LETTER TO THE HONORABLE JOHN L. MCCLELLAN FROM W.E. COLBY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 17, 2006
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: August 22, 1974
• Content Type: LETTER

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The Honorable John L. McClellan
Chairman, Coassittee on Appropriations
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
Dear Mr. Chairman:
I an enclosing for your information copies of the final
versions of the Objectives for the Intelligence City
for Fiscal Year 1975 and the Key intelligence Questions for
Fiscal Year 1975.
The first part of the Objectives I have termed "Substantive
Objectives $ n and the Key Intelligence Questions are designed
to be responsive to and to support these Objectives. The
Key Intelligence Questions we issued as guidance to the
Intelligence Comaunity for the collection and production of
intelligence on subjects of major importance to national-
level intelligence consumers. They represent an effort to
establish substantive intelligence needs as the driving
force for the Intelligence Community.
The organisation evaluation, and rest allocation
processes of the Intelligence Comstunity should seek to
satisfy such intelligence requirements. Reflecting this, I
have called the second section of the Objectives "Resource
Management Objectives." It deals with the iAteraetion of
the members of the Intelligence Canomity and the allocation
of resources to and among them. Milestones have been estab-
lished to measure and evaluate our progress toward satisfying
these Objectives and to provide a customer satisfaction
orientation to our resources review.
The Objectives will become the basis fbr my annual
report to the President on how effectively the Intelligence
Community performs during fiscal Year 193. 1 intend to
ensure that the substantive intelligence needs of our
customers dominate discussions and decisions about the
Intelligence C ty.
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It is ray hope that the Objeatlves and Key Intelligence
Questions will be of considerable bhlp in improving the
responsiveness of the Intelligence 1eeasn ity to the needs of
the Presidents the National Security Council., and the
Congress. I would be pleased to discuss them th*r with
you and the bsexittee at your convenience.
Sincerely,
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W. E. Colby
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