FIRST MEETING OF INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION GUIDANCE WORKING GROUP 19 JANUARY 1962

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CIA-RDP79B01709A001400010008-9
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March 15, 2002
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January 25, 1962
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Nrst Meetin of Iat~'Ah ce COllecti Cuiida ce be first meeting of the Intelligence G44acticm Working 0 Qup, est4bl~ahec. 1 CRAG /3-b1. 2. L?ecer held Frids , 19 Jandarr 196?, Those a.,1tending s*ere: ie objectived cf t ke fir st meeting wrer4 outlin4 d is fs l A. Deter,x-dne 4,hat guidance is biting reeei ed.. how adequate f,r-o (I) CIA., (2) Oth :r ? B. What,, giic angce are CIA officef proviclin =. I Who fuses it I? What ? as~$d : are being obta iced? . Is there any duplication? (1) 'W i in CIA? 1(2) . A i hira USII ? w'hats x,. ore o collectors wish in the Nva l.i o W' a orr,-2.s of guidance do co**sumer f oold be w e arec absorb and use Approved For Felese 20021/05/07 :CIA-RDP79B1709A0( 14000 Approved For Release 2002/05/07 CIA-RDP79B017 01400010008-9 S E C R E T 3. After some discussion of terminology, including attempts to draw a line of dema-ka.ion between requirements and guidance, and a suggestion that the con side ration of this Working Group be limited to "guidance" as strictly defined, excluding "requirements", despite the fact that they be the Chc '!:s'rnaa?x 3.'?q_,Vtf3t?d, initially at least, the broadest pos sil a app:eoacix to the problem. He requested that those presen think 'n terms of ?'a t iu front scratch and considering ,.that guidance c.sllec ors ~ fight demand or should be given in order for them to produce optimum results for the consumers. It was felt that the semantical question of the difference between calling something a "3 equirement" and thereby accountable and terming it "guidance" and thereby more instiu ctional or inform ationa'_ will eventually have to be belabo-..N~d with the DIA and for the time being at least could be left alone within ClA. 4. In essence, those present considered the forms of guidance presently received from OCI, ORB. and OSI to be good and helpful. The "guide", "general", or "gap" type of requirements are us ful in' identify- ing areas of interest, relating them to priority national intelligence objectives and giving adequate background as to where and how to approach the broad collection problem. The OSI Scientific Intelligence Collection Aids (SICA's) are extremely useful to DD/F. S=-ACh specific collection aids as the LINCOLN l a-nual are most valuable., The large family of other miscellaneous manuals and hand books serve too' useful a purpose to be da opped,. 5. In discussing the latter iz was observed that we may not have wide or continuous use but when collectors (these could be contact specialists in 00 and would most likely be requirements officers in DD/P) need technical backg::?ound these manuals prove to be most useful,. The speculation was that if - did not esciat it wo ild be neces- sary to go to analysts for this type of advice. Obviously, Eor this to be broad, comp ?ehensive and objective is zould require fairly frequent visits to quite a number of analysts. It was felt, therefore, that the production of a single manual was not only useful and hander to collectors but in the long run would save analysts a considerable amo=snt of time and effort, At this point it should be noted that although wo tried to confine ourselves to the problems within CIA, it was not p+xssible to avoid noting that a great many of the manuals under discussion are produced by the services and also to note that they may have even greater usefulness among, for instance, such.collectors as milita:ry attaches. 6. The Chairman was inclined to feel that, although all those alnety-nine and forty--four one hundredths pe' cent Laudatory Approved For Release 2002/05/07 : CIA-RDP79BO1709AO01400010008-9 Approved For, Release 2002/05/07: CIA-RDP79BOl7 01400010008-9 of the guidance provided and felt little t? oubled about any p zssib1e duplication of effort, this feaiing of peaceful coexistence w:.thin Cll. might not. sand up so well when the picture is complicated by including DIA~ 00 mated, for instance, that it received 45 Lifferent t. .e f-- gam. This might argue that over the years i?. has ach eyed a high degree of skill in absorbing some and disregarding the rea:: rather than that all 45 are ,--sev .z r n axa .a a'r~l'c T Y) /`D ardxtNitte' that may of the guides are unsuitable for direct field use but stated that from: the Headquarters standpoint they are most useful in psesentin, to DD/l' a perspective of the type of collections needed. Thin: might ,, Al be true among requirements officers but not equally helpful to a g eat number of desk officers responsible for scientific case officers. Fin thy, the Chairman felt that true candor ,vould have led collectors tc admit that there are perhaps too many types of guidance which are m: ire in the nature of statements of interest and in which., in the last a?,alysis the interest is limited. Parenthetically: This whole question 3f guidance is inextricably interwoven with the question of the optimum urine of collection assets, many of which are actually only suited to collectioi on lower priority subjects. At some point a judgement will. have to '~ie made as to whether these assets will exist, Willy nilly and should tlrerefore be tasked or whether it is possible to do without them and co" 3equently without certain types of information. 7. The second meeting of the Working Group was acbeduled for Friday, 26 January, and will be devoted to a much more c.-:ndid critique of guidance being received by the collectors. DD /P and. 00 were asked to think in terms of starting from scratch, from the Priority National Intelligence Objectives and in the case of DD/P perhaps aLao the IPC List. With this as their only guidance DD/P would then cu:;isult its divisions and 00 its field offices as to precisely what it wculd like to have from the consumers in order to develop the -ieeded inloaimation. These two collectors were asked at this point to consider -i.1 guidance, not just that received from within CIA. It is expected that in some instances demands may be incompatible but in e -very instance it will be carefully considered if it favors the guidance of e~-?me age^-cy other than CIA. 8. The consensus of the Working Group is that quest.loas of duplication and confusing guidance will only become truly rnanifest when we start dealing with DIA. Therefore at this time, it is more essential to look critically at the entire scope of our guidance and ia:iten to what g T Approved For Release 2002 00T: CIRDP79B01709A001400010008-9 Approved ForjRelease 2002/05/07 : CIA-RDP79B0170 01400010008-9 III S E C R E T collectors have to say a boa',; that received outside than to a tempt a total solution: of an i .aa real problem : s as a preliminary. 'tae t,te;? might be a nnecessariiy :irate corns ?rniug while the former, . thnrou ;." comprehension of problemnas, provides an essentially sound. base >'or further el?Lpio ?a.t>on of the pax oblem ? within the USIB area. 25X1A Chairman " I