DCI ANNUAL REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M00596A000200020043-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 19, 2004
• Sequence Number: 43
• Publication Date: November 2, 1978
• Content Type: MF

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D/ORPA-78-1369
2 November 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR: National Intelligence Officer, Special Studies
FROM
Director, Regional Political Analysis
SUBJECT : DCI Annual Report
Attached is the relevant portions of the NFAC response
to the analytical portions of the 14 January 1978 Brzezinski
letter to the DCI on political intelligence and analysis.
This addresses the first tick under paragraph 6 on page 3 of
letter to Mr. Bowie of 11 October. In addition
there is a longer attachment (also included) by Mr. Bowie that
accompanied the response to Brzezinski.
Attachment:
As stated
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improve both the capabilities of our analysts and the milieu in which
they work. These are necessarily long lead-time undertakings from
which payoffs can be expected only gradually. Among our most important'
initiatives is our increased emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches to
problems.. Our principal goal in this respect is not so much to develop
new organizational forms as to stimulate the development of broad-gauged
individual analytical talent capable of performing high quality integra-
tive analysis.
'Another program that we hope will enhance our analytical capabilities
is the establishment in FY 78-79 of about a dozen new overseas positions
for NFAC analysts. Our people would serve in the missions for two years,.
but would act as field analysts rather than. as collectors. We hope also
to be able to send some analysts abroad this year to study..
We intend to strengthen the pre-publication review of kee-analyses
both by improving our internal procedures and by submitting them. to out-
side- consultants wi th relevant background. .We have done. this several .
times recently. We have a large number of additional candidate reviewers;
our task at the moment is to pare the list and. complete administrative
procedures to bring thy-:r on.
We have given considerably attention to the identification and recru t.-
ment of established analysts for lateral entry into our ranks. We have
had some success here, and NNF AC has recently hired 15 to 20 first-rate
analysts from among senior DDO officers with extensive experience abroad..
We have had little success in attracting officers from other departments.
such as State, Treasury, etc. They do not see a rotational tour at CIA
as contributing to their career gro:;th in their ho.ie bureaucracies..
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We continue to try to alter our incentives and rewards to encourage
analysts to produce more venturesome analyses. But there are an increas-
ing number of requests for irimediate support in the form of briefings,
typescript memoranda, graphics, etc. These projects are highly labor
intensive, but have the attraction of immediate feedback from the ,
recipiehts_ Production office managers and analysts have strong incentives
to give such work the highest priority. In particular, analysts are
reluctant to forego the excitement and rewards associated with shorter
term work in favor of deferred praise for projects that take more time
to complete. The policy community tends by its demands and responses to
reinforce the short-term focus.
One way to cope Lywi th this latter problem is to isolate more first-
rate analys is from the daily fray. On key areas, however, we do this at
our peril since we often do not have enough analyst depth to ensure
strong output of both kinds. Not surprisingly, our best in-depth analysts
tend also to be best at firefighting. Ve hope to ease this problem by
adding analysts to the corps in both FY 79 and FY 80. And we should be
able to enhance our analytical strength by more frequent resort to care-
fully managed contractors who can concentrate on single important problems
without the daily distractions, that our analysts face.
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