INTELLIGENCE STRUCTURE AND MISSION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79M00095A000100030032-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 30, 2007
• Sequence Number: 32
• Content Type: MEMO

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NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
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WASHINGTON. D.C. 20506
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Presidential Review Memorandum/NSC-11
The Vice President
The Secretary of State
The Secretary of Defense
ALSO: The Secretary of the Treasury
The Attorney General
Director, Office of Management and Budget
The Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
The Director of Central Intelligence
The Administrator, Energy Research and
Development Administration
SUBJECT: Intelligence Structure and Mission
and the organizational structure of the Intelligence Community.
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The review should be completed by Jut le 1977, and should include:
The President has directed that the NSC Special Coordination Committee
undertake a comprehensive .-eview of major foreign intelligence activities
1. Complete assessment of Executive Order 11905 in light of
experience gained this year, including:
(a) a description of the implementing actions that followed
promulgation of the Order and identification-of the procedural problems
that have developed since it went into effect;
(b) an evaluation of the performance and capacity of the former
Committee on Foreign Intelligence (CFI) and Operations Advisory Group
(OAG), as well as the role of the Office of the Director of Central Intelligence
and the Intelligence Community Staff as effective instruments:for interagency
control and direction;
NSC Review Completed.
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i (c) an assessment of the role and effectiveness of oversight
organizations and the impact of E. 0. 11905 restrictions, and associated
guidelines promulgated by the Attorney General, on foreign intelligence
activities.
2.. Existing definitions of mission, divisions of responsibility and
management relationships should /re-examined in terms of organizational
efficiency and utility. All elements of the National Foreign Intelligence
Program (NFIP) and Defense Intelligence activities coming under the
cognizance of the Director for Defense Intelligence should be examined as
well as the role of the National Foreign Intelligence Board and the DC;I
interagency committee structure. The adequacy of existing laws, executive
orders, NSCIDs and departmental directives should be considered, as well
as the necessity for statutory charters..
The following special problem areas should be addres d:
(a) Identification of the scope of existing liaison elations ips
relationships and their. potential for negative impact on diplomatic relations
through incidents here and abroad.
(b) Legal sanctions for the protection of sources and methods
and the issues raised by the Privacy Act and Freedom of Information Act.
(c) National counterintelligence policies and coordinating
mechanisms.
(d) Legislation that both protects the civil rights d U.S. persons
and provides for appropriate collection of foreign intelligence. and
counterintelligence through electronic and physical surveillance.
(e) Definition of a NFIP that provides a clear-cut distinction
between national programs and those that'are strictly departmental in
nature or intelligence-related.
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effective intelligence requirements
mechanism and evaluation process for measuring intelligence production
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(g) uction of ational curr t and estimati Aa intelligence.
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Zbigniew Brzezinski
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