BACKGROUND MATERIAL FOR MEETING ON 31 AUGUST 1982

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• Publication Date: August 19, 1952
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Senior Interagency Group (Intelligence)
FROM:
19 August 1982
Executive Secretary, Senior Interagency Group (Intelligence)
SUBJECT: Background Material for Meeting on 31 August 1982
1. The meeting originally scheduled for 26 August for which an agenda
was circulated on 11 August has been rescheduled to 31 August at 1400 hours
in the White House Situation Room. The agenda will remain the same for the
meeting, which the DCI will chair.
2. The attached material is forwarded to assist your preparation for
the meeting.
Agenda Item 1 - National Intelligence Topics:
Material is contained in Tabs A - D for this first agenda item. The
DCI is interested in your views on the new list of NITS of current interest
(Tab B) and the revised NITs of continuing interest (Tab C) that were agreed
to by the Interagency Group (Intelligence) on 28 July 1982.
The purpose of the NITs and the NIT process, particularly the most
useful form of responses to the questions related to each current NIT, will
also be discussed at the meeting.
Agenda Item 2 - NFIP Budget Forecast:
Material for this second agenda item is contained in Tabs E and F.
Tab E contains the budget forecast which was discussed at the National
Foreign Intelligence Council meeting on 10 August 1982. Tab F contains
the amended guidance levels which were issued to program managers by the
Acting Director of Central Intelligence following the NFIC meeting.
The DCI will want to discuss your target-topic and generic priorities
recognizing that because the funding wedge we had anticipated for FY 84
has been eroded, the Community will be inhibited from beginning any new
initiatives unless trade-offs are made or new money found.
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PROPOSED AGENDA FOR SIG(I) MEETING
I. Concurrence on NITs of Current Interest (TAB B)
II. Concurrence on NITs of Continuing Interest (TAB C)
III. Concurrence on Proposed Restatement of the Purpose of the
NITs (TAB D)
IV. Review of NIT Process and Procedures
A. Examination of the Value of 1981 Community Responses to
NITs of Current Interest
B. Consideration of Future Changes to the NITs of
Continuing Interest
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SIM4ARY OF NAT I ORNAL INTELLIGENCE TOPICS
OF (XJRRENT INTEREST
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Soviet Foreign and Economic Policy ............ 1
Soviet Military Policy and Capabilities ....... 3
Soviet Intelligence Policy and Activities.... 5
EASTERN EUROPE ................................... 6
WESTERN EUROPE ................................... 7
EAST ASIA ........................................ 8
NEAR EAST, SOUTH ASIA ............................ 9
AFRICA ........................................... 10
LATIN AMERICA .................................... 11
GLOBAL ISSUES
International Trade and Finance ............... 12
International Energy .......................... 12
Nuclear Proliferation ......................... 13
International Narcotics ....................... 13
International Terrorism ....................... 13
As of 5 August 1982
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TAB D
PROPOSED RESTATEMENT OF THE PURPOSE OF THE NITS
(To Be Contained in Foreword of NIT Document Issued by DCI)
FOREWARD This document contains the National Intelligence Topics (NITs) that were
developed at my request from recommendations made by senior members
of the US foreign policy community and concurred in by the Senior
Interagency Group - Intelligence as requirements and priorities for use by
the intelligence agencies of the US Government.
There are two types of NITs. The Topics of Current Interest serve as a
forum for policymakers to inform intelligence collectors and producers of
their critical needs for information and analysis and are intended to keep
the intelligence effort focused on those countries and issues of greatest
concern to the policymakers over the next nine to 12 months. The Topics
of Current Interest, in addition to being narrowly focused and of
immediate policy concern, should generally address only those substantive
issue for which added emphasis is needed in the short term.
Concerns over issues that are regularly monitored and reported on by the
Intelligence Community should be reflected in the NITs of Continuing
Interest either by adding to or modifying existing items or by changing
assigned priorities. These NITS provide the Intelligence Community with
general guidance on issues that senior policymakers believe will be of
greatest importance to US interests over the longer term. The topics
provide guidance to production managers for the development of
intelligence capabilities (e.g., building data bases enhancing analytical
resources) over the longer term. They also serve as a mechanism by which
consumers can, on an annual basis, effect changes in the priorities of
topical categories in the attachment to DCID 1/2. Accordingly, the
definitions of the priorities in the NITs of Continuing Interest are the
same as those in the DCID 1/2 attachment. The priority definitions are:
1 - Intelligence vital to US national survival;
2 - Intelligence of critical importance to US political, economic, and
military interests;
3 - Intelligence of major importance to US political, economic, and
military interests;
4 - Intelligence of considerable importance to US political, economic, and
military interests;
5 - Intelligence of moderate importance to US political, economic, and
military interests;
6 - Intelligence of some importance to US political, economic, and
military interests;
7 - Intelligence of interest for US political, economic, and military policy
planning and execution.
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