LETTER TO STANSFIELD TURNER FROM CHARLIE ROSE

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 6, 2007
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: September 17, 1979
• Content Type: LETTER

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ARLES ROSE. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MANG L. M/12ZOL 0L1, I.
R:AAN Y. MJNETA. CALIF.
CHE FOWLER, JR., GA. PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE
KENNETH ROBINSON. VA. ON INTELLIGENCE
HN M. ASHBROOK. OHIO
BERT MCCLORY. ILL.
WILLIAM WHITEHURST. VA. WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515
CHAEL J. O'NEIL. CHIEF COUNSEL
September 17, 1979
Honorable Stansfield Turner
Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D.C. 20505
E xBcut ve Registry
It has been a year since the Subcommittee on Evaluation held hearings
on warning and heard a "bare bones" description of how a "focal point for
warning" was to be created. Significant progress has been observed in some
areas - notably the periodic warning meetings conducted by NIOs - but we are
disturbed that other aspects of the warning system have yet to be fleshed out.
The Strategic Warning Staff has remained in limbo too long. It needs
to have its personnel recruitment revitalized and its mission defined. While
He are optimistic that - under the new NFAC Director, the able new head of the
SWS and the NIO/W - a role can be devised in which the SWS will interact effec-
tively with the rest of the community to promote warning, I do urge your atten-
tion to this important area to ensure that these efforts proceed without delay
and meet with the necessary support from the rest of the community.
and other personnel in DoD who have led recent efforts
to improve the management of the DoD Indications and Warning System. We urge
you to ensure that progress achieved in the last year or two not be eroded
during this period of change.
Finally, I remind you of our continued interest in measures to provide
for evaluation-of intelligence community performance in providing warning, and
i n mec a~Fi nissms to ensure s.yst ntaic consideration ofwhether q ven expenditures
are required for I&W. (The Committee has requested a report on-these subjects
by December 31, 1978.)
In May I addressed a meeting of the I&W Seminar, noting that Mr. Dick
Lehman had called our Committee "the Godfather" of the NIO for Warning. I
said that we accepted that role, and as a good godparent the Committee has been
following closely the development of that office. It is in the same spirit that
I We also note with some concern the departure of
I bring these concerns to your attention.
'Sincerely'
/ LL `..{~
Charlie Rose
Chairman, Subcommittee
on Evaluation
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