FUNCTIONAL STATEMENT OF THE PLANNING AND PROGRAM COORDINATION STAFF

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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2000
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FUNCTIONAL STATEMENT
of the
PLANNING AND PROGRAM COORDINATION STAFF
GENERAL
The Chief, Planning and Program Coordination Staff (CPPC/DDP) is
responsible for insuring on behalf of DDP that the plans and program
of the clandestine services are responsive to CIA's clandestine mis-
sions under national policy. He will generally monitor the planning
and programming activities of the CIA Clandestine Services to insure
that they are based upon proper authorization and sound premises;
adequately coordinated internally and externally; and are realistic
and balanced as to objective, phasing, operational capability, and
demand for resources.
SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES
1. To develop and monitor the planning and programming system
for the activities of the covert organizations of CIA.
2. To obtain or develop, and to disseminate, the major policy
and strategy guidance for the NSC 10/2 activities of CIA.
3. To exercise general supervision over the preparation of stra-
tegic and operational plans and programs for NSC 10/2 activities, and
to insure coordination of such plans and programs with the needs and
contributions of CIA intelligence activities. This supervision will
be exercised to the fullest extent possible through the planning
staffs of CFI, CPP, CPO, CAO, and OTS.
4. To coordinate the final analysis of strategic and opera-
tional plans and programs against support capabilities and to in-
sure balance between mission and means.
5. To consult with the Chief of Operations and other DDP staff
elements, as requested, on the detailed implementation and accomplish-
ment of approved programs.
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6. To make appropriate recommendations to DDP concerning organi-
zational design of the clandestine apparatus.
ORGANIZATION
The Planning and Program Coordination Staff will consist of the
Office of the Chief, the Strategy and Policy Group, and the Program
Coordination Group.
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STRATEGY AND POLICY GROUP
1. To collate in systematic form the policy guidance on NSC 10/2
activities as received from authorized sources within or outside CIA,
or to develop reasonable assumptions and hypotheses in the absence of
such policy, and to coordinate the development of the primary strategy
derived therefrom.
2. To coordinate proposals of policy and grand strategy for NSC
10/2 activities for consideration by DDP and for his submission for
higher level action.
3. To define as necessary channels for continuing CIA liaison
with participating government agencies on the policy and strategy of
NSC 10/2 activities, to assign responsibility for such liaison, and
to monitor its accomplishment.
4. To disseminate approved policy. and strategy, or assumptions
and hypotheses, to DDP staff and operating elements as framework and
guidance for the accomplishment of strategic plans and programs.
5. To monitor the preparation and consideration of the strate-
gic plans of DDP staff and operating elements.
6. To prepare, issue, and maintain current the DDP policy book(s).
7. To participate as necessary in representatives' meetings and
equivalent conferences.
8. After approval of operational programs for implementation, to
assist the Chief of Operations and the Chiefs of DDP staffs in the
interpretation and refinement of program objectives for purposes of
execution.
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PROGRAtd COORDINATION GROUP
1. To devise and initiate directives to insure that strategic
plans, operational plans and programs, and support plans and programs
(administrative, logistic, and technical) constitute a complete and
integrated planning system.
2. To establish standard patterns and formats for planning and
programming documents to insure uniformity, to establish responsibili-
ties for their preparation, and to prescribe schedules, priorities,
and deadlines for their completion.
3. To monitor generally the preparation of proposed operational
programs.
I+. To maintain a record of the policy guidance from and policy
agreements with external agencies on the provision of support to CIA
clandestine operations; to monitor liaison with such agencies on inter-
agency planning and programming of such support; and to disseminate
such guidance to interested CIA elements.
5. In the absence of firm policy for support planning, to initiate
action to establish such policy, or to establish planning assumptions
in lieu thereof.
6. To assure the availability of strategic and operational plans
and programs to CAO/DDP.. OTS, and CIA central administrative offices,
as a basis for their support planning and programming.
7. To review and, in broad terms, monitor through the appropriate
elements of the DD/P Staff the support planning of the Agency for
clandestine operations as necessary to insure consistency between
strategic-operational programming and support capabilities, and to
advise C/PPC, CAO, DDP, and DCI of action necessary to achieve such
consistency.
8. In collaboration with the other elements of the DD/P Staff,
to keep generally informed on the status and progress of supporting
action and to advise concerning related adjustments which may be
required in strategic planning and operational programming.
9. To make certain that all proposed operational programs receive
adequate staff review for consistency with established policy and stra-
tegic plans, for operational feasibility, and for assurance of support
capability. (This is primarily a coordinating function, with the inten-
tion that the actual review for these considerations will be performed
by other DD/P and DD/A staff elements. It is assumed that the Chief of
Operations has primary staff responsibility on behalf of DD/P for monitor-
ing the detailed implementation and accomplishment of approved operational
programs.)
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