Support Mechanisms for the NSSCIC

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84B00506R000100130042-5
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 28, 1998
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: June 13, 1975
• Content Type: MF

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IC 75-2404
13 June 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy to the DCI for the Intelligence
Community
SUBJECT: Support Mechanisms for the NSCIC
1. You asked for a brief written expansion of my recent
verbal observation on the workings of the NSCIC support organi-
zation. I had commented that the present draft terms of
reference of the NSCIC Working Group appeared to put an
overly detailed substantive and management load on a very
senior group, and I raised the question whether the "Working
Group" should not be at a less elevated level--deriving its
authority and direction from what might be called a "Review
Group" at your level.
2. Some might argue that this is only a semantic issue,
and of course it is, in some measure. Certainly the draft
terms of reference for the Working Group allow it wide discretion
in establishing sub-groups to carry out much of the detailed work.
But the agenda and minutes of the Working Group meetings held
so far suggest to me that the title "Working Group" is being taken
literally. The Group seemed to be burdening itself with many
details which could be thrashed out and resolved by a subordinate
group, which would pass completed studies and only unresolved
issues to the more senior group for their review, authentication,
and resolution.
3. This is not yet a thoroughly staffed out proposition, and
you may wish us to give it more thought and preparation before
you surface it. has pointed out some potentially
tricky aspects in re a on t o the workload of PRD, for example,
and other questions are raised concerning how the intelligence
panel would be set up and managed. However we come out on
this, I see this NSCIC mechanism as our principal channel for
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obtaining and documenting consumer views, and I feel it should
be exploited fully by PRD without overloading you with time-
consuming details. I also feel that the NSCIC mechanism can
be effectively used by PRD in the further evolution of the RONI
as an authoritative and helpful community review document.
4. In brief, I would see the senior Review Group organized
with much the same charter language as that now drafted for the
Working Group, but with some of the detailed functions explicitly
delegated to a Working Group--chaired by a senior PRD officer
and--as now--with representatives of consumer agencies only.
The Intelligence Panel would also operate at the level of the
Working Group, and would be chaired by the same, or another,
PRD senior officer. The studies and findings of both groups
would have official status only after they had been reviewed and
certified by the Review Group. It would be useful, however, if
views of individual agencies expressed in the Working Group
meetings could be used by PRD--with that agency's permission--
in an attributed way in the RONI.
5. If you see any possible merit in this proposition, I would
recommend that we in PRD explore its ramifications more
thoroughly after this issue of RONI is put to bed and that we
25X1A9a then get back to you and in a week or so. Your
initial thoughts would be e 1p u M.
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