INTELLIGENCE GAME

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01495R000700140003-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 6, 2005
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: July 29, 1974
• Content Type: MF

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2 9 July 1974
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Management
and Services -
SUBJECT : Intelligence Game
REFERENCE : Your Memorandum, dated 5 July 1974,
Same Subject (DD/M&S 74-2380)
1. I find opinion in the Intelligence Directorate on intelligence
games to be mixed. Some, predictably, see little benefit to be gained.
Others, principally those more attuned to new methods, are more
enthusiastic. My personal opinion is that we should be willing to make
some modest investment in gaming exercises, but we have to be
careful that the exercises have some promise of yielding results
that have more real-world applicability. We also have to be sure
that the enthusiasts don't construct exercises that make excessive
demands on our production resources.
2. I am not sure whether the Director's concept of an
intelligence game involves solely an Agency effort or a Community-
wide effort. I would think that until we have a better appreciation
of how these things would be done that a more modest effort confined
to the Agency would be the preferred initial approach. I would support
an effort of this sort under OTR direction working closely with OCI
or the CIA Operations Center, depending upon the subject and
scenario.
3. Sharing your concern for the resource implications of a
large-scale effort for intelligence gaming, I have doubts about its
priority relative to the other tasks we have. On this basis, my
advice to you is to talk to the Director to determine how serious he
is about this matter before you ii vest any more time init.
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EDWARD W. PROCTOR
Deputy Director for Intelligence
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Memo for: DDM&S
Subject : Intelligence Game
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