STUDY OF THE DCI'S COORDINATION METHODS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M01082A000700260005-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 15, 2004
• Sequence Number: 5
• Content Type: MF

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SUBJECT : Study of the DCI's Coordination Methods
STAT 1. I refer to our revious discussions on the above and
your related talks with AD/DCI/IC. Proceed with
the above project, as desc i our 11 January 1974
proposal. You are to work with and me and have
full access to all past, present an u ure activities of the
Intelligence Community Staff while on this project. I may
later want you to expand the- completed "coordination models
into a proposed "Intelligence Community System" similar to
your development of the Defense Intelligence Plan in DIA
or the National COMINT Plan while in NSA.
2. I request that other policy and management activities
of the Intelligence Community also cooperate with you in
gathering pertinent data for this endeavor. Completion of
this unique project should provide the entire community with a
better appreciation of its complex interworkings, relationships
and methods.
ST
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"A model is a collection of assertions about some reality--
past, present, or predicted... a set of statements which...
describe patterns of relationships.. .between components...
a model is a scientific tool." Simulation in International
Relations, Guetzkov, etal.
"Network modeling... the graphicsdisplay of relationships
among activities... to describe the sequence relationships
among activities... can... be used...in PERT (Program Evaluation
and Review TechnIque)...there are efficient... procedures
for obtaining-information about flows through the network.....
The simulation model... provides management with an experimental
laboratory in which new policies... schedules and changes
in other decision variables can be introduced... and the
consequences estimated." Management: Concepts and Practice,
Brown (ed), Industrial College of the Armed Forces,(1967.)
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