LETTER OF INSTRUCTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M00165A002900090102-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 15, 2004
• Sequence Number: 102
• Publication Date: April 1, 1974
• Content Type: MF

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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
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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;
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--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
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