ASSESSMENT OF NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES AND DEVELOPMENTS (U)

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 5, 2005
• Sequence Number: 59
• Publication Date: June 1, 1978
• Content Type: MF

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Intelligence Community Staff
IC 2361-78
0 1 JUN 1978
Deputy to the DCI for Resource Management
SUBJECT: Assessment of Nuclear Proliferation Intelligence
Activities and Developments
1. With the development of our FY 80-83 program impending, an
assessme of the Community's progress and prospects in the area of
the nuclear proliferation program is required for guidance of resource
allocation and investment decisions. To aid this assessment, you are
requested to provide the following:
a. answers to the questions in Attachment 1,
b. resource allocation figures for FY 77 (update), 78,
and 79 (Attachment 2),
c. funding of external contracts directly related to
nuclear proliferation for FY 77 (update), 7.8, and 79 (Attach-
ment 3).
2. In addition to the foregoing, the National Intelligence
Officer or uclear Proliferation is requested to report the status and
schedule of finished intelligence production extending from FY 77 through
FY 79; the listing should reflect both work in-house and at the national
laboratories.
3. I have designated the Director of Performance Evaluation and
Improvement to coordinate this review. lof his staff
will be the point of contact. will
augment your responses with appropriate interviews. We wou i e to
have the benefit of your input by 16 June 1978.
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Attachments:
1. Questions Concerning
Nuclear Proliferation
Intelligence
2. Form for Nuclear Proliferation
Intelligence Resource
Allocation Reporting
3. Format for Nuclear Proliferation
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SUBJECT: Assessment of Nuclear Proliferation Intelligence Activities
and Developments Q
Distribution: (IC 2361-78)
D/DCI/RM
SA/D/DCI/IC
1 - AD/OPEI
1 - D/OPP
1 - D/OPBD
1 - C/OPEI/ID
1 - C/OPEI/SD
1 - C/OPEI/HRD
1 - RM Registry
1 - PAID
1 - PAID C rono
D/DCI/RM/OPEI./PAID
.June 1978)
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SECRET
FY 77178/79
Outside Contracts by Intelligence Community
for Nuclear Proliferation
Attachment 3
Study Subject and
Contract Deliverables
Current Status
Contractor
$ in Thousands
TOTAL $
(INSTRUCTIONS: Use this format for your response.)
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he erector o Centra intelligence
Intelligence Community Staff
DCI/IC 78-3859
JUN 1978
Mr. Daniel A. Childs
Staff Member
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
Dear Mr. Childs:
Attached are our answers for the record to the supplementary
questions which you have provided as a follow-on of the DCI
25 May hearing before the Budget Authorization Subcommittee con-
cerning the proposed Intelligence Community Staff reorganization.
Sincerely,
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Resource Management
Attachment
As Stated
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SUBJECT: Letter to Mr. Childs, SSCI , transmitting questions for the
record regarding IC Reorganization
DISTRIBUTION:
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::t D/DCI/RM
1 - D/DCI/CT
1 - D/OPBD
1 - AD/OPEI
1 - AD/OPP!
1 - D/OCIS
1 - C/SS/IC
1 - OLC
1 - OPBD
1 - OPBD Chrono
1 - OPBD Subj.
1 - IC Registry
IC/OPBD/I
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QUESTION: What reason do you have to speculate about the possibility
of the CAMS hardware and software changing drastically by FY 1980?
RESPONSE: An extensive effort is currently underway to ensure that
CAMS software improvements are ready to handle a major collection
system targeting software upgrade expected to be operational in the
mid-FY 79 to early FY 80 time frame. These software upgrades will
place a significant additional processing burden on CAMS and will
necessitate some hardware improvements.
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QUESTION: What is the rationale for 1 effort to "develop
sophisticated collection strategies" hen the principal
task of the proposed NITC is to do essentially same thing?
RESPONSE: The sophisticated collection strategies referred to are
automated support for allocating collection system resources and
deriving expected levels of collection system performance against
stated requirements. These are discipline specific requirements
related to requirements management, on-orbit capabilities, and
fine-tuning for operational efficiency. It is expected that
these capabilities will be exercised frequently to support NITC
collection strategy development conducted at the interdiscipline
level.
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QUESTION: Funds have been requested
for a contractual
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effort to determine Office of Imagery on-vine raphics requirements;
yet, at the same time has been requested to purchase
graphics terminals for is office. What is the rationale for
buying graphics terminals before the requirements are fully defined?
RESPONSE: On-line graphics capabilities were specified in the
original CAMS requirements, but were set aside by mutual agreement
to permit maximum developmental effort on other areas. Detailed
specification of the Office of Imagery's on-line graphics require-
ments has been initiated in FY 78. Review of these specifications
and design of a CAMS hardware/software graphics capability should
be sufficiently complete in FY 79 to permit graphics hardware
(i.e., terminals) acquisition towards the end of the fiscal year.
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