PRC(I) MEETING OF 20 JULY 1978

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 27, 2004
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: July 17, 1978
• Content Type: MF

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DCI/IC 78-0044
17 July 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
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Deputy to the DCI for Resource Management
SUBJECT: PRC(I) Meeting of 20 July 1978
1. On several occasions, you and I have discussed ways to involve
the PRC(I) in the budget process. What follows is a distillation of the
important points as well as some further suggestions in order to help
you prepare for Item 3 on Thursday's agenda.
- A direct linkage between National Intelligence Topics
and Budget options is probably impossible. In the future I
hope to be able to relate missions to options, but we are not
ready to try it yet. The memo you circulated to the PRC(I) in
support of agenda Item 2 comes as close to doing that as I
feel we can at this stage.
- Once the PRC(I) approves the NITS, presumably on
Thursday, you intend to circulate them to Program Managers
and will ask that community members respond to user's
priorities in structuring their budget submissions.
You also expect that an updated set of the NITs will be
a consideration in the NFIP guidance you will issue next
year.
- At the PRC(I) meeting in March you committed
yourself to developing a process for involving the PRC(I)
in the NFIP reviews. You are beginning that process by
discussing mission priorities at the meeting on Thursday.
You expect to consider members' views as part of your
program decision process, and you plan to repeat the
cycle at budget review time.
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- You can remind the members that you meet regularly
with them individually and discuss, among other subjects,
their views on priorities and budget options. Although
not formal PRC(I) sessions, you consider these meetings to
be one way for members to advise you of their opinions.
- In sum, you would like to have the PRC(I)'s support
when you present the NFIP to OMB and the President.
Therefore you may want to offer to send them copies of the
tentative decision letters and invite their comments on specific
issues before your final decisions are promulgated. This would
have to be done with the understanding that only you
are in a position to resolve differences and make the final
decision on NFIP matters.
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