OBJECTIVES FOR THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 15, 2006
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: September 6, 1973
• Content Type: MF

MEMORANDUM FOR: The President
SUBJECT Objectives for the Intelligence Community
REFERENCE The President's Memorandum of April 18, 1973
THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
September 6, 1973
Your directive of November 1971 included a list of major
objectives that must be attained to increase substantially the
efficiency and effectiveness of the intelligence. community. I
propose to adapt these as the Intelligence Community's objec-
tives and to require that specific steps toward them be taken
during the next four to eighteen months.
A. The responsiveness of the U.S. foreign intelligence
effort with respect to national requirements must be
subject to continuing review and the quality, scope
and timeliness of the community's product must be
improved.
To meet these objectives, I plan to do the fol-
lowing regarding the National Intelligence
Product:
-- through the NSCIC, determine by December 1,
1973 which national intelligence products
satisfy user needs and identify new product
requirements;
-- achieve significant improvements in product
formats and production procedures to increase
responsiveness early in 1974;
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-- establish by December 31, 1973 procedures to
enable the NSCIC and my own staff to review
the responsiveness and quality of the com-
munity's product.
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B.. Authoritative and responsible leadership for the com-
munity as a whole must be assured.
To meet this community leadership goal, I will:
-- issue specific planning objectives shortly
to the elements of the community;
-- complete the restructuring and strengthening
of my personal staff by October 15, 1973 to
provide me independent support in community
matters;
-- participate actively in the NSCIC and insure-
that IRAC and USIB have a dynamic and force-
ful role in the community;
-- review the USIB committee structure before
the end of 1973 and direct, if necessary,
changes to increase USIB effectiveness in
advising me on national requirements;
-- review programs to upgrade the quality of
intelligence personnel and improve personnel
management in the community.
C. A more efficient use of resources by the community in
the collection of intelligence information must be
achieved. Utilization of the means available must be
in consonance with approved requirements of U.S. secu-
rity and national interests.
To meet this goal I will, with respect to
National Intelligence Program Budget Recommendations:
-- continue to support the President's intelli-
gence budget for FY 1974 before Congress;
-- develop for FY 1975 and beyond National In-
telligence Program Budget recommendations.
These will result from the review procedure
of the various intelligence entities and the
total review and deliberations of the IRAC
on the programs therein. The National In-
telligence Program Budget will be my personal
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recommendation to the President on the level
of national intelligence resources, their
utilization and performance;
institute a quarterly review by the IRAC of
resource utilization by all intelligence en-
tities;
with the advice of IRAC and the USIB, define
and complete, throughout FY 1974, a series
of major program issue studies.
Research and Development:
-- form an R&D Advisory Council as a subcommit-
tee of IRAC by mid-October 1973;
-- instruct the Council to review all R&D activi-
ties within the National Intelligence Program
to identify ongoing R&D efforts, their costs,
their purpose, and who has responsibility for
each effort;
instruct the Council to recommend by January
1, 1974 an overall R&D strategy and struc-
ture for IRAC consideration based on a clear
perception of intelligence needs which identi-
fies technological gaps and resource deficien-
cies, eliminates unnecessary duplication of
effort, and stresses cross-program technology
transference.
D. Assignment of intelligence functions within the com-
munity must be reviewed and revised to eliminate in-
efficient, unnecessary or out-moded activities.
To meet this goal I will, with respect to
Measures of Intelligence Worth:
-- undertake specific studies to evaluate the
intelligence product and its worth to the
consumer and eliminate intelligence collec-
tion and production effort of marginal useful-
ness;
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-- undertake selective review during the next 18
months of the following in order to better
rationalize the division of labor and in-
crease the number of services of common con-
cern performed within the community;
-- indications and warning intelligence
-- ELINT processing and exploitation
-- current intelligence reporting
-- HUMINT operations and foreign service
reporting
-- explore and, where necessary, increase the
usefulness of the intelligence product to Net
Assessment producers and consumers.
Tactical Intelligence:
-- submit a report in the third quarter of FY
1974 on the national/tactical intelligence
interface. As a basis for this report I
will,
-- ask the Department of Defense and the Joint
Chiefs of Staff to review the requirements
for intelligence assets in place with the
military forces, and identify support which
could be provided to the military forces
from national assets;
-- determine, with the assistance of program
managers, the contribution which can be
made to the national intelligence effort
by the in-place assets of the military
forces, and identify the kinds and amounts
of data from national assets which can be
provided in a timely and usable form to
military force commanders;
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-- formulate recommendations in consultation
with'the Secretary of Defense by. early in
1974 to insure that the needs of national
intelligence and of military operations are
met and to avoid unnecessary overlap or
duplication in the national and tactical
areas.
E. The provision of intelligence and its utilization must
enhance the formulation of the foreign, military and
economic policies of the U.S. Government and the plan-
ning for and conduct of military operations by U.S.
forces.
To meet this goal I will, with respect to
-- implement a procedure with USIB whereby re-
quirements for collection and production of
intelligence are kept under continuing review.
Provision will be made for the introduction
of new requirements as needed and for elimina-
tion of those which become out-of-date.
Military Intelligence:
-- have the Department of Defense identify by
November 1, 1973 the ten or so highest priority
needs in the field of technical intelligence
required by their planners;
Economic Intelligence:
-- identify during the second quarter of FY 1974
the current needs of the users of foreign eco-
nomic intelligence;
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-- determine, in coordination with other Federal
agencies, what contribution the intelligence
community can make in this area;
-- determine appropriate resource levels and,
through USIB, assign responsibilities for
collection and production in this area;
-- provide for implementation of this program by
the end of the third quarter of FY 1974.
-- in coordination with other Federal agencies,
identify the needs for foreign intelligence
in these areas, and match the unique capabili-
ties of the intelligence community to those
needs;
-- determine by January 1, 1974 the appropriate
assignment of responsibilities and the re-
source levels which the community should de-
vote to these problems.
W.E. Colby
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