REVIEW AND RECOMMENDATIONS RE NPIC MATTERS

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CIA-RDP78B05167A000800040035-5
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December 23, 2016
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January 16, 2014
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November 21, 1963
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OVC r "nt 0 laa LI; tvoye CtrS Cip, has devoted a considerable crimelt of t effort toArzal n:...-ttoro, not only for the vechly r.oetir.::a but oleo u reviewing rzocodures, priorities etc. r-4.-t-a ti,:e to time the C.V, :rv...._:ber has etIOCtiored tils value of but on balm= the deci:J1.:,:a has alvays been-U.:It ve should vele= tide* op.p.satunity tof-,-aish c,-uiCzeice to the natimal effort. 2. Since I linve been serving ao the CIA imea: ra,-.tor I have =le a ox.cial effort to assess the valve of 1t AD= &ler.... Recently has been investi.,-:4. ?-.,ing in corm &tail tIle results of our levying reTairerer,,:;s on the national effort, not relying 5olc2y on status renorts but finding out from the orinatoro of re CILIAZOZZiat 3 whether verbal or other informl ?amvers have been received. Cu the lxasis of that has been tuncove--ed we cannot find any dcpcnZtable correlation haw= the ucirjrb end priority aset.s:a.cd to a mrrairezient and vhat harApons to the project to which it is assieth This is true not on2q of requirements thot have been on the bes:-.s Peer a long tine, but also thoce vhich have been azeitaed to 2.4.a. since the wet recent rearcenization. 3. PAG's chief contribution consists of 0.1',11:o Mr.lis, sad LC ?W3, and this type of work they do In11. Per other' reportinz there wens to be a desire on the pext of Pal inrzonnel to initiate their cm projects, es:Noisily the EPIC Briefs, many of which have been iceduced vhile szoiv significout pruction items wore hold up either in publication or by 114:0 itse.lf. (See attachment). f, 7' 7777 - V 7! 1.1 !I " 4.1 EYES ONLY Declassified in Part-Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/16: CIA-RDP78B05167A000800040035-5 50X1 I I pr ftlwr r J11 1_ __,, AI Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/16: CIA-RDP78B05167A000800040035-5 .. ? NOW f\PER EYES ORLY 4. A natural result of not getting important requirements anziored by PL .G ie for our =a:07sta to want to tm-n mere v.nd. more to PM, end that is what is haTmening. Probably the beet e=ple of What PLO c= do is the project on Sar E1ia(7,z, (c946-63), Which V= completed in les? then 3 months. (See attached). ' Beth the C:',11 and Ca requestors cc:Z.:rented that it would have. taken P.AG a *year to produce such a report. Unfortunately as more require- ments have poured into PID the =SI= of Pia in that division has not kept pace with the need, while in PAO, on the Other - 0 hand, =me of the PIs apparently have no had trzir Work in ' their ntx'Ar4 111?Ar to il:COli then busy. has recent4r T' to allow him to borrow i out the backlog of revirements in PID. Ho is also strougl,y . asked w - ? s from MG to wipe roasting the transfer to PAG of 25 adatieca Pis which have,tip't ? 1 f 44 been scheduled to leave PW by the end. of DeceMher. ?50X1 U. ouX1 )( 5. It is difficult to cenerslize because of the many facets of the problems we have with EPIC, but my tentative conclusions are: a. r..'n is doins an excellent job of initial / reportin.:, 1Jut in not as rosponsivo as I'M to consumer Co-mittee, etc. 1,Ne have. no to expect zas.,-,-a requircr......:::',..c.i. Afts::.- all the dio:rzsz:Lc-,,is, vctic-da by nny 1.72:3rovaz.:.mt in PAC ::. responsiva:13sso osr,;:cially nov uhsn tb.:.:re is a trend toward self-initiated project?. b. Altheugla MC has increa.s..? .-d its eupporting > assets for --v.phicr., reproduction, end publication those assets are not sufficient to handle ell the retorting that =rent photegrapb,y demseade. Simla...vying co>the fort of the finished reports could. relieve this situation to so mo eart.eent. Par ex=ple, instead. ot "intcomting pictures with text, in many cases the enalyst might be catisfied with text followed by several yams of photos es is now done in the Ot.X. Qc. Part of the tire in Azcat is spent in noting /XL; projects which are done routinely, such as CA17.3 and Leris. The tire snout reviewing weights and priorities of specific require:writs (mostly CIA originated) does not appear to be ve3.1 spent, since sane of our highest Priority revirements are not receiving priority . EATTni 177' r' ? -1-""'" EYES 11%4=1 50X1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/16: CIA-RDP78B05167A000800040035-5 ^ Iv II FUT Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/16: CIA-RDP78B05167A000800040035-5 WaRKV PIES ONIN treatment by rale, even thouda we sulzdt the bulk of the requirer=nts. At present CIA has 57 active projects in FM ao against 10 for DIA (3 of which o jolnt vith CIA), 2 for Air Ibree) &Id 9 for LTA (2 are joint vith CIA). d. P1D is eloing a very creatable job of anwe.s.rIng our zrquireraento but is limited in eaw.bility by a. chorteze of Pls. For cxemp3.e the Industrial Ironch now threatened with giving up possibly as mmly aS 6 of a tatal of 1l. P.T.s bad a total of 173 waived projects as of I november. 6. It iq recoarentled that CGS negatiete with Art Lundahl or alon,r, the following linos: pa. Present factual data showing law tx;orly PAG is meeting ClAs needs. b. Without 1.7tirr1nc 12:11 Langley urc;e that la, AD/ ,a or o-Lhera at (1) rip be rtren..;-thonca. ci its mission broccl to incluee reDortanz, on the basis of all CVOs crxzeifie (XI) PM be malaccd in size anti its mission be united to initial end rout irss report:tag based upon requirerents by CZ:02 (for OPICa end rar4.)? ezd ether US113 cormitte.es (for read-oat of cri,ecifie items from each mission, such as XCS1 sites for CLUC). Certain basic statlics miclrb be =der* taken on compleztes, such as 72 or SS which could be dono when otter 'work vas slack. (17/) Are:21 meet only once a =Ara, or on call, to review PAGs active and plannett projects. is I A, J. 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