ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ICS GOALS

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 9, 2004
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• Publication Date: September 19, 1975
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy to the DCI for the Intelligence Community
SUBJECT Establishment of the ICS Goals
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ICS conference should, in my view, be the identification an
definition of ICS goals.
2. The goals toward which the staff is focusing should
drive the priorities and the organizational pattern of the ICS,
so I suggest it is important that these be clearly identified
as the foundation on which the balance of the conference is
built.
3. The overall and primary goal is simple to state: The
ICS goal is to provide effective support for the DCI in his role
as the leader of the National Foreign Intelligence Community.
4. The problem, however, is to further define this goal
to guide the determination of ICS organizational patterns and
the establishment of priorities. There are several directions
this expanded definition might take. Some of these include:
a. To support the DCI in a role which is essentially
that of a coordinator of Community decisionmaking, with
leadership activities limited to general guidance and the
provision of resource recommendations on selected issues
involving large sums.
b. To move the DCI toward a position that is more
managerial than the role he has thus far exercised for the
Community as a whole.
c. To support the DCI in a role in which he serves
as the key planner for the entire Intelligence Community.
d. To provide the DCI with staff mechanisms which
will enable him to exercise oversight of the Community in
what amounts to an inspector general role to assure full
compliance with both authorizations for Community activities
and restrictions on such activities.
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5. To be explicit about the ICS goals requires very
careful consideration of how the DCI views his responsibilities
and the manner in which he intends to go about their accomplishment.
6. The DCI responsibilities were defined by the President
in his 5 November 1971 memorandum, and expressed in NSCID No. 1,
but these say nothing about how the DCI should go about their
accomplishment.
7. As set forth in NSCID No. 1 (paragraph 3 a):
"The Director of Central Intelligence will discharge
four major responsibilities:
"(1) Planning, reviewing and evaluating all
intelligence activities and the allocation of all
intelligence resources.
"(2) Producing national intelligence required
by the President and other national consumers.
"(3) Chairing and staffing all intelligence
community advisory boards and committees.
"(4) Establishing and reconciling intelligence
requirements and priorities within budgetary constraints."
8. In addition, under "Community Responsibilities"
(paragraph 8 a (1)) is the charge that the DCI shall:
"Seek the attainment of the following objectives as
essential to the efficient and effective functioning
of the intelligence community:
"(a) The responsiveness of the United States
intelligence effort with respect to national require-
ments must be subject to continuing review.
"(b) Authoritative and responsible leadership
for the community as a whole must be assured.
"(c) A more efficient use of resources by the
community in the collection of intelligence information
must be achieved. Utilization of the means available
must be in consonance with approved requirements of
United States security and national interests.
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"(d) Assignment of intelligence functions within
the community reviewed and revised to eliminate
inefficient, unnecessary or outmoded activities.
"(e) The quality, scope and timeliness of the
community's product must be improved.
"(f) The provision of intelligence and its
utilization must enhance the formulation of the
foreign and economic policies of the United States
Government and the planning for and conduct of
military operations by United States forces."
9. A DCI could adopt different approaches to ways and
means of responding to Presidentially assigned responsibilities,
and--in fact--it may well be that the stated DCI responsibilities
themselves may change in the near future as the result of the
Rockefeller Commission recommendations and efforts currently
under way in the White House re drafting of new Executive Orders
dealing with intelligence.
10. On the basis of experience to date, however, Mr. Colby's
approach has been pretty much in line with the goal described in
paragraph 4 a above. He has focused on:
a. Issuance of guidance papers, both current (Objectives
and KIQs) and mid-term (Perspectives and DCID 1/2);
b. Review of Community performance through such
vehicles as post-mortems on intelligence response to crisis
situations;
c. Development of improved ways of stating intelli-
gence requirements;
d. Analysis in depth of problems related to major
resource issues with which the EXCOMs must deal;
e. Acquisition of familiarity with the budget
programs of various elements of the Community to provide
basis for his annual recommendations to the President con-
cerning the National Foreign Intelligence Program.
f. Conscious efforts to foster a sense of "Community"
among the disparate elements of the Intelligence Community
without interfering with the prerogatives of program managers
and responsible resource allocation elements of the various
departments.
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11. The current organization of the ICS reflects an
ICS interpretation of Mr. Colby's approach to his responsibilitie.
12. Any effort at ICS reorganization or redefinition of
priorities should, in my view, be based on a conscious recognition
as to whether these efforts are basically intended to:
a. Enable the DCI to do better what he has already
indicated a desire to do, or
b. Provide a platform for proposals to the DCI
which would move him in a new direction or into new areas
of Community leadership activity.
13. Attendees at thel conference may have
differing views on these matters, w ch is why I suggest the
matter of goal definition be an opening element of the conference.
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