KEY INTELLIGENCE QUESTIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1975

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
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• Publication Date: September 17, 1974
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17 September 1974
UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOAR D
MEMORANDUM FOR HOLDERS OF USIB-D-22. 1/26
SUBJECT Key Intelligence Questions for Fiscal Year 1975
REFERENCE USIB -D -22. 1/26, 12 August 1974
The Director of Central Intelligence has added a new Key Intelligence
Question for FY 1975 which should be inserted in the reference as a separate
unnumbered paragraph to KIQ 6. as follows:
"In particular, how do the Soviets justify their strategic
weapons programs and what goals have they set for them-
selves in the area of strategic weaponry vis-a-vis the U. S. ?
Catching up or some sort of superiority?''
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THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
USIB-D-220 1 /26
12 August 1974
MEMORANDUM FOR THE UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD
SUBJECT: Key Intelligence Questions for Fiscal'Year 1975
1. Attached is the final version of the Key
Intelligence Questions for Fiscal Year 1975 which I
am submitting to the National Security Council Intelli-
gence Committee.
2. This final version reflects the comments and
suggestions which members of USIB provided in writing
and raised in oral discussion around the table when
these KTQs were discussed at the USIB meeting on
2 August 1974. These suggestions were appreciated and
very helpful. Because of them, this final version is
a distinct improvement over the original drafts.
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.DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
KEY INTELLIGENCE QUESTIONS
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FISCAL YEAR 1975
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Key Intelligence Questions
For FY 1975
Introduction
1. These Key Intelligence Questions are designed to be responsive to and
to support the Substantive Objectives of the Intelligence Community for FY
1975 as noted by the United States Intelligence Board on June 13, 1974, prior
to the submission of those Objectives to the President.
2. The Key Intelligence Questions for Fiscal Year 1975 are issued as guidance
to the Intelligence Community for the collection and production of intelligence
on subjects of major importance to national-level intelligence consumers during
FY 1975. These Key Intelligence Questions obviously do not exhaust the uni-
verse of consumer needs; there are additional important categories of intelligence
collection and production which are not included in this priority national in-
telligence guidance:
(a) Lower priority national intelligence subjects: These are deliber-
ately omitted in order to emphasize the importance of the Key Intelligence
Questions. It is recognized that some attention must be devoted to lower
priority subjects, such as developments in Africa, although wherever pos-
sible less expensive and less difficult collection techniques should be em-
ployed. A level of attention must also be devoted to countries and issues
deemed likely to become important some years from now, even though
they may not pose immediate or pressing major problems during FY 1975.
(b) Departmental and tactical intelligence: This includes the intelli-
gence requirements of the operational commanders, as well as certain
warning and surveillance activities. An appropriate portion of the national
intelligence effort must be devoted to meeting these needs, and the Na-
tional Foreign Intelligence Budget Recommendations will take them into
account. Continuing efforts will be made to improve the interaction and
mutual support of national and tactical intelligence programs so that the
needs of each level may be served by the same activities to the maximum
extent possible. In framing these Key Intelligence Questions for FY 1975,
careful consideration was also paid to departmental objectives with na-
tional implications or overtones. The Critical Near-Term Defense Intelli-
gence Objectives of the Department of Defense were given special attention.
3. The Key Intelligence Questions are circulated for the following purposes:
(a) First, to insure that these subjects are given priority in the regular
collection and production activities of appropriate elements of the Intelli-
gence Community.
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(b) Second, to enable review of collection and production planning
by the member agencies of the Intelligence Community via a brief, succinct
report prepared on each KIQ under the aegis of the appropriate National
Intelligence Officer. In a few cases involving subjects of particular im-
portance, a supplementary, more detailed review will highlight specific
matters deemed appropriate for special collection or production attention.
(c) Third, to provide the basis for a recapitulation and evaluation,
after the close of the fiscal year, of the performance of the Intelligence
Community-and of individual agencies-on each of the Key Intelligence
Questions.
(d) Fourth, to permit the conclusions drawn from the recapitulation
and evaluation of the FY 1975 effort to be used as factors in Community
resource allocations, and in the preparation of the National Foreign In-
telligence Budget Recommendations which the Director of Central Intelli-
gence will be sending to the President in November 1976.
4. The Key Intelligence Questions have been grouped, where possible,
under one of the five Substantive Objectives for the Intelligence Community
as submitted to the President by the Director of Central Intelligence. The
order in which the FY 1975 questions are listed should not be regarded as
implying an internal priority: by definition, all the Key Intelligence Questions
are of major importance.
5. Additions or modifications to the Key Intelligence Questions may be
issued from time to time during FY 1975, if major changes in the international
situation or the foreign intelligence environment should so dictate.
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