RESPONSE TO DR. CURRIE'S LETTER ON HUMINT R&D

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: Response to Dr. Currie's Letter
on IIUMINT R&D
1. Dr. Currie has provided you a thoughtful and
constructive report on the Intelligence R&D Council's
reactions to the HUMINT R&D presentation given 30 July.
His comments are valid and helpful.
2. The Council observes that the community has no
effective HUMINT R&D program. We recognized this earlier
on and have established a permanent R&D Sub-Committee of
the Human Sources Committee. The IC Staff has obtained
the services for one year of a full-time R&D professional,
from DDS&T who will be providing a focal
point for this HSC effort. This sub-committee will address
long-term hardware and human skills R&D support to human
sources information collection and reporting.
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4.' I recommend you sign the attached letter which
responds briefly to the recommendations of Dr. Currie.
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The Honorable Malcolm R. Currie
Director of Defense Research
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Department of Defense
Washington, D.C. 20301
Dear Mal:
Thank you for your recent letter reporting the initial
review of HUMINT R&D by the Intelligence Research and
Development Council. As you recall, I sat in on part of
the 30 July meeting of the Council and found the time most
usefully spent. I am circulating your letter to members of
the Human Resources Committee of USIB to stimulate them
along the lines you suggest.
I agree with the points made in your letter. The
Human Resources Committee is forming a permanent R&D sub-.
committee to assist in the community HUMI''T R&D effort.
This subcommittee will provide an initial cross-organization,
working-level mechanism for the communi.t.y. The Intelligence
Community Staff, working with the Human Resources Committee,
is undertaking an effort to attain essential improvements in
training and personnel selection along the lines you and
others have suggested. After we have completed a survey of
available training programs in industry on interpersonal
skills, we will review our findings with the Council. The
recommendations the R&D Council might then make for longer
term R&D efforts in the human skills areas would be mast
beneficial.
I endorse also your suggestion that there be a joint
effort in the area of substance detection and that DARPA
assist us in working with private industry in selected areas
of exploratory or. basic research..
Thank you for your constructive assistance.
Sincerely,
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At our meeting in April we agreed that it would be useful for the Intelligence
Research and Development Council to review HUMINT R&D. It was our impression
that the Council review of R&D would be complementary to on-going Intelligence
Community Staff actions towards development of a national HUMINT plan.
I am pleased to report that the first step by the Council towards the objective
of providing you substantive comments on HUMINT R&D was taken. on 30 July, At
that time, Lieutenant General Wilson, USA, Acting Chairman, Human Sources Com-
mittee, and specialists in technical, physiological, and human skills research briefed
the Council on representative levels of effort, perceived gaps, and projects where
increased emphasis is deemed necessary.
As stated above, I view the aforementioned only as a first step. The Council
expects to review remaining areas within this R&D category hopefully no later than
January 1976. In the interim, I'd like to convey some initial impressions of the
Council on the premise that they will be of value to you in formulating your annual
recommendations to the President on this aspect of the National Intelligence Program.
The overall program appears loosely structured. The Human Sources Committee
has made significant strides in improving communications among community organiza-
tions, but there does not appear to be a viable cross-organization working-level R&D
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Funding for the projects identified in the briefing is modest. Selective increases
are appropriate. In some cases, the effort represents only maintaining contir ty or
awareness of current technology that could lead to high payoff if the level of ei_ ort
were to be increased.
Improvements in training and personnel selection criteria were stressed by
General Wilson as areas where constructive community efforts are urgently needed.
I wholeheartedly agree, as does most of the Council, that important gains could be
achieved early on by improving the selection process for and the training of informa-
tion gatherers and intelligence collectors of all agencies stationed abroad._ This
applies, I believe, in all reporting areas (economic, political, science and technologyy,
as well as the military). There appears little current emphasis in the community
on those basic human skills that private industry finds key to effective personal
relationships. I ain speaking of such interpersonal disciplines as salesmanship,
personality assessment, "body language, " and elicitation techniques to acquire
information. Much of the doctrine and techniques for this type of cultural inter-
change largely exists now, and implementation could begin now with longer term,
advanced supportive R&D programs developed in the future.
