DRAFT MEMORANDUM REGARDING IMPLEMENTATION OF PNIOS

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• Publication Date: July 29, 1963
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UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD
Office of the Executive Secretary
29 July 1963
MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. Ray S. Cline, Deputy Director (Intelligence),
Central Intelligence Agency
Mr. Allan Evans, Deputy Director for Research,
Intelligence and Research. Department of State
I IChief of Staff,
IDeputy Assistant Director for
ro uction, National Security Agency
Mr. Ludwell L. Montague, Board of National
Estimates, Central Intelligence Agency
SUBJECT Draft Memorandum Regarding Implementation of PNIOs
REFERENCES : a. USIB-D-25.16, 13 June 1963
b. USIB-M-278, 10 July 1963, Item 3
1. The attached draft memorandum for USIB has been prepared
by Mr. Cline's Office as a proposed response by the PNIO Review
Committee to Board action recorded in subparagraph c. of
reference b. In this action, USIB directed the Committee to
report on the present practices of USIB Committees relative to
implementation of the PNIOs and to clarify the intent and purpose
of the last recommendation in USIB-D-25.16 (reference a.).
2. This paper is circulated for consideration of the
Committee at a meeting presently scheduled for 1430 hours on
Thursday, 1 August, in Room 7 E 30, CIA Headquarters Building.
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MEMORANDUM
SUBJECT Implementation of PNIO's
REFERENCES: (1) USIB-D-25.1/6 of 1.3 June 1963
(2) USIB-Executive Secretary Memorandum, 16 July 1963
1. In the recommendations of the PNIO Review Committee, paragraph
21 e, it was suggested that the USIB:
"direct the USIB committees concerned (EIC, GMAIC, JAEIC,
SIC, COMOR, IPC, SIGINT and CCPC) to report to the Executive
Secretary of the USIB the procedures adopted and actions
taken or planned to discharge their responsibilities with
respect to the implementation of DCID No. 1/3 pursuant to
their respective Charters."
The Watch Committee was added to this group at the initiative of the
informal body appointed by the Chairman of the PNIO Review Committee,
2. Each of the "concerned committees" have been contacted by members
of the informal working group with respect to the role played by the
PNIO's in the committees' work and the extent to which committee efforts
are specifically, or even generally, directed toward implementation of
the PNIO's, singly or en bloc. The consensus of.the responses indicates
the following:
a. In general, with the exception of the CCPC, the PNIO's by
themselves play a limited role in guiding the operations of the committees.
Actual direction of committee efforts is derived instead from the immediate
.and ad hoc needs of the DCI, of USIB member agencies-or the specific sub-
stantive situation with which the committees have concerned themselves.
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In general, committee operations are far more responsive to current
developments and requirements than to the essentially long-range guidance
afforded by the PNIO?s, even as modified on a quarterly basis.
b. That PNIO's serve a number of committees as citations of
intelligence concern to be brought in to support committee.requests on
individual agencies for collection or other action.
c. That committee actions are seldom taken as a result of any
centralized direction which would or could involve a number of committees
working in parallel on a problem, but are taken as noted above in response
to current events or high-level interests. This is in part a reflection
of the disparate purposes of the "committees concerned."
d. That the committees themselves generally feel that their
current guidance and direction directly from USIB, the Board of National
Estimates or the individual agencies is adequate and that there is little
need for any other central direction.
e. That the committees in only a few instances involve themselves
in long term planning of a time scale comparable to that of the PNIO's,
but are by and large fully absorbed in copipg with the problems of the
moment.
f. That, in general, the USIB "concerned committees", even COMOR
and IPC, the two most specifically involved with collection, do not allocate
the resources required for carrying out intelligence programs. Instead,
they advise USIB and/or the several intelligence agencies regarding the
allocation of those resources.
