UTILIZATION OF REVIEW OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DATA FOR MANAGEMENT PURPOSES

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• Publication Date: February 6, 1975
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MEMORANDUM FOR:
DCI/IC 1566- 75
6 February 1975
SUBJECT Utilization of Review of National Intelligence
Data for Management Purposes
1. Detailed examination of PRD-generated data for
the prototype Review of National Intelligence (See Attach-
ment A) indicates that this data is useful for linking
IC current intelligence production to the KIQs. The review
data includes PRD judgments on the t'KIQ relationship" and
the "utility" of each product. As a supplement to the KEP
derived data on IC KIQ production, the RD data would add
a useful dimension to analyzing the qualitative relation-
ship between IC products and KIQs. An initial review by
the R$A Branch of the prototype RONI was forwarded 19
December (See Attachment B).
2. The following recommendations are based on our
review of the PRD developed data:
a. Account for all published articles. In
Novemb r i was not T t at of 1 ' IB and
DIN articles published, 81 were not reviewed.
Although the geographic/topic areas of the 81
articles encompass substance not covered by the
responsibilities of the NIOs, all the articles
should be reviewed and/or accounted for, if only
by count. This would raise the utility of RANI
considerably, especially if it were to be used as
an end of year aid to analyze community performance
against KIQs.
b. Accommodate double counti Some of the
articles were reviewed by more than one PRD analys
possibly resulting in "double counting". For
example, of the total number of DIN articles reviewed
(i.e., 273) there were reportedly 92 "double reviews".
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A methodology should be devised to account for
these articles which cover none than one geographic/
topic area, or IIQ.
c. Define terms used for describin I"KI.
relatioas`an roc'uct____~ut t '. More precise
De n t these rs ou pr promote uniform
usage among analysts and would ensure greater under-
staading by RONI recipients on the meaning of these
terms-. For each article an effort should be made
to use only one for "KIQ relationship,
and one for product "-utility". If the "I.IQ Relation-
ship'-Ts none there should be no ?SIP, No. entry. If
the review elieves that an article can be KIQ-
r?lated through additional analysis, a separate
category should be created to indicate this possi-
bility.
d. Standardize "Sources'". The reviewers
identifies i.e sourereasm the contents and
classification of each article. One article nay
have, of course, more than one source that contri-
butes information. The judgments of the reviewers
regarding sources are probably as good as they can
be, considering the broad categories of sources.
A mere detailed analysis of contributing sources
would require consultation with the authors of the
articles and might not be worth the time such
consultations would require. Expansion to the IC
f CIA's 'Publication Source Survey y
(-Mc a relies on the authors of the articles to
provide collection source information) should be
considered as a way of developing a more useful.
linkage between product and collection methods.
e. Standardize eon ra hic/to is cats ories.
Although ee categories a drh ge;ners I-ly tom
geographic/topic res on.sibilitie+s of the IOs and
PRD analysts, and CIRIS geographic/topic
categories shoo c e used to provide a (more)
uniform listing.
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f. Cautiona note rardin "Workload".
Although` ' h currenTly is rev ng on y tree
intelligence publications (i.e., NID, NIB, DIN),
the intent is to expand the review process to
include more IC products. As expansion occurs,
collection and analysis of the raw data will
become more time-consuming. In order to present
and handle additional data in a meaningful way,
the data should be routinely entered into a data
base for easy recall and statistical manipulation.
This would assist FRIG in compiling periodic reports
and facilitate the use of the data (by PPRRD) for
management purposes. Collection of the data for
the three publications consumes about 50% of the
reviewers time. Additional reviews will increase
this percentage considerably. Daily review of
products is probably not necessary for management
purposes. One might review the above articles
every other week, or even less frequently. Over
a period of a year, any peaks and valleys created
by lack of coverage would, for practical purposes,
cancel out.
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DCI/IC/MPRRD~
Distribution:
1 - Addressee
1 - IC Registry
1 R,A Reading
1 - RF,A Subject
1 - DQ chrono
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