PLANNING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000200170015-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 6, 2002
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: November 3, 1965
• Content Type: MF

3 NOV 1965
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: Planning
1. The purpose of this memorandum is to provide you a brief status
report on the Agency's planning activities.
2. Pursuant to your approval I have established an Office of Planning,
Programming, and Budgeting which reports directly to me. This
organization will provide a focal point for the Agency's planning, for the
review and analysis of programs related to the accomplishment of plans,
and for the preparation of long-range budget forecasts and annual operating
budgets. The Bureau of the Budget has been advised of this new
organization and its mission.
3. Provision has also been made for each Directorate to have small
planning staffs to develop plans and programs necessary for achievement
of the Agency's long-range goals. These planning staffs will, of course,
work as a team with the Office of Planning, Programming, and Budgeting.
Together, these elements will comprise the key elements of our planning and
programming system.
4. On 22 October we initiated an integrated planning, programming
and budgeting system in the Agency pursuant to your direction that we
develop plans and programs necessary to implement the Long Range Plan.
The basic elements of this system were developed in collaboration with
the Budget Bureau. (This system also complies fully with the recent
Presidential instruction that each agency of the Government introduce
such a system.)
5. We are now in the first phase of the system which involves the
preparation of Agency long-range goals based upon the CIA Long Range
Plan, the Five Year Forecast to the Bureau of the Budget, and the FY
1967 Operating Budget Estimates. Each Directorate, through its planning
staff, is now formulating mission-related goals which will meet require-
ments for: (a) establishing criteria for measurement of accomplishments,
and (b) identifying required accomplishments over a given period of time.
These goals are to be ready by mid-November. ILLEGIB
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6. The second phase beginning in mid-November involves the review
of goals by Agency operating elements and the preparation of program plans
for achieving the goals. This phase will be completed in December at
which time the goals and implementing program plans will be returned to
planners for final review and integration.
7. The Office of Planning, Programming, and Budgeting, in
collaboration with Directorate planners, will then prepare Agency Program
Planning Guides for your approval. These guides and the issues raised
therein will become the broad, authoritative base for the development,
preparation and execution of the Agency's programs and will form the
basis for discussion with the Bureau of the Budget of funding levels for
FY 1968.
8. The entire system is designed to be cyclical and continuing. There
will be continuous review and evaluation of accomplishments versus goals,
and systematic analysis of alternative programs and their probable costs
and accomplishments. The Program Planning Guides will be updated at
least annually.
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L. K. White
Executive Director-Comptroller
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