REVITALIZING THE USIB WATCH MECHANISM

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81B00493R000100110008-3
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• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 30, 2004
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: June 25, 1974
• Content Type: REPORT

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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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