MEMORANDUM FOR : MR. BUSH FROM B. C. EVANS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M01048A001500140005-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 26, 2005
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: April 28, 1976
• Content Type: MF

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28 April 1976
: B. C. Evans, Executive Secretary
1. For this particular study (NSSM 241), the NSC Interdepartmental
Group for African Affairs -- chaired by the Assistant Secretary of State
for African Affairs -- is the sponsor. The CIA representative on the group
is I Chief of Africa Division. The NIO for AF,
will also attend all meetings.
2. The NSC Staff sends NSSMs to members of the Senior Review
Group (Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Director of Central Intel-
ligence, and Chairman/Joint Chiefs of Staff) and to other agencies as appro-
priate. The NSSM assigns action by directing that a study be prepared by
an ad hoc committee, or one of five regional Interdepartmental Groups, or
the Under Secretaries Committee. An Assistant Secretary of State chairs
the Interdepartmental Groups, and the NSC Staff designates a chairman for.
the ad hoc committees. Each NSSM addressee designates a representative.
3. Within CIA, the Executive Secretary assigns action and info
addressees as appropriate. When we receive the paper here, we look for
any other correspondence on the subject to be aware of previous processing.
We keep track of the action by our own in-house suspense system and on the
Checklist so we know when it is due and if the due date slips. One of the
NIOs usually acts as the Agency representative when an ad hoc committee
has the action. A DDO Division Chief is the Agency representative on the
Interdepartmental Groups, although an NIO normally takes part in the
management of the response. The Directorates make substantive inputs.
The O/DDI is still the office of record for NSSMs, but when a written NSSM
response is prepared, the NIOs usually prepare the response for your signa-
ture.
4. When the response is complete, it goes to the NSC Staff for review
where the Senior Review Group either considers it at a meeting or returns it
to the NSSM addressees for concurrence or comment:,. The President may
then call for an NSC meeting to consider the response, or he can issue a
L9CUfi iY'
National,.Decision Memorandum, with or without consideration at an NSC
meeting.
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5. In the past, Mr. Colby preferred to know of all NSSM require-
ments and often contributed his comments and guidelines before the
response went to the NSC for review. We supply the SA/DCI with a copy
of each of the NSSMs, and you may wish to have the NIOs keep you informed
of the status of these studies as Mr. Colby did during his weekly meetings
with the NIOs.
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