PROPOSED ADJUSTMENTS IN NIB PRODUCTION PROCEDURES

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• Publication Date: October 22, 1974
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THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
IC 74-2089
22 October 1974
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Department of State
Attn: Mr. Martin Packman
SUBJECT: Proposed Adjustments in NIB Production Procedures
Deputy Director for Intelligence
Defense Intelligence Agency
Attn: Major General Lincoln D. Faurer, USAF
Deputy Director for SIGINT Operations
National Security A enc
Attn:
Deputy Director for Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Attn: Mr. Richard Lehman
The attached paper concerning new production procedures for the NIB
was drafted following our meeting of 16 October. We ask you please to
comment by Monday, 28 October (to Room 6 E 08, CIA Head-
quarters Building or telephonel We will revise the draft in the
light of your comments and circulate the revision to you and, subsequently
(with your approval), to your principals. Assuming that the latter concur,
we would then propose to inform the DCI and USIB by memorandum.
Attachment
-Chief, Product Review Division
Intelligence Community Staff
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PROPOSED ADJUSTMENTS TO NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
BULLETIN PRODUCTION PROCEDURES
On 4 April 1974, the USIB approved production procedures for the
National Intelligence Bulletin (NIB). It was recognized at the time that
some adjustments in these procedures might be required with the passage
of time.
In September 1974, after the suspension of publication of the daily
DIA INTSUM, the Defense Intelligence Agency proposed some editorial and
procedural changes in the NIB. In general, DIA was seeking a new means
to convey military intelligence of national interest to appropriate con
sumers and a way to identify the institutional origin of intelligence ap--
pearing in the NIB.
Specifically, DIA recommended that the NIB:
a. Credit individual articles to the agency or agencies of
origin and to the names of the preparing analyst;
b. Increase coverage of military intelligence;
c. Establish a position for a.military intelligence editor.
PRD convened meetings on 3 and 16 October 1974 to discuss these rec-
ommendations, and PRD now offers the following recommendations for your
review:
I. INCREASE THE VISIBILITY OF BOTH PRODUCTION AGENCIES AND INDI-
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VIDUAL ANALYSTS BY IDENTIFYING NIB ITEMS BY AUTHOR(S) AND AGENCY(IES)
OF ORIGIN.
While this recommendation was not wholeheartedly supported by
all conferees, none of the production agencies expressed explicit
dissent. Agreement was reached that henceforth, the majority of
NIB articles would be identified by author and agency of origin.
If two or more agencies and analysts are heavily involved in the
production of a single item, this too would be recognized (except
in those instances when the number involved is so high as to make
individual identification impractical).
II. INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF MILITARY INTELLIGENCE BEING PROVIDED THE
NATIONAL CONSUMER BY ESTABLISHING A MILITARY SUPPLEMENT TO THE NIB.
It has been noted that a significant number of military intelli-
gence items are submitted to the NIB staff which are not published.
In part, this was ascribed to the judgment of the editors that many
of these items have contained more technical or more detailed mili-
tary information than is desired by the general NIB readership.
DIA holds that while the totality of the readership may not have
a need for detailed military intelligence articles, the audience for
items of this nature -- which is no longer being served by the Intsum --
is substantial.
In recognition of these points, the conferees concluded that those
items of military intelligence which are clearly of interest to the
NIB's general readership would continue to appear in the NIB, and that
items of military intelligence of interest only to particular portions
of the NIB readership will appear in a NIB Military Supplement (NIB--MS).
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In general, existing production procedures for the NIB will be
adhered to in the NIB-MS. The NIB editorial staff will edit the
NIB-MS, and the NIB managing editor will have the final say con-
cerning the publication of NIB-MS items. (But the staff and the
managing editor will recognize that NIB-MS editorial standards and
criteria for selection will differ somewhat from those established
for the NIB proper.) While DIA may be the principal contributor to
.the Supplement, other production agencies will be invited to con-
tribute original articles and to express dissenting opinions as ap-
propriate.
We recommend that the NIB-MS be attached or forwarded with the
NIB only to those,readers with special interests in military intelli.-
gence, i.e. not be disseminated to the readership at large. We are
anxious to avoid excess length -- the NIB has already been criticized
on this ground and to relieve the general reader of the burden of
selecting items of interest from too long a list of discrete topics.
Concerning periodicity, it was agreed that, initially, the NIB-MS
will be published only as the occasion (i.e. the production of suita-
ble items) demands.
III. NO CHANGE BE MADE IN THE PRODUCTION PROCEDURES OR THE STAFFING
OF THE NIB.
It was noted that the 4 April 1974 "NIB Production Procedures.'
inter alia, called for a senior DIA officer to serve as an assistant-
managing editor of the NIB, and this had been done to insure that the
NIB editor would be provided additional military expertise on his
immediate staff. It was agreed that the present system of NIB staffing
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and management should continue: the NIB managing editor is respon,---
ble to the DCI and the assistant managing editors are directly re-
sponsible to the managing editor. It was further agreed that all
other coordinating and production procedures related to the publi-
cation of the NIB will remain the same.
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