CONGRESSMAN BURLISON'S QUESTIONS

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• Publication Date: April 19, 1978
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19 April 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
Deputy tote DCI or Resource Management
SUBJECT: Congressman Burlison's Questions
1. Attached are answers to the questions which were
submitted for the record by Congressman Burlison. I plan
to send these directly to the Appropriations Committee
along with answers to the myriad of other questions asked
by that organization. Please provide any comments you have
on these responses so that I can make appropriate changes
before I submit them to the Committee.
2. Please note that the last date for submission of
responses is Tuesday 25 April 1978; however, Charles Snodgrass
has asked for inputs as soon as we have them available. There-
fore, as soon as we have your comments, we will forward this
package of responses to the Committee.
Attachment
As stated, Congressman
Burlison's questions
and responses
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QUESTION 1: Executive Order 12036, like its predecessor, confers upon
the DCI responsibility for oversight of national foreign intelligence
activities. What review process have you instigated to assure that all
foreign intelligence has been included in the NFIP? Have you contacted
any other agencies or organizations not currently represented within the
NFIP to determine which conduct foreign intelligence activities (i.e.
Coast Guard)? If not, do you intend to do so?
RESPONSE: All foreign intelligence has not been included in the NFIP
and it is not deemed appropriate to do so. The primary exception is
tactical intelligence housed in the Department of Defense. Beyond that,
there'are minor but important intelligence inputs from agencies such as
the Coast Guard, the Drug Enforcement Agency, Immigration and Natural-
ization Service, etc. It is not deemed wise or appropriate to place any
portion of the budgets of these agencies within the NFIP primarily
because they are so exclusively law enforcement agencies and the foreign
intelligence product is such a small portion of what they do.
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QUESTION 2: E.Q. 12036 directs that the DCI shall have specific responsi-
bilities in the realm of budget execution. Since the power of expenditure
remains with the separate Services and agencies, what do you view your
role to be in this phase of the budget cycle? How would this be carried
out? Would additional personnel be required, and if so, how many?
RESPONSE: I view my role to be one of monitoring the rate of disbursement
of funds appropriated by the Congress and making recommendations to the
appropriate head of department if that rate of disbursement is not
supportive of the National Foreign Intelligence Program. Further, my role in
reprogramming is increased considerably under the following provision of
Executive Order 12036:
The DCI shall have full and exclusive authority for reprogramming
NFIP funds ..."
The total added manpower for these functions will be in the range of two
or three people.
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QUESTION 3: In the FY 79 NFIP budget, there is a large percentage of
the resources which are earmarked for ADP and ADP support services.
Will your new organizations include an ADP management element responsible
for all Community ADP efforts? Will this management element serve in a
technical advisory capacity or will it play a management and oversight
role? What impact do you believe this element will have on NFIP ADP?
RESPONSE: Yes. A ten-man office will be established under the Deputy
for Resource Management. He will be entrusted with both the technical
advisory capacity and the management and oversight roles. Primary
impact is intended to be ensuring that there is compatibility between
various ADP programs within the Community where compatibility is necessary
or desirable; ensuring that there is no overlap or competition between
ADP programs but rather close coordination; and ensuring that from a
Community-wide point of view, we are anticipating ADP requirements of
the next decade at least.
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QUESTION 4: E.O. 12036 states that the DCI is responsible for providing
planning and programming guidance based upon the Policy Review Committee
(PRC) policy and priorities. Has the PRC met and provided you this
policy guidance for FY 80? Have your planning priorities been established
and FY 80 guidance documents provided to NFIP activities?
RESPONSE: The PRC(I) has met. The discussions at the meetings themselves
have provided preliminary guidance; the actual delivery of written
guidance to the DCI has not yet occurred but should take place very
soon. In the meantime, DCI planning priorities for FY 1980 and appropriate
guidance to the Program Managers have been provided. It will be revised
if necessary.
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QUESTION 5: Would you describe in detail the planned organization and
responsibilities of the National Intelligence Tasking Center (NITC) and
how this compares to the existing DCI Committee procedures?
