ICS ACTIVITIES REPORT NO. 5

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
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• Publication Date: November 12, 1974
• Content Type: REPORT

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ICS ACTIVITIES REPORT NO. 5
12 November 1974
A summary of Intelligence Comunity Staff actions and activities of
interest to the community.
1. NSCIC Working Group Reconstituted
On 10 October the Chairman of the National Security Council
Intelligence Committee announced that the NSCIC Working Group was being
reconstituted as a group of "intelligence users" with representation
limited to one member for each NSCIC principal, and with the DCI's
representative as the chairman and the only "intelligence producer."
The DCI named General Wilson, head of the IC Staff, as his representative.
General Wilson has organized an Intelligence Panel under his
chairmanship, composed of senior representatives from DIA, CIA, NSA,
INR/State and the Deputy to the DCl'for the National Intelligence Officers.
The role of the Panel will evolve as the Working Group program develops;
however, it will contribute intelligence inputs for the Working Group and
provide a way to keep the Community informed of Working Group actions.
The Intelligence Panel held its first meeting on October 25th, a few days
before the Working Group meeting. The next meeting is scheduled for
18 November, to be followed by a Working Group meeting on November 20th.
2. USIB Committees Program
The IC Staff has been supporting the DCI in recent months in a
program to review and refine the role of the USIB committees and direct
their efforts to specific tasks relating to the DCI's Community responsi-
bilities. A number of steps have resulted. The DCI has issued overall.
guidance to the committee chairmen. He has provided individual letters
of instruction to the chairmen listing specific tasks to be undertaken
during the current fiscal year. He has met personally with each of the
committees and.has begun a program of regular meetings with the committee
chairmen. The D/DCI/IC serves as overall coordinator for this program.
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3. Improving the Warning Process
The I'C Staff is chairing two ad hoc task groups of Community
representatives on separate but related aspects of the warning process'.
One group is examining proposals to revitalize the Watch Committee/
National indications Center mechanism and streamline the strategic
warning process. The basis for the group's efforts is a study conducted
by the Acting Chairman of the Watch Committee of existing warning mechanisms
in the Community which resulted in a number of tentative proposals for
improving the process. USIB has requested formal proposals for'its
consideration.
A second group is preparing implementing instructions for USIB's
consideration of a new DCI product -- the "Alerting Memorandum." Such
memoranda will provide the DCI with a means of formally alerting national
policymakers to potential crisis situations.
Responding to a NSCI'C request, the IC Staff is also preparing a
report on warning intelligence and the handling of information in pre-crisis
and crisis situations for submission to the NSCIC Working Group.
4. Encoura Bing More Responsive Reporting
The Department of State and CIA have agreed to open a channel for
informal direct communication between CIA production analysts and collectors.
As noted in State Ai'rgram A-7707 to all diplomatic posts, encouraging voluntary
comments from CIA production offices or individual. analysts on current
reporting provided by US missions abroad'should assist missions by identifying
particularly valuable reporting, providing indications of the uses to which
the posts' reporting is being put, and sharpening the focus of the periodic'
intelligence guidance by identifying areas of special current interest or
specific points on which. more information is needed. Communications are
to be simple, informal, and unofficial.. The IC Staff's goal in fostering
this exchange is to offer more opportunity for direct and timely comment,
and thus encourage more responsive reporting.
The Staff has also begun a program to brief new foreign service
officers at the completion of their introductory training. The presentation
discusses how foreign service reporting relates to national intelligence.
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5. National Foreign Intelligence Program
The DCI's National Foreign Intelligence Program Recommendations
for Fiscal Year 1976 will be ready for review by program managers on
22 November, after which the document will be reviewed by IRAC and is
scheduled for submission to the President on 5 December with tentative
dollar levels. Final figures will be appended on 24 December.
The IC Staff has been participating and assisting in the joint
OSD/OMB budget hearings on the FY 1976 review of the Consolidated Defense
Intelligence Budget and in the joint CIA/OMB hearings on the FY 1976
review of the CIAP.
