PRM-11

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79M00095A000100040015-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 4, 2006
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: March 16, 1977
• Content Type: MF

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Intelligence Community Staff
ICS 77-2126
16 March 1977
THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20505
Director o Performance Evaluation
and Improvement
Attached is my effort to state an issue that is central
to PRM-11, Task 2. I would like to discuss it in a special
session of the DCI PRM-11 working group at 1400 on 18 March
1977 in Room 6E0708 CIA Headquarters Building. Good repre-
sentation from CIA addressees is hoped for. Others may
attend if they wish.
Attachment:
As stated
Unclassified when separated
from attachment.
RUCIDIF,
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1. PRM-11, Task 2, calls for a diagnosis of the DCI's
roles, responsibilities, and authorities. A key issue is,
therefore, the tension between his role as head of CIA and
his role as Community leader.
2. A related, important, but not-so-clearly perceived
issue is the tension between unique roles played by CIA as
an agency and its role as a Community element. Many outside
and some inside the Langley headquarters building see CIA
as "just another agency," competing with other NFIP elements
for DCI attention and blessing, unfairly in the eyes of some.
But the following contrasting statements are clearly true:
a. CIA is the DCI's real executive base (NIO
and Intelligence Community Staffs, both comparatively
small, are viewed as both "of CIA" and Community).
b. Historically, CIA is supposed to be "central,"
tying together the performance of other intelligence
elements.
c. Through the DCI, CIA is the only intelligence
element that reports to the President without going
through a policy official.
d. CIA is not an autonomous member of a Community;
many of its functions are intimately dependent on
other Community elements. CIA:
- gets vital intelligence inputs from
others;
- supplies vital information to others;
- spends much time in collegial processes
with others, e.g., requirements, NIEs;
- depends on others for cover and other
services;
- gets people from other agencies and
sends people to other agencies;
- coordinates clandestine operations
government--wide;
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- supplies services of common concern;
- runs one element of a major DOD program
office.
3. Can other agencies say the same thing about their
functions, -- and to the same degree?
4. Is not the multi-hatted role of the DCI reflected
in a multiplicity of CIA roles? Does this pose a problem
for the DCI and for CIA managers? Is the problem that these
multiple roles exist or that, while extant, they are not
sufficiently recognized?
5. How should this problem be defined and treated in
PRM-11?
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