REVITALIZING THE USIB WATCH MECHANISM

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CIA-RDP81B00493R000100110008-3
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RIPPUB
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T
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6
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December 15, 2016
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July 30, 2004
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8
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Publication Date: 
June 25, 1974
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REPORT
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iii.iii~i~i~i~i~i~i/i///////////////////////////// Approved For Release 200/M : CffLBf0493R000100110008-3 .44 / // Approved For Release 2004/08/19 CIA-RDP81 B00493R000100110008-3 Approved For Executive Summary A. The Requirement P. 1 B. Current Problems p. 4 C. The New Approach P. 9 D. Certain "Musts" for Any New Warning System p. 26 E. Annex: 1. Mock-up of Warning Daily 2. "Legal Basis" for Strategic Warning 25X1 25X1 25X1 "AX Approved For Rele ,.25X 25X Approved For Re REVITALIZING THE USIB WATCH MECHANISM Executive Summary There is an urgent need, perceived within and outside the intelligence community, to revamp the USIB Watch Mech- anism. The attached report represents the suggestions of in- telligence officers who have participated in recent years in the activities of the present Watch Committee. Their basic conclusions are that there should be: 1. a USIB community Watch machinery to continue to serve as a discipline to prod existing community offices in their handling of the priority objective on intelligence concerning possible enemy attack. 2. a revitalization of the USIB community's Watch ma- chinery especially to enable it to operate efficiently in the 3. an updating and a narrowing of the priorities of the Watch structure to concentrate on the more direct threats to 25X1 25X1 Approved For Releja 25X1 25X1 Approved For the US, especially from the USSR and China. 4. a small Strategic Warning Committee Staff, which would have a new stress on flexibility and on turning out timely, continuous reporting on warning intelligence situa- tions, and would have a capability for research on warning intelligence methodology. 5. a new central location for the staff, to place it at CIA or DIA, where it can be near the analytical support and communications that it must share. 6. a Strategic Warning Committee to review broader, long- er range indicators of hostilities regularly, and to hold special meetings in cases of more imminent threat. * * * * It is recommended that: 1. USIB be asked to approve the report in principle, 2. that a small, ad hoc working group be established under USIB to sort out such details as the staffing, lo- cation, mechanics of producing reports, etc., and 3. that the DCI issue a new DCID 1/5 (a proposed draft is also attached) to cover this activity. Approved For Releas4 25X1 25X1 25X1 25X1 Approved For Release 2004/08/19 : CIA-RDP81 B00493R000100110008-3 Next 55 Page(s) In Document Exempt Approved For Release 2004/08/19 : CIA-RDP81 B00493R000100110008-3 jjjjji~ '111111,111 11,1111 ~ ~ V~~,O X / Approved For Release 20tR1M9 : g?R>C.1T00493R000100110008-3 140000 000r, 0 up X Approved For Release 2004/OT@RlA-%PGRj4F3R000100110008-3