Agenda for 26 October Meeting of Intelligence Panel of the NSCIC Working Group

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2 4 OCT 1974
MEMORANDUM FOR: General Wilson
SUBJECT : Agenda for 25 October Meeting of Intelligence
Panel of the NSCIC Working Group
The following is proposed as a program (and your talking points)
for the initial meeting of the Intelligence Panel of the NSCIC
Working Group to be held in your office at 1500 hours, 25 October.
Item 1. Restructuring of the NSCIC Working Groupthe NSCIC Working Group
--Discussed by NSCIC on 23 August and formalized in Dr.
Kissinger's letter of 10 October on "Action Program for
the NSCIC Working Group".
--Working Group is to be a Committee of "users"
--One representative for each NSCIC member
--Designated members:
For DCI - yourself as D/DCI/IC, Ch Irma
For Dep Sec State - ?? fir'/, z
For Dep Sec Defense - Roberlsworth,
Asst. Sec./ISA
For Under Sec Treas - William Morell, Special
Asst. for National
Sec;~^ ty Affairs
For Chairman, JCS - Lt. GeV lder, J-5
For Dr. Kissinger - Richard Ober
Ex. Sec., NSCIC
--Intelligence production chiefs who were on Working Group
1972-73 no longer members
This is reason for formation of Intelligence Panel
--First meeting of new Working Group scheduled for 30 October
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Item 2. Agenda for NSCIC Working Group 30 October Meeting
(HAND OUT COPIES OF THE AGENDA)
1. Perspectives for Intelligence, 1975-1980
--Comments from Working Group members overdue;
none received
--Working Group to seek to identify "policy
issues" for NSCIC and develop ideas as to how
to improve future "Perspective" papers
2. KI 9s for FY 1975
--Comments from Working Group members overdue;
none received
--Working Group was asked for ideas as to how
better to identify and formulate future KIQs
3. Pending Legislation
--A status report will be presented to the
Working Group
--No Working Group action or review of the
matter will be sought. Action is being
handled by the DCI.
4. Proposed Omnibus NSCID
--A status report will be given to the Working
Group. A draft prepared by an ad hoc task group
has been submitted to the DCI for guidance on
six remaining issues. The DCI may submit the
NSCIC to USIB in its present form. The issues
all relate to material not now in any NSCID.
5. National/Tactical Intelligence Interface
--This SecDef/DCI project is proceeding more
slowly than had been hoped. Status will be
reported to the Working Group
6. "The fact of" Satellite Reconnaissance
--This is a controversial matter. The DCI would
like to make "the fact of" unclassified instead
of Secret as now
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--Objections raised by the SecDef and others.
--Working Group asked to prepare comments on DCI
letter of 21 August to Dr. Kissinger requesting
NSCIC consideration of the matter.
7. Work Program for the Working Group
--Working Group members asked to submit specific
. proposals
--Role of Intelligence Panel in development of
this program is a subject I wish to raise with
you during this meeting.
Item 3. The Role of the Intelligence Panel
--It is my hope that the Intelligence Panel will be the
"paint of the plow share" as the NSCIC plows its furrow
--As I view it, the Working Group, as a Committee of intelli-
gence users, will need considerable support from the
Intelligence Community on user-oriented projects.
--The Intelligence Panel should be the vehicle for
such support
--Panel' members will be requested to provide
personnel for task groups and ad hoc committees
established to prepare papers for the Panel to
submit to the Working Group.
--I would expect the Panel to meet prior to each
Working Group meeting and provide me with guidance
as to the Intelligence Community view on all matters
being taken up by the Working Group
--As user representatives, the Working Group should involve
itself only with guidance on substantive intelligence matters
--The DCI may wish however to pass to the NSCIC matters which
are not substantive intelligence-related.
--Here, I would hope the Intelligence Panel can serve
as a channel to the DCI and from him either directly
to the NSCIC or to the NSCIC via the Working Group.
--A key. factor here will be the terms of reference developed
for the Working Group and the Intelligence Panel.
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--Terms of Reference for the Working Group effective
13 June 1972 no longer applicable in view of member-
ship changes
--Revision of Terms of Reference discussed in 1973;
posed two problems on which your views are requested.
--Should the Working Group have authority to
initiate actions on its own or should it under
take actions only after approval of the NSCIC?
--Should the Working Group have authority to send
to the DCI or other interested agencies, studies,
etc. which the Working Group prepares but which
the Working Group concludes do not require NSCIC
action. Such papers normally would be for informa-
tional use
--The key is whether the Working Group should or should not
have some autonomy
--The only reason I raise this is because it has not been easy
in the past to involve the NSCIC in actions. The Committee
session of 3 August 197 was the first meeting since
December 1
--My mind is open, and I would appreciate any views you have,
because this will have an impact on the Intelligence Panel
program.
--If the Working Group must first obtain NSCIC approval
for any project it undertakes, it would follow the
Intelligence Panel should first obtain Working Group/
NSCIC approval before it initiates action on any
project.
Item 4. Topics for an Intelligence Panel Work Program
--What is needed is a consideration of two types of programs
--First, a program which will actively involve members
of the Working Group in the provision of inputs
--Second, a program which the Intelligence Panel can
initiate to input proposals, study efforts, etc. for
consideration by the Working Group and the preparation
of action or guidance memoranda for approval by the
NSCIC
--For the first.program, the key element will be a statement
by 7the NSCIC as to the major policy or decision problems
for which top quality intelligence inputs are needed either
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currently or on a long term basis.
--What are such problems
--In the NSC Staff?
--In the Department of State?
--In the Department of Defense?
--In the Department of Treasury?
--In the Joint Chiefs of Staff?
--A listing of the ten (or some other figure) most
important of such problems could be valuable guidance.
--Another key element of the first program would be to elicit
from the users their ideas as to what would be an effective
feedback system to advise the intelligence community as to
consumer reaction to intelligence products.
--Perhaps the Working Group could devise a system for
review and report by the individual members on their
reaction to a specific publication, say the National
Intelligence Bulletin, over a one-month period.
--For the second program, the Intelligence Panel should
prov de to the Working Group its views as to:
--Those problem areas or activities on which direct
NSCIC guidance would be most beneficial to the
Intelligence Community
--Those matters on which NSCIC support would be
important to the achievement of Intelligence
Community objectives
--The Intelligence Panel also should insure that the Working
Group is brought in at as early a stage as feasible in the
development of DCI guidance papers such as
--KIQs
--Perspectives of the Intelligence Environment
--Objectives for the Intelligence Community
--This would preclude having the NSCIC asked to comment on
such papers after they have been printed and widely
disseminated.
--The important thing will be to identify problems on which
guidance from the NSCIC would be helpful and then prepare
supporting papers necessary to provide basis for a recommenda-
tion by the Working Group to the; NSCIC.
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