EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEETING ON 17 DECEMBER 1974

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01495R000700170002-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 10, 2005
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: December 18, 1974
• Content Type: MEMO

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18 December 1974
MEMORANDUM
SUBJECT: Executive Council Meeting on 17 December 1974
Mr. Proctor chaired. Substituting wa~
1. Mr. Proctor said there would be no Friday Executive Council
Meetings until after the first of the year. At the first Friday meeting
in the personnel rating system will be discussed (the Parmenter-
paper on a multi-discipline team approach to analysis will
also be discussed in a future Friday meeting).
2. Mr. Proctor reported on a flurry of activity caused by 0MB
cuts in the FY-76 Agency budget. Mr. Colby promptly sent a letter to
President Ford asking that most of the cuts be restored. The 0MB re-
sponse was to restore all but nd to cut= rather ZSX1
than =slots. SAFE will get 5 o the 7 million dollars requested.
The DCI wants an assessment of SI INT collection capabilities
will pull the report together by 20 December.
4. Mr. Knoche reported on an IAS/OSR session at 25X1
which problems associated with the new reconnaissance system were dis-
cussed. Mr. Knoche commented that analysts will have to adjust,among
other things, to the need for tasking on a continuing basis. The question
of a video link is still up in the air. Mr. Walsh is pulling together a
paper based on recommendations by the SSG that will explore both video
and facsimile links.
5. Mr. Proctor reported on a briefing by 1 :1 DIA, concern- 25X1
ing an all-source tasking center to be established in the Pentagon.
Mr. Proctor said he sees the need for such a center to meet DoD-internal
requirements, but does not think it should be a community center. The
Agency must draw up its own plan soon for all-source tasking.
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6. Mr. Walsh said that the MAGID is in the doldrums with some
members largely inactive. He asked that office and staff chiefs solicit
the views of their MAGID members.
7. Mr. Lehman proposed that the subject of academic relations be
discussed at a future Friday meeting. He said he thought plans by the
Coordinator for Academic Relations for two seminars per office each year
were excessive. Mr. Lehman also suggested an orientation program for
computer services personnel who will be designing systems for use by
production analysts. He is concerned that the computer specialists do
not know what analysts do. He asked 0 to work up a prospectus 25X1
for such a course and invited OER and OSR to participate. Mr. Proctor
asked to assign someone to the project.
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