ICS ACTIVITIES REPORT NO. 2

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• Document Release Date: April 2, 2004
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• Publication Date: April 18, 1974
• Content Type: REPORT

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DCI/IC 74-1005
ICS ACTIVITIES REPORT NO. 2
18 April 1974
The DCI's Intelligence Community Staff is engaged in a number of
activities of interest to USIB principals and members of IRAC, which
are summarized below for your information.
1. DCI's Objectives for the Intelligence Community
Yesterday the DCI met with the Director, OMB, to discuss
progress on FY 1974 Objectives for the Intelligence Community. They
will meet again on 29 May to go over the DCI's proposed FY 1975
objectives, requested by the President in his 22 March letter. These
objectives are being drafted by the IC Staff and the DCI will ask for
IJSIB and IRAC coordination prior to the May 29th meeting.
2. National Foreign Intelligence Budget
The DCI has briefed both the Senate and House Armed Services
Sub-Committees on the National Foreign Intelligence Budget for FY 1975
and will meet with the Senate Appropriations Sub-Committee on April f5th.
3. IRAC Working Group
The IRAC Working Group, chaired by the IC Staff, has held
bi-weekly meetings to address specific issues assigned by IRAC at its
last meeting. These include a review of FY 1976 resource issues and the
development of resource packages for use by IRAC in reviewing all
intelligence costs from an output standpoint. In addition to the
regular members, representatives of the Intelligence Program Managers
have been present at these meetings as observers.
An issue study sub-group, chaired by the DOD member, is
monitoring selected program issue studies being conducted throughout
the community, particularly those having fiscal or resource allocation
implications for selected FY 1976 programs.
A resource package sub-group, chaired by the IC Staff, is
identifying disciplines, functions or other groupings of resources
located in two or more intelligence programs to provide a broader
basis for resource review.
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The IRAC Working Group is also reviewing the IRAC Management
Objectives and will submit revised and updated FY 1975 objectives
to IRAC for its consideration.
4. National Operations and Intelligence Watch Officers Net (NOIWON)
Following a highly successful development and test phase, USIB
agreed on 11 April to make NOIWON officially operational.
NOIWON, an IC Staff effort to create better means of communication,
particularly in times of crisis, is a secure voice conferencing system
linking the alert centers and watch officers in the White House, the
Department of State, CIA, DIA, NSA, and the National Milit?ry Command
Center. The "net" provides for the timely reporting of events to all
interested agencies and also enables any agency to simultaneously query
all other parties for amplifying data on any incident. The system
includes the use of a new reporting technique, a hard copy, written
bulletin using a format based on elements of a simple, declarative sentence,
to facilitate the dissemination of information or queries within the
departments and agencies linked by the NOIWON.
5. The National Family of Products
USIB has approved the implementation of the first of the
new products included in the "National Family of Products." Entitled
the National Intelligence Bulletin (NIB), this product will replace the
Central Intelligence Bulletin (CIB). The principal features of this
new daily national product will be its emphasis on intelligence of
specific interest to consumers of national intelligence, the fact that
the principal intelligence production agencies will be able to submit
original articles for publication, and the opportunity it provides for
these agencies to state their dissenting views. During the next month
the staff of the new National Intelligence Bulletin will be formed and
publication procedures will be firmed up. The principal production
agencies have been invited to nominate officers as Assistant Managing
Editors. The first edition of the NIB is expected between 15 May and
1 June.
6. The DCI's K _Intelligence Questions for FY 74 and the KEP
The DCI issued the KIQs Evaluation Process (KEP) booklet to
the community on 13 February and the IC Staff provided follow-up briefings
to all participating agencies and departments. The KEP booklet contains
instructions and guidance, plus a list of the 12 key questions selected
for evaluation during the first performance period, 1 March to 1 September.
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The first action in the KEP is the preparation of a Baseline
Report on each of the 12 KIQs to identify what we now know, what we
want to know, and how we expect to get it. The NIOs, the USIB Comm?tees
of SIGINT, COMIREX and Human Sources, and CIA, DIA/ and INR/State are
contributing segments of these reports, using special forms designed
for the purpose. The KEP Monitor has received over 80 percent of the
initial reports prepared by the NIOs, and the follow-on reports frori
the other offices are coming in.
9. East-West Exchange Problems
In December the Director, DIA, expressed to the Chairmjn,
USIB, various intelligence-related concerns with respect to the
proliferation of visits by Soviet, East European and PRC represent-
atives to U.S. commercial, industrial and research firms. The
problems raised were complex and beyond the purview of any one
particular USIB committee, and the action was assigned to the IC
Staff.
Views on how best to effectively handle the East-West exchanc;e
problem were solicited from the community and a number of proposals
resulted. The D/DCI/IC recommended that the proposal to revitalize
the Interagency Intelligence Advisory Group on Exchanges (IEG) be
distributed through USIB channels for comment.
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On 14 March USIB approved the Chairman's proposal to
reestablish the IEG. The DCI indicated the IEG need not be a
formal committee but should look at the overall issue, including
whether there should be a permanent committee. The IEG held its
first meeting on 5 April and an interim report to USIB is required
by about 15 May. The group is chaired by CIA with representatives
from the USIB member agencies and associate members provided by the
Department of Commerce and USIA.
10. National Intelligence Officers Visit the JRC
The IC Staff arranged a familiarization tour for the
NIOs of the JCS Joint Reconnaissance Center, the National Military
Command Center, and the National Military Intelligence Center. A
total of 13 senior officers joined the tour on 22 February.
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