6. Intelligence Community Catalog of Education/Training Courses
At present each intelligence agency publishes its own catalog
of training courses using different types of data, formats, etc. To
assist in career development and course selection, the IC Staff has
developed a catalog format and software to produce a Community index of
courses. CIA's Office of Training is presently reviewing the package for
format, completeness and ease of production. Once this is done and
appropriate changes have been made, the package will be reviewed by other
Community trainers. CIA's Director of Training has indicated that CIA
would consider producing the catalog once it is approved by the Community.
7. Mom Index to Pravda
In his Perspectives for Intelligence, 1975-1980, the DCI requester
that the Community take steps to deepen its knowledge of foreign cultures
and thought processes, especially with respect to nations important in
political, economic or military terms. He also called on the Community
to develop new methods of exploitation and presentation of material, where.
appropriate. In response, a project has been worked out by CIA, the State
Department, ARPA and the IC Staff in association with the American
Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, located at Ohio State
University. The Association, which presently publishes the Current Di _22s:
of Soviet Press, will put out a very detailed monthly index to Pravda,
starting in January 1975, which will be available to subscribers of the
"Digest" as well as on the open market. This is a three-year project, the
costs of which are being shared with the publisher, at the end of which
time it is expected that the Index will be self-sustaining. Depending
upon demand, coverage could be extended to other publications.
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10. Key Intelligence Questions Evaluation Process
Nearly all Performance Reports have now been received from
the Community on the 11 FY 1974 KIQs being evaluated in the Pilot Program.
An aggregate performance report will be issued after all reports have been
received and analyzed. Guidance and instructions for the FY 1975 evaluation
program will be forthcoming after the Pilot Program evaluation is completed.
11. National Intelligence Bulletin Review
The Working Subcommittee on the National Intelligence Bulletin,
chaired by the IC Staff with representatives from CIA, DIA, NSA, and
INR/State, has been meeting since early October to review the charter of
the NIB in light of new DIA current intelligence procedures and proposals
for changes in NIB production procedures. A final draft incorporating
member agencies' recommendations has been sent out for approval.
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12. The Murahy Commission'on the Organization of the Government
for the Conduct of Foreign Policy
The DCI provided a brief status report to USIB at its 24 October
meeting on the progress of the Murphy Commission and its examination of
the subject of how intelligence relates to foreign policy. Mr. Colby
noted that the Commission's charter was very broad and that members of
Ambassador Murphy's staff may be in contact with the Board Principals
or their staffs. He told the Principals he would appreciate hearing who
had been interviewed and the general thrust of their briefings. Mrs.
of the IC Staff is the point of contact on Murphy Commission
matters for the DCI. She can be reached on
The IC Staff, under the direction of Lt. Gen. Samuel V. Wilson,
USA, Deputy to the DCI for the Intelligence Community, assists the DCI
in his intelligence Community responsibilities. The staff consists of
three main elements: the Management, Planning and Resource Review
Division which monitors the budget development process throughout thr=
Community; the Product Review Division which reviews and evaluates the
factual and analytical product of the Community; and the Collection and
Processing Assessment Division which conducts national level review and
assessment of Community collection and processing activities. A small
Coordination Staff handles special tasks and provides support to the
D/DCI/IC in a variety of Community-related areas.
Arrivals to the Staff:
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I USAF, reported for duty 2 October
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intelligence planning efforts throughout the Community.
Special Assistant to the AD/DCI/IC, he will conduct special studies for
USA, reported for duty on Z6 September to
work with CPAD's HUMINT Group.
During the past two months, the IC Staff has continued to contribute
actively to training programs for intelligence personnel. Staff members
have lectured on a variety of topics to a broad audience, both here and
elsewhere in the country.
For additional information concerning items appearing in this report, please
telephone
arrived from DIA/DE on Z6 September. As
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