DCI BRIEFING TO THE PFIAB

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 19, 2007
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: May 4, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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4 May 1982
NOTE FO LOGGED
Deputy Executive Secretary, NFIB MAY 1962
FROM: EA/Executive Director
SUBJECT: DCI Briefing to the PFIAB
REFERENCE: Your Memorandum (NFIB-6.1/22) of 3 May 1982, Same Subject
1. Regarding CIA input for the DCI's 12 May session with PFIAB, my previous
notes to you on Agency support provided to PFIAB should satisfy your section 3
requirements with a couple of exceptions:
- Two early briefings might have slipped through the cracks:
- On 9 February John Stein (DDO) and
briefed Ms. Luce's task force on the Agency's
counter counterintelligence program; and
- Since my last note (20 April) the following support has been provided:
- Copies of 14 NIEs, primarily on Latin America and the Soviet Union,
were forwarded;
- On 28 April (Assistant to the DDI for Current Support)
briefed the Scien i ic, ec nological and Communications Task Force on
getting intelligence to policymakers.
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- On 28 A ril D/ALA (SOVA) and
efed the Analytical and Political Task 25x1
orce on en ra merica, focusing on Soviet influence in that region and
the long-term impact of the current situation there on Mexico; and
- To follow up on the above, about 30 publications and 200 articles on
Latin America/Soviet Union were forwarded to the task force.
2. I will provide you input for Part 2 by the end of the week.
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For nearly 20 years the Directorate of Intelligence
was organized along purely functional lines. This
imposed difficulties in preparing integrated analysis,
thus limiting perspective.
In October of 1980, John McMahon reorganized the
Directorate along regional lines. For the first time,
political, economic, and military analysts working on
the same country or region now are part of the same
office and can bring together their diverse
specialities in the form of genuinely integrated
multidisciplinary analysis.
Upon McMahon become Executive Director, Robert Gates
became the DDI. He instituted a program to improve
the quality of analysis.
?Revamped approach to research program providing for
research on issues of importance and relevance to US
Government. For first, broad coherent program based
on key problems and wide range of assets in and out
of government.
?Each office required to develop aggressive program
of contacts, conferences and seminars with outsiders
on important subjects tying into research plan.
*To take advantage of most experienced and
knowledgeable people in US, have begun aggressive
program of acquiring highly qualified consultants who
will review and critique DDI drafts in areas of 'their
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speciality. Especially interested in people who have
different perspective.
?Outside training now required for every analyst
every two years to refresh and expand substantive
knowledge and broaden perspective by exposing them)lo
different and new people-and new ideas.
?A new program established of one-year rotational
tours in policy agencies for very promising middle-
level managers to help them understand how the policy
process works and how agencies use intelligence.
*For first time, each office now required to develop
and maintain a production file on each analyst that
over time will enable supervisors to gauge whether
the analyst is improving as well as overall accuracy
and quality of his or her work.
?Current intelligence to be presented in two distinct
parts beginning with a recitation of facts/evidence
and then a separate comments section thereby ending
the confusion between what is fact and what is
anlaysis.
*In face of often weak analyst skills in effectively
using intelligence sources, senior management
encouraging development of skills in tasking and
using various sources (SIGINT, imagery, l-LMINT).
Skill in this area now included as a specific item
for evaluation in annual fitness report (for the
first time in DDI history).
?AIl senior managers in directorate now aware that
quality of intelligence and in particular its
accuracy the foremost element on which their
performance will be judged. For first time, senior
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managers required to review all substantive
publications issued by their office.
?Provided for the first time that those holding
unorthodox or minority views be heard by senior
managers by sending memorandum directly to DDI
setting forth alternative views not included in
Agency publications or other formal channels.
-- There were additional organizational changes since
October to enhance quality and protect research
work. Product Evaluation Staff created to provide the
first completely in-house evaluation capability in the
DDI.
-- There are already promising signs of change even though
many of our changes are only a few months old.
?There has been a noticeable change in the number of
multidisciplinary papers, the use of special sources
in DDI reporting, and the quality of finished
intelligence.
?This years DDI research plan, which I, DDCI, and
ExDir reviewed in detail and approved, shows much
more thought and cohesion than ever before. '
*The use of outside contacts is already on the
upswing.
?Arrangements have been worked out for ten rotational
assignments in policymaking agencies.
?Production files have been established and the
distinction is being made between fact and analysis
in our current intelligence.
