New Commitments to the NSCIC Working Group 20 May 1975 Meeting

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 4, 2003
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: May 23, 1975
• Content Type: MEMO

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TALKING PAPER FOR: D/DCI/IC
SUBJECT: New Commitments to the NSCIC
Working Group 20 May ]975 Meeting
1'. You suggested future high-interest presentations.
Comment: I suggest MBFR which was another topic listed b
Ellsworth and have sounded out
done; perhaps just for appearances it should be DIA.
2. You promised that the objectives would be passed
back from the DCI through the NSCIC WG to NSCIC in "4 or
5 days." Comment: It should be sent out with the agenda
and the WG invited to add comments in a covering memo to
NSCIC.
3. You expressed the hope that the paper on explicit
uncertainties might be ready by the next meeting. Comment:
have drafted portions. which could be
circulated to Ellsworth in a week on a straw-man basis.
The MBFR presentation L1~1 highlight that aspect of the
problem.
4. You promised RADM Hilton that we would draft Terms
of Reference for the Working Group (and Intelligence Panel)
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and send them around "in the next few days." Comment:
These also should be sent out with the new agenda and draft
minutes.
5. You promised Mr. Collins of the Treasury that you
would send him a list of the locations of Comment:25X1A3C
I am sending this separately to Treasury today.
6. You promised Ellsworth (and the others) the IC Staff
Post-Mortem on the October 1973 War. Comment: Registry is G0
requesting 15 more copies from the print shop. We can send
these out next week.
7. You agreed with.Ober's request that the Post-Mortem
on the Mayaguez receive "formal distribution to NSCIC through p Ql
the Working Group for staffing." Comment: You will have to
interpret this broadly--i.e., as an exercise rather than
formal coordination--since the paper is now going from the
DCI to the NSC.
8. You promised a memorandum to the Group on who writes,
who contributes to, and who reviews the Family of Guidance
documents. Comment: I will pull together with advice from
MPRRD.
9. You promised to send a brief statement of concern on
behalf of the Working Group to the NIOs, regarding the time
lag in issuance of DCI Guidance Documents. Comment: Mr. Ober
makes the point that, with the schedule continually slipping,
the consumer gets little opportunity to make an input, for
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example in drawing up the KIQs. However,
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.that "the KIQs don't count; everything can be counted as
the KIQ; the end product counts; consumers should review
the end product." RADM Hilton's memo lobbying for tie-in
with DOD budget cycle is reasonable from his point of view,
but statement of concern I am drafting will try to accommodate
all three views. The statement then should go as a cover
memo on the Perspectives comments to the NIOs.
10. You promised to revise the Major Products Document
and issue it as an IC Staff finished publication. Comment:
has been informed of suggestions for revision.
You might want to consider whether this ought to be incorporate
into the Family of National Intelligence Guidance Documents.
11. You owe Ober a response on his follow-up memo on
Arab-Israeli intelligence problems. Comment: Hartmann of
?NSC can provide Focus B and Discussion to Ober now or, in
final form, in "about 10 days." It will go through us. I
advised Ober lby telephanei ti_t_-5,q,415 (t.L t . s Vtn 0,7,P
.12. The CCo d sm1n me o of 21 May will require a separate
response drafted by us. Comment: We should discuss this
item by item, since he cannot be accommodated on all of these
requests.
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13. You promised to hold the next WG meeting in early
June. Cordesman, among others, now seeks some delay. I
suggested Friday, 13 June, at 1400 in WHSR to Ober Lt. C"fc.5
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