RANDOM OBSERVATIONS OF ONI PROCEDURES FOR PARTICIPATING IN THE PRODUCTION OF NIE'S

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 8, 2012
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The primmest general practice whereby all sections are asked
to submit facet or opinion. an all points covered in the appramml
terms of reference ought to be abolished. In its stead, the OW/
Staff Officer to whom an WIE is assigned, should, after careful
study, rectum and refine the terms of reference to a series of
qvestions whieh are (1) restricted to areas of On production
pn4bi4ty as distinguished from areas of Uk.u.stei and,
(2) designed to elicit precise answers from the specific sections
to whoa the questions are addressed.
This recommended practice would not only result in improving
the quality of the OR contribution and therefore the quality of
the 0/23 draft but would reduce the workload placed on On.
The eel* argument against this I/specialized" participation
is that the DM, in oceparring in an WIE? does so for the whole
of it and net the soul eontent thereof alone. This argument is
not Wholly sound. rit is a fact that the tone of the 0/1 original
draft is sot appreoilbty, if at all, affected by the contribution
of an avow en setters smt within its production responsibility
as laid dowel, NSCIDis. Furthermore, DWI views on the whole of
the satinets ere mere direetly and efficiently obtained and noted
if they are related to the draft setimate sent to the /AC agencies
fat eceuest and presented at the meeting of the IAC representatives.
U. rsategiAaLbEastssiatktiL
The usefulness of the ON/ contribution collid be materiany
lespossed if its content and foes ware altered to reflect more
surly the basis on which rest the conclusions reached.
Putt yourself in the shoe* of the recipient in 0/NE, you
will the necessity for knowing what statements mode
are the feet, deduced fact, estimate, or test guess. The
inelusion in Service staff studies of a specific section covoring
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"facts bkoming on the %II:ace'i not aOt4L Ea :Intelli-
gence terms Whet is likewise required is an orderly progression
free evidenee to eveluation and analysis thence to eonclusion.
Ae be the soo00 at the fiats to be inclOded, details are
pmederetle to eummury treatment, and an indication of the range
stfaeaarasy, e.g., 200400 tone, ie more neemingttl than is an
seers. figure, e.g., 300 tams.
rrr. bablidesuo Air Wastes in. CI Ccwtributiog
The inclusion in ONT oentribtxtions of intelligence on air
netters SWIM only to duplicate the receipt of similar or
identical data from the use. Ilan if this material is not
trensaitted to OE, web precious typing time and effort is
mew devoted to the reproduction by Air Section (W) for trans-
alsalon to X of the identical contribution eubsittcd by USAF
to 0/16. Chafer to case histogy on inm.21/1 for example.)
ry. TAO ligiph gamoktee
mr attendance at the 20 Fibruary meeting of the TAC Watch
Committee leads me to question whether there is in fact an
adequate followup by the Committee participAnte to obtain
Confirmation or denial on significant controversial points
mimed during the Committee's deliberations.
This Committee has the
bridge between the multiplic by
eale Dimmed on the flaily *take
vmAmmi embers of the IAC) and
citinitte? produced.
melegiligl to become the most effective
of uncoordinated current periodi-
end produced independently by the
the body of coordinated national
amILABousch tor
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Ihe formation of teams to handle the various demarik7z -ado
IrePt* stiff, Including /AC demands, provides probably the
aset dem ant way of dealing with the preblemi_inview of the
mimeltemeone requirement* at MATO, SHOE, IAC,l and the
lave Plammera. While this spproadh makes for clearly defined
staff responsibilities, it entails the risk of keeping the
teeetiomel or regional specialists a bit far removed from the
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emsammer of the OBI aontribution the - Staff directly
smith, Beard at Nitionel letimates This ass have
tviihisirsige striate not enly =the eonsumwr ,- also on those
initially working on contributions within OBI for later eonsoli-
dation be the particular =Reber of your IAC Teem seised with the
assignment. In this connection, for *sample once they have handed
in their assignments, your dealt sensre not regularly consulted on
the eastent at the Oil esatribation as finally drafted. Abased
they'll:, sot see what was sent out. This weans that when they are
later called upon to oomment.on an 0/NE draft, they are not
nesessarily aware of that of their material was out out by the
MI Staff and what was left out by the OE Staff.
Factionally# the process need for the preparation of an
OBI contribution should roughly appromimate the process need
sabsequently for preparing an MIE draft. /n this process the
Ito Tow amber bearearelationship to the ON1 regional or
ft:motional desks similar to the relationship existing between
the Os Board member chairing &nesting of the TAC repreaenta,
time and the representatives in attendance,
leather aid to minimising the shortcomings of the team
approach is to allow appropriate specialists or desk officers to
amoompany your repreeentative at a meeting of the IAC represents,-
thee Ate the specialty of the subleot matter verrents the
additional nan-houre entailed. This gives the man a desirable
ocsteet with an otherwise remote coneumer of his efforts and
makes possible an oral elaboration of spocifie portions of the
eontributions it neoesgery. This is pertioulmr4 helpful in
Mims involving operational material such pa NIE-27 (Taiwan).
4101;Benrseentattve at the IAC Beoresentativen
The upset of rsjrossntation dealing with whom to send I
have touched on . Here I would add only that in m5,
view the IAC repreeentativea do not sufficiently appreciate
that their re.ponetbilttq is (or ought to be) two-fold. ilost
understand well enough that they attend the meeting to make
known the views of the agencies they represent. And this is
of sourve quite so it Should be. But the other aspect is one
sot hay appreciated. it is hoped at the meeting to so exnhanae
ideme.thet, ones the census has been formulated, each representa-
tive will feel bound as a pert of the IAC team to return to his
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agency and try, by using the arguments and evidence tell4d? to
eappert the draft arrived at in coalmen**.
C617 by developing such teem
pretritless procedure of arguing a
onirto have it reintroduced with
In obvious disregard or ignorance
to the vortibtg adopted.
spirit ean we obviate the
point fully at one meting
full vigor at the next echelon
of the argumontatiln Which led
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Oa port *cessions we have hoped that contributions oould
sone to gm in too neat bundlest one tagged *fron States and
the other *from Defeno0 This in effect would require the three
sarelses to join with the ZTO in a coordination praoecture before
the draft is sent out from Defense.
loth for considerations of time and the fact that more
sgasersis statemente in the contributions would result, I now
feel that A fOrnel attempt on the part of the servioes to iron
otO difference. In advance of submission of contributions to
OM Is sot desirable.
This however makes it r teportant for ench service to
have ono competent officer aseigr?d to the I/4E ntaff.
nitudimmintrjeswon color to o/Ni3
A naval officer swig:mod to OE ii1d prdhably not be
celled 'upon to contribute directly of his spacial knowlodce and
experience to the degreo that an prmy or an air oft leer airdiarly
attaehed would be. This is because many situations -which give
rise to 1/60s do not have as en essential inflredient the element
et. naval power. Nevertheless, an officer assigned to 0/7E could
render valuable service and supplement the limited capacity of
your small TAO tear tor assisting the 0/kg Staff to firm up soft
*pots diseerned in OAT contributions during tho preparation of a
draft in 0/kg. On vcrash" jobs, a service officer an the 0/WE
Staff is invalnab14).
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various service contributions; and,
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seam to fill gape revealed during
Initial OS drafting phses.
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