BRIEFING OF SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE STAFF THURSDAY, 24 APRIL 1975

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00704A000100060018-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: April 24, 1975
• Content Type: BRIEF

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Briefing of Senate Select Committee Staff
Thursday, 24 April 1975
P.reaent purposes and functions.
Provide intelligence to policymakers.
How?
:Participation in NSC mechanism (including
Economic).
:Fublications --Curren fIAin-depth.
Production : 53%
Collection . 17%
Processing : 30%
History:
Established Jan 1952
Feb 1953
Apr 1962
Jan 1966
May 1971
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Support of the DCI in broader Community role:
--SIGINT Officer.
--KH regulation and advice.
--Liaison with foreigners (exchanges of
intelligence).
--40 Committee Covert Action and JRC, Navy,
--Classification and unclassified reporting.
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concerned parties.
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enuring the past year.
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Country Policy 8 I a rEast 7
Mil:it ry W o Id
Assistance 6 .diddle East 3
Economic and \v est. Horn. 2
population 3 Europe 2
Nuclear matters Africa 1
USSR 1
Publications on current events and. studies in
depth---based on all sources of inorrnation
negotiations,
Contributions and comment : on NSS\
Oil ne oti.at.ions; pedal ba:.ks~
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above (and Congress),
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Primary role of UCl and -CIA is to provide those
who arc, responsible for the formulation and
iniplemc ntation of national security policy with
atrtiI oritativc? information an,,--[ assessments about
what`s going on abroad -that they need to do their
jobs.
l~ationa.l Security has come to mean much more
than znili Lary or even political matt?-j`'as* in the
two decades fo?lowwin? WW1I; it now has a h avy
economic emphasis as well.
Our customer s include the :President and other
members of the NSC and its : ?echanisms hut also
includes those concerned with international
economic policy--SecTrcasury, CEA, CIEP,
_E'LA, Fedites, etc.
-ifow do we provide them with the information.
and assessments they need ?
Participation in NSC and CIEF mechanisms.
:DCI briefs NSC on topics unde:L consideration.
:DCI and others participate in discussions of
major subgroups of NSC:
WSAC1: Middle East, Cyprus, and SEAS
VP : On SALT and 'l1 X31 l
USC : Law of the Sea.
Status of Soviet weapons d cployment and
Loring c,,.greer_aents, -and
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