FOREIGN POLICY: DISQUIET OVER INTELLIGENCE SETUP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01601R000300350132-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 14, 2000
• Sequence Number: 132
• Publication Date: January 22, 1971
• Content Type: NSPR

Nixon Admninistration's?style in foreign policy:
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WASHINGTON," Jan. 21 ?-`per cent of the total, or about Career officials in the it
President Nixon has become $4-billion, about $2.5-billion of ligence community' resist t
dissatisfi2d with'the size' cost it on the strategic intelligence ino ', !tit reporters, but -1'r
and Lila rest On tactical. It con- views Over several rnoi
and loose codreiination of the tributes at least 150,000 incm- with Federal officials
Government's worldwide in--bars of the intelligence staffs, deal daily . with intelligc
telligence operatiol?s% which are estimated at 2.00,000' mattel's,t with men ?ret
g
J11s uU u.:ilt:vro L??b L?~ is the United States Intelli-
intelligence provided to help pence board, set up by secret
hint formulate foreign policy, order by President Dwight D.
while occasionally excellentEisenhower in 1956 to coord.i-
is not good enough, day after hate intelligence exchanges,
day, to justify its share of decide collection priorities, as-
the budget. ` . sign collection tasks and help
prepare what are known as na-
Mr. -Nixon, j,' is said, has"1)e- tional intelligence estimates.
i lia to decide fn; hire, elf i.vhat~ The ..hair,?on of the hoard
to:??riembers of people. IOlfl In C 1~CIICe adn
Accordin
with Borne an active duty
Cuba, September.'
Suspicions, based on the. ari
of a mother ship, plus twc
conspicuous barges of a i
used only for storing a i
lear submarine's radioac
effluent, alerted the Wl
House. That led to anti
behind-the-scenes. negotia
and the President's re
warning to Mosbow not
dicate that President N'.
and his chief advisers ap
elate the need for high-gi
intelligence and "consume
.eagerly. .
The community, for instz
has been providing the P:
dent with exact statistics
numbers, deployment
characteristics of Soviet
th
i
s
Iec wig re the 'il;i:s:.?t~'+,~
e --J----_ or rpower for the talks with
l be and nd where the money slhoulcI sentative, is the Director of ussians on the llinitatioi
be spent instead of leavinn It Central Intelligence, at preset t a ussia is arms.
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Fargely to the intelligence coot Richard Helms. The n other menl "We couldn't get off
hers are Lieut. Gen. Donald V. rotinci at the talks wit;
ntunity. 'lie has instructed .liiS1);ennett; head of the Defense
(staff to survey the situation;Ilhtclli.gence Agency; Ray S. this extremely sophisticate(
and report back within a year,! Cline, director of intelligence formation base," ? an' off
it is 'hoped-with reconurell-:and research at the State De- commented. "We don't give
Itartment; Vice " Adn1.T Noel our negotiators roulid figures
dations for budget cut3 of as Gaylen, head of the National
much as several hundred mil-I Security Agency;- Howard C. `about 300 of this weapon.
lion dollars. I ]3rown Jr., an assistant general. We got it clown to the "'254
Not many years ago the manager at the Atomic Energy here, here and "here.' When
Commission and William C. our people sit clovni to nego-
C:entra.l Tntelligeitce Agency time with the Russian's they
Sullivan, a deputy director of.
and llie ' other f.ite111aence the Federal Bureau of Investi- know all about the Russian
bureaus were portrayed as an gation. strategic threat to the U.S.-
t" invisible empire" controlling Intelligence men are aware that's the way to negotiate."
foreign policy behind a veilIof the President's disquiet, Too much intelligence has
hut they say that until now Its drawbacks, some sources
of secrecy. Now the pendtz- ?--half-way through his term say, fur it whets the Admin-
luln hasswu.rlL,. ?--he has never seriously! istratirill' s appetite. Speaking
4.-
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. The President and his aides
are said to suspect wide-
spread overlapping, du.plica-
tfon and considerable "boon-
do-ling" in the secrecy-
Shrouded intelligence "com-
?
munity.
In addition -to' VIC,
..c
sought to comprehend the "of Henry A: Klsslnr,er,
vast " sawling' conglomera President's adviser on nsticn-
tion, ofd agencies, Nor, they al-security affairs, a Cabinet
say, has he decided how best official observed: "Henry's ftn-
to use their technical re- patient for facts."
sources and personnel-much Estimates in New Form
of it talented----in formulating In the last year Mr. Nixon
policy. and Mr. Kissinger have or-
Two Cases Ill. Poliit" dered a revision in the national
they include the intelligence Administration use ---- albeit,
arms of the Defense, Stater tardy use -of vast resources in
and Justice Departments and spy satellites and reconnais-
I t h I H- the
o
sign. Together they spend $3.5-
billion a year on strategic intel-
ligcnc e about the Soviet Union,
Communist China and other
countries that might harm the
August is considered a case in.
point. Another was poor intclli-
gence coordination before the
aboiitive Sontay prisoner-cf-
war raid of No. 21-at which
time the C.I.A. was virtuall
When tactical intcllig~nceI shut out'of Pentagon planning.
in Vietnam and Germany ands By contrast, the specialists
reconnaissance by overseas point out, timely intelligence
commands is included, the an- helps in decision-making.
nual figure exceeds $5-billion, It was A?Ir. Clinewho st ot--
U-2 T111 1 1)
artms say. Alpxreo ?ofril? 1~
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artment spen
p e n nSmarine buildup 4t' Cienfuegos,
p p
the Atomic Energy Commis- sauce p a'
Arab--Israeli cease-fire of last
intelligence estimates, 'which
are prepared by the C.I.A. after
I consultation with the other in-
telligence agencies. 'Some on
,future Soviet stratcgy have
been ordered radically revised
by Mr. Kissinger.
"Our know[edge of present
Soviet capabilities . allows
Ienry and' others to criticize
us for sodd"ie sponginess about
predictin future Soviet pol-
icy" an informed source con.
ceded. "It's pretty hard to look
down the road with the same
Part of the Admini stration's tive on the Intelli,enca Board,
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Sources close to the White
House say that Mr. Nixon
and his foreii n-policy advisers
--Mr.. Kissinger and Secretary
of State William P. Rogers
and Secretary of Defense
Melvin R. Laird---respec t the
professional competence. of:
Mr. Helms, who is 57 and is
'the first career head of the
Central Intelligence. Agency.
Appointed by President
Lyndon. 13. Johnson in June,
1966,.. Mr. Helms has been
essentially apolitical. He is
said to have brought profes-
sional ability to beau' - in
"lowering the profile" of the
agency, tightening discipline
and divesting it of rnany
fringe activities that have
aroused criticism in Congress
and : "among the public. His
standing with Congress and
among the professionals is
high.
e
According to White Hot!-,
sources, President Nixon,
backed by the Congressional!
leadership, recently offered
MP. helms added authority to
coordinate the activities of
the other bo_ rd m_ih~t> rs." lie
is reported to have declined.
A major problem, according
to those who know the situa-