FINISHED INTELLIGENCE ON STRATEGIC PROGRAMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01500R000200240015-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 24, 1998
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: February 14, 1975
• Content Type: MF

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1 February 1.975
MEN "M FOR. i_xcecutive AssistarrL to the Deputy for Nation- I
Intelligence Officers
SUBJECT: Finished Intel l iclence on Strategic Programs
1.. Attached is a bibliography of intelligence products on Soviet
ICBMs. I t shows that 424 finished intelligence products were issued
during the period January 1973 to June 1974. An additional 6+ articles
in periodicals were listed because they were considered substan-ttive
rather than transient event reporting- -
2. T am forwarding you this bibliography because I believe it
dramatically demonstrates what I believe is a major iianageria} problew
for the NIOs and the IC Staff. It required more than six months: merely
to compile the bibliography, which shows the lack of a central reference
for intelligence products and the inadequacy of bibliographies rcaintained
by many agencies. Compilation of lists of finished intelligence. planned
for production would be an even more difficult task.
3. 1 know you are aware that in attempting to oversee the production
of intelligence, the NIOs and the IC Staff are missing a managerial
mechanism for telling us what is planned for production and what has been
produced. It is not only the NIOs and IC Staff who are disadva.n ajed. I
believe we would introduce some production efficiencies merely b 3f rnaki ng
intelligence managers at all levels aware of community-:tide proet:ction
programs.
4. I t is possible that all of the some 500 reports on ICBMs listed
in the bibliography might .be attributed in one way or another as
contributing to several KIQs dealing with ICBMs. Pn sure the candidate
list,of production responses to our present K1Qs on ICB~Mls will be of
lesser magnitude, but may still be too long for detailed analysis and
evaluation-
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5. We are all aware of the lack of a sys tern by which the DCI can
i;Tdnage 1nt0! ligence col,tnuuity Y-esa1rces. In whajever iOrtn That system
evolves, a mechanism for knowing what has been produced and.~what is
planned for production would he a basic requirement. Therefore, action.
to establish such a mechanism now would not be lost motion-
6. I recommend that the DJDCI /HLO stimulate the establishment of
a system for recording in a central location all finished intelligence
produced and to be produced. This is a job which I believe should be
undertaken by the IC Staff in collaboration with the ASDJI_ I see this
as a difficult task, one involving reporting problems, bureaucratic
prerogatives and one which will probably raise more concerns than
optimistic expectations on the part of intelligence managers.. There
will be fears that it will expose duplications, eliminate needed products,
bring about central direction of intelligence production, provide- a basis
for Congressional reviews and will ultimately have resource implications.
One-time efforts of this kind in the past raised just such concerns.. In
any case I believe the Intelligence Community must get on with the task
25X1A
Assistant Natiorhl Intelligence Officer
..for Strategic Programs
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