PROPOSED REVIEW OF MISSION AND FUNCTIONS OF THE SIGNET COMMITTEE

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
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• Publication Date: March 4, 1974
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1%?Iemorandum for Holders
USIB--SC=422/65
4 March 1974
SIGINT COMMITTEE
of the
UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD
MEMORANDUM FOR HOLDERS OF USIB-SC-4e 2/65
Subject: Proposed Review of Mission and Functions
. of the SIGINT Committee
Reference: USIB-SC-4.2/65, 28 February 1974
(Memorandum for SIGINT Committee Principals)
The CIA Member of the SIGINT Committee has requested that
the attached memorandum from Messrs Duckett and Proctor be circulated
to SIGINT Committee Principals for information. This memorandum is the
initial proposal for review of the mission and functions of.the SIGINT
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USIB-SC-4. 2/ 65
28 February 1974
SIGINT COMMITTEE
of the
UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD
MEMORANDUM FOR SIGINT COMMITTEE PRINCIPALS
SUBJECT: Proposed Review of Mission and Functions
for the SIGINT Committee di
The attached memorandum from the Chairman on the subject
is circulated to SIGINT Committee Principals for information.
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NOTE TO: Mr. Proctor
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26 February 1974
SUBJECT: Comments on General Morrison's Paper
We have reviewed comments on the paper
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you and Carl sent to General Graham requesting a review of t
mission and functions of the SIGINT Committee.
Some of his remarks are consistent with our.views as they
pertain to:
the role of the Director, NSA, as the SIGINT program
manager, his relationship to the DCI and the part a SIGINT
community body can play (paragraph 4);
the probably unworkable nature of stitching SIGINT Co
mittee functions into the NIO or IC Staff arrangements
(paragraph 5 and 6).
On the other hand, his comments in paragraph 8 miss the main
point in your memorandum. The request for a review of the SIGINT
Committee functions was based on a concern to upgrade the work on
guidance and requirements, collection, evaluations and resource trade-
offs within each of the disciplines within the SIGINT field, He con-
siders that these disciplines (e. g. , COMINT, Telemetry, ELINT, etc.)
are too interrelated to make useful divisions possible,
No one questions the extent of the intermingling of the actions
of the SIG 1'T shown in his tabulation. However, the important problem
is whether these topics that cut across the disciplines would be better
oc.
curs
., improved e forts on each before tl e inte:c yin li~7g
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As presently constituted, neither the SGIZS nor the SIGIN~T
Committee can make these kinds of improved judgments without
first effecting a dramatic upgrading of the calibre of work performed
within each of the disciplines. Indirectly, cknowl-
edges this in his last paragraph which proposes a SIGI,7T Application
Subcommittee 'and a SIGINT Requirements and Evaluations Subcommittee,
In addition, he is silent on the concern expressed in your me:cno-
randurn for work on resources and trade-offs within each discipline.
We believe that unless these resource-related judgments are initiated
within each discipline subsequent USIB or DCI arrangements for
resource judgments witl be limited to reviewing the SIGINT program
as presented by DIRNSA, the program manager.
We can only emphasize that the review requested should address
what is needed to perform the specific functions in each discipline as
noted in paragraph 4 of your memorandum:
collection guidance;
intelligence value of collection operations;
options, mixes and trade-offs.
Finally, as requested ,in the same paragraph of your memorandum
the review should describe the mechanism that would be needed to
insure the close coordination of the z,vor k performed in the individual
disciplines.
cc: Dr. Steininger
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