[REPORT ON INTELLIGENCE EXECUTION]

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M00596A000300010036-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 29, 2004
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: November 15, 1978
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. 1978 IN INTELLIGENCE
A. Execution of the E.O. and Other Organization) Matters
5.b. NFIB
(U) The National Foreign Intelligence Board (NFIB), which serves
me as a corporate board of advisors, has enjoyed a stable year. Following
substantial changes in its membership and mission last year, the Board
has been able this year to concentrate on its two major areas of
responsibility by advising. me on the production of national intelligence
and on the National Foreign Intelligence Program and Budget.
(U) As a means of promoting a greater sense of Community and
shared purpose, the three Community deputies sit as NFIB members. They
are the focal points for directing the work of the DCI committee
structure and serve to channel the work of the Community in supporting
the DCI in his primary responsibilities:
- the production of national intelligence
- the tasking of national collection systems
- the management of national intelligence resources.
(U) The representatives to the NFIB are a cross section of
program managers, collectors, producers, and, in many cases, consumers of
national intelligence.* In recognition of the growing importance of
economic intelligence, a representative of the Secretary of Commerce
* Members: The Director of Central Intelligence, Chairman
The Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, Vice Chairman
The Deputy to the DCI for National Foreign Assessment
I.A.5.b.(1)
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The Deputy to the DCI for Resource Management
The Deputy to the DCI for Collection Tasking
The Director, Intelligence and Research, Department of
State
The Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
The Assistant Secretary of Defense (Communications,
Command, Control and Intelligence)
The Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
The Director, National Security Agency
The Under Secretary of the Air Force
The Special Assistant to the Secretary (National Security),
Department of the Treasury
The Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for International
Affairs, Department of Energy
The Counselor to the Attorney General
The Assistant Director, Intelligence Divison, Federal
Bureau of Investigation
The Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Department
of the Army
the Director of Naval Intelligence, Department of the Navy
The Assistant Chief of Staff-for Intelligence, United States
Air Force
The Representative of the Assistant to the President for
National Security Affairs
The General Counsel, Department of Commerce
The Deputy to the Director of Central Intelligence for Support
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has joined the NFIB as an observer. In addition to the advice offered
by NFIB principals on national intelligence estimates, they convene to
review the program and the budget for the Intelligence Community. In
both instances, their advice is sought as full participants in the
overall national intelligenece process, not as advocates for any specific
program.
(C) To enhance the Board's usefulness as a corporate advisory
body to the DCI in my new role as head of the Community, I find it most
helpful to set aside a portion of each NFIB meeting for executive
sessions with the principals. These sessions enable me to review
issues facing the Community and to consider solutions in an atmosphere
of mutual confidence. The issues considered are as broad as the new
membership and have included:
proposed charter legislation
development of National Intelligence Topics
disclosure of intelligence budget data
guidance for the National SIGINT Reconnaissance Program
collection activities against North Korea
the DCI's Community deputy structure
security guidance on
- handling sensitive compartmented information
- travel of cleared personnel
- ADP systems and networks
National/Tactical Interface
new NIO for Warning
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compartmentation systems survey
relations with foreign intelligence services
review of intelligence activities in crisis areas.
I.A.5.b(4)
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