RESPONSE: The Deputy for Collection Tasking would absorb the functions
and responsibilities of the DCI Committees. In addition, we will establish
in the National Intelligence Tasking Center the capability to look at
the problems of collection intelligence across the three disciplines of
the collection committees (human intelligence, signals intelligence, and
imagery intelligence). The greatest weakness in our intelligence collection
process today is that there is no mechanism for ensuring that we are
going to apply just the right amount of collection assets and that we
are going to consider all possible collection assets when tackling a
problem. Today the DCI must go to a whole series of committees and
Program Managers to ensure that this is done properly. The new NITC
would take an individual collection problem--be it formed on a geographic
basis or some topical basis--and consider what the best mix of human
intelligence, signals intelligence, and imagery intelligence will be to
meet that requirement. The NITC will then provide guidance to the basic
collection committees to ensure that they each play their appropriate
role in fulfilling the requirements which customers have placed on the
collection community.
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QUESTION 6: Will the various DCI Collection Committees continue? What
will be their structure and functions?
RESPONSE: In essence, the collection committees of the Intelligence
Community Staff will continue as the Office of Photographic Intelligence
Tasking, the Office of Human Intellience Tasking, and the Office of
Signals Intelligence Tasking. Their structure will be very similar to
that of the present. There will be a gradual evolution to their structure
and functions if and when experience provides ways to improve their
effectiveness.
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QUESTION 7: Could you explain how the TC will be manned? Let's start
with the FY 78 appropriated manning of in the Intelligence
Community Staff and track the numbers and organizational changes to your
revised configuration for the IC Staff.
RESPONSE: There arel authorized in the Intelligence Community
Staff. These will be divided into =or the Deputy for Resource
Management and =or the Deputy for Collection Tasking. The s aces
for the Deputy for Collection Tasking will be augmented by
The total of will be distributed as follows:
o L-Jre in the Imagery Committee and will constitute the Office of
Photo Intelligence Tasking.
o re in the SIGINT Committee and will compose the Office of
Signals Intelligence Tasking. This includes an augmentation of 2
spaces to the existing Committee to meet the requirements of an
expanded work load.
o Flare in the HUMINT Committee and will compose the Office of Human
Intelligence Tasking. This includes an augmentation of 5 spaces to
establish a new human source tasking requirements function.
o positions are being requested for the National Intelligence
as ing Office to perform the coordinating function among the three
offices of tasking.
positions are requested for an Office of Collection Evalu-
ation, which will perform the function of reviewing present and
possible future effectiveness of the mix of collection systems.
positions are requested for a Policy Group to prepare
proposals for the PRC(I), handle DCID 1/2, and examine long term
collection issues.
positions are requested for the Office of the Deputy for
Collection Tasking and administrative support.
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RESPONSE: 0 Spaces are encumbered by personnel detailed from other
Agencies or Services for which we reimburse them from our appropriation.
The remainin paces are filled by IC Staff Permanent Cadre Il and
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9. Are there any non-reimbursed spaces or personnel
performing IC Staff functions? If so, how many and what
functions do they perform?
There are at present non-.reimbursed personnel serv-
i.hg with the IC Staff. Of the a/re performing
IC Staff functions as follows: 0 are serving with the
DCI's Committee on Imagery Requirements and Exploitation.
(COMIREX). Their functions involve providing primary
support for the assessment and improvement of the performance
of national foreign intelligence imagery activities, projects
and systems. Two of these are non-professionals who pro-
vide administrative clerical support. The other serves
with the SIGINT Committee and works on the development
and maintenance of the National SIGINT Requirements System
(NSRS) and evaluates ,the~jesponsiv n ass
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Eight other non-reimbursed personnel are performing
non-IC Staff functions. Two of them are in Career De-
velopment/Executive Training programs of DoD, their parent
organization; three serve in a liaison capacity between
their parent organization and the IC Staff; and. three
serve on Ad Hoc Community task forces and will return to
their parent organizations by or before the end of FY 1978
when their work will be completed.
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QUESTION 9: Are there any non-reimbursed spaces or personnel performing
IC Staff functions? If so, how many and what functions do they perform?
RESPONSE: There are at present- reimbursed personnel serving with
the IC Staff. Of the are performing IC Staff functions as
follows: 0 are serving wit the DCI's Committee on Imagery Require-
ments and Exploitation (COMIREX). Their functions involve providing
primary support for the assessment and improvement of the performance of
national foreign intelligence imagery activities, projects and systems.
