18. INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00304R000100130041-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 20, 2002
• Sequence Number: 41
• Publication Date: December 1, 1978
• Content Type: NSPR

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intw'ligence.ager cies, about the rnatsW
ods they were using, and now since rlhe
Iran thing there's a good deal of c:iti-
13. Inte11ig cee Az;er, cil?s
~fhe lessant.sutprises hF my owes _M
gence 'community, itself,- set its
tell'
own priorities as a supplier of lateen
program and -also,. particularly, politi-.
cal assessments.
Since I've been in-office we have sub.
stantially modified the order of priori-
ties addressed by the intelligence com- ?
tnunity.in its totality. When I became .
President I was concerned, during the,
first few months', that quite often the is-
prove the quality of our assessment -
And recently I wroth a note --. which
is my custom, I wri te several every day.
.- to the National Security Council, the
State Department and the C.I.R. lead-
ers, and asked them to get together
with others"and see how we could im-
of public information. that's known in
different countries around the world.
political channels. Not. secret intelli-
gence, sometimes .just the assessment
general assessments of. intelligence
matters, I've been very pleased with
the quality of their work..
Recently; however, I have been con-
cerned that the trend that was estab-
lished about 15 years ago to get intelli-
gence. electronic means might
have been overemphasized, sometimes
to the detriment -of,the assessment of
the intelligence derived and also the in-
telljgence derived through normal
f-work don. by ibeaasell%~~nse yam
rnunity. Vehen I interrogate them about
a specific intelligence item, when I get
."Bence information. I felt that the cus-
tomers - the ones who receive the in-
telligence information, including the
Defense Department, myself and
others-ought-to be theories to say this
is what we consider to be most impor-
marize, there. ia still some progress to
be made. I was-pleased with.intelli-
gence community's work when I first
came into office and it's been improved
since I became President.
ant.
That effort has been completed. And
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