LETTER TO THE HONORABLE JOHN C. STENNIS FROM STANSFIELD TURNER

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• Publication Date: May 3, 1978
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The Director of Central intelligence
The Honorable John C. Stennis
Chairman, Subcommittee on Defense
Committee on Appropriations
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
In my recent appearances before the Congress, I discussed my intention
to reorganize the Intelligence Community Staff. This letter represents a
formal request for authority to realign the Intelligence Community Staff
(ICS) into the Resource Management Staff and the National Intelligence
Tasking Staff. To accomplish this requires your approval to utilize
resources appropriated under Title VIII of the Department of Defense 1978
Appropriation, together with resources available to me from appropriations
for CIA. This letter also constitutes a request to amend the FY 1979
budget currently under consideration by your Committee. The following
developments underlie this request:
o The establishment of the National Intelligence Tasking Center,
in response to the President's desire as expressed in Executive Order 12036,
to have a tasking organization that will serve the needs of the entire
Intelligence Community.
o A realignment of the functions, direction and role that the
IC Staff will play to increase the concentration on resource management
and cross-program evaluation within the Intelligence Community.
o My decision to transfer the Security Committee functions and
positions from the IC Staff to the CIA.
Earlier this week you received a letter from
requesting a reprogramming and budget amendment to accommodate these
changes. That letter indicated that the President had personally reviewed
and approved the request. It also said that I would provide the detailed
justification for this request. This letter and its attachments provide
the additional information.
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FY 1978 Reprogramming of Staff Functions
The specific authorities for which I am formally requesting your
approval are as follows:
o Utilization of 84 positions from the IC Staff authorization
and related funds for the Imagery, SIGINT, and Human Resources Collection
Committees to establish the new National Intelligence Tasking Center. In
addition, three positions and related funds for the Security Committee
would be transferred to the CIA. Finally, the residual 83 positions--
the nucleus of the Resource Management Staff--will be augmented by 16
positions, and the National Intelligence Tasking Center augmented by 37
positions and related funds. This augmentation is needed in order to
provide the first increment of adequate staffing for the full range of
Community functions envisioned by the new Executive Order and as described
in my recent appearances before Congressional Committees responsible for
appropriations and oversight.
o Reduction of the CIA's present ceiling by a net of 50 positions
to provide the 37 additional position requirements for the National Intelligence
Tasking Center (giving it a total FY 78 ceiling of 121) and the 16 positions
for the Resource Management Staff (giving it a total FY 78 ceiling of 99).
The 16 positions requested for the Resource Mangement Staff will be
utilized to implement the expanded budget responsibilities explicitly charged
to me under Executive Order 12036 and to create an Office of Community
Information Systems for ADP and telecommunications efforts so strongly
urged by the Congress in recent years.
I believe this proposed use of FY 78 funds appropriated under Title
VIII represents full compliance with both the letter and spirit of that
Title. Moreover, the added spaces and associated funds which I propose to
derive from CIA accounts represents the net requirement involved in creating
this new organization--the NITC--which was not envisioned when Title VIII
was passed.
FY 1979 Budget Amendment
The FY 1979 budget currently being considered by the Congress requests
170 IC Staff personnel positions and $9.683 million. This figure does not
reflect the recent House and Senate Select Committees recommended actions.
Further, this funding level accommodates only 149 man-years of personnel
effort. The reduction in effective manning was made in anticipation, at
the time the budget was prepared, of the need to create the National Intel-
ligence Tasking Center.
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In lieu of 170 positions and $9.683 million for the IC Staff, I am
requesting that the budget be amended to provide:
o 118 positions and $7.632 million for Resource Management
Staff activities.
o 164 positions and $7.389 million for National Intelligence
Tasking Center activities.
The additional 62 positions are derived from other programs as shown
in the schedules attached.
I believe the course of action I have outlined will enable me to
meet all responsibilities as currently envisioned by the President and
the Congress. I urge your full support of this request. I am, of course,
at your disposal to discuss this request in greater detail should you
desire.
Sincerely,
Stansfield Turner
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