COMMENTS ON YOUR DRAFT ANNUAL REPORT

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• Document Release Date: March 4, 2004
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• Publication Date: January 12, 1979
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12 January 1979
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
VIA Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
FROM Leslie C. Dirks
Deputy Director for Science and Technology
SUBJECT Comments on Your Draft Annual Report
1. In accordance with what I -understand to be your
request or my personal review on your dra t annua report,
f e following paragraphs pass along several comments.
2. In general I was impressed both in the content and the
thrust of your draft. It impressed me as both being suitable
for the purpose intended and covered adequately the most important
topics that one presumes are of likely interest to the President.
However, I suggest two possible additions for your consideration.
3. You may want to insert the following paragraph at
the top of page 19: "Particularly with regard to the more
sophisticated technical collection resources, we must recognize
that from the first day of operation many of these systems
are observable to the Soviets. No doubt very shortly after a
major new technical collection systems goes into operation,
Soviet intelligence begins the process of trying to understand
the nature, extent and competence of these systems. It is
always difficult for us to understand the details of what the
Soviets think they are learning and how fast this process is
evolving, but inevitably over time many of our more visible
systems are more or less well understood by the Soviets. In
some cases this development of Soviet understanding is not
especially important to us and does not necessarily have an
adverse impact on the utility of these systems for US intelligence
purposes. In other cases, the utility of our systems erodes as
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SUBJECT: Comments on Your Draft Annual Report
the Soviet understanding and Soviet ability to implement
appropriate countermeasures evolves. The best possible
security is obviously imperative, but in the final analysis,
the only way of staying ahead of the Soviets is insuring a
long range program for bringing into operation new capabilities
based on new technology." 40 Nc&
4. Second, you might want to consider inserting at an
appropriate point in the last full paragraph on page 19, the
following: "For example, more intensive and better focused
interactions with EUCOM have resulted in much improved coverage
of the semi-annual Warsaw Pact Troop rotations."
5. Please let me know if I can be of any further
assistance as you proceed with the final preparation of
your annual report to the President.
Leslie C. Dirks
cc: D/DCI/RMS
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MEMORANDUM FOR: DDCI/RM
ATTENTION
FROM : Sohn N. McMahon
Deputy Director for Operation
SUBJECT : DCI Annual Report
established between these two among
agencies with CI responsibilities,
data on Crbetween among t em has b
expanded, and there is a greatly in
of consultation between among them
the level of the Directors downward.
and the second can be rewritten to read as follows:
Special new coordinating mechanisms ave teen
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I JAN 1979
Relations With FBI
We suggest deletion of the first full sen enco and the
second sentence in the first paragraph on page 9. The
relationships between CIA and the FBI have been stdadily
improving for a period of several years, most artLcularly
as a result of a concerted effort on the part of DO personnel.
They could be considered "revitalized" long before the
creation of the Counterintelligence Committee.
Alternatively, the first full sentence could Ie eliminated
gence
intell
heecangeof
en greatly
reasOd periodicity
angiOg from
Human Intelligence
In the sentence ending on line 9 on page 20, 4e suggest
rewording as follows: "...but the risks are can be high."
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MaEried Partners
The comment on the impact of married part ers!on overseas
assignments may be overstated. Suggest the p rasedlogy,
"tends to inhibit" instead of "does much to i hibiti."
Classification
The paragraph ending in the middle of page 141should be
SECRET.
The paragraph on Human Intelligence should not be
unclassified.
~n N. Mahon
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president for
Committee, chaired by the Assistant to the
Security Affairs, and composed of the Secretary of {Tt~i?3{
National General, the
Defense, the Attorney
State, Secretary of
and Budget, the
of Management
Director of the Office of Central
of Staff, the Director
Joint Chiefs
Chairman of the of
of the Federal Bureau
and the Director
Intelligence+
..shall develop policy with respect
Investigation, resolve
conduct of counterintelligence activities,'
to the ence
interagency differences, monitor counterintellig
with an overall annual
activities, and provide the President
the
of this committee,
assessment of them. The activities
attention to a
generated renewed
SCC(CI)1 have already function.
previously somewhat neglected counterintelligence
p report that with this stimulus
leased to
Beyond that, I am pleased en ,,,rrt ~
been
FBI and CIA has
e between pry
necessary linkag . -1 hckti.eEw~s c etween
the cc'~`~ W i mechanismsb. 16 ;
coordinatng
re i lrZ' '~. specific new established~ the exchange of
have been
these two agencies greatly
counterintelligence dataetween
themjhas been expanded. Land greatly increased. The periodicity of
level of the
them ranging from the
em
consultation between In sum, the
downward has been greatly increase
Directors much needed
counterintelligence function is receiving
additional attention today.
