TALKING PAPER FOR ADMIRAL MURPHY

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TALKING PAPER FOR ADMIRAL MURPHY
This a per was ;re pared at your request. It provides
to ur tor com with Ed Proctor
and covers three issues--secrecy n,] rmmQartmentpt,pf the
aria revision involving the NIB/NID publication.
ISSUE #1. Secrecy and Compartmentation
TALKING POINTS
There is a general recognition in the Community that
there are too many kinds of classification and control
on intelligence documents. Analysts, collectors, dis-
seminators and consumers are confused about what they
know and don't know. The dilemma of document control
specialists can be summed up by the plea from CIA's
Central Reference Service: "We're running out of room
on the computer." There is a problem to be solved.
Dr. Proctor heads a task force which thus far con-
centrated on sanitizing finished intelligence for the
consumer. A status report on that task force has been
sent to you from the Security Committee (See TAB A).
It appears that much remains to be done.
-- The NIOs, at the DCI's request, prepared a very brief
study of "the NODIS problem," designed to highlight
the need for making more intelligence information ac-
quired by the policyma er available to the inte i.gence
analysts. It is a compelling list of horror stories.
The paper, which was sent to you, was also sent by the
DCI to Scowcroft. (See TAB B).
-- Another aspect involves the difficulty of disseminating
sensitive intelligence information reports (other than
NODIS) from the collectors to the analysts--e.g., "G"
material from NSA to INR and DIA; DDO reports to DIA
and the Services; Navy material to CIA. IC Staff has
addressed these subjects from time to time, and the
lesson--unfortunately--seems to be that this disease
can be contained but not cured.
-- The Senate Select Committee report has some interesting,
and on the whole, sensible comments on secrecy and. com-
partmentation. It gives the Community justification
for a more vigorous effort to solve the problem (See
TAB Q.
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The KIQ-KEP performance evaluation also illustrates
the problem in the treatment of KIQ #14, which deals
with Soviet SLBM developments.
? Problem areas encountered in responding to this
KIQ were basically two, of which one was the
close compartmentation of certain data. This
problem was alleviated, in part, by the wider
distribution of certain of the data. There still
remains, however, the difficulty of disseminating
to consumers meaningful finished intelligence
based on those data.
? Concerning collection where data were disseminated
widely enough to permit coordinated tasking, col-
lection tasks were substantially or almost com-
pletely satisfied; where they were not, tasks were
unsatisfied).
-- Among the questions you might pose to Proctor are:
? Where can the IC Staff be most helpful on this
issue?
? Are there specific issues we can broker?
ISSUE #2. The Balance in Resource Terms Between Collection-and
Pro uct1on.
TALKING POINTS
-- While there are obviously no simple answers as to
what constitutes the "right balance" between collection
and production costs, we need better definitions of
the key elements that should be factored into the
allocation equation.
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-- Among the questions you might pose to Proctor are:
? Do ratings like 10 and 15 to 1 have any meaning?
If so, are they in the right ballpark?
? How good are the expenditure data on the analysis
side of the house?
? How can we improve our methods of deciding whether
too much or too little is being spent on a
particular intelligence concern? Are quantitative
approaches reasonable?
ISSUE #3.
Revisions vin the Intelli e ce
Bu e In (NIB) and NariQDaL Intelligence all (NID)
Pub TI-c-a-tio
--
In his 12 April memo to USIB Principals (TAB D), Mr.
Bush proposed that the NIB should be discontinued,
citing as a reason the potential saving of several
thousands of dollars.
--
The
and
of
NID
IC Staff agrees in principle with the DCI proposal,
would cite as added reason the high degree (90%+)
redundancy in the content found in the NIB and
dailies.
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The DCI's alternative proposal is, in effect, to make
the NID alone do the work of both dailies, namely:
? The NID will continue in its present form with
distribution to approximately 80 senior policy/
decision makers.
? Departmental needs will be met by a sanitized,
cabled version of the NID, designed to meet
department needs--much in the same way as the NIB
which is now distributed to approximately 700
recipients. (About 350 hard copy NIBs were
distributed outside CIA. The new system provides
no hard copies.)
- We wish that the IC Staff had been consulted in the
move to kill the NIB, since the staff was instrumental
in establishing it and has played a role in its
development as a Community enterprise. In any event,
we now wish to be helpful in the transition to the
"new NID" system.
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-- We believe that it is important to explore and
obviate potential problem areas that might arise
in the course of producing the new NID, such as:
? How or whether to make the new NID "a fully
coordinated publication." (Comments of USIB
Principals in response to the DCI's memo present
several differing viewpoints concerning "full"
coordination.)
? Procedures for revamping the new NID that are
satisfactory to DIA, State/INR, and NSA as
well as CIA.
? Consumer satisfaction vis-a-vis the assurance of
real dollar savings.
-- At some appropriate future time the IC Staff will be
consulting with users to ensure the timeliness,
relevancy, and quality of the new NID product.
-- Among the issues you might pose to Proctor are:
? The same general concern that you have expressed
in IC Staff meetings about the general difficulty
of knowing what is going on in the world. He
might have procedures of his own that could be
shared.
? Additionally, you might very well trigger a
discussion that could eventually make current
reporting more useful to the Community.
TABS A - Memo (SECOM-D-149) Status Report on
Dr. Proctor's Group Studying Secrecy
and Compartmentation, 28 April 1976
B - Memo (NIO 0568/76) NODIS Cable
Problem, 6 April 1976
C - Extracts from Senate Select Committee
Final Report on Foreign and Military
Intelligence
D - Memo (USIB-D-71.11/20) Current
Intelligence Publications, 12 April
1976
E - ICS Background Correspondence
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SECOM-D- 149
28 April 1976
MEMOPANDUM FOB: Deputy to the DCI for the Intelligence
Community
Chairman, Security Committee
SUBJECT Status Beport on Dr. Proctor's Group
Studying Secrecy and Cofnpartm.entation
1. This memorandum is in response to your request of
27 April 1976 for information about the work Dr. Proctor's group
is doing on secrecy and compartmentation.
