INPUT TO THE DCI'S ANNUAL REPORT

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 19, 2004
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• Publication Date: October 23, 1978
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The Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D.C. 20505
Resource Management Staff
Deputy to the DCI for Collection Tasking
Acting Director, Policy Guidance Office
SUBJECT: Input to the DCI's Annual Report
1. Preparation of the DCI's Annual Report for calendar year 1978, due
to the President and the Congress by 25 January 1979, is now under way.
The DCI has approved a concept for this year's Annual Report which is more
selective than last year's, both because this seems more appropriate to a
1978 characterized by attention to key intelligence issues rather than the
comprehensive report approach used for 1977 as a year of extensive community
restructuring, and also to limit length for a busy reader to a manageable
30-40 pages (last year's ran 80 plus). The DCI has also approved an outline
for this year's report (Attachment 1). Part I is designed to allow the DCI
to highlight the particular characteristics and emphases of 1978 in intelli-
gence; Part II is intended to air several issues of great importance to him,
his key Executive users, and the Congress. The Annual Report will carry
a high classification and receive extremely limited distribution.
2. We would appreciate some overview comments from you on your first
full year of developing and operating the community collection tasking role,
together with a report on the status of the NITC and formation of NITO teams,
and on any developments in direction or emphasis resulting from assimilation
of the three DCI collection committees.
3. Additionally, perspective from the collection tasking standpoint
would be helpful on at least three Part II issues of special concern on which
we have also asked for input from other intelligence community components:
I&W, National/Tactical Interface matters, and trade-offs involved in planning
the future mixture of technical collection sensors. You may also wish to
comment on the collection-production NFIP balance--and whether the current
balance seems roughly appropriate--aspect of the quality of analysis and
policy support issue in Part II. Specifically:
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a. Which aspects of Intelligence and Warning have particularly
engaged the attention of the Collection Tasking Staff during 1978?
What collection aspects of I&W strike you as particularly needing
attention? Do these involve additional capability or improved
coordination of existing assets? What are the initial priorities of
the new NITO for I&W?
b. With respect to National/Tactical Interface matters, is it
your impression from the collection tasking perspective that we are
learning to cope with these matters seriatim or at risk of losing ground
to requirements of increasing stringency and systems of greatly increased
cost and some technological uncertainty? Or both? Do the major issues
seem to be ones of fiscal means and priorities, of tasking priorities, of
institutional boundaries, of disagreement over the technical feasibility/
cost-effectiveness of a task? In what proportions?
c. With respect to the many factors involved in trade-offs in plan-
ning the overall mixture of technical collection sensors for the mid-
1980s and beyond, what major considerations does the collection tasking
manager bring to these planning decisions? How is CTS approaching
management of this overall task?
d. With respect to imagery mix aspects of this overall task, we
would appreciate your ).overview
thoughts on at least the following aspects of the problem:
-- brief description of major shortfalls of present mix of
imagery systems below their optimum performance capabilities owing
to reduced programs, implications for requirements at present and
over next several years;
-- plans to minimize important coverage gaps in imagery mix
in the transition period from now until the advent of new systems
in the mid-1980s;
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including exploitation feasibility; ity; identify major unresolved
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issues;
e. With respect to COMINT/ELINT upgrade needs and appropriate
packages, we would appreciate your (SIGINT Committee, etc.) overview
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perspective on at least the following aspects, but also any others you
may feel appropriate for Annual Report consideration:
-- Can you make any preliminary comment on the trends surfacing
in the ELINT Requirements Study? Completion target?
-- What specific next steps after consolidating requirements
do you project in the process of planning an ELINT systems mix?
-- With respect to HF modernization, we would appreciate the
benefit of recent issues definition work of the SIGINT Committee,
and may wish to follow that up with further discussions.
4. is responsible for producing
this year's DCI Annual Report. Please identify a principal point of contact
for her to work with. We shall need your overview comments by 6 November, in
in order to accomplish integrated drafting of the entire Annual Report in
November, review in December, and DCI clearance and production in January.
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Attachments:
1. DCI Revised Outline - AR for 1978
2. DCI letter to NFIB principals requesting
help on Annual Report
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Distribution:
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- D/DCI/CT w/atts
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- D/DCI/CT w/atts
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- ER w/atts
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- Chairman, COMIREX w/atts
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- Chairman, SIGINT Committee w/atts
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- RMS/PAO w/atts
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- RMS/PBO w/atts
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- RMS/PGO Chrorio w/atts
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- RMS/PGO Subject (78 AR Production/Tasking File) w/atts
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- RMS Registry w/atts
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6 October 1978
DCI REVISED OUTLINE - ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1978
1. 1978 in Intelligence
A. Execution of the E.O. and Other Organizational Questions
1. evolution'of the PRC(I); work on user priorities
2. resources: experience in use of DCI's budget authority
3. production
a. NFAC's first full year
b. DIA
c. INR
d. DCI substantive committees (EIC, JAEIC, STIC, WSSIC)
4. collection
a. status of NITC
b. 3 DCI collection committees
5. other management
a. DDCI
b. NFIB: shifting membership/concerns
6. I&W
B. New or Altered Emphases in Analysis
1. strategic balance: new developments & experience in
communicating them
2. proliferating support for arms limitation talks
3. emergence of China as an active world player
4. world petroleum supply
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5. substantive support for crises--e.g., Ogaden, Shaba II
(Afghanistan?)
C. Intelligence and the Congress
1. activities in support of both; oversight committees
2. activities in support of other committees
.3.. charter leyi'slation
D. Legal and Propriety Issues
E. Security and Counterintelligence Issues
1. Espionage
a. Kampi1es
b. "moles,"etc.
c. counterintelligence initiatives
2. Leaks
a. Authors
b. Others
c. Remedies?
3. Other security measures; e.g., implementation of new
industrial security measures
4. New directions in foreign counterintelligence program
1. role of new DCI CI coordinator
2. PRC (CI)
F. Covert Action - emphasis on mission and programs
G. Intelligence and the public - new emphases
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1-I. Major Accomplishments 1978
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II. KEY ISSUES (lead into with NFIP graphics).
The early 1980s budget bow wave and trade-off issues on technical sensors
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rationale;
COMINT/ELINT upgrade needs, appropriate packages
HF modernization
Quality of Analysis and Policy Support
including progress on improving interdisciplinary analysis
collection/production: an appropriate budget balance?
Community ADP
National/Tactical Interface Issues
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NATIONAL FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE BOARD
NFIB--6.1/10
2 October 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR THE NATIONAL FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE BOARD
SUBJECT: My Annual Report
I very much appreciated the help that you and your organizations
provided a year ago in the preparation of my first report as DCI on
the Intelligence Community to the President and the Congress. Prepara-
tion of this year's Annual Report is now underway, and I would be
grateful if you and your organizations would assist with input and/or
review as requested. The staff of my Deputy for Resource Management
will be in touch with you shortly on specific-needs.
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STANSFIELD TURNER
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(29 September 1978)
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