ARPA SUPPORTED RESEARCH RELATING TO INTELLIGENCE PRODUCTION

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M01133A000900080005-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 14, 2002
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• Publication Date: May 15, 1972
• Content Type: MF

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15 May 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. Tweedy, D/DCI/IC
SUBJECT: ARPA Supported Research Relating to
Intelligence Production
a. At Tab A is a memorandum for your signature to the
DCI describing a project involving, participation of an
ad hoc intelligence group with a contractor to be selected
by the ARPA Director of Behavioral Sciences in a survey
intended to identify research which ARPA could support and
which would be intended to provide improved analytical
methodologies for intelligence production.
b. At Tab B is a memorandum for signature by the DCI to
Ed Proctor, Carl Duckett and John
Huizenga (the "production" members of the NSCIC Working Group)
calling on them to identify their needs for research before
mid-June and to nominate members of an ad hoc task group
which would work with the ARPA contractor. I recommend
the ad hoc group be headed by PRG/IC.
c. At Tab C is a memorandum for the record of my 11 May
conference with Lt. Col. Austin Kibler, Director of Behavioral
Sciences, ARPA, which led to the memoranda described in a. and
b. above, both of which Col. Kibler has read in draft.
2. I can't be certain at this stage how profitable this
kind of a project may turn out to be, but it gives the intelligence
production community an opportunity to identify areas in which
research and development work might prove valuable and it should
increase the likelihood that the ARPA-financed research program
will have direct usefulness to the intelligence community. ARPA
has the funds to sponsor research, and the intelligence community
is being given a chance to propose the kinds of projects on which
attention should be focused.
3. The project will cost the production organizations some
personnel time, of course, since, in addition to furnishing a member
of the ad hoc DCI group which will confer with the ARPA Director of
Behavioral Sciences and his contractor, each of the intelligence
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production organizations will be called upon to make some analyst
and supervisor time available for interviews with the contractor.
Col. Kibler has told me it will be necessary for his contractor
to have direct contact with producers as well as with the ad hoc
group to insure that the contractor understands what the producers
do and what their problems are in order to properly translate these
problems and the program proposed by the ad hoc group into researchable
issues. Col. Kibler stressed to me that in his view success of
the project will depend in considerable part on the frankness with
which problem areas susceptible to support by research projects are
thoroughly discussed.
4. I recommend you sign the memorandum at Tab A and forward
it and the memorandum at Tab B to the DCI.
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MEMORANDUM FOR: The Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: ARPA Research Related to Intelligence Production
Attached is a memorandum for your signature to 25X1A
25X1A Ed Proctor, Carl Duckett and John Huizenga (the
"production" representatives on the NSCIC Working Group), advising
them of your desire to work with the DOD Advanced Research Projects
Agency to identify basic and applied research projects which ARPA
might sponsor to improve the analytic methodologies used in
intelligence production.
2. With or without participation from the intelligence community,
ARPA is planning to award a six-month contract to a commercial firm
to develop a typology of basic and applied research needs in behavioral
sciences, with particular attention to political science. This project
will cover more than the interests of the intelligence production
organizations, but the ARPA Director of Behavioral Sciences has agreed
that cooperation of the intelligence community in the project would
be both welcome and important.
3. has proposed production component participation
as a means of focusing ARPA-financed research in the behavioral
sciences on projects which could be useful to the intelligence
community. It would involve having the intelligence production
organizations indicate the kinds of research they consider would be
useful and potentially important. A task force headed up by the
Product Review Group would then develop a consensus as to the kinds
of projects in which we are interested. The task group would work
with the ARPA Director of Behavioral Sciences and the contractor
he selects to develop a program which ARPA will consider for
financing. These will be ARPA projects, not included in any
intelligence budget.
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THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20505
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research,
Department of State
Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
Deputy Director for Intelligence
Deputy Director for Science & Technology
Director of National Estimates
SUBJECT: ARPA Sponsored Research Relating to Intelligence
Production
1. In furtherance of the responsibilities assigned to me
by the President to improve the intelligence product, I am interested
in working with the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Defense
Department to identify research which ARPA could sponsor with the
object of providing better analytic methodologies for use in the
production of intelligence.
2. I am advised that the ARPA Director of Behavioral Sciences
intends to engage a contractor for six months to develop a typology
of basic and applied research needs, with particular attention to
political science. This project will cover more than the interests
of the intelligence production organizations, but I am assured that
participation of the intelligence community would be both welcome
and important.
3. We have an opportunity to identify our research needs and
to work with the ARPA contractor in developing a program which,
hopefully, will have both near term and long term benefits for the
intelligence community.
4. The ARPA survey is expected to get underway in July or
August. In the meantime, it is requested that each addressee prepare
a list of the types of basic and applied research projects which his
organization considers would be most useful as a means of improving
analytic methodologies or of making available analytic tools which
could be used in the production of intelligence. Suggestions as to
areas in which exploratory research might prove profitable should
be included.
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5. These lists should be submitted to hief,
PRG/IC, not later than 15 June 1972, along with nomination of a
member to the ad hoc group which will review the submissions from
all addressees and formulate a program for my review and submission
to ARPA.
6. Once the ARPA contractor has been selected, members of
the ad hoc group will serve as points of contact in the intelligence
production community. In order for the contractor to prepare his
recommendations as to the types of projects which ARPA should finance,
and to insure that he has translated the intelligence proposals into
researchable issues, it will be necessary for him to be able to
interview appropriate members of the intelligence production
community. This is to insure that he understands what is involved
in the production process and the problems concerning which research
in the behavioral sciences should be able to make a contribution.
Security clearances for the contractor will be handled by ARPA.
7. It is expected the contractor will submit a report before
the end of 1972.
8. ARPA has been supporting research in the behavioral sciences
for a number of years and considerable work, which is potentially
related to intelligence production, has been conducted at M.I.T.,
Yale, the University of Michigan, U.C.L.A., the University of
Hawaii, and other institutions as well as in corporate research
facilities. I look on this proposed survey as an opportunity to
relate ARPA supported research more directly to the needs of the
intelligence production community.
Richard Helms
Director
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