PRM-11, TASK 2

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79M00095A000200030008-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 3, 2005
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: May 11, 1977
• Content Type: MF

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ICS-77-6273
11 May 1977
MEMORANDUM FOR:
Director, Office of Performance, Evaluation and
Improvement
or Folicy and anning
SUBJECT: PRM-11, Task 2
I offer the following recommended changes to your circulated draft
of the subject paper (which I have previously told you was very good in
my opinion).
Page 41, line 7: Insert the words "and production" between
"collection" and "managers."
Reason: The guidance provided in DCID 1/2 and the KIQ's is
intended to assist all activity managers in developing their pro-
grams, not just collectors. The KIQ's, for example, generate KIQ
strategy reports which pertain to all sorts of activities. Also,
while the focus of DCID 1/2 may be largely on collectors, it is
by no means exclusively for their use.
Page 44, lines 1-3: Revise the first sentence at the top of
the page to read, ". . . requirements and priorities mechanism for
guidance in implementing SIGINT operations."
Reason: The statement as it appears is not a correct reflec-
tion of NSCID 6. The DCI cannot possibly know what tactical
priorities are (i.e.; which local requirements are more important
than other local requirements from the point of view of the tactical
commander). Nor need he be concerned with these. The DCI should
establish the national priorities (through DCID 1/2) and rely upon
the various collegial processes of the systems-related collection
mechanisms to integrate national, departmental and tactical require-
ments into their tasking plans. This is done in the "political"
give-and-take of the collection committees, in systems managers'
operations centers and occasionally (in the case of HUMINT) by
field collection activities themselves.
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Pages 50-54: The section on "Requirements, Planning,
Programming and Budgeting Intelligence for the Future" makes
no reference to the Intelligence Community Planning System
established by D/DCI/IC memorandum of 25 August 1976 and
expected to be reaffirmed shortly in DCID 1/12. At an ap-
propriate place--perhaps at the bottom of page 51--I recommend
adding the following:
"Under the concept of the current Intelligence
Community Planning System the DCI issues broad
guidance of a substantive nature to support the
CFI (PRC) program resource guidance. The DCI's
guidance consists principally of projections of
worldwide trends and a forecast of the intelligence
environment for the program period. Also, a pro-
jection of anticipated changes to current require-
ments and priorities and an assessment of the impact
of projected circumstances on intelligence activities
are provided. This guidance is published in the form
of annual DCI Perspectives for Planning and Program-
ming."
Page 53, line 10: Recommend deletion of the word "collection."
Reason: Same as page 41, line 7.
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