DEAR AL:

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78Z02997A000100240002-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: September 30, 1974
• Content Type: LETTER

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TI- _!RCTOR OF CENTRAL !NTELL!GENC L
WA54INGTO> , D. C. 20505
ILLEGIB
30 September 1974
Dr. Alb2rt C. Hall
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Intelligence)
Washington, D.C. 20301
Dear Al:
dir. P. J. Berenson was kind enough to give me a copy
of your Graft memorandum for the DCI entitled "The KIQ/KEP
Program for FY 75," which you did not send because it had
been partially overtaken by discussions at the USIB and
the NSCIC.
As you well recop;iize, the KIQ/KEP program is an
innovative experiment designed to achieve several objectives.
The proram's main purpose is to create an environment in
which actual substantive needs -- i. e. , the intelligence
information and support most needed or desired by the
President and his senior advisors -- drive the activities
of the entire Intelligence Community and the resource
allocations of its several components. Sir!ultaneously,
the proram represents' an attempt to develop the kind of
information which will enable line managers to ascertain
whether resources ire in fact being allocated to proararas
that satisfy major substantive requirements. One problem,
;rhich aI' of us recognize, is that any list of major sub-
stantive needs that is to he of manageable size has to be
phrased in rfairi% broad terms, i,,hereas the kind of informa-
tional desiderata that Can efficiently serve L~S parameters
for as sling resource allocations the basis for
audit t ils -- have to be nh rag ec in concrete detail and
with considerable precis ion. Thus, built into the KIQ/KEP
mrogra:.. a certain tons ion het,, ea polar opposites.
What e i',"e to do is fin he right hUIlanco b: -L-:,,een
renera _ and detait a balance that will doubtless require
t:;e or t:_ree years of tr it and error to strike.
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o concerns aoout user participation are understand-
:, I hone that in actuality they are not fully
i. De: pito perhaps misleading appearances the
i are not enuac ed in evaluating their on per L-ormance.
" 11 t~.. theV are en7a,ed -- on the DCI's behalf -- in an
--;r monitor the, Co'amunity's performance in meeting
intelligence needs of our major consumers within the
IJ_ respe; ;,i ve areas of functional or geographic respon-
si1ilit?. You are quite correct in stating that neither
t '-e NIus nor the USIB, nor the NSCIC adequately represent
the us_rS. It is for, this reason that the NIOs do indeed
_o h d==eotlv with the principal consumers of intelligence,
en-,a;ing in a continual dialogue with Cabinet-level members
of the their senior subordinates and staffs and even
DCI) the President himself. These policy-level
are _ level
cons L.ters senor L
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officials and busy men who cannot be
asked to engage themselves directly in the KEP process.
T: e'. are, ho.?.ever, consulted on a continuing basis to
ensure t e accuracy and validity of our perception of their
require tints.
!along this -1 process worlz is going to require a
great dea of cooperative endeavor by us all. We appreciate
} _ cc.__interest and hope we will be able to count
o the counsel an assistance of your office as we endeavor
to give meaning to the DCI's concept.
George A. Carver, Jr.
Deputy for National Intelligence Officers
dies all NIOs,and PP
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