DCI BRIEFINGS ON PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R001700020006-8
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 19, 2003
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: September 14, 1966
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Plans
SUBJECT : DCI Briefings cxi Program Management
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1. The Director has asked that a system of periodic progress
reports be initiated on program management in the Agency. For the
Plans Directorate, these reports will update your contribution to the
Program Memoranda on Collection, Covert Action, Information Process-
ing and Exploitation, and Research, Development and Engineering. The
reports will be presented orally, using appropriate graphic material,
and planned so that each session does not exceed two hours. The partici-
pation of your Planning Officers in developing these briefings is impor-
tant since the presentation will constitute interim reports on the status
of the programs you have incorporated in the Agency's planning, pro-
gramming, and budgeting system and on future program plans. The
first report for the Plans Directorate is tentatively scheduledfor mid-
October 1966.
2. Progress reports should be organized to report on:
Objectives
Summary of major new program objectives for
FY 1967/68
Accomplishments
Significant accomplishments in FY 1966 and
FY 1967
Status of Programs
a. Distribution of resources to major program
targets (e. g. , funds and manpower against
Communist China)
b. Current and anticipated funding problems
(e. g. , programs requiring additional funds
not provided for in budget)
c. Significant program or project changes (e. g. ,
termination of programs o ro eats)
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d. Now program proposals and expected costs
(those not included in budgets)
e. Proposed reprogramming actions (significant
transfers of funds between programs and projects,
particularly as related to c. and d. above)
Status of Personnel
a. Serious underataffing and shortage of skills
b. Proposed reprogramming (transfers) of personnel
c. Status of treilning
Organization Matters
Proposed organization changes -- creation of new units,
merging of existing units. etc. , including proprietary
organizations.
Special Subjects
Individual treatment of operatiornal or management
matters of special significance.
3. In your response to the Combined Program Call several
subjects were identified, shown below, which should be given special
treatment in your first progress report. In some cameo you n-Lay
prefer to schedule separate briefings to permit adequate treatment
of these subjects.
a. Status of capabilities and progress in building up
collection against
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e. Current status and plans for
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Status and plans for audio- surveillance.
g. R&I3 Prograrns (Coordination with DD/S&T).
4. You should have your Planning Officer contact
Chief, Program Analysis Branch, O/PPB, and work out the details
and scheduling of the presentations.
K. White.
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Executive Director - Comptroller
O/PPB/PAB/I 1r(9/ 13/66)
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