CIA COMMENTS ON KEY INTELLIGENCE QUESTIONS FOR FY 1974

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01495R000300100012-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 16, 2006
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: November 27, 1973
• Content Type: MF

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2 7 NOV 1973
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
FROM : Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT : CIA Comments on Key Intelligence Questions for FY 1974
1. The comments from DDS&T, DDO, and DDI reflect general agree-
ment that many of the Key Intelligence Questions you listed in your
memorandum of 30 October are still too broadly worded to serve one of
the intended purposes; i.e., to permit us to measure with any degree
of accuracy whether we have made progress toward answering them. More-
over, many of the Questions seem to be aimed at long-range consider-
ations rather than at covering the short-run period (through FY 1974)
as specified in your covering memorandum.
2. The attachment represents a consolidation of CIA efforts to
re-write many of the Questions in an effort to sharpen their focus.
We believe that our performance in answering the Questions, as we would
have them amended, would be amenable to measurement. In several in-
stances we are also proposing the addition of several new Questions that
we believe meet your criteria for "Key" intelligence items.
3. 1 realize that the suggested additions would make the list of
Key Intelligence Questions much longer and more comprehensive than you
would like. On this basis, I recommend that you ask the NIOs to review
this list and the other suggested changes you receive and that the NIOs
recommend to you a revised list of Key Intelligence Questions for dis-
tribution to the Intelligence Community.
Attachment
Is! Vernon A. Walters
Vernon A. Walters
Lieutenant General, USA
Deputy Director
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