Two of these are non-professionals who provide administrative clerical
support. The other serves with the SIGINT Committee and works on the
development and maintenance of the National SIGINT Requirements System
(NSRS) and evaluates the responsiveness of the U.S. SIGINT System to
validate requirements. These will be absorbed in the increase
spaces requested by reprogramming.
Eight other non-reimbursed personnel are performing non-IC Staff
functions. Two of them are in Career Development/Executive Training
programs of DoD, their parent organization; three serve in a liaison
capacity between their parent organization and the IC Staff; and three
serve on Ad Hoc Community task forces and will return to their parent
organizations by or before the end of FY 1978 when their work will be
completed.
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QUESTION 10: Admiral Turner, as regards the reorganization, what specific
steps and documentation is planned for this reprogramming action? In
what timeframe? Has 0MB approved this action?
RESPONSE: The specific steps that were taken first involved contracting
0MB to seek their support of the reprogramming action. In a meeting
with 0MB representatives, the IC Staff made proposals identifying where
the positions and money could be obtained for the FY 78 reprogramming
action that would be necessary. Next, 0MB asked for documentation which
would show how the reorganization could be accomplished, and how the
additional positions and funds required would be allocated to meet the
requirements of the Collection Tasking Staff (which includes the National
Intelligence Tasking Center) and the Resource Management Staff. This
information has been provided and has been approved by 0MB and the
President for transmittal to Congress.
The proposed reorganization would take place in two phases. Phase I
will constitute a reprogramming action contemplated for FY 78 in which
=positions and appropriate funds would be transferred from the CIA for
allocation between the Collection Tasking Staff and the Resource Manage-
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Collection Tasking Staff and the Resource Management Staff. The FY 79
budget amendment, or Phase II, would constitute the completion of the
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0MB will very shortly transmit documentation to the appropriate Con-
gressional Committees responsible for consideration of the reprogramming
request. This letter will also alert the Committees that a budget
amendment for FY 79 will be forthcoming at the regular appointed time
for this type activity on the Congressional calendar.
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QUESTION 11: Where will the NITC be located and what will be the responsi-
bilities of its host organization?
RESPONSE: That portion of the NITC which deals with the management of
collection assets for indications and warning and crisis management
will be colocated with the Collection Coordination Facility (CCF) in the
Pentagon. The remainder of the NITC will be located at the Intelligence
Community or in the CIA facility at Langley. Support
arrangements between the host units and the NITC have not been established.
Once final arrangements have been established, details will be worked out
to obtain efficient and economic support from available resources.
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QUESTION 12: What will be the relationship between the NITC and the
Collection Coordination Facility (CCF) in the Pentagon? Will you assume
certain of these tasking functions? What about the JCS Joint Reconnaissance
Center? The National Military Intelligence Center?
RESPONSE: It has been proposed that the Director of the CCF will be
double-hatted to the NITC. In short, the CCF and the crisis management
unit from the NITO will be colocated at the Pentagon and will work in
tandem on collection problems which are time sensitive. In this way,
the military inputs to the tasking of national collection elements will
come through the CCF to the NITC directly. Likewise, national level
requests for tactical tasking for policy purposes will go directly from
the NITC to the CCF. In short, every effort will be made to avoid any
duplication of functions. The NITC will not assume any tasking functions
from the CCF since the CCF has no tasking authority over national intelli-
gence elements. The Joint Reconnaissance Center will continue to function
and report to the CCF. Both the CCF and the NITC's element in the
Pentagon will be supported by the National Military Intelligence Center.
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QUESTION 13: What procedures will be established to permit military and
other Intelligence Community organizations to request tasking of a specific
collection system vis-a-vis requesting some type of information thereby
allowing organizational tradeoffs with organic collection resources?
RESPONSE: Where National collection assets are involved, they will
simply make their requests through the NITC, being specific as to how
they want their requests fulfilled and why. This will help the NITC
make final judgments as to how best to satisfy their needs. NITC and
the CCF, operating in concert, will seek to put together the optimum
mix of National and tactical collection tasking to meet such requirements.
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QUESTION 14: Will Intelligence Community organizations be provided with
sufficient information concerning the capabilities and limitations of
various collection systems to make these tradeoffs?
RESPONSE: Yes, such information is readily available today through the
three collection committees and will be through the three tasking offices
which the collection committees will constitute in the new organization.
