DCI OBJECTIVES FOR THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY FOR FY 75

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M01082A000800100014-2
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• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2004
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: April 23, 1974
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: General Graham
Admiral Harvey
SUBJECT : DCI Objectives for the Intelligence
Community for FY 75
1. Attached are.
a. A proposed memorandum to the DCI which sets
forth the philosophy behind the "Objectives for the
Intelligence Community for Fiscal Year 1975" as currently
drafted and requesting his approval for dissemination
to USIB and IRAC members for comment. (I am forwarding
each of you this draft memorandum to the DCI in lieu of
a memorandum explaining how the proposed set of objectives
objectives listed.
mending specific changes in the "milestones," as appropriate.
In view of OMB comments on the 1974 objectives, it seems
likely that OMB will be more concerned with the adequacy of
the milestones than with the selection of the particular
was developed.)
b. A strawman draft of the proposed objectives.
2. It is suggested that the attachments be discussed
at an IC Staff meeting to be called by at which
each participant should be prepared to comment etail on
the list of objectives, proposing important new objectives
relating to his specific area of responsibility, and recom-
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT Objectives for the Intelligence Community
for Fiscal Year 1975
1. The attached memorandum for the President responds
to his letter of March 22, 1974 requesting that you submit
your recommendations for fiscal year 1975 intelligence
objectives by early June.
2. The proposed format for your recommendations is
considerably different from that for the fiscal year 1974
objectives.
a. The Presidential objectives set forth in his
letter of November 5, 1971 on "Organization and Manage-
ment of the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Community," and
which. are repeated in NSCID No. 1, are referred to in
his March 22 letter as "long-term goals," and are so
described in paragraph 1 of your response.
b. Paragraph 2 lists the ongoing substantive
objectives of the Intelligence Community which represent
the absolutely essential requirements of the National
Foreign intelligence Program. These are presented as
the substantive goals of the Community which relate to
the President's long-term goals.
c. Paragraph 3 presents a specific list of DCI
objectives to be accomplished by the Community in
fiscal year 1975 in direct support of the goals described
in paragraphs. 1 and 2.
3. The objectives for fiscal year 1975 have been
selected on the basis that they meet the criteria set forth
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his discussion at an OMB meeting of 22 February on "Management
by Objectives." These criteria are that, for a good objective,
there are positive answers to the following questions:
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Is the objective of Presidential significance?
Does it represent a high priority initiative that
vitally impacts the fulfillment of a major Community
.mission?
-- Does the objective focus on a specific result?
Has some form of pre-determined evaluation been
developed to quantitatively or subjectively measure
the end result?
-- Is the objective challenging but achievable?
Is the objective consistent with the decisions
reflected in the President's budget?
4. Generally, similar criteria were discussed in your
meeting with Mr. Ash on 17 April during consideration of the
status of the objectives you had submitted for fiscal year
1974.
5. While the 1974 objectives were-organized.under
five basic headings derived from the President's objectives
of November 1971, a total of 35 projects and tasks were
listed as sub-objectives.
6. The proposed 1975 listing is much shorter. No
attempt is made to list as objectives those actions which,
however important, are part of your ongoing responsibilities,
such as support of the President's budget before Congress.
7. The attached tabulation indicating milestones
projected for actions relating to each objective and the
expected end results is primarily for use in discussions
with 0MB and would not be integral to the memorandum sent to
the President.
8. It is requested that you:
a. Tentatively approve the attached list of
objectives, and
b. Sign the attached memorandum to USIB and IRAC
members which advises them their comments on the
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objectives are requested, and that the objectives will
be discussed at the IRAC meeting set for 15 May and at
the USIB meeting of 16 May.
