REQUEST FOR PAPERS FOR THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM MEMORANDUM

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 9, 2006
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• Publication Date: July 18, 1972
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18 JUL 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR: Acting Deputy Director for Intelligence
SUBJECT: Request for Papers for the National
Intelligence Program Memorandum
Paul:
1. As you know, the President's 5 November 1971 memorandum
requests the DCI to prepare a "consolidated intelligence program
budget" which would provide a detailed review of the needs and
performance of the intelligence community. This must be submitted
to the President through OMB. We prefer for obvious reasons to
think of this document as a National Intelligence Program Memorandum
in which the emphasis is clearly on needs, priorities, and per-
formance rather than dollars and people.
2. The approach we hope to take this year will be to have
the DCI address several large intelligence problems (e.g., Soviet
Strategic Weapons Program) in terms of what the problem is now,
what the trend will be for the next several years, and relate how
the programs contained in the various community budgets are geared
to work against the problem. We will also want to address the
adequacy or deficiency of resources. We propose to suggest to the
Director that his NIPM look at the community resources as an inte-
grated capability -- along the lines we took in the Congressional
speech.
3. The purpose of this memorandum is to enlist your help and
advice in identifying appropriate categories of coverage and in
preparing the substantive base from which the DCI can treat the
adequacy of community resources. We see the following as starters:
- Soviet Strategic Weapons, including
considerations of the impact of the SALT
Agreement/Treaty
- Chinese Strategic Weapons Program
- Soviet/Chinese General Purpose Forces 25X1
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- Southeast Asia
- Near East
Additional papers will be drafted within this staff.
4. For each of the above subjects, I would appreciate a
thoughtful paper, no more than 10 pages or so, which discusses
some or all of the following:
- The intelligence task now, and as you see
it several years from now (1974-78).
- What sources are deployed against the
problem and the level of collection, processing,
and analysis required.
- Which sources are providing the most
useful information (identify sources producing
less valuable information of marginal significance).
- Major gaps (identify new or ex anded
sources that might help fill the gaps p).
- Changes in emphasis, use of resources, or
capabilities that will affect you in the 1974-78
time period.
5. The OMB, through whom the Memorandum will be submitted,
has requested that the National Intelligence Program Memorandum
be submitted in early October. We want to try to make this date
and will need inputs i early August 1972, The staff here
can then add discussions of specific program, resource, and
management issues to your material and assemble the required
financial data in time to permit internal Agency coordination
as well as community coordination.
6. I am addressing this to you as the central point for
these kinds of judgments, and would appreciate your enlisting
DD/S&T and ONE advice and support as appropriate to ensure that
the DCI has the full benefit of our be ,t advice.
Bronson Tweedy
D/DCI/IC
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