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QUESTION 15: What degree of military service participation is envisioned
for the NITC? Will these personnel be detailed from the parent service
or permanently assigned?
RESPONSE: About 12 military personnel on detail from their parent service
will be on regular rotation to the NITC.
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QUESTION 16: What procedures have been established for the transition of
NITC control from the DCI to the Secretary of Defense during periods of
crisis or war?
RESPONSE: None as yet. This is a clear requirement from Executive Order
12036 and will be addressed as quickly as possible once the NITC is in
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The Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D.C. 20505
Intelligence Community Staff
Mr. Charles W. Snodgrass
Committee on Appropriations
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515
21 April 1978
Dear Mr. Snodgrass:
Attached find our answers to the supplementary Questions for
the Record which were submitted by Congressman Burlison at the
11 April 1978 NFIP Hearing.
Sincerely,
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Reorganization/Management
QUESTION 1: Executive Order 12036, like its predecessor, confers upon
the DCI responsibility for oversight of national foreign intelligence
activities. What review process have you instigated to assure that all
foreign intelligence has been included in the NFIP? Have you contacted
any other agencies or organizations not currently represented within the
NFIP to determine which conduct foreign intelligence activities (i.e.
Coast Guard)? If not, do you intend to do so?
RESPONSE: All foreign intelligence has not been included in the NFIP
and it is not deemed appropriate to do so. The primary exception is
tactical intelligence housed in the Department of Defense. Beyond that,
there are minor but important intelligence inputs from agencies such as
the Coast Guard, the Drug Enforcement Agency, Immigration and Natural-
ization Service, etc. It is not deemed wise or appropriate to place any
portion of the budgets of these agencies within the NFIP primarily
because they are so exclusively law enforcement agencies and the foreign
intelligence product is such a small portion of what they do.
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QUESTION 2: E.O. 12036 directs that the DCI shall have specific
responsibilities in the realm of budget execution. Since the
power of expenditure remains with the separate Services and agencies,
what do you view your role to be in this phase of the budget cycle?
How would this be carried out? Would additional personnel be re-
quired and, if so, how many?
RESPONSE: I view my role to be one of monitoring the rate of
disbursement of funds appropriated by the Congress and making
recommendations to the appropriate head of department if that rate
of disbursement is not supportive of the National Foreign Intel-
ligence Program. Further, my role in reprogramming is increased
considerably under the following provisions of Executive Order
12036:
"The DCI shall have full and exclusive authority for
reprogramming NFIP funds ..."
The total added manpower for these functions will be in the range of
two or three people.
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QUESTION 3: In the FY 79 NFIP budget, there is a large percentage of
the resources which are earmarked for ADP and ADP support services.
Will your new organizations include an ADP management element responsible
for all Community ADP efforts? Will this management element serve in a
technical advisory capacity or will it play a management and oversight
role? What impact do you believe this element will have on NFIP ADP?
RESPONSE: Yes. A ten-man office will be established under the Deputy
for Resource Management. He will be entrusted with both the technical
advisory capacity and the management and oversight roles. Primary
impact is intended=to be ensuring that there is compatibility between
various ADP programs within the Community where compatibility is necessary
or desirable; ensuring that there is no overlap or competition between
ADP programs but rather close coordination; and ensuring that from a
Community-wide point of view, we are anticipating ADP requirements of
the next decade at least.
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QUESTION 4: E.O. 12036 states that the DCI is responsible for providing
planning and programming guidance based upon the Policy Review Committee
(PRC) policy and priorities. Has the PRC met and provided you this
policy guidance for FY 80? Have your planning priorities been established
and FY 80 guidance documents provided to NFIP activities?
RESPONSE: The PRC(I) has met. The discussions at the meetings themselves
have provided preliminary guidance; the actual delivery of written
guidance to the DCI has not yet occurred but should take place very
soon. In the meantime, DCI planning priorities for FY 1980 and appropriate
guidance to the Program Managers have been provided. It will be revised
if necessary.
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QUESTION 5: Would you describe in detail the planned organization and
responsibilities of the National Intelligence Tasking Center (NITC) and
how this compares to the existing DCI Committee procedures?
