A REACTION TO: DRAFT PAPER, 'THE ROLE OF THE DCI 'PRM-11, TASK 2)

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79M00095A000200030012-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 3, 2005
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• Publication Date: May 9, 1977
• Content Type: PAPER

9 May 1977
A Reaction to: Draft Paper, "The Role of
the DCI... "(PRM-11, Task 2)
An organizational analysis of the roles of the DCI which contains a
total of six passing references in 116 pages to the National Foreign
Intelligence Board can be read as betraying a basic ignorance of the
nature of the intelligence community which the DCI is intended to lead
and a lack of understanding of the role of the community in assisting
the DCI in the performance of his primary responsibility, the production
of national intelligence.
A non-organizational analysis, which would properly regard no
institution as enduring, should concentrate on the DCI's major responsi-
bilities and the authorities he needs to carry out his responsibilities.
If he is to be the President's principal foreign intelligence advisor,
he is, above all, responsible for the production of national intelligence.
He must have the authority to direct the intelligence community's
activities in the production of national intelligence with corollary
authority to set collection requirements in priority order and to allocate
resources as required.
The DCI controls the production of national intelligence with
the advice of the intelligence community; the structure of the advisory
body is a proper subject for an organizationalanalysis.
The DCI controls the allocation of resources aimed at supporting
the production of national intelligence through an existing structure,
which is also subject to organizational analysis.
What needs most careful consideration is the strengthening of the
DCI's role by giving him the authority to ensure that what is put in by
way of resources is determined by the need to put out national intelligence.
In an organizational analysis, whatever the final result, a re-
affirmation of the need for PRC (Intelligence) requires that attention
also be paid to the NFIB. Otherwise, an existing flaw will be preserved.
Resource allocation cannot remain independent of the DCI's responsibility
for su s antive nationa rote Bence. The strongest structure would
link.. he..two. T e cou then e elate his authority, but never his
responsibility.
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