Daniel 0. Graham
Lieutenant General, USA
D/DCI/IC
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MEMORANDUM FOR: The President
SUBJECT FY 1975 Objectives for the Intelligence
Community
REFERENCE The President's Letter of March 22, 1974
1. The continuing long-term goals of the Intelligence
Community, which the annual statement of intelligence ob-
jectives must support, are the six goals enunciated by the
President as "essential to the efficient and effective
functioning of the Community" in his memorandum of November
5, 1971 on "Organization and Management of the U.S. Foreign
Intelligence Community." These are:
a. The responsiveness of the United States
intelligence effort with respect to national requirements.
must be subject to continuing review.
b. Authoritative and responsible leadership for
the Community as a whole must be assured.
c. A more efficient use of resources by the
Community in the collection of intelligence information
must be achieved. Utilization of the resources available
must be in consonance with approved requirements of the
United States security and national interests.
d. Assignment of intelligence functions within
the Community must be reviewed and revised to eliminate
inefficient, unnecessary or outmoded activities.
e. The quality, scope and timeliness of the
Community's product must be improved.
f. The provision of intelligence and its utiliza-
tion must enhance the formulation of the foreign and
economic policies of the United States Government and
the planning for and conduct of military operations by
United States forces.
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2. Closely related to the Presidential goals for the
Intelligence Community, and supporting them, are the ongoing
substantive goals of the Community which represent the
absolutely essential requirements which must be met to
satisfy the most important high level needs for intelligence.
To meet these requirements the Intelligence Community must
give continuing attention to improving its capabilities for:
a. Assessing the Soviet strategic threat, which
includes verifying compliance with the Strategic Arms
Limitation agreements and monitoring the Limited Test
Ban Treaty.
. b. Sizing the Soviet and Warsaw Pact general
purpose forces, particularly as necessary to support
Mutual Balanced Force Reduction (MBFR) negotiations.
c. Assessing the military force structure and
capabilities of the People's Republic of China.
d. Monitoring crises, and potential crisis
situations, as necessary to support U.S. policy making
and U.S. actions to protect national security interests.
e. Providing support to U.S. policy makers in
important international negotiations of widely varied
nature -- political, economic and military.
3. In direct support of the goals listed in paragraphs
1 and 2, I have identified specific objectives for
fiscal year 1975. Several objectives, such as those on the
national/tactical intelligence interface problem and the Key
Intelligence Questions Evaluation Process, represent extension
into fiscal year 1975 of objectives on which actions were
initiated in fiscal year 1974. Most of the objectives,
however, are newly stated and reflect consideration of
problem areas for which new approaches appear to be increasingly
important. I have deliberately sought to avoid listing as
objectives those matters which are part of my continuing
responsibilities, such as the annual presentation of the
National Foreign Intelligence Program Budget. The following,
not arranged in any order of priority, are my fiscal year
1975 objectives for the Intelligence Community:
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d. Develop the Key Intelligence Questions (KIQs)
and the Key Intelligence Questions Evaluation Process
(KEP) to the point where they are serving as a means of
assessing the effectiveness of national intelligence
collection, analysis and production on matters of
greatest current concern to policy makers.
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f. Develop a time-phased package of planning and
programming documents for issuance by the Director of
Central Intelligence to the Intelligence Community each
year as guidance for program planning and resource
allocation for a five-year period.
g. Improve the interface between national and
tactical intelligence assets in the interest of providing
maximum support for both national intelligence users
and the operational field commands without unnecessary
redundancy in use of resources.
25X1 h. Assess the impact which thel reduction
over the past five years in the number of personnel
,engaged in the national intelligence effort is having
on the present and future capabilities of the Intelli-
gence Community to respond to priority requirements for
national and operational intelligence.
i. Inasmuch as personnel reductions over the
past several years have raised the premium on improving
the quality of intelligence personnel, investigate
improved means of attracting, developing, motivating
and retaining personnel of the highest professional
caliber and competence; review the restrictions now
placed by law and regulation on attracting and rewarding
quality personnel, and on phasing our sub-standard
performers in the intelligence career field.
j. Establish a family of national intelligence
products as a means of increasing community participa-
tion in the production of national intelligence and
reducing the number of serial publications issued by
the individual departments and agencies.
k. Improve Intelligence Community capabilities
for identifying and reporting on crisis situations by
linking watch officers and analysts of the various
intelligence and operational offices in secure communica-
tions nets.
1. Put into effect an integrated plan for identi-
fying, and keeping current on, all national level
requirements for foreign economic intelligence, and allocatin?
collection and analytical responsibilities, taking into
consideration the resources and capabilities of federal
organizations not a part of the Intelligence Community.
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M. Improve information handling techniques and
develop new approaches to the analysis of intelligence
data in the Community through man-machine relationships
made possible by application of information science.
W. E. Colby
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