Staffing and Distributing the Family of National Intelligence Guidance Documents

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• Publication Date: July 2, 1975
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Members, NSCIC Working Group
SUBJECT: Staffing and Distributing the Family of National
Intelligence Guidance Documents
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1. At the 20 May meeting of the NSCIC Working Group Ambassador
Robert Ellsworth asked for a brief description of: (a) who writes the
intelligence guidance documents--Objectives, Perspectives, KI s,
and US Forei n Intelligence Priorities DCID 1/2); b w o reviews
them; and c who uses them. The c airman directed me to respond to
the Ambassador. Mr. Ober's office subsequently requested general
distribution of the response. This represents my review of the
development files of the documents and consultations within the
IC Staff and NIO office.
2. The short answers to the three questions would be: (a)
the NIOs and the IC Staff; (b) USIB and IRAC; (c) up to 500 or more
top managers of the Intelligence Community plus key users as repre-
sented in the NSCIC. User views are to be surveyed informally prior
to stage (a), and formally prior to stage (b). User views conveyed
either informally or formally to the DCI during stage (c) are to
prime the start of the new cycle. Such is the theory of the
guidance process.
3. Except for DCID 1/2, however, we are dealing with relatively
new art forms, and the reality has been more complex, and less con-
sistent, than the theoretical explanation implies.
4. For example, the first editions of all these documents were
basically IC Staff creations. The production of DCID 1/2 has remained
within the IC Staff--specifically under an interagency task force
chaired by General Thomas of the IC Staff. The NIOs has assumed
the larger share of the drafting responsibility for the revised
editions of the Perspectives, Objectives and KIQs--including the KIQ
Strategy Reports and Performance Reports
5. In addition, the review process varies considerably from
document to document, from edition to edition and, to put a fine
point on it, from drafter to drafter. The first version of the
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Perspectives, for example, was virtually an individual effort within
the IC Staff; the DCI was essentially the only reviewer; and the
production time was a matter of days. In contrast, the present edition
of the Perspectives has gone through several redraftings, involving
the participation of several individuals in the IC Staff and in the
NIO offices (including the D/DCI/NIO himself), and at least some
informal consultation with consumers. The Objectives were massaged
by collection and production managers, in addition to the IC Staff
and the NIOs, prior to their approval by USIB and IRAC.
6. The review process for the KIQs involves three distinct
stages. The first consists in drawing up the questions themselves.
Even for the first, or pilot, edition there was ad hoc consultation
between the IC Staff and individuals within the NSC Staff, DOD, State,
Treasury, and other consumers, plus the Community. The DCI personally
reviewed and approved the final draft, including the total number of
KIQs. Recommendations for deleting, adding and rewording KIQs for the
'forthcoming edition have come to the NIOs mainly through USIB Principals,
and secondarily from the consumers directly--i.e., the NSCIC Working
Group. The establishment of the DKIQs to serve, among other functions,
as formal DOD inputs to the KIQs is a major innovation in the Community.
7. The second and third stages involve the drawing up of
KIQ Strategy reports and, some months afterward, KIQ Performance reports.
Both stages are directed by the appropriate NIOs in consultation with
their ad hoc panels of Community representatives. Designing the
format for these reports and tabulating the results have been mainly
the work of the IC Staff. Each of these stages is subject to
modification and formal approval by USIB and IRAC.
8. The review process for DCID 1/2 involves direct and
repeated communication between the Task Force and USIB Principals.
9. At annex is a chart indicating the distribution of the
various guidance documents. Recipients of the documents are given
some latitude in making further dissemination as appropriate.
10. It does not follow, of course, that everyone who receives
a copy of a certain guidance document uses it in the same way. Nor
are all four guidance documents held in equal regard. Indeed, in
the case of DCID 1/2 a DCI memorandum of 21 October 1974 requested
USIB Principals to comment on whether, in view of the establishment
of KIQs, the DCID should be retained. A majority of the USIB Principals
said in effect yes, at least for the near future; State, Treasury, and AEC
(now ERDA) responded that they did not find the document useful.
Executive Secretary
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 THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
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Intelligence Community Staff
MEMORANDUM FOR: NSCIC Working Group
SUBJECT: Draft Terms of Reference for the
NSCIC Working Group
1. I appreciate receiving the comments and suggestions to
date on the draft Terms of Reference for the NSCIC Working Group.
We will address them at the 2 July meeting.
2. With regard to paragraph 4.b. of the draft, I am circulating
two documents: (1) a Memorandum for the Record on the first meeting
of NSCIC; (2) a 10 October 1974 memorandum on the Action Program
addressed to the members of NSCIC and signed by General Scowcroft
for Dr. Kissinger. The first records that the Chairman of NSCIC
"felt that the staff work for the NSCIC should be carried out by a
subordinate committee which should be chaired by a representative
of the DCI. " The second states that "the DCIIs representative will.
serve as chairman of the Working Group. "
Samuel V. Wilson
Lieutenant General, USA
Chairman, NSCIC Working Group
Attachments:
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- The Hon. Robert F. Ellsworth
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- William N. Morell, Jr.
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- Lt. Gen. John H. Elder,
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- Mr. Richard Ober
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- IC Registry
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