FIRST MEETING OF INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION GUIDANCE WORKING GROUP 19 JANUARY 1962

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79B01709A001400010008-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 15, 2002
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: January 25, 1962
• Content Type: MIN

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 =.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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further el?Lpio ?a.t>on of the pax oblem ? within the USIB area.
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Chairman "
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