RESPONSE: The Deputy for Collection Tasking would absorb the functions
and responsibilities of the DCI Committees. In addition, we will establish
in the National Intelligence Tasking Center the capability to look at
the problems of collection intelligence across the three disciplines of
the collection committees (human intelligence, signals intelligence, and
imagery intelligence). The greatest weakness in our intelligence collection
process today is that there is no mechanism for ensuring that we are
going to apply just the right amount of collection assets and that we
are going to consider all possible collection assets when tackling a
problem. Today the DCI must go to a whole series of committees and
Program Managers to ensure that this is done properly. The new NITC
would take an individual collection problem--be it formed on a geographic
basis or some topical basis--and consider what the best mix of human
intelligence, signals intelligence, and imagery intelligence will be to
meet that requirement. The NITC will then provide guidance to the basic
collection committees to ensure that they each play their appropriate
role in fulfilling the requirements which customers have placed on the
collection community.
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QUESTION 6: Will the various DCI Collection Committees continue? What
will be their structure and functions?
RESPONSE: In essence, the collection committees of the Intelligence
Community Staff will continue as the Office of Photographic Intelligence
Tasking, the Office of Human Intellience Tasking, and the Office of
Signals Intelligence Tasking. Their structure will be very similar to
that of the present. There will be a gradual evolution to their structure
and functions if and when experience provides ways to improve their
effectiveness.
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QUESTION 7: Could you explain how h NITC will be manned? Let's start
with the FY 78 appropriated manning in the Intelligence
Community Staff and track the numbers and organizational changes to your
revised configuration for the IC Staff.
RESPONSE: There are paces authorized in the Intelligence Community
Staff. These will be divided into ^for the Deputy for Resource
Management and =or the Deputy for Collection Tasking. The spaces
for the Deput for Collection Tasking will be augmented by spaces.
The total of spaces will be distributed as follows:
o ^ are in the Imagery Committee and will constitute the Office of
Photo Intelligence Tasking.
o Flare in the SIGINT Committee and will compose the Office of
Signals Intelligence Tasking. This includes an augmentation of 2
spaces to the existing Committee to meet the requirements of an
expanded work load.
o are in the HUMINT Committee and will compose the Office of Human
Intelligence Tasking. This includes an augmentation of ^spaces to
establish a new human source tasking requirements function.
positions are being requested for the National Intelligence
Tasking Office to perform the coordinating function among the three
offices of tasking.
o positions are requested for an Office of Collection Evalu-
ation, which will perform the function of reviewing present and
possible future effectiveness of the mix of collection systems.
positions are requested for a Policy Group to prepare
proposals for the PRC(I), handle DCID 1/2, and examine long term
collection issues.
positions are requested for the Office of the Deputy for
Collection Tasking and administrative support.
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QUESTION 8: How many of these
other agencies or services?
spaces are actually reimbursed to
RESPONSE: paces are encumbered by personnel detailed from other
Agencies or Services for which we reimburse them from our appropriation.
The remaining0 spaces are filled by IC Staff Permanent Cadre 0 and
Contract I mployees.
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QUESTION 9: Are there any non-reimbursed spaces or personnel performing
IC Staff functions? If so, how many and what functions do they perform?
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RESPONSE: There are resent
the IC Staff Of the
on-reimbursed personnel serving with
are performing IC Staff functions as
follows: 0 are serving with he DCI's Committee on Imagery Require-
ments and Exploitation (COMIREX). Their functions involve providing
primary support for the assessment and improvement of the performance of
national foreign intelligence imagery activities, projects and systems.
Two of these are non-professionals who provide administrative clerical
support. The other serves with the SIGINT Committee and works on the
development and maintenance of the National SIGINT Requirements System
(NSRS) and evaluates the responsiveness of the U.S. SIGINT System to
validate requirements. Permanent billets will be requested for these
positions in the next budget submission.
Eight other non-reimbursed personnel are performing non-IC Staff
functions. Two of them are in Career Development/Executive Training
programs of DoD, their parent organization; three serve in a liaison
capacity between their parent organization and the IC Staff; and three
serve on Ad Hoc Community task forces and will return to their parent
organizations by or before the end of FY 1978 when their work will be
completed.
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QUESTION 10: Admiral Turner, as regards the reorganization, what specific
steps and documentation is planned for this reprogramming action? In
what timeframe? Has OMB approved this action?
