PIWG ITEM: DOD POLITICAL AND BIOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE REPORTING.(Sanitized)

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 21, 2003
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: July 18, 1980
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy to the DCI for Collection Tasking
FROM : PB/NSC Coordinator
SUBJECT . PIWG Item: DoD Politic ographic
Intelligence Reporting-
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1. Attached is a 3 July memo from Bob Komer to the other members
of the PIWG on this subject. (U)
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we had any comments and/or reactions to this report. Would you please
review this report, coordinate with both the DDO and NFAC PIWG Coordin-
ators, and prepare a memofor_,.the. DDCI's signature to. David Aaron noti,ng
our position. (C)
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DDO PIWG Coordinator) w/att.
NFAC PIWG Coordinator) w/att.
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MEMORANDUM FOR
THE UNDER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20301
DMR. FRANK CARLUCCI
In reply refer to:
1-20567/80
3 JUL 19P
SUBJECT: DoD Political and Biographic Intelligence Reporting (U)
Inasmuch as the recent Political Intelligence Working Group
(PING) meeting took place while I was out of the country, I
thought you night like to clear the administrative decks by
reviewing the information on Defense efforts in the area of
Political and Biographic Intelligence reporting.
The attached paper provides a.summary of the remarks I had
intended to deliver. I welcome any comments.
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Defense Political and Biographical Intellig nce Reporting
Since the issuance on 6 April 1979 of new Defense policy guidance directing
DIA, DSAA and the JCS to cooperate in improving political and biographical
intelligence reporting and of JCS implementing instructions, the quality and
quantity of such reporting from both Attaches and the Security Assistance
Offices has increased.
-- DIA published a comprehensive Continuing Intelligence Collection
Requirement for all Attaches on political/military and biographic-
related intelligence on 26 April 1979.
-- Defense Security Assistance Offices are made aware of these reporting
requirements and are routinely tasked by the Defense Attache to acquire
information on specific topics.
-- Attache and DSAA political intelligence reporting against these require-
ments is tracked and monitored through DIA's automated collection
management systems.
-- At our direction, DIA also is producing a quarterly report on the status
and progress of the political biographic reporting effort..
. OSD received the first of these reports in April and Dan Murphy
recently wrote to David Aaron reporting its results.
. The second report is now being compiled. Preliminary indications
show a significant increase in the volume of reporting on Africa,
the Far East and Western Europe, and a sharp reduction in the amount
of reporting judged to be of no value.
DSAA cooperation in political reporting is improving, with several
Security Assistance Offices accounting for half or more of the total
reporting received on several countries.
. In some areas, CSAA remains highly concerned that excessive
emphasis on intelligence collection will damage their primary
security assistance mission.
DSAA management has remained aloof from any intelligence tasking
or reporting -- this"is.all done through the Attaches.
. The most important determinant of the DSAA intelligence reporting
contribution is the relationship between the Attache and the chief
of the Security Assistance Office in each country. Where these are
good, DSAA's reporting volume is large and responsive; where they
are not, DSAA's reporting lags.
Consequently, there is.a-wide variation in DSAA political intelligence
reporting which we are now trying to'improve.
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In the area of biographic reporting, on 1 April 1980 DSAA approved
a project to develop agreed elements of information, data formats
and procedures to establish an automated data base on foreign students
training in the U.S.
-- Each Military Service command is providing quarterly inputs to
DSAA on all students in FMS or DIET training programs.
-- The DSAA data base will be transferred periodically to DIA for
inclusion in the DIAOLS/COINS data bases.
-- This system should be fully operational by the end of. 1980.
-- Simultaneously DIA has tried to improve the quality and timeliness
of Attache and Service biographic intelligence reporting which
supplements the student data retrieval system.
. The DIA effort has had only limited success because of the
persistent problem of resources and priorities.-
DIA's biographic analysis and retrieval system is still
essentially a low-priority claimant against needed personnel
resources.
Attaches and other personnel with access to foreign personnel
devote less effort to biographic reporting due to the lack
--of priority or unwillingness to undertake. the unexciting
drudgery involved.
An exception to the pattern is the program maintained by the
Army, which maintains an extensive -- and automated -- data
system on foreign trainees.
-- Consequently, we soon will have a good system for the retrieval of
basic biographic data on foreign trainees, but much of this data
will lack detailed appraisals of political views, personal habits, 25X1X
capabilities and so forth.
-- While we are better off than before, we need to devote more effort
to bringing DIA, Air Force and Navy up to the standards of Army's
biographic reporting program. We expect progress-to be slow because
most changes will have to be worked within present resource limits.
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