MEMORANDUM FOR: USIB PRINCIPALS FROM JOHN A. MCCONE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R001300040036-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 10, 2009
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: November 14, 1962
• Content Type: MF

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OFFICE OF
THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
Washington 25, D. C.
PFIAB/NSC Review Completed.
MEMORANDUM FOR: USIB Principals
14 November 1962
Attached is a copy of a letter from the Chairman of the
President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board requesting an all-
Agency, all-source review of intelligence activities relating to the
Cuban situation.
As Director of Central Intelligence, I request your immediate
attention to this matter and suggest that you be prepared to discuss
specific arrangements at the United States Intelligence Board meeting
on Thursday, November 15, 1962.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
PRESIDENT'S FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY BOARD
November 14, 1962
On behalf of the President's-Board, I wish to express
our appreciation for your submission at our November 9 meeting
of the memorandum dated November 7, 1962, which had been pre-
pared within the Central Intelligence Agency on the subject
`CIA Handling of the Soviet Build-up in Cuba, 1 July -
16 October 1962.
The memorandum which you supplied, and your comments
to the Board, were an instructive contribution to our current
review of the intelligence collection and reporting roles
performed by the United States intelligence community with
respect.to the vitally important subject matter involved.
In furtherance of the Board's review it would be helpful
if we were supplied with information on all pertinent aspects
of the total U. S. foreign intelligence effort which was
brought to bear in providing advance information and assess-
ments of the developing ballistic missile capability which
was positively confirmed by means of photographic reconnais-
sance over Cuba on October 14, 1962. Such information will
materially assist the Board in its continuing appraisal of
our foreign intelligence activities and should facilitate
the consideration of measures for the further strengthening
of our intelligence system. Accordingly, the Board would
like to request a review on an all-source, all-agency basis
of the actions taken and results obtained within the intelli-
gence community in providing intelligence coverage, reporting
and estimates of the developing build-up during the twelve
month period preceding October 14, 1962.
It would be appreciated if a report setting forth the
results of the intelligence community's review would include:
(a) an identification of the requirements levied on intelli-
gence collection elements of the Government, (b) a resume of
the intelligence information obtained from such sources as
foreign diplomatic personnel, Cuban refugee interrogations,
in-place agent reports, COMINT, and ELINT during the period
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referred to above, (c) the scope of distribution given such
information to higher authority and laterally within the
intelligence community, and (c1 the extent to which such
information was reflected in reports and assessments pro-
vided to policy level officials.
We understand that the Department of Defense is. reviewing
its own intelligence activities pertaining to the Cuban
situation, and this will doubtless be helpful in this matter.
If the results of the intelligence community's review could
be made available to the Board in time for consideration at
its next meeting on December 7, without materially interfering
with substantive matters of importance, the Board would thereby
be enabled to respond in timely fashion to requests which are
before it.
'James R. Killian, Jr.
Chairman
Mr. John Mc Cane
Director of Central
Intelligence
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