THE PEACETIME/WARTIME TRANSITION PROBLEM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01720R000400080002-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 15, 2004
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: March 27, 1976
• Content Type: MF

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27 March 1976
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
FROM : George A. Carver, Jr.
Deputy for National Intelligence Officers
SUBJECT : The Peacetime/Wartime Transition Problem
1. The basic problem flagged in Boyd Sutton's 18
March memorandum, which Ed Proctor forwarded to-you on
19 March, and in my 22 March note forwarding General
Sitton's expression of appreciation, is defined by four
questions:
(1) What is the role of the DCI in a wartime
situation, or in a period of capital-C crisis in
which there is a serious, imminent possibility of
general war?
(2) What is the role of the national intelligence
structure and, particularly, the CIA in such a wartime/
capital-C crisis period?
(3) What mechanisms and procedures will support
the DCI in playing his (now-undefined) role in such
a situation?
(4) Through what mechanisms and procedures will
the CIA support (a) the DCI and (b) the national
effort in such a situation?
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