6. Restrictions
One whole section
0
of the new Executive Order
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on the one hand or a tardy reporter of bad bad news on the
other. Without making excuses, I would point out that this
example also typifies-.,the problem of collecting sensitive
were inhibited by our dekire not to appear to undercut a
friendly government. Coll'cting intelligence on opposition
movements can easily be mis ,nterpreted. We could have
done better and shall.
Support to Congress
While we have emphasised extending our support to as
many of the Cabinet officers as possible, our parallel efforts
to reach more committees of the Congress have not borne as much
fruit as we had hoped. Nearly eve' committee in the Congress
involves itself in some subject aspe t of international
relations. There must be a greater need for information on
international trends and events by com ittees other than our
regular consumers in foreign affairs an armed services than
we are now fulfilling. Our efforts to bbidge the gap and
determine where our product can be used have uncovered some
new needs but have probably just scratched\the surface. n
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THE PROSPECT FORWARD
A number of clearly discernible trends will drive the
course of American intelligence in the years head, The most
obvious of these is the increasing sophistication of our
technical means of collecting information. In 'the 1979 budget,
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established restrictions on various intelligence activities,
particularly those which affect the rights of American
citizens. These restrictions are an extension and
clarification of those enumerated in the previous Executive
Order (E.O. 11905, 15 February 1976). They and the entire
Executive Order were developed in close consultation with
the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (the corresponding
committee of the House not having been in being during
most of the formative period), thus establishing a new
degree of cooperation in intelligence between the Executive
The same cooperation has been extended in the
opposite direction throughout 1978 as the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence developed and,.-field hearings on
legislative charters for the Intelligence Community ..rt We ared
CLtIeCk',~~ A ~jq~enfC ~Je}w~c., L nSec~ Tor }j`i&1 a ~'ri gv;tXt y st,5 nr.c~ suFt;r e.~~
hopeful that this will enable us have charters [and an
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Executive order which will closely dovetail with one another.
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RELATIONS WITH THE CONGREIS, THE EXECUTIVE AND THE PUBLIC
In 1978, the /relationships between the Intelligence
s,.
Community and the Cogress, the agencies and departments
of the Executive 9.*anch, and the public have evolved
significantly. I
The Congress
/711 was the second full year of oversight by the
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Senate Select Committee and the first full year by the
House Permanent Select Committee. During the year, many
new procedures have been worked out and constructive
relationships established. In both the Senate and the
House, first authorization bills for intelligence have
c+rv neprcvt-,?\
been acted on. In the process of reviewing Aour budget,
both Committees, as well as the Appropriations Committees,
have contribut'esd'substantial+y. For example, Committee
questions about a proposed
and requirement for specific follow-on reports as to its
capabilities and alternatives led to a major restructuring
of that program with potential savings of over half a billion
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dollars. Also, with -c' encouragement of the Select Committees,
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the 9oifit AppropriationsnCommittee of the Congress a-propriated.
an additional $25 million in Ficc l Yeaf 1979 for the purpose
of improving our capability to monitor a SALT II agreement.
This has led to a very constructive reordering of both our
Fiscal Year (FY) 1979 and 1980 progiamp. Looking beyond the
su'por4t ..elk,
budget, the two Select Committees assisted the Intelligence
Community onj several pieces of legislation being conside;ed
-~u a s~?t. ~~kr:. Coy I;~~Ka'et.~iw_ Hess, V~ nub .n ~e I ~:e rc .
by other Congressional committees [which would have had a,;:,
deleterious impact on intelligence capabilities. (TS/TK) Lam, Tprk .~
re V'i i' A It
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helpful, my FY 1980 budget submission contained, as an ~?.?t.~az>> ~+s
integral provision, proposed legislative relief from the ~J ~8TAT
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