-analysis, security and the collection, processing
and dissemination of intelligence. Of special interest is the Watch
Committee which assesses current developments with a special eye
on possible indications of an early outbreak of hostilities. The.
Board of National Estimates is generally considered within the
USIB structure and is comprised of most senior analysts in all
major fields who prepare periodic and special national intelligence
reports.
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of rn :. - GUUice of Le islaciv~ .ns .
ihhursda - 3 June 1c, 71
(Confidential - J L~. r as: night, hn
key-, Bureau of Narccti_.- -o, _)all-erous Drugs, r, ,z.r; r.ad
=cus sed the Agency's role i3_ prc Clem of dangerous drags .cc rieg the
being obtained ay U. a. servicemen abroad. Mr. Stec . ap area
.:.ss~.red to lear_z of the su~sta._ gal work being cone by the zt .cy on this
.Jreolein,
(Confidential - JlvVi,i ._av_c Abshire, Assistant :sec ary of State
Co..gressional Relations, ca ._..u to say he understands t_zc .:.ate now plans
o iiuo executive session iv.u.._ y, ( June, to discuss the nstein
~ooort on Laos, and Absaire a~ rec whether we would want .. .-apace in
v_ fi, Y Senators Hugh Scott ~_nc tiooert Griffin whom State ha. -le to try
to ;seep the discussions in the e~_ecutive session on the traces, salt. we had
p1":111,led to brief Senator Stene::is and possibly Senator 3acks:an r_ ar`...ng our
r of the urobicni, and Abs it e ana I agreed that State wcala ) _ief Scott and
Griffin to handle policy cluestl.cas,
later discussed t'vLonuaV s executive session of the Seq... w...rl Aarry
Sc rnmos, Abshire's deln_ty, t 1 him that we planned to prof nator
Stennis with statistics on the nur _oer of Senate briefings we __a and the
number of senators who had been briefed, on the Agency role ~.~ _haos. 1
suggested that Synimes might want to dig out the figures on the timber of
briefings they had given the Foreign telations Committee T e win she U. S.
role in Laos and provide t_ier_z to Senators Scott and Gri..fin. ._ r.l rn';~ thought
this a good idea and said he wouia see what statistics were avg.. _._?bic-
o (Unclassified - Tlv MJ At the Director's instruction mace an
appointment for him to see Senator Stennis regarding the upcoo- =_--Lg :e nate
hebate on Laos for 10:30 a, mo ; Friday, 4 ,tune 1971.
7, (Unclassified - JlvLG) At the request of Marilyn -i-:_ the office
of Senator Carl T. Curtis, I arr_ aged a. personnel interview a poi:nsanent for
i wr~ia ivir. on Mond _.y, June at 10:00 a. :
CONE JE L
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