Dear Bronson:

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84B00506R000100010037-4
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 30, 1998
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: April 28, 1972
• Content Type: LETTER

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ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20301
Mr. Bronson Tweedy
Central Intelligence Agency
Room 7E22
Washington, D. C. 20505
Dear Bronson:
2 S APR 1972
As you requested, I have reviewed the draft terms of reference
for the NSCIC Working Group and have also solicited comments from
DIA and the Joint Staff.
I find the draft acceptable in all respects except that concerning
membership. As proposed, the Group would have ten full members
plus a chairman. The chairman and five of the members would come
from the intelligence community. I do not believe that a group that
large can be effective in arriving at consensus; more fundamentally, I
do not believe that its composition is suitable to attack the problem with
the necessary objectivity.
The stated purpose of the NSCIC is "to give direction and guidance
on national substantive intelligence needs and provide for a continuing
evaluation of intelligence products from the viewpoint of the intelligence
consumer" (underscoring mine). In other words, the NSCIC is to be
user-oriented, and this orientation is reflected in its membership. I
believe that if the Working Group is to be effective in serving as the
action arm of the NSCIC, it should likewise be user-oriented, and that
its membership should mirror that of the parent body. Accordingly, I
would propose membership as follows:
Representative of the Assistant to the President, Chairman
Representative of the DCI
Representative of the Attorney General
Representative of the Under Secretary of State
Representative of the Deputy Secretary of Defense
Representative of the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
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I think this would give us a group more appropriate to reflect the user
viewpoint and act as a working level arm of the NSCIC. Further, it is
small enough to be manageable as a decision/recommendation body.
This proposal purposefully excludes the intelligence producers
from membership. This is not intended to exclude them from staff
participation in Working Group activities. Their analyses and view-
points - particularly regarding their measurement of customer needs -
are essential as inputs to our, examinations of the problems we will
attack. Extended dialog between the Working Group and the producer
community is thus a requisite to our success in solving or improving
these problems. To assist this dialog, I would have no objection to
having key producers present: at Working Group sessions, when called
for by the agenda. However, I feel that they should not sit as members
of a group intended to guide and evaluate their efforts. That role should
be reserved for the users and managers of intelligence.
Sincerely,
Albert C. Hall
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