LETTER OF INSTRUCTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82M00531R000400240014-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 15, 2005
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: March 15, 1974
• Content Type: MF

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DCI/IC-74-QI45
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director, Product Revietiv Group
1. During the next twelve months, I expect you to work within the
Intelligence Community Staff to accomplish the following in support of
my Community responsibilities to the DCI:
--create and maintain a staff representative of the Community
capable of creating and maintaining procedures for evaluating Community
efforts in analysis and production, and establish systems to perform this
function effectively;
--determine and assist in the implementation of ways to improve
the Community's performance in the area of finished analytical
intelligence;
--play an active role in the continuing process of refining Key
Intelligence Questions and in the use of KIQs by the NIOs to evaluate
Community performance;
--formulate and gain acceptance of ways to introduce a systematic
challenge mechanism into the workings of the finished intelligence
community;
--continue to develop the concept of the Family of National Products
and to encourage the adoption of specific recommendations growing out
of this concept, as it applies both to the regular, serial production of
finished intelligence and to the production of intelligence in times of
crisis;
--specifically concerning the latter, assess the performance of
the Community in times of crisis and recommend ways to provide
high-level consumers with better, more timely, and less redundant
products (including warning notices) during such periods;
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--establish and chair a coordinated Community effort to improve
analytical methods and the quality and acceptability of outside (contract)
research;
--enlist the aid of the NIOs, the various components of the Community
and other interested agencies of government to ensure evaluating and
facilitating efforts to improve the intelligence product;
--maintain close working relations with the NI~s so as to encourage
joint efforts and mutual assistance in the performance of Community
functions;
--cultivate harmonious working relations with both the individual
producing agencies (DDI, DI and DE, INR, etc.) and, as appropriate,
collection agencies (e. g. , NSA) so as to encourage coordination and
product improvement;
--maintain close working relations with the other elements of the
IC Staff, especially in areas affecting KIQ evaluation; the relationship between
intelligence collectors and intelligence analysts; and the coordination of .
questions concerning the inter-relationship of collection, analysis, and
resource allocation,
2. I expect these objectives to be accomplished within your Staff
resources and in close- coordination with,ather related e?~xnents of the
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DCI/IC and the Intelligence Community
ante r.a am
Lieutenant General, USA
D/DCI/IC
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