SELECTED ISSUES FOR DISCUSSION 14 MARCH 1977

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 21, 2005
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• Publication Date: March 14, 1977
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Selected Issues for Discussion
14 March 1977
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General course of PRM 11 and John McMahon's opening
remarks
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Tentative Report Outline
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The IC Requirements Process as it affects
operations: How good or bad is it?
tasking and
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The IC Requirements Process as it affects Planning,
Programming, R&D, and Budgeting: How good or bad is
it?
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Is there a meaningful distinction between national,
departmental, and tactical intelligence?
Or are we
really only talking about who owns what assets?
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How should one describe the relationship of foreign
service reporting to intelligence?
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Meeting on PRM 11, Task 2
14 March 1977
Opening Remarks by John McMahon
? This is a "pre-working group" meeting. This group has
no formal standing until the DCI has met with the SCC
subcommittee on 17 March. We called it because time is
short and we had to get the process moving.
? PRM 11 has three parts. First two lead into the third.
A.G. has legal aspects. DCI is charged to review and
assess his own role and responsibilities. These two
reports will be the basis for part 3 where the full SCC
will frame options and make recommendations to the
President.
? We've got one month till 15 April to do the report on
Task 2. Almost anyone here could do a fair report in a
week on the DCI's comunity role and its problems. But
this report must reflect the views and experiences of
more than any one actor. Therefore, we need a flexible
way to smoke out community views and to bring them
together.
? We see this operation on three levels.
The SCC subcommittee is the formal mechanism. It
contains the DCI and representatives of the SECDEF,
Secretary of State, and the National Security
Advisor. They will guide the effort and review
the report before handing it over to the SCC.
Then we shall have a flexible working group at the
level of this meeting. Its composition will vary
depending on the issue. Its real job will be to
argue out the main issues of the report and see
that all views are aired. We don't expect to task
this group to write parts of the report. We do
want people at this level to review the report.
The actual writin will be done by a team on
taff made up o.f
and perhaps one other. We
believe keeping the drafting group small and tight
will permit earlier drafts for wider comment.
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? We see the community role of the DCI as the main (not
only) issue of PRM 11 as a whole. We know that President
Carter and the NSC see it this way too.
? This PRM is about missions and structure. Therefore it
is about bureaucratic turf. We could spill a lot of
blook on this PRM. But we should keep these points in
mind:
From what we've seen of President Carter, those he
sees as part of the problem he is unlikely to make
part of the solution.
Task 2 is supposed to define and analyze problems,
not lay out solutions. That we ought to be able
to do without a lot of conflict.
The DCI'ss people are not out to grab more power
for the DCI as their objective. CIA, for example,
tends to see the DCI's community role as over-
shadowing his attention to CIA.
People on the IC Staff may have various riews on
how this ought to come out. The only thing we are
committed to from the start is this: The DCI's
obligations and his powers should balance out. If
the President and the Congress look to him to do
something, he should have the power to do it.
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