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3. It was with the purpose of providing USIB and the DCI more
systematic advice on the relevance of the PNIO's that the Review Committee
suggested periodic reports to USIB. The truth is that only the DCI,
working with USIB, has the responsibility for ensuring the rational
allocation of intelligence collection resources through arrangements with
the heads of government departments and agencies which have command over
the intelligence components represented by the members of USIB. Of course,
USIB members advise their department or agency heads individually, but the
Intelligence Community is obliged to work under the aegis of the DCVs
statutory authority. An effort to improve the efficiency of the DCI's
management of the intelligence resources of the Community depends upon
timely and complete reporting by the USIB intelligence agencies of their
activities, their needs and their priority problems in the collection and
production of intelligence. On the basis of this reporting by USIB intel-
ligence agencies, supplemented by more systematic reporting from the USIB
subcommittees on inter-agency problems, the DCI will be in a position to
determine what is being done, what can be done, and what most reasonably
should be done by the entire Intelligence Community.
4. Hitherto, the USIB has directed relatively little specific
attention to the management problem of the allocation of resources to the
solution of intelligence problems. It has generally regarded the "road
map" provided the USIB. agencies by the PNIO's and the separate efforts
of USIB subcommittees as giving adequate impetus to the solution of these
problems in the individual departments . and. agencies.
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5. We believe a persuasive case can be made for a central mechanism
under USIB to bring together the pertinent facts, the reports of the
several intelligence agencies, the knowledge of collection capabilities
obtained from the USIB subcommittees and the Community's collection re-
quirements, either in the long terms of the PNIO's or in the short terms
of active current interests. A mechanism providing this service would
greatly assist the DCI in his responsibilities for insuring that the
heads of the departments having the assets required to meet intelligence
needs are appropriately responsive to the Intelligence Community's
assessment of resource. allocations required to implement the.PNIO's.
Decisions on these managerial matters can be made only by the DCI and
USIB. The PNIO's provide a useful guide for a review of such managerial
problems as they arise, but they are not themselves a suitable vehicle
for determining the solutions.
6. Elements of a central mechanism which could perform this task
already exist. The Critical Collection Problems Committee (CCPC) is
charged in its charter (DCID 2/2 of 26 June 1959) with making inventories
of collection capabilities and planned. actions to satisfy highest priority
requirements, allocating actions or recommending means to improve collection,
fostering new collection ideas and techniques and recommending improvements
in speed relevancy and accuracy of collection and transmission of infor-
mation. The CCPC could give energetic. attention to problems of central
management and help focus efforts on problems deserving USIB action. The
Assistant for Coordination and his staff could assist in study and negotia-
tion of matters requiring action by the DCI, on behalf of the Intelligence
Community,with departmental and agency heads.
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7. Finally, a USIB steering committee such as we touched on in our
report (Para. 17 of USIB D-25.1/6 of 13 June 1963) might usefully supplement
the work of the CCPC and the Assistant for Coordination. As originally
proposed in a memorandum of 16 April 1963 to members of the PNIO Review
Committee, such a steering committee would have the task of recommending
to USIB on the practical implications of. both comprehensive and priority
national intelligence objectives so as to ensure that the Community's
actions were pertinent to national security policy problems. Such a
body could advise the DCI and USIB on long-term development and deploy-
ment problems as well as on specific current requirements and collection
programs for matters in the nearer future and thus provide continuous
and consistent review and supervision by USIB of the activities of its
sub-committees and member agencies.
8. These existing and proposed mechanisms are not mutually ex-
clusive.alternatives for dealing with the problems of central management
of Community resources; each could make useful contributions under vigorous
and continuing direction by USIB.
9. We recommend:
a. That the USIB note this report;
b. That the USIB approve the concept of regular and informative
reports from USIB sub committees and intelligence agencies of actions
taken or planned to satisfy high priority intelligence requirements; and
c. That the USIB reach a decision as to the appropriate
mechanism or mechanisms to supervise for the USIB the central management
of the allocation of intelligence production and collection resources.
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