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Recent Developments in the Field of Intelligence Law
1. Executive Order 12333 Governing Intelligence Activities
- Order approved by the President 4 December 1981 which is
much more positive a tone and authorizes CIA to engage in some
activities precluded by E.O. 12036
- Required implementing procedures drafted by CIA personnel
and submitted to Attorney General for approval which is expected
eminently
- Procedures written in a concise and straightforward
manner that is positive in tone and meaningful to operational
personnel
2. Executive Order 12356 Classification of Information
- Order approved by the President and becomes effective
1 August 1982 which eliminates some complexity (balancing test)
- Order includes presumption that there will be damage to
the national security if sources and methods disclosed
- Order provides that if doubt as to whether classification
appropriate, classify until doubt resolved
3. Identities Legislation
- Versions passed both Houses
- Differences now in Conference Committee (since late
March)
- Senate version permits a covert agent to disclose his own
identity without penalty
- House version requires the President to establish
effective procedures to provide official cover for intelligence
personnel and protects not only the identities of present
intelligence officers serving under cover and past or present
agents, but also former intelligence officers, such as officers
retired under cover
- Both versions contain provisions which penalize
disclosures by a person engaged in a pattern of identification
and exposure activities "with reason to believe that such
activities would impair or impede" U.S. foreign intelligence
activities (most of the HPSCI Majority members opposed this
language, and the HPSCI Majority staff is continuing to attempt
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to weaken the provision through unfavorable Conference Report
language)
4. Former Spouses Legislation
Versions of this legislation introduced in both Houses
- Hearings held by both Houses
- House version preferable in that both CIARDS and CSRS
benefits subject to equal burdens in favor of former spouses
assuring equivalent treatment of all similarly situated Agency
personnel
5. Wilson - Terpil
- Several bills introduced in both Houses to deal with
problems
Agency has been discussing legislative remedies which
would:
- Provide criminal penalties for former employees of
Intelligence Community components, the Foreign Service,
SSCI, or HPSCI, former members of the U.S. Army Special
Forces, and former officers of the Armed Forces who
provide military, intelligence, or security-related
services to foreign powers without approval from their
former employing agency
- Require registration and reporting by covered
former employees and members on their activities for
foreign powers
Authorize the agencies whose former personnel are
covered to enforce the legislation through
investigations, subpoenas, and judicial proceedings,
independent of any criminal prosecution
0.S SL A, CNN, WVN
6. Freedom of Information Act Amendments
- Senator Durenberger's bill places CIA in a worse position
than does the current FOIA statute. It would
- Amend exemption for classified information to
permit withholding of properly classified information
only if disclosure of the information could reasonably be
expected to cause identifiable damage to national
security and if the need to protect the information
outweighs the public interest in disclosure (the
balancing test)
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Limit judicial review of agency determinations under
the balancing test to ascertaining that the agency
actually made a determination that the need to protect
the information outweighed the public interest in its
disclosure
- Senator Hatch's bill makes a number of helpful changes
having government-wide applicability, but does not deal directly
with the problems of the intelligence agencies under the FOIA
- Senator Chafee's bill amends CIA Act of 1949 to authorize
the DCI to exempt broadly defined categories of intelligence
files from search, review, and release under the FOIA.
The Agency preferred solution would exclude the
intelligence agencies completely from the Act and would apply
retroactively to most FOIA requests and judicial proceedings
already in progress
7. Agee Passport Litigation
Last year Supreme Court upheld validity of State
Department regulation authorizing Secretary of State to revoke
passport upon finding that citizen's activities abroad are
causing or are likely to cause serious damage to national
security
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For several years CIA has had counterterrorist programs
throughout the Agency. Given the continued growth of
international terrorism, it is necessary for CIA to accelerate
these activities and ensure they are fully coordinated. Unlike
most other Agency programs, the counterterrorist effort requires
intimate, day-to-day coordination among elements of all
Directorates. For this reason, all counterterrorist activities
will be co-located. Resource allocation should also be presented
as a single package.
The counterterrorist program has three goals:
Neutralize terrorist organizations before they are able to
carry out a terrorist incident. To reach this goal the
Agency must strive to achieve three objectives:
Objective 1: Provide a thorough understanding of the
dynamics of international terrorism.
Objective 2: Increase collection activity against
terrorist organizations.
Objective 3: Increase action operations to neutralize
terrorist organizations.
