(Sanitized) COMMENTS ON PRM-11 PAPER, 'ROLES OF THE DCI'

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 4, 2000
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• Publication Date: May 10, 1977
• Content Type: NOTES

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NOTE FOR: Admiral Daniel J. Murphy, USN
25X1A D/DCI/IC
FROM
25X1A
SUBJECT : Comments on PRM-ll
Paper, "Roles of the DCI"
Here, at least, is one very favorable response
to the subject paper -- although its source will
not earnany credibility with DOD.
I forward it to call your attention to the
reference on the bottom of Page 1 (top of Page 2)
to NIE 11-3/8-76 and the recent Stevenson Sub-
committee critique of the "B" Team business.
Why is it we do not hear about such episodes
as Brown's careful reading and high regard for
this NIE? 25X1A
Attachment:
ADD/DCI/NI Comments on
PRM-11 Overview Paper
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ifit is- equally lucid to him.
r~rt~nn: ? ~.,.t [l1a[ln- i : i-nt-& a iucici:' and ;,?`/:the.:,!S dndardS ,Of?lts kind+
.test the-- rial,cr on someone quite .unfawi 1 i ar'"w1 trt. Leese pr va, crny w; ~~ t-
~rri~ t acconr7t'. I _.say:zn~s as one ?111p. rws-.rcou u1 F
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t! i-~ nd ` our draft fi rsi -rate '-You'- have.: cozi;rt essed' doctrine,
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f'.,nc 11. _Here under a I woald note that DIA;
dcp;ra-tur?ntilcon:urners at sorn_cost to their national.:
only organization that. is in a posi tionlto pu national
-3 j
however difficult this task turns out to De in.
practice.
unnnetinne t.lltirh follow are intended .to Strengthcn..cer-
Pacte 14, L. If you discuss, the desirability
of decentr~xl t a i orr in process i nc, should. youu .not give
even greater weight to the desirability of competition
in production (?lherc appropriate)?
It wives me crrief to see` tile conventi
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yet again without any.b~rlancin i~,;ar,;,ent, AS you itno:~,
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 I be:l ieve c~:rch of this criticism comes from peop'ie
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4lilm A 2(~d!}4J-6to our
~ ~t lit 00 1 0 the COilsl;ir:?r, "('leet-sc tell us
NOW poorly we are serving you." For instance, we are
raced toddy with a Si tiiat-ion in which the otjservations
of one half-baked young staffer orr NIE 11-3/8-7G
become grave-n in stone as an emission of the Senate
Select Conrrnittee, while the fact that Harold Brown
spends two nights reading the same estimate, passes
nut copies at the tISC, and urges each member to re.td
the full paper does totally unhenrinri hi 411ner....,ti~ -I-
L y,,u i,t,yc:s h-n i i reinain.intact in the .final draft.
Pages 36-37, 1 hope that the paragraph bridgin
g
Page G2. It mi ciht be mirth nn ti nn that rho,-~ arte
wtrn>rcrvd7ilug argument.
1 r :,u. pressures to divorce the Rational Intelligence.:
ei:1rr- F..,. . f,Tn L_.... ..' r_.
years ago ti,e improver;.eft in interdirectorate-:re
Y of rec,.,
hilt it wo-5 7 tie wall to note that as compared with ::sa
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Inc 64 , top. Evervthi nn ynu sa i s.
y "no er of staff. This is.the root cause
of Pitt".C 1'..4-4-44... -_- _ if
inIsks the key role of the Agency in many other activitie
To those in CJA, this sonretinres seers, to be an effort
to pretend that CIA did .not exist, while expecting it
to do even snore work and.then to Justify its activities
to e t eh
l igerrc.e sta .. tend : to conceal from the user the
vital importance of CTA to the national production
Page GG. The existence of the National T,-f l
Page 70. Over-control of r-r? intel1;
e
1.Q iaj
hiA Er~
cr,ist,`but-1-have never encounterred' it once there ,~?iay
Pa }c a 94. The tendency de-cr i bed is l ' d d
1
+s rnp lcht, but should be emphasized.
B
nce ,ham
espicl TTy nagiirc~ to analysis itself. This thought
Page 100. You are to(, to the SIGIhTCo
r
ml tree.- W tai clue rccognl ti orr to ti-j2 Si syphean nature
of its task, it nevertheless is seen by producing
alrncies as NSA's device for protecting itself from.
cIfcctive Corr-:mrnity quidance.
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