VALUE OF INTELLIGENCE

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 2005
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: March 29, 1967
• Content Type: MF

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29 March 1967
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy to the DCI for National Intelligence
Programs Evaluation
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SUBJECT: Value of Intelligence
1. The D/DCI/NIPS: Systems Analysis Staff is conducting an
analysis to establish quantitatively the relative significance of require-
rents for intelligence collection against Soviet strategic systems.
2. Our plan calls for an analysis of the impact of intelligence
on thermonuclear exchanges between the Soviet and United States forces
projected for the next ten years. To assure the realism of the study
results, it is essential that the analysis be based on U. S. and Soviet
forcer projections of the highest available quality. Therefore, the
Soviet forces we intend to use have been based on the 1967 National
Intelligence Projections for Planning and U. S. forces as based on
the 1!ive-year National Defense Plan'. I have described the U. S. and
Soviet force projections we will use during our study in the attached
tables.
validity of the forces.
3. I would appreciate your views on the appropriateness and
Assistant for Systems Analysis
to the Deputy DCI for
National Intelligence Programs Evaluation
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Attachment: Tables
SAS gs-x4246
Distribution:
Copies 1 & 2 - D/DCI/NIPE
3 & 4 - ASA/D/DCI/NIPE
5 & 6 - DD/S&T Registry
TS No. 196652
Copy No. 3
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