INPUT TO THE DCI'S ANNUAL REPORT (U)

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 19, 2004
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: October 31, 1978
• Content Type: MF

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DCI/RMS 78-1215
31 October 1978
Direcor, Information Resources Office
Acting irec or, Policy Guidance Office
SUBJECT: Input to the DCI's Annual Report
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1. 0 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. [j We request your help on community ADP which is among the Part II
issues of special concern. What are the most significant strides in community
ADP in 1978? How would you roughly class and prioritize projects now engaging
your attention, and why?
3. [] On amore generalized plane, we would like the DCI to be able
in this year's Annual Report to speak to community ADP in the context of OMB
and Congressional concerns about manpower and commonality of intelligence
support functions generally (plus their ceilings on annual ADP growth), with
some perspective on how far intelligence use of ADP has come, and the kinds
of tasks yet ahead of us. Specifically:
-- Where are we in the process of formulating policy for and
implementing intelligence communitywide networks and ADP resource
sharing? Which major tasks are getting or need early major attention
in this arena? What are the important limitations on this process
(requirements better served by dedicated internal networks, fiscal,
political, ADP security, etc.)?
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-- What is your overall perspective on community data base
management? To what degree can/should we use general purpose
commercial products for data base management; to what degree do
we need to build and maintain special purpose data base manage-
ment systems? What general comments can you make about
development and maintenance cost/performance trade-offs?
-- Beyond more efficient and comprehensive data base main-
tenance and manipulation, does data yet exist on the utility
of ADP to improving the core analytical aspects of analysts'
productivity (e.g., as an aid in scenario analysis, as a tip-off
to the onset of a threshold of warning activity or events, etc.)?
Are some community production components experimenting with or
actually using ADP in core analytical functions beyond a data
manipulation stage?
-- What general criteria have you developed for evaluating
cost/performance trade-offs in tailored software development vs.
use of hardware/firmware and other off-the-shelf commercial
capabilities?
-- What general comments can you make about criteria that
should govern the mix of central ADP service centers vs. small
distributed system service centers?
4. " Although we recognize that the following two issues have
probably been widely addressed in the intelligence community, is
there any serious work ongoing on them:
-- What experience has the community developed in measuring
software productivity (e.g., via instructions per time segment,
higher order of language use, programmer teams, etc)? What general
lessons have been learned about how to evaluate and control
programmer utilization?
-- How widespread in the intelligence community is the charge-
back of ADP to users for whom services are provided? What utility
and drawbacks does this approach have as a management tool?
5. You are of course welcome comment on any
of the outl-TTie topics. is responsible
for producing this year' , en , y a principal
point of contact for her to work with. We shall need your comments by COB
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15 November, 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 197$
2. DCI letter to NFIB principals requesting
help on Annual Report
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Original & 1 - D/IRO w/atts
1 - ER Watts
1 - EO Watts
1 - DSG w/atts
1 - PBO Watts
1 - PAO w/atts
1 - RMS Registry w/atts
1 - PGO Subject (78 Production/Tasking) w/atts
1 - PGO Chrono 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 legislation
D. Legal and Propriety Issues
E. Security and Counterintelligence Issues
1. Espionage
a. Kampiles
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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H. Major Accomplishments 1978
II. KEY ISSUES (lead into with NFIP graphics)
The early 1980s budget bow wave and trade-off -issues on technical sensors
issues, outcome,
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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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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(29 September 1978)
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