SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE - GENERAL (RECOMMENDATION NO. 15 OF THE 4 OCTOBER 1961 REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT BY THE PRESIDENT'S FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY BOARD)

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• Publication Date: June 22, 1962
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2 2 JUN 1962
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director/Intelligence
SUBJECT: Scientific and Technical Intelligence - General
(Recommendation No. 15 of the 4 October 1961
Report to the President by the President's
Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board)
ME MENCES: (a) USIB-D-31+/4/2 of 21 May 1962
(b) AD/SI memo to DD/I dated 11 Jan 62,
same subject
1. In accordance with your request, this memorandum contains
OSI's comments on the subject report by the Assistant for Coordina-
tion which was distributed to USIB members by reference (a). Review
of this report in the light of OSI's comments on the previous draft,
contained in reference (b), reveals that all suggested changes have
been taken into account except as noted below:
2. With regard to Section 6 of the report, concerning the
collection and analysis of Soviet telemetry,
Agency ELINT Staff Officer, has provided the following comments:
a. "Section 6 of the subject report is identical to
a final draft provided to this Office by the Coordination
Staff after numerous preliminary conferences on various
aspects of the matter. Although many of the points offered
by this Office were not acceptable to the Coordination Staff,
Section 6 represents their efforts to incorporate our views
and still preserve the points which they intend to make.
While we could "live with" the reports as written, it will
create more problems than it will solve. Two potential
problem areas, one of primary interest to the DD/R, the
other to the AD/SI, are of particular importance.
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SUBJECT: Scientific and Technical Intelligence - General
(Recommendation No. 15 of the 4 October 1961
Report to the President by the President's
Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board)
referenced proposal again re-opens this question and resolution
will be based on an interpretation of the phrase, "... and
their appropriate responsiveness to the technical and opera-
tional control of the Director NSA." CIA will continue to
interpret this phrase so as to permit the full utilization
of all CIA facilities and will incorporate all possible
technical recommendations in order to assist the Director,
NSA, in carrying out his general responsibilities. However,
CIA must retain supervision of the project in order that the
other requirements of operating a covert site can be met.
c. The reference also points out that another compli-
cating factor is the statement in NSCID-6 which specifies
"that NSA not engage in the production of finished intelli-
gence as distinguished from intelligence information." As
in every field of intelligence endeavor, the lines of
responsibility are often somewhat arbitrarily drawn. The
only problem which has resulted in this area stems from the
NSA desire and practice of extending responsibility beyond
the limits of NSCID-6. The limits as drawn are generally
considered to be the most logical that can be defined, and
NSA intrusion into the field of intelligence, national esti-
mates, and all that is entailed in revision of the problem
area stated in the reference, would create a chaotic situation.
It is also pertinent that in a recent gesture, NSA attempted
to unilaterally regulate this area of intelligence by proposing
security regulations that would preclude the use of intelligence
information by many regular users. Actions such as this should
give pause to further broadening of NSA responsibility. If
such a review is to be made, it should be done under the DCI
or the USIB structure."
3. Attached hereto is a proposed rewrite, prepared by
of Section 6 of the Coordination Staff draft which retains as much of
the original as is possible.
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SUBJECT: Scientific and Technical Intelligence - General
(Recommendation No. 15 of the 4 October 1961
Report to the President by the President's
Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board)
5. Also, in Section 8, there is no discussion of a most critical
analytical situation, namely, the general paucity of well-qualified
personnel to work on scientific and technical intelligence problems.
It is our considered judgement that the total number of technical
intelligence analysts in comparison with numbers working in other fields
is entirely inadequate to the task. We continue to feel that we must
increase greatly the proportionate effort going to analysis in relation
to that going to collection. We believe this is the key problem rather
than duplication of effort which, in our opinion, is a minor problem
in view of the scarcity of qualified personnel.
6. Although not of primary concern to this Office, we feel it
might be of interest in this report to mention the role of the DD/R
in Section 7 on technical collection. Based on OSI's experience in
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SUBJECT: Scientific and Technical Intelligence - General
(Recommendation No. 15 of the 4 October 1961
Report to the President by the President's
Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board)
recent years dealing with the development of major technical collection
projects, we would like to re-emphasize our conviction that such pro-
jects can be effectively developed and operated only if both the
responsibility and the necessary funds are vested in one person.
ALBERT D. WHEELON
Assistant Director
Scientific Intelligence
Attachment:
Proposed Rewrite of Section 6 of the
Coordination Staff draft
Distribution:
Orig. & 1 - Addressee
2 - AD/SI
3 - Staff/SI
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Exploitation of these tapes for intelligence information is now
delegated to CIA by NSA, and as experience has shown the ad-
vantages of this arrangement, it should be continued. The
synthesis of all ELINT with other information for the production
of intelligence should continue to be the responsibility of the
Services and CIA.
. EGRET
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