INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY STAFF LONG-RANGE GOALS

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• Publication Date: July 23, 1976
• Content Type: MF

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DCI/IC 76-0148
2 3 JUL 1976
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
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Intelligence Community Staff Long-Range Goals
The other day you asked for ideas regarding long-range goals:
A good deal of the IC Staff effort has gone into posturing
the Staff to satisfy the present requirements imposed upon us by E.O. 11905. In preparing how we will address the present needs
establishes the wherewithal for downstream planning. One of the
first items we have before us is a planning document which will
permit us to structure how the National Intelligence Program will
be devised, funded, and evaluated over the yc-irs. That structure
encompasses the present-day Perspectives, KIQ's, and the old KEP
process which we are doing away with. The Perspectives, as you
know, address themselves to the next five years. I have also
generated, however, the seeds of contemplation for 15-20 years
hence. On that score, I want to get some expression of what the
world dynamics will bring upon us in the 1990-1995 time frame.
The recent study on climate is an example of how we must think. sr
But, on top of that, we must derive the intelligence needs of the
future based upon not only climate, but world population, food,
energy, and shifting alliances prompted by the prevailing social
and economic conditions.
We have before us the requirement to provide guidance for
the national tactical intelligence interface and, indeed, that
will remain a constant requirement as collection capabilities and
intelligence needs change. We have keyed our collection guidance
around five-year plans. We presently have a five-year national
SIGINT plan. We are attempting to generate an NRO five-year guid-
ance as well as one for our national human resources.
Aside from addressing our-present-day requirements which
have impact downstream, we must also begin to look at the compo-
sition of the National Foreign Intelligence Program and what
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organizational changes are desirable because of the evolving
resources versus needs.
Specific goals include:
--Devise better long-term planning documents
linked with resource implications.
--Improve assessments of NFIP programs, re-
source allocations and accomplishments.
--Develop an ability to make net judgments
and tradeoffs among the three main elements
of collection: SIGINT, imagery and human
sources.
--Develop a national intelligence strategy for
the 1980's.
--Foster structural and process initiatives to
further enhance Community capabilities to
identify developing international crisis
situations and respond to the needs for infor-
mation in periods of localize-1 or general
crisis.
--Foster the continued development of the DCI
Committee structure into a more effective
instrumentality for attainment of DCI objec-
tives, for improving the statement of require-
ments for information and for providing inputs
to intelligence products.
While we can certainly address the above goals in the immediate
future, experience dictates that the full evolution of accom-
plishment stretches over several years. , _{
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2 3 JUL 1976
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
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SUBJECT
Sir:
. Intelligence Community Staff Long-Range Goals
The other day you asked for ideas regarding long-range goals:
A good deal of the IC Staff effort has gone into posturing
the Staff to satisfy the present requirements imposed upon us by
E.O. 11905. In preparing how we will address the present needs
establishes the wherewithal for downstream planning. One of the
first items we have before us is a planning document which will
permit us to structure how the National Intelligence Program will
be devised, funded; and evaluated over the years. That structure
encompasses the present-day Perspectives, KIQ's, and the old KEP
process which we are doing away with. The Perspectives, as you
know, address themselves to the next five years. I have also
generated, however, the seeds of contemplation for 15-20 years
hence. On that score, I want to get some expression of what the
world dynamics will bring upon us in the 1990-1995 time frame.
The recent study on climate is an example of how we must think.
But, on top of that, we must derive the intelligence needs of the
future based upon not only climate, but world population, food,
energy, and shifting alliances prompted by the prevailing social
and economic conditions.
We have before us the requirement to provide guidance for
the national tactical intelligence interface and, indeed, that
will remain a constant requirement as collection capabilities and
intelligence needs change. We have keyed our collection guidance
around five-year plans. We presently have a five-year national
SIGINT plan. We are attempting to generate an NRO five-year guid-
ance as well as one for our national human resources.
Aside from addressing our present-day requirements which
have impact downstream, we must also begin to look at the compo-
sition of the National Foreign Intelligence Program and what
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organizational changes are desirable because of the evolving
resources versus needs.
Specific goals include:
--Devise better long-term planning documents
linked with resource implications.
--Improve assessments of NFIP programs, re-
source allocations and accomplishments.
--Develop an ability to make net judgments
and tradeoffs among the three main elements
of collection: SIGINT, imagery and human
sources.
--Develop a national intelligence strategy for
the 1980's.
--Foster structural and process initiatives to
further enhance Community capabilities to
identify developing international crisis
situations and respond to the needs for infor-
mation in periods of localized or general
crisis.
--Foster the continued development of the DCI
Committee structure into a more effective
instrumentality for attainment of DCI objec-
tives, for improving the statement of require-
ments for information and for providing inputs
to intelligence products.
While we can certainly address the above goals in the immediate
future, experience dictates that the full evolution of accom-
plishment stretches over several years.
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