REVIEW OF VOL. II OF DIS TEXTBOOK: 'THE U.S. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY'

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 1, 2006
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: March 25, 1975
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DCIIIC-75-4567
2 5 MAR 1975
~AiORANDU~ F?R: Assooiate Deputy to the DCI for
the Intelligsnce Community
gUBJECT Review of Vol. II of DiS Textbook:
"The II.S. Intelligence Community"
reviewed and commented on themattsehed textbook3written~by
Mr. Kirkpatrick for the Defense Intelligence Schaol.
2. I specifically reviewec: Section VI commencing on
paSe EBB with regard to the description of the Intelligence
Community Staff and propose that it be rewritten as attached.
3. Kirkpatrick's description of the IC Staff was valid
a year aga but is now dated. I2'?the text is published as
written, it will give 8 false imAsian of the internal
organization of the Staff.
~. Recommend that you approve prep?sed rewrite of
Section VI and sign memo to the Chief, External Activities
Branch, Offiae of Security.
aptain, USAF
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Att~tctiments : as stated
Distr..ibution
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The Intelligence Community Staff (ICS)
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The Intelligence Community Staff {ICS) was established to
support the Director of Central Intelligence in his role as the senior
'US intelligence officer--the man personally designated by the President
to provide leadership and to coordinate the foreign intelligence activities
of the national intelligence community.
The present IC Staff had its beginning in a small National --
Intelligence Programs Evaluation or NIPS Staff which was established~in
1963 to look.at Community problems. .This nucleus was expanded in early
1972 into the Intelligence Community Staff with afar broader mission:
However, in spite of its name, it, like its predecessor, NIPE, was still
for the most part, manned by CIA officers. When Dr. Schlesinger became
DCI in early 1973, he reorganized the Staff to make it representative of
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the entire Community.
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The present IC Staff is a blend of CIA professional personnel,
active duty intelligence officers from the military services, civilian
representatives from NSA, DIA, and the State Department, plus a few
individuals drawn from private industry. Although housed in the CIA
Headquarters Building, the IC Staff support to the DCI is clearly in a
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community sense, and it deals with all agencies and epartments on an
equal basis, the Central Intelligence Agency being one among several.
The purpose of the Intelligence Community Staff is to provide
continuing support to the Director of Central INtelligence in the dis-
charge of his responsibilities for planning, reviewing, evaluating, and
improving all US foreign intelligence activities and for submitting
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recommen at~ons to the President"' can, Wing the allocation oT all
intelligence resources as assigned to him in National Security Council
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The functions of the IC Staff include:
a. Establishing and maintaining procedures. for the systematic
evaluation and improvement of Intelligence Community efforts in
analysis and .production, in collection and processing, and in dev-
eloping recommendations for resource allocation.
' b. Providing a focal point for the identification and resolution
of planning, management and procedural problems of importance to more
than one organization of the Intelligence Community.
c. Preparing annually the National ForeicLn.Intelligence
Program Recorranendations for submission to the President by the
Director of Central Intelligence concerning (a) the resources required
for execution of Community responsibilities for the provision of
foreign intelligence, (b)~the evaluation of Community performance,
(c) means of improving Director of Central Intelligence oversight of
the Community, and (d) issues meriting Presidential attention.
d. Conducting in-depth studies in important Community problem
areas and develop policy proposals and action recommendations as
appropriate.
e. Preparing for the Director of Central Intelligence periodic
statements of objectives, forecasts of the future intelligence
environment, and listings of foreign intelligence priorities, as -such
may be required for Community guidance.
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resource review process including related program and performance
evaluations, research and analysts; developing methodologies to
support such evaluations.
g. Establishing a system for relating Corr~nunity resource
expenditures with responses to key intelligence needs of~national
level users in order to enhance both the responsiveness of the
products and the effectivenss and efficiency of resource application.
h. Fostering development of a coordinated Community effort
to improve analytical techniques and methodologies.
i. Reviewing and assessing the performance of the Intelligence.
Community in providing warning of and responding to crisis situations,
and recommend ways to improve .the quality, scope and timeliness of
the intelligence products provided both to high-level and to operational
field consumers.
j. Working with Department of Defense agencies on behalf of the
Director of Central Intelligence to enhance mutual contributions
between national intelligence activities and the operational
intelligence activities which support the readiness of the military
forces.
k. On behalf of the DCI, maintain oversight of and evaluate
the performance of the committees of the United States Intelligence
Board.
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1. Maintaining continuing liaison with the President's Foreign
Intelligence Advisory board and supporting the DCI in his responses
to the Board.
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m. Supporting the DCI in his participation in National
Security Council Intelligence Committee (NSCIC} activities and
providing the chairman of the NSCIC Working Group.
n. Participating in, and providing secretarial support for
the Intelligence Resources Advisory Committee (iRAC). w
. o.. Preparing presentations as appropriate far use by the
DCI in his Congressional appearances.
p. Monitoring Federal legislative actions which affect the
functioning and effectivenss of the Intelligence Community.
q. On behalf of the DCI, monitor inputs from intelligence
organizations requested by such special commissions, committees and
panels as may be appointed by the President and/or the Congress to
investigate programs or activities with which intelligence products
~or intelligence organizations are involved. 2sx1
The IC Staff is organized to support the DCI in the four primary
areas of his Community responsibility--resources management, collection
and processing, production and analysis, and planning, reviewing and
evaluating.
~~ The IC Staff is directed by the Deputy to the Director of
Central Intelligence for the Intelligence Community (D/DCI/IC), designated
by the Director of Central Intelligence. The Staff is operated as a
separate entity, not a part of the Central Intelligence Agency staff
structure. The D/DCI/IC reports directly to the Director of Central .
Intelligence.
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