BIOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE

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• Publication Date: June 11, 1975
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11.JUN1975
IC 75-1499
MEMORANDUM FOR: Associate Deputy Director for Intelligence
SUBJECT: Biographic Intelligence
.REFERENCES: a. Your memo to me dated 2 June 75; same subject
b. DIA memo to DCI dated 27 May 75; same subject
Per your recommendation, my staff has been in contact with the
Central Reference Service concerning the DIA's proposal for the
establishment of a National Biographic Intelligence Production Center.
of the Human Sources Committee and I have been briefed
by. the DIA action officers on this proposal. My staff has arranged
for CRS to receive the same briefing on 16 Juice. After that we will
draft a DCI response to DIA.
Samuel V. Wilson
Lieutenant General, USA
Deputy to the DCI for the
Intelligence Community
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MEMORANDUM FOR: D/DCI/IC
SUBJECT : Biographic Intelligence
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1. General Tighe's memorandum to the Director
proposing the establishment of a National Biographic Intel-
ligence Production Center strikes us as an extremely
radical, expensive and disruptive approach to the problem
of services of common concern. It would be particularly
disruptive to the organization and activities of the Central
Reference Service.
2. I would appreciate it if you would have whoever
has the action responsibility on this memorandum contact
Mr. Harry Eisenbeiss directly to discuss the problem.
PAUL V. WALSH
Acting Deputy Director
for Intelligenc e
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Lt. Gen. Eugene F. Tighe, Jr., USAF
Acting Director, Defense Intelligence
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Washington, D.C. 20301
Dear
This is in response to your 27 May 1975 memorandum
in which you proposed that my staff work with CIA and your
Plans Directorate in drawing up a detailed plan for creating
a National Biographic Intelligence Production Center (NBIPC).
Your proposal calls for considerable work that may not
be necessary.
Rather than creating a new interagency mechanism with
additional overhead and inter-agency bureaucracy, I suggest
that you consider integrating your military biographic
effort into the existing biographic operation of CIA's
Central Reference Service (CRS). Your manpower input for
this integrated program would be commensurate with DoD
service and file input demands. A precedent exists for
this type of arrangement:
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I lay on a major effort to develop a new structure, I would
like to be assured that CIA's existing organization with
appropriate DIA staffing cannot meet your requirements.
My staff is available to work with CIA and DIA per-
sonnel to effect an integrated biographic operation within
CIA that meets DoD and Community requirements for foreign
military biographic service. Integration appears to me
to offer opportunities for improving the military biographic
program and at the same time conserving manpower.
I await your reply on this proposal.
SAMUEL V. WILSON
Lieutenant General, USA
Deputy to the DCI for the
Intelligence Community
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THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
28 JUN 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
SUBJECT: Biographic Intelligence
C .75-2411
REFERENCE: C-41236/DC-4A, Acting Director, DIA Memo to
DCI dated 27 May 75, same subject
1. I welcome your proposal for improving the Community's
biographic program in this period of reduced resources. Representa-
tives of DIA have followed up with useful background briefings for
General Wilson and his staff, the Human Sources Committee of USIB,
and the Central Reference Service of CIA. All parties concerned
now seem ready to begin serious planning for an integrated biographic
production program to meet DoD and Community requirements.
2. Your representatives have indicated that the DIA is not
committed to any specific changes in existing organizational
structures, but is interested in the establishment of a Community
arrangement for producing military biographic intelligence. I
think this is wise because it would be, in my view, a mistake to
establish a new organization--e.g., a National Center--before we
thoroughly explore the capabilities of existing structures.
Accordingly, I have asked General Wilson to designate an IC Staff
representative to chair meetings beginning in July, to be attended
by representatives of the Central Reference Service, CIA; various
components of DIA; and the Human Sources Committee.
3. I recognize DIA's particular interest in the production of
military biographic intelligence and I think arrangements satisfactory
to all parties can be reached. I would hope that, in the process,
the separate arrangements CIA negotiated with the State Department
in 1961 and NSA in 1970 could serve as guides in the discussions.
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4. General Wilson or will be in touch with your
representatives to arrange meetings on this matter.
7s% Bill
W. E. Colby
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