COMMENTS ON THE SIGINT OBJECTIVES SECTION OF THE NATIONAL SIGINT PLAN

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• Document Release Date: May 26, 2004
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• Publication Date: August 26, 1974
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THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20505
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26 August 1974
MEMORANDUM FOR THE CHAIRMAN, USIB SIGINT COMMITTEE
SUBJECT: Comments on the SIGINT Objectives Section of the
National SIGINT Plan
REFERENCE: USIB SIGINT Committee Memorandum, 16 August 1974
1. Per your request, my NIO colleagues have reviewed
reference memorandum and have found it to be a clear and
sensible ordering of priorities. All agreed that tying the
SIGINT objectives to the DCI's Perspectives for Intelligence
and Objectives was a logical approach to the admittedly diffi-
cult task of identifying the goals of the SIGINT Community
in sufficient specificity to be of use to General Allen in the
formulation of the National SIGINT Plan.
2. As you are aware, however, any such listing of
requirements takes on an air of being a platter full of sub-
jects on which the discipline involved ought to provide in-
formation and, thus, becomes to some, a shopping list which,
while designed to delimit, actually is an open season hunting
license. We have all been faced with this dilemma at one
time or another and to my knowledge, no panacea has emerged
to solve the problem of how to be specific in our require-
ments while at the same time reflecting the myriad of ques-
tions which require answers.
3. The following specific comments by my associates
reflect their views on a number of subjects contained in
reference memorandum.
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5. Of course, we are all well aware that this latter
point is one which all portions of the Intelligence Community
will have to focus upon in the coming months and years.
Continuing, close cooperation between all the players will be
required to ensure that the best possible mix of collection
disciplines and analytical efforts is brought to bear on the
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priority problems facing the Community as it endeavors
to support its masters.
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Acting Deputy for National 'gence Officers
cc: D/DCI/IC, Cy #2
O/D/DCI/NIO
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