RESPONSE: The specific steps that were taken first involved contracting
OMB to seek their support of the reprogramming action. In a meeting
with OMB representatives, the IC Staff made proposals identifying where
the positions and money could be obtained for the FY 78 reprogramming
action that would be necessary. Next, OMB asked for documentation which
would show how the reorganization could be accomplished, and how the
additional positions and funds required would be allocated to meet the
requirements of the Collection Tasking Staff (which includes the National
Intelligence Tasking Center) and the Resource Management Staff. This
information has been provided and has been approved by OMB and the
President for transmittal to Congress.
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allocation between the Collection Tasking Staff and the Resource Manage-
ment Staff. Phase II will be a FY 79 budget amendment to transfer
positions and appropriate funds from DoD for allocation between th
Collection Tasking Staff and the Resource Management Staff. The FY 79
budget amendment, or Phase II, would constitute the completion of the
reorganization as currently envisioned. At this point assuming Con-
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OMB will very shortly transmit documentation to the appropriate Con-
gressional Committees responsible for consideration of the reprogramming
request. This letter will also alert the Committees that a budget
amendment for FY 79 will be forthcoming at the regular appointed time
for this type activity on the Congressional calendar.
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QUESTION 11: Where will the NITC be located and what will be the responsi-
bilities of its host organization?
RESPONSE: That portion of the NITC which deals with the management of
collection assets for indications and warning and crisis management
will be colocated with the Collection Coordination Facility (CCF) in the
Pentagon. The remainder of the NITC will be located at the Intelligence
Community or in the CIA facility at Langley. Support
arrangements between he host units and the NITC have not been established.
Once final arrangements have been established, details will be worked out
to obtain efficient and economic support from available resources.
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QUESTION 12: What will be the relationship between the NITC and the
Collection Coordination Facility (CCF) in the Pentagon? Will you assume
certain of these tasking functions? What about the JCS Joint Reconnaissance
Center? The National Military Intelligence Center?
RESPONSE: It has been proposed that the Director of the CCF will be
double-hatted to the NITC. In short, the CCF and the crisis management
unit from the NITO will be colocated at the Pentagon and will work in
tandem on collection problems which are time sensitive. In this way,
the military inputs to the tasking of national collection elements will
come through the CCF to the NITC directly. Likewise, national level
requests for tactical tasking for policy purposes will go directly from
the NITC to the CCF. In short, every effort will be made to avoid any
duplication of functions. The NITC will not assume any tasking functions
from the CCF since the CCF has no tasking authority over national intelli-
gence elements. The Joint Reconnaissance Center will continue to function
and report to the CCF. Both the CCF and the NITC's element in the
Pentagon will be supported by the National Military Intelligence Center.
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QUESTION 13: What procedures will be established to permit military and
other Intelligence Community organizations to request tasking of a specific
collection system vis-a-vis requesting some type of information thereby
allowing organizational tradeoffs with organic collection resources?
RESPONSE: Where National collection assets are involved, they will
simply make their requests through the NITC, being specific as to how
they want their requests fulfilled and why. This will help the NITC
make final judgments as to how best to satisfy their needs. NITC and
the CCF, operating in concert, will seek to put together the optimum
mix of National and tactical collection tasking to meet such requirements.
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QUESTION 14: Will Intelligence Community organizations be provided with
sufficient information concerning the capabilities and limitations of
various collection systems to make these tradeoffs?
RESPONSE: Yes, such information is readily available today through the
three collection committees and will be through the three tasking offices
which the collection committees will constitute in the new organization.
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QUESTION 15: What degree of military service participation is envisioned
for the NITC? Will these personnel be detailed from the parent service
or permanently assigned?
RESPONSE: About 12 military personnel on detail from their parent service
will be on regular rotation to the NITC.
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QUESTION 16: What procedures have been established for the transition of
NITC control from the DCI to the Secretary of Defense during periods of
crisis or war?
RESPONSE: None as yet. This is a clear requirement from Executive Order
12036 and will be addressed as quickly as possible once the NITC is in
operation.
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The Director of Central Intelligence
Intelligence Community Staff
Mr. Charles W. Snodgrass
Committee on Appropriations
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515
Dear Mr. Snodgrass:
19 April 1978
Attached are the majority of my answers to the Questions for the
Record for the 12 April National/Tactical Interface Hearing. I will
have the answers to the remaining questions by the end of the week.
Sincerely,
Attachment:
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