LETTER OF INSTRUCTION

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CIA-RDP80M00165A002900090102-2
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3
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December 16, 2016
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October 15, 2004
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102
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April 1, 1974
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MF
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Approved For Release 2004/10/27 :CIA-RDP80M001652900090102-2 1 April 1974 MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Chief, Product Review Division REFERENCE: D/DCI/IC Letter of Instruction for Chief, Product Review Division 1. Reference Letter of Instruction is attached. It is your responsibility to assist the Chief, Product Review Division by all apprgpriate means to accomplish the tasks set forth therein. I expect that you will be familiar with the entire range of activities of PRD and support me in the management of PRD resources to carry out the D/DCI/IC instructions, to include acting for me in my absence. 2. I expect that you will give particular attention to the supervision of PRD personnel to assure their most efficacious utilization in the accomplishment of these tasks, and to provide for their growth and development as career intelligence officers. C PR IC Approved For Release 2004/10/27 : CIA-RDP80M00165A002900090102-2 Approved For Release 2004/10/27: CIA-RDP80M00165At1991 po,*,AD2%24 DCI/IC-,74r-10145 MEMORANDUM FOR: Director, Product. Review Group SUBJECT: Letter of Instruction 1. During the next twelve months, I expect you to work within the Intelligence Community Staff to accomplish the following. in support of my Community responsibilities to the DCI: --create and maintain a staff representative of the Community capable of creating and maintaining procedures for evaluating Community efforts in analysis and production, and establish systems to perform this function effectively; determine and assist in the implementation of ways to improve the Community's performance in the area of finished analytical intelligence; --play an active role in the continuing process of refining Key Intelligence Questions and in the use of KIQs by the NIOs to evaluate Community performance; --formulate and gain acceptance of ways to introduce a systematic challenge mechanism into the workings of the finished intelligence community; --continue to develop the concept of the Family of National Products and to encourage the adoption of specific recommendations growing out of this concept, as it applies both to the regular, serial production of finished intelligence and to the production of intelligence in times of crisis; --Specifically concerning the latter, a ssc~ss tie performance o the Community in times of crisis and recommend ways to provide high-level consumers with better, more timely, and less redundant products (including warning notices) during such periods; Approved For Release 2004/10/27 : CIA-RDP80M00165AO02900090102-2 Approved For Relll se 2004/10/27 : CIA-RDP80M00165Ad900090102-2 --establish and chair a coordinated Community effort to- improve analytical methods and the quality and acceptability of of aside (contract) research; --enlist the aid of the NIOs3 the various components of the Community and other interested agencies of government to ensure evaluating and facilitating efforts to improve the intelligence product; --maintain close working relations with the NIOs so as to encourage joint efforts and mutual assistance in the performance of Community functions; --cultivate harmonious working relations with both the individual producing agencies (DDI, DI and DE, INR, etc.) and, as appropriate, collection agencies (e. g. , NSA) so as to encourage coordination and product improvement; --maintain close working relations with.the other elements of the IC Staff, especially in areas affecting KIQ evaluation; the relationship between intelligence collectors and intelligence analysts; and the coordination of questions concerning the inter-relationship of collection, analysis, and resource allocation. 2. 1 expect these objectives to be accomplished within your Staff resources and in close coordination with other related elements of the DCI/IC and the Intelligence Comrri,r 5 Lieutenant General, USA D/DCI/IC STAT Approved For Release 2004/10/27 : CIA-RDP80M00165AO02900090102-2