CIVILIAN PERSONNEL CEILINGS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M00165A001800100016-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2004
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: March 23, 1977
• Content Type: MF

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THE DEPUTY SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20301
MAR 2 3 1977
MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
SUBJECT: Civilian Personnel Ceilings
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Reference your draft letter to Director Lance
concerning OMB Bulletin No. 77-7.
As Secretary Brown noted in his letter to you
of 18 March, he intends to respond directly to 0MB
with respect to the entire DoD civilian manpower
ceiling. We will keep you informed of the extent
those discussions lead to reductions which impact
on DoD manpower ceilings in the intelligence area.
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MEMORANDUM FOR: DDCI
D/DCI/IC'
FROM: Executive Assistant to DCI
Admiral Turner asked to forward-the attached memorandum
to you. He asked that it not be distributed as a whole.
However, information you feel appropriate may be taken out
and passed on for information.
2 3 MAR 1977
STAT
omman er, U.S. Navy
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2 3 MAR 1977
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Discussions with Secretary' Brown and Secretary Duncan
18 March 1977
1. Secretary Brown agreed he would look at our proposed
letter to exempt the Intelligence Community from the manpower cut.
He has considerable problems with it, however. He also thinks-it
will make the new Intelligence. Community Staff look as.though it
is not being very objective in its early days.
2. We discussed the proper procedures for coordinating
the joint interests of the DCI and the SecDef. We divided this
into two problems as to how tasking would be controlled:
a. Of operational assets that are primarily
"national": It was agreed that this kind of tasking
is best done by committees with the DCI having the
ultimate authority for decisions that have to be
made on an urgent basis; where the DCI and SecDef
negotiating long-range issues.
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3. We further talked about the difficulty in defining
national and tactical intelligence assets.
a. We generally agreed that it might be worth
exploring a division in this area on the basis of
who controls an asset, although this is an imperfect
solution that may be better than what the sensor is
on the asset. I pointed out my opinion that an asset
which had both tactical and national capabilities
could be handled by a prior allocation of a certain
amount of time on the assets to tactical commanders.
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Hopefully, this would ultimately result in
the commander in the field actually exercising .,
direct control of the asset when it was operating
in his area.
b. We also discussed the issue of transition
from peace to war. We agreed first that those were
not the proper terms, but perhaps something more
like the balance of importance." When the balance
of the importance of intelligence began to shift
from national acquisition to military tactical
acquisition, the chairmanship of the committee
mentioned above making ultimate decisions on the
tasking of operational assets would simply change
from the DCI to the SecDef, thus the basic structure
that was making the decisions would remain in tact,
and only .the ultimate deciding authority would' change.
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DATE
INITIAL
1
DCI
2
DDCI
3
D/DCI/IC
4
DDS&T
5
DDI
6
DDA
7
DDO
8
D/DCI/N1
9
GC
10
LC
it
IG
12
Compt
13
D/Pers
14
D/S
15
DTR
16
Asst/ DCI
17
AO/DCI
18
C/IPS.
19
DCI/SS
20
D/EEO
21
22
yf ~ 1 ~ecreTary
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