THE DIRECTORATE OF INTELLIGENCE: A BRIEF DESCRIPTION

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 5, 2004
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: February 1, 1977
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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Attached for your information is-a description
of the organization and functions of the Intelligence
Directorate that we prepared for Admiral Turner.
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February 1977
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The Directorate of Intelligence:
A Brief Description
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The Directorate of Intelligence:
A Brief Description
Confidential
Office of the DDI
February 1977
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CONTENTS
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I. .Introduction to the Intelligence Directorate .
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Mission . .
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Principal Products . .
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Organization . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . .
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II. Summary of FY 1977 Resources . . . . . .
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III. Intelligence Production Management . . . . . .
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IV. Strengths and Problems . . . . . . . . . . .
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A. -Strengths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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--Quality of Directorate Personnel
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--Achievements of Individual Offices . .
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B. Problems . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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--Growing Scope of Intelligence Production
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--Growing Sophistication of the Policymakers'
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--Growing Pressure on Resources . . . .
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--Impact of New Methodologies and
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--Emerging Relationship with Congress . .
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V. The 1976 Reorganization of the Directorate
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A. Overview . . . . . . . . .
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B. The 25 August 1976 Interim Report . . . .
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C. The Arthur D. Little Report . . . . . .
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D. DDI Decisions on Reorganization . . . .
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Annexes
A. Coordination and Review of Intelligence
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B. Organizational History of the Intelligence
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1. Introduction to the Intelligence Directorate
Mission
The primary responsibility of the Intelligence Directorate is to
serve the President--and the other senior officials responsible for the
formulation and implementation of national security policy--by providing
the authoritative information and assessments on what's going on abroad
that they need to do their jobs.
We provide this service by taking the'raw material of intelligence--.
the information gathered by the collection elements of CIA and other
intelligence organizations--and producing intelligence reports and
studies that are relevant to the concerns of senior policymakers. This
process involves many tasks: collation and evaluation of information;
research into intelligence already available; analysis of its significance;
and preparation of finished intelligence reports. We refer to this
entire process as "intelligence production".
The scope of.this Directorate's intelligence production can fairly
be described as global. On a geographic basis, all foreign areas are
covered by the Directorate's major components in accordance with their
significance to the U.S. Functionally, the coverage provided by the
Intelligence Directorate is equally complete. Our analysts can cover
the affairs of any foreign country from the standpoint of politics,
economics, defense, science, technology, geography, cartography, or
biography.
The primary recipients of the reports produced by the Intelligence
Directorate are, of course, the President and his most immediate national
:security advisors. In addition, our reporting has long been provided to
the leadership of those departments and agencies represented on the
National Security Council and to appropriate components of these organi-
zations. In recent years, a demand for our reporting has developed from
new quarters, principally the Congress, the Executive Branch departments
responsible for foreign economic policy and, to a lesser degree, the
general public.
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