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The Honorable Albert C. Hall
Assistant Secretary (Intelligence)
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Washington, D. C. 20301
As you know, the importance of HUMIRT has been high-
lighted in several major documents. The PI1 AB HUMINT
Report was one of these and the USII:s Human Sources Comrrdtti e
is now preparing a response to the recommendations in that
report. We have also noted the need for study and planning to
improve communication among intelligence collectors and to
reduce bureaucratic rigidities.
I think this is a good time for us to take a hard look at
HUMINT relationships among the military services, the attache
system, and CIA. We need to identify the proper tasks for our
HUMINT effort, and the beet division of responsibilities among
HUMINT organizations for getting them done. Array, for exaitnple.
In this connection, I am asking Sam Wilson, in his capacity
as Acting Chairman of the Human Sources Con'mittee, to have the
Clandestine Intelligence Collection Advisory Group of that Conmitte:e
is do a study to focus on these points. I would expect that such a
study could be completed by the end of May.
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Honorable William E. Colby
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Thank you for your 1 April letter on the HUMINT situation. I
would agree that we need to carefully consider and orchestrate the
HUMINT interrelationships among the military services, the attache
system, and CIA. The Army's plans for expanding its clandestine
HUMINT collection have been briefed to me and my staff is consider-
ing them in some detail. While some of the projects appear to have
more potential than. others, I generally support these new initiatives.
In this light, I believe it would be useful if my office were represented
on the study group which you have asked Sam Wilson to chair.
have no objection, I would like to nominate
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HUMAN SOURCES COMMINITTTEE
FOCUS PROCEDURES
will be distributed in advance to invited participants. The agenda.
will reflect information needs related to the KIQ`s, CNTDIO's, and
other national intelligence concerns. . -
discussions, an agenda listing substantive topics or areas of concerns
reporting from all posts -and all -sources,. To fact i itate the FOCUS
reporting is considered in relation to US national objectives, as
,defined in various official documents, and in the context of available
Embassy (or regarding a particular problem). The adequacy of Embassy
-to take notes, prepare first drafts. of an assessment report, and
provide other assistance as requested- During the seminars,
analysts and other substantive experts from concerned Departments
and Agencies will discuss the adequacy, appropriateness, timeliness,
and utility of State, Defense, CIA, and other reporting from a given
seminars. HSC staff support may include the services of a reporteur
by the appropriate NIO or his designate. The chairperson, assisted
and supported by the. HSC staff, shall organize and conduct the
to evaluate performance and to feed back guidance to all human source
collectors. Project FOCUS involves reporting assessments, letters
to appropriate Ambassadors, collection manager responses, and other
related follow-on activity.
2. Planning. As part of its annual Action Program, the HSC will
develop a list of countries to be assessed during the coming six
months. This list will reflect recommendations from the NIO staff as
well as from Member Agencies of the Human Sources Committee. The
proposed list will be made available to the National Security Council
Intelligence Committee Working Group for review and modification as
appropriate. The FOCUS schedule will be amended as international
developments and changing US foreign policy concerns warrant. Collection
managers and overseas missions may be advised of proposed FOCUS
assessments as determined by Member Agencies of the HSC.
3. FOCUS Assessment Seminars. Assessment seminars will be chaired
1. Purpose. The FOCUS Project is sponsored by the Human Sources
Corrrrittee~HSCT of USIB. It is one response to guidance from the
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The NIO is encouraged to seek comment and counsel regarding the
draft report from some or all seminar participants. The report
'f'orwarded to the Chairman, HSC, should specify the extent of formal
or informal coordination. When possible, the report should reflect
a consensus evaluation of mission reporting; important differences
in viewpoint should be noted-
=-Y,.. CblI ection fanagers_ The Secreta-riat of the HSC will forward
the FOCUS assessment report to Committee Members who are responsible
for dissemination and staffing the report within their respective
Agencies. Members are expected to provide the report to appropriate
human source collection managers within their Agencies. These
managers. are asked to consider the strengths and weaknesses of
reporting identified in the assessment as these pertain to the past
activities of their collection elements, the adequacy of intelligence
guidance, the particular collection environment involved, and the
steps taken to improve future reporting.. The Washington collection
managers are asked to respond in writing via their HSC Member to the
Chairman, HSC, commenting on the assessment, outlining follow-up
activities designed to improve the collection/reporting situation,
and providing appropriate recommendations. At the call of the
Chairman or of any Member, the collection situation regarding a
FOCUS country may be placed on the HSC agenda for discussion at a
full Committee session. These discussions and papers will be consid-
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