ARTICLE BY TOM LATIMER, HPSCI STAFF(Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01554R003300230008-7
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 6, 2004
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: August 23, 1979
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for National Foreign Assessment
FROM: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: Article by Tom Latimer,.HPSCI Staff n
1. Attached is a copy of an article written by Tom Latimer of the
HPSCI. It is a thoughtful piece. It also represents some of the
directions in which we oing to be stimulated by that Committee
in the months to come
2. I note on page 5--by the check I have put in the margin--a
warning sign that we are going to be probed in the area of crisis
management. The Committee feels it did a real service in stimulating
us last year on the question of indications and warning. They are
pleased that Dick Lehman has that moving in the right direction. We
have not,. frankly, been hard-tasked from the crisis management area.
May I suggest that one of the. task forces you set up to look at NFAC
might well address that issue.
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3. On page 7 in the bottom right,. Tom makes a comment about the
fact that the principal interaction between the Agency, the State
Department, the Defense Department and the White House has always been
with DDO. It is my perception that that is not the case today with
respect to DoD and the White House, but that it is the case with respect
to State. I have talked to John McMahon about this some. I have no
desire to curb the fine contact that does exist between DDO and State.
That has its. important functions. I would like to encourage you and
John,. however, to begin. a program of ensuring that NFAC turns to DDO
in the conduct of periodic meetings with the desk officers in State.
This will not only help NFAC and State in getting to know each other
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better so that the analysts can truly support some of their principal
customers, it will help both NFAC and DDO in ensuring close coordination.
between them. I'm sure some coordination'exists in many areas today
but I sus ect there are some areas in which DDO.and NFAC do not really
exchange.
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