COMMENTS ON PROPOSED (Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-00957A000100100076-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2005
• Sequence Number: 76
• Publication Date: April 19, 1976
• Content Type: MF

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19 April 1976
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
VIA
FROM
SUBJECT
Edward W. Proctor
Acting CIA Member, USID
1. This is in response.to the request for comments on the
proposecf- circulated at the USIB Meeting of 15 April, 1976.
2. - As Acting CIA Member of USIB, I have one serious problem
with the proposal: the designation of the Deputy to the DCI for the
Intelligence Community as the Vice Chairman of the new National
Foreign Intelligence Board.
3. A review of the function of the NFIB clearly shows that.
the Board is to deal almost exclusively with the substance of
intelligence. It is to coordinate national intelligence; improve
relations with consumers; establish substantive requirements,
priorities and objectives; provide operational guidance for collection
systems; deal with the protection of sources and methods; and
develop policies regarding liaison with foreign governments. None.
of these responsibilities is the primary concern of the Community
Deputy. Below the level of the DCI himself, all are the primary
concerns of the CIA and other production and collection elements.
4. If the Community Deputy is the Vice Chairman, there
are some very practical considerations. First, the proposed staffing
pattern for the Intelligence Community Staff does not provide for a
staff to provide substantive support to the Community Deputy on the
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functions enumerated If he is to draw his
support from his staff, then it would have to be expanded greatly
and would duplicate capabilities which already exist in other: parts
of the Community. If he is not to draw on his staff for this support,
th
e question remains as to how this will be done Sand where it will
5. Furthermore, there is the question of how wide a scope ^-P
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activity any Community Deputy will be able to 'handle. His -
i
respons
bilities are clearly concerned with tasks like the allocation
of resources, preparation of the budget and proposals for large and
costly new projects. Even if the procedures for these tasks were
fully developed and had been operating for several years, these
tasks would be very demanding. But as. things stand now, he has
to develop these procedures. and implement them. He -should not .
b
di
e
verted to other kinds of tasks.
6. V In terms of the congruence of the functions of the Board -.
and the primary responsibilities of his position, the logic of the
situation would be to designate the CIA Deputy as the Vice Chairman
of the NFIB. There would be no need for any special arrangements
or increased staffing, if the CIA Deputy is the Vice Chairman.
7. On this basis, the Acting CIA Member of ?1SlB, with the
full agreement of the four Deputy Directors of CIA, recommends
that the Deputy to the DCI for CIA be designated the Vice Chairman
Edward W. Proctor
Distribution:
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1 - DDA
1 - DDO
1 - DDS&T
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