2. Since February 1976 Dr. Edward Proctor, DDI, has been
chairing a group of senior officials representing CIA, DIA, State
and NSA, studying secrecy and compartmentation to develop prin-
ciples and guidelines for the classification and control of intelligence.
The goal of his group is to protect those aspects of intelligence
sources and methods that truly deserve protection and to allow
broader access to intelligence by applying the lowest appropriate
classification and minimum dissemination controls. This includes
declassification and release to the public.
3. Some of the major recommendations being considered by
Dr. Proctor's group include:
a. To generate sufficient confidence in the present classi-
fication system to allow the judicious access to intelligence by
a larger number of consumers.
b. To conduct an aggressive educational program designed
to downgrade substantive intelligence to unclassified or the
lowest possible classification consistent with E. 0. 11652.
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c. To classify each intelligence document on its own
merits and give it the dissemination controls it demands,
not by "inheritance" but by an evaluation consistent with the
standards of E.O. 11652 and the degree to which it truly
reveals sensitive aspects of sources.
d. To release to the public intelligence which will neither
jeopardize sources and methods nor damage the U. S. national
security or foreign relations.
e. To obtain White House approval to downgrade to
Confidential or declassify the fact that the United States
Government conducts a photographic satellite reconnaissance
program.
f. To obtain White I-louse approval to authorize the DCI
to implement a policy of reducing the dissemination restrictions
on the photographic and signal-s intelligence products of the
satellite reconnaissance program in a way that will not jeopardize
this essentinl source of intelligence.
4. Dr. Proctor has requested collector agencies to furnish
papers on steps they can take immediately to make more intelligence
available at lower levels of classification or control. Dr. Proctor
has prepared a draft letter from Mr. Bush to the President which
covers 3(e) and (f).
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chart showing the decliinc in cur-,
receipt of NODIS over the last two
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SUBJECT . NODIS Cable Problem
Among the difficulties of the NCOlS cable
problem are
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tvational lr clligcncc Oificcrs 6 April 1X1'6
--we don't know what and how much were
missing;
--even more important stuff is recorded in
memoranda we never see, or not recorded
at all.
Nevertheless, here is a potpourri of i ns tan.ces in
which we have suffered, On occasion the handicap
has real ir.;.ediate consequences; more generally, it.
keeps us less kno.rledgeable, less sophisticated, and
less useful than we could be_.-:..,
Note that both the Church and Pike committees
have made findings that this problem constitutes a
serious intelligence deficiency.
We would stress that ad hoc arrangements to clue
in one man on a given situation, with instructions
not to share the information, are not, the answer to
Ittachlnen t
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MEMORANDUM FOR USIF3 PRINCIPALS
SUBJECT Current Intelligence Publications
REFERENCES a. USIB-D-71.11/7, 2 December 1974
b. USIB-D-71.11/6, 4 April 1974
C. USIB-M-664, 4 April 1974, Item 3
1. I have recently conducted a review of the current
intelligence publications produced in CIA. This review has
involved a close look at the need for individual publica-
tions as well as their format and production costs. As part
of this process a representative from my Office of Current
Intelligence has consulted with,the principal production
officers in DIA, State, and NSA.
2. My find.Y.ngs indicate that the daily intelligence
needs of our main consumers can continue to be well served
and that a substantial savings of several hundred thousand
dollars can be realized by discontinuing the National Intel-
ligence Bulletin, the procedures for which were established
in the reference documents. In its place, I propose to meet
departmental needs by producing a cabled version of the
National Intelligence Daily.
3. More specifically, I propose that the NID become a
fully coordinated publication. Late-breaking news items
that cannot be coordinated will be so identified. As at
'_present, drafting will be-handled by CIA; DIA's Defense
Intelligence Notices and other departmental intelligence pub-
lications will be used as the basis for some drafts. In
addition, DIA, State, NSA, and CIA will be invited to submit
feature articles. The feature articles will.give attribution
to the author and his organization and will be coordinated in
substance. We will continue to require the services of repre-
sentatives from the participating agencies to facilitate the
coordination process and to speed the exchange of substantive
information.
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4. The cabled version of the NID will carry an overall
classification of TOP SECRET COMINT NOFORN, but each para-
graph will be individually classified so that recipients can
more easily use the information to meet their departmental
needs.
5. If you have any comments please provide them to
the Executive Secretary of USIB by 22 April 1976.
George Bush
Ch-airman
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MEMO FOR
Dick:
Please have someone from your shop
prepare a talker on this subject for
F
He will bring up with Ed Proctor in the
very near future.
Executive Assistant o
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This is an issue that fits square in the
middleground between your view that you have
total community responsibilities and the view
that that is true except for "substance."
I think Ed Proctor -- one of the more
reasonable of the Agency brass -- is a man
worth your chatting with on several counts --
(1) secrecy, compartmentation and
the need for change,
(2) the balance (in resource terms)
between collection and production,
and
(3) this matter.
is right that we could have
helped if consulted but I wouldn't make the
issue -- by itself -- the sole subject of your
first session with Proctor.
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IC 76-2287
14 April 1976
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy to the DCI for the Intelligence
Community
FROM:
C IG PAID
SUBJECT: biscontinuation of the National Intelligence
Bulletin (NIB)
The National Intelligence Bulletin has lived long
enough and so we do not resist the DDI's move to kill
it. But we certainly have problems with the way the
death-dealing blow is being delivered--to our offspring! --
and we would have welcomed (and should have had) a
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