NOTE [and Comments on Status of NID]

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
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• Publication Date: June 11, 1974
• Content Type: NOTES

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INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY STAFF SUMMARY
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Comments on Status of the
National Intelligence Daily
1. PURPOSE: To provide the DCI with IC Staff views of OCI's
recommendations concerning the NID.
2. BACKGROUND: The DCI informed us in a note of 1 April
that OCI should take the lead in conducting a survey of the NID but
that "IC Staff [should] keep advised and we will discuss when [OCg.'s
report is] in final draft. " That draft, which is attached, was com-
pleted on 3 June and we are thus obliged to respond.
3. DISCUSSION: We concur in OCI's proposal that the NID be
permanently established but suggest that the NIB and NID eventual l
be merged. Not only does this make good sense generally, it also
accords with the notion that we should try to reduce the number of
major periodicals published by the community. The NID, in effect,
adds one more to the list--and, if accepted, OCI's proposal for a
Strategic Warning Daily would add another. (We do not refer to this
proposal in our memo because it has not been surfaced yet. )
4. RECOMMENDATION: Suggest D/DCI/IC sign this memo-
randum to the DCI for his information. concurs.
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3 June 1974 OCI memo
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DCI/IC 74-1643
11 JUN 1974
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: Comments on Status of the National
Intelligence Daily
REFERENCE: Memorandum for the DCI from D/OCI.
3 June 1974
1. This memorandum responds to your request of 1 April 1974
that IC Staff discuss the NID following a review of its status by Mr.
Lehman. That review is now in hand (reference above) and we wish
to comment on its contents and to offer one additional recommendation.
2. We agree with Mr. Lehman that OCT has done a good job, and
we certainly concur in his principal recommendation that the NID be
permanently established. But-we are concerned about the implications
of this particular recommendation for questions which are clearly
community-wide in scope.
--Specifically, permanent publication of the NID would
increase the number of major periodicals produced by the
intelligence community by a net of one. And the proposal
comes at a time when--as a part of our effort to develop a
"national family of products"--we are committed to reduce
the number of community periodicals.
--The permanent publication of the NID would also
bring into sharper focus the question of the role of the
production community at large (i. e. , in this instance,
DIA, INR, and to a degree NSA) in the coordination of
current intelligence which is labeled "national. " That
role, insofar as it applies to the NID, is officially unde-
fined, and is in practice somewhat murky.
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3. We do not feel that these problems are urgent. Adding one
or two publications to the community list need not be disturbing in
the short term, and the precise coordination standards of the NID
are something that can be worked out over time. But we would advise
some consideration be given now to a single proposal which would
ultimately solve both problems:
--We would envision an eventual merger of the NID
and NIB, one which would retain the title and character of
the former, the community coordination philosophy and
classification of the latter, and the readership of both.
Any material in the merged publication which was too
highly classified or for other reasons deemed suitable
only for the highest-level audience could be published
separately (on, for example, a single NID-size page
bearing its own classification) and inserted only in those
copies of the NID sent to that particular audience. The
great majority of the major items which have appeared
in the NID have also been published in the NIB (or its
predecessor, the CIB); there thus need not be any fear
that a highly classified insert would come, in effect, to
dominate the publication.
--A NID-NIB merger would create coordination
problems. But these could probably be solved over
time, partly by changes in staffing and by applying
lessons learned through the coordination of the NIB,
but mainly through impending improvements in inter-
agency communications. We gather through conversa-
tions that in general OCI shares our optimism about
the long-term impact of such improvements on the
ability of elements of the community to work together
quickly and effectively.
--A final virtue of our proposal: a merger would
presumably save some resources and permit some
reduction in the burden now borne by analysts, editors,
and others.
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