Defend against terrorist attacks. Assuming we are
unsuccessful in neutralizing all terrorist organizations,
we must be prepared to defend against terrorist attacks. To
achieve this goal requires accomplishing the following
objectives:
Objective 4: Provide advance warning of likely
terrorist incidents.
Objective 5: Increase U.S. understanding of the
capability and willingness of foreign governments to
conduct counterterrorist programs.
Objective 6: Improve U. S. and friendly foreign
governments' capability to defend against terrorist
attacks.
Defeat terrorist attacks. We must assume that efforts to
neutralize and defend will not totally succeed and that
terrorist organizations will mount attacks on U.S. or U.S.
allied targets. CIA's experience with many terrorist crises
has provided a wealth of knowledge as to what is needed to
minimize chances for a terrorist attack to succeed.
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There are two objectives:
Objective 7: Create two fully equipped technical
response teams able to proceed on very short notice to
areas of terrorist incidents. The capability must be
deployable unilaterally as well as in cooperation with
friendly liaison services.
Objective 8: Insure after incident intelligence
exploitation obtains all pertinent data and provides for
the welfare of victims.
The program described in the following pages identifies
enhancements to currently programmed funds necessary to achieve
these objectives by the end of FY 1984. The total requirement is
as follows:
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PROVIDE AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE DYNAMICS OF INTERNATIONAL
TERRORISM.
Basic to an effort to neutralize terrorist groups is a clear
understanding of the terrorist phenomenon: what is it, who are
they, where do the come from, what are their objectives, etc.
Much information is currently available; more is needed along with
an improved ability to manipulate and analyze the data.
Requirements
Several Directorates have terrorist related automatic data
bases. These must be centralized and expanded on a dedicated,
stand-alone computer to handle Agency and community
counterterrorist requirements.
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INCREASE COLLECTION ACTIVITY AGAINST TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS
Although some information is available to allow preliminary
judgments on means to neutralize terrorist organizations, much
more collection is necessary
Requirements
Terrorist organizations are extremely difficult to locate and
penetrate. The total array of collection techniques must be
brought to bear. Some techniques already exist and need only be
expanded to include the terrorist target; others must be
developed.
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INCREASE ACTION OPERATIONS TO NEUTRALIZE TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS
As information and analysis improve, CIA must have a better
clandestine capability to use the information to neutralize the
terrorist organizations.
Requirements and costs covered in sensitive annex.
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Fundamental to effective defense is advance warning.
Improved collection, analysis and automatic data capability will
enhance the Agency's capability to provide the warning. The
establishment of the Interagency Counterterrorist Intelligence
Committee (ICIC) is an important step in improving the U.S.
government alert system to ensure warnings intelligence is
promptly disseminated to potential targets of terrorists acts.
Requirment
We need to develop behavioral and event indicators of future
terrorist actions.
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INCREASE U.S. UNDERSTANDING OF THE CAPABILITY AND WILLINGNESS OF
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT TO CONDUCT COUNTERTERRORIST PROGRAMS.
Discussion
Friendly governments are an extension of the U. S.
counterterrorist capability. The U.S. needs a thorough
understanding of the foreign capabilities and politics to know
(a) how a government will most likely handle a threat, and
(b) what assistance does that government need to improve its
capability.
Requirements
More interface with principal liaison services is required to
expand our data base. JSOC's knowledge in this field must be
integrated into our data base.
Additional contract funds to systematically analyze
government measures and terrorist responses in Key West European,
Middle East and Latin American countries are needed. 2x1
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IMPROVE U.S. AND FRIENDLY FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS' CAPABILITY TO
DEFEND AGAINST TERRORIST ATTACKS.
The U.S. leads the international effort against terrorism.
It must have an advanced technical capability consistent with its
leadership role.
Requirements
The U.S. must develop its own ability to handle
counterterrorist threats both to defend itself and to assist
friendly foreign governments.
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INSURE AFTER INCIDENT INTELLIGENCE EXPLOITATION OBTAINS ALL
PERTINENT DATA AND PROVIDES FOR THE WELFARE OF VICTIMS.
Too often when an incident is ended, intelligence
opportunities and responsibilities are overlooked. CIA has
developed a government-wide responsibility for providing aid and
assistance to the victims of terrorist attacks.
Requirements
Costs necessary to pursue this have been absorbed in earlier
objectives.
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ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT ANNEX
There are two main adminstrative considerations in getting
the counterterrorist program underway. The first is cost in
co-locating the counterterrorist specialists. The second is
providing the necessary additional personnel to handle the
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