THE REVIEW OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 19, 2004
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: January 1, 1975
• Content Type: MF

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THE DI LIGENCE
Intelligence Community Staff
MEMORANDUM FOR THE UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD
SUBJECT: The Review-of National Intelligence
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1. Attached are copies of the first formal edition of the Review
of National Intelligence (RONI) for your agency's use. This "second
edition" does not differ in any significant substantive way from the
advance "first edition" you have already received.
2. Please advise us if you wish to receive a different number of
copies of future issues of the RONI.
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February 1975
Published Several Times a Year by the
Intelligence Community Staff for the
Director of Central Intelligence
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Warning Notice
Sensitive Intelligence Sources and Methods Involved
NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION
Unauthorized Disclosure Subject to Criminal Sanctions
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A Statement from the Director of Central Intelligence
I welcome this first issue of the IC Staff's Review of National Intelligence
because I see in this new enterprise an opportunity to further the community's
efforts to improve the quality of finished national intelligence. I look upon this
to a degree as a companion of our Studies in Intelligence publication, which also
deals, in its own way, with matters affecting and attending the development of
intelligence as a profession.
The reviews and critical appreciations which appear here should permit
us to identify the strengths and weaknesses of both our coverage of current events
and our estimates of longer term developments; the special articles and studies
should help us to assess a variety of intelligence matters in a broad community
perspective; and the statistical surveys should help us to examine the substantive
focus of our efforts, their relationship to the KIQs, trends in production, etc. These
at any rate are the hopes of the publisher and, indeed, represent my own
expectations as well.
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STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
The Product Review Division (PRD) of the Intelligence Community Staff
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regularly reviews a wide variety of intelligence products (the NID, NIB, DIN,
Sigint Summary, Interagency Memoranda, DIEs, NIEs, etc.) and evaluates sub-
stantive coverage in all of the major categories of intelligence production-cur-
rent, estimative,?,and basic.
PRD's findings have hitherto been presented only in special surveys (e.g.,
post-mortem reports) and in informal reports to individual addressees. This new
publication, The Review of National Intelligence, brings the work of product
review to bear on a broader set of interests and concerns and presents PRD's
findings to a larger, community-wide audience. Our fundamental purposes in
this enterprise are wholly constructive: to develop a series of extensive-and
unique-files concerning various aspects of intelligence and intelligence proc-
esses; and to provide the kind of critical appreciation of published intelligence
which will be of value to the DCI, to USI B, and to the actual producers of in-
telligence. Our emphasis in this first issue is on the review of current publications,
but we plan in future issues to provide full coverage of a diverse array of finished
intelligence issuances.
Your comments concerning this publication, its contents, or, indeed, on any
matter of interest to the production community, will be most welcome. Please
address them (with permission to re-print them in this journal, if appropriate)
to the Chief, Product Review Division, ICS, Room 6 E 04, Headquarters Building.
Lieutenant General, USA
Deputy to the DCI for the
Intelligence Community
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