NATIONAL FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM FY-1984 BUDGET ESTIMATES

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NATIONAL FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM
FY-1984 BUDGET ESTIMATES
STATEMENT OF
HUGH MONTGOMERY, DIRECTOR
BUREAU OF INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH
Before
THE SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE
(, o M,4RC14 t )
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Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee:
(U) INR has two principal areas of responsibility:
1. To provide the Secretary of State and his staff with
all-source intelligence information and analysis, which are
relevant to their policy and operational responsibilities. It
is our job, in short, to deliver to him information that is
relevant to his concerns and timely in supporting his policy
responsibilities. We draw on our own assessments and the
information and analyses of the Intelligence Community, of
which we are a part, in fulfilling this function.
2. As an integral and very active element of the
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Intelligence Community, INR is a participant in the preparation
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of community intelligence analyses and estimates and in the
development of intelligence policy:'tasking, setting of
priorities, allocating resources among the various elements of
the National Intelligence establishment. Our task is to ensure
that intelligence activities are consistent with our foreign
policy interests and objectives, and that our intelligence
resources and activities are fully and imaginatively exploited
to facilitate the decision-making process 'in the formulation of
our foreign policy. Of course, there are important additional
responsibilities, including liaison with other members of the
Intelligence Community.
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(C) While we refrained from requesting additional
positions for INR in FY-1983, we now find it necessary to make
a very modest request for nine additional positions in FY
1984. INR rarely has more than one analyst to cover two or
three related countries in a given area. This gives us little
flexibility to adjust to changing situations around the world.
At the time the FY-1984 budget was prepared, we did not have a
clearly defined long range plan for further development during
the out-years. We now have such a plan, which carries us
through 1992 for analytical intelligence production, and
through FY-1988 for resources requirements. I am submitting a
copy of this plan to the Committee as a part of my statement
for the record.
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(U) INR is the smallest of the analytic elements in the
intelligence community, and we want to remain that way. At the
same time we are in a unique position, because of. our close
association with the decision makers, to provide the
information and analysis that give informed and timely
underpinning to the foreign policy process. Given the very
.lean resources now available to us in carrying out our mission,
.we do need a modest augmentation in both staffing and funding
(particularly in information handling and analytical skills) to
carry out fully our commitments to both the Secretary of State
and the Intelligence Community. Our primary mission is to
provide the Secretary of State with rapid, accurate and
professionally researched intelligence and analysis on issues
of direct concern to him. In this respect, INR utilizes the
production of the entire community to fulfill the Secretary's
keen interest in finished intelligence. INR's increased
emphasis on Central America, the Persian Gulf, the Middle
East, international monetary matters and international
terrorism reflect the Secretary's own concerns about these
subjects. As a full partner in the intelligence community, INR
has a special responsibility to see that the community's
overall efforts take the Secretary's interests and concerns
into consideration.
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(C) We have requested nine new analyst positions for
FY-1984.. As these positions are filled, we will be able to
realign analyst assignments to strengthen coverage of those
areas of increasing concern to the.Secretary of State and other
senior' officials. At the same time we intend to improve
significantly our information handling capabilities.-with the
installation of additional word processing equipment,
improvement of the information handling systems currently in
use, augmentation of our secure telephone equipment and a
modest increase in critically important travel of analysts to
their areas of responsibility.
(U) INR welcomes the community's efforts to augment and,
improve production. INR's unique combination of analysts from
the career Foreign Service (with years of on-the-scene
experience overseas), who spend two to four years in the
Bureau, and Civil Service personnel who are permanently based
in Washington and provide us with critical continuity, serves.
the community well. Each group contributes special expertise
and experience that provides us with a high quality product.
'(S) Based on this experience, I want especially to endorse
the proposals to give analysts opportunities to travel and
serve abroad on excursion tours and avail themselves of
language training. The program placing both and INR
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analysts on Ambassadors' staffs for two-year periods is an
immense success from every point of view. However, while I
stated last year that we were exploring ways to expand this
program and to institutionalize it as part of the NFIP under
INR's administrative coordination, a lack of travel funds has
temporarily precluded INR's implementing the program as
anticipated. We hope to reestablish such details as soon as
travel funds are made available. Excursion tours abroad for
intelligence analysts not only improve production, but help
Ambassadors improve their missions' reporting and analysis
during a period of decreasing resources for the U. S. Foreign
Service.
(U) As the State Department's senior representative in the
Intelligence Community, I want to express my continued concern
over the potential degradation of our intelligence;
capabilities likely to ensue from a continuing shortage of
overt Foreign Service reporting assets. I am sure my
colleagues here today will agree that Foreign Service reporting
is a major source of quality intelligence that should not be
allowed to deteriorate.
(C) Finally, Mr. Chairman, I'd like to point out that our
need for an increase in analysts (we have included a request
for nine analyst positions in the FY-1984 budget) is based on
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our efforts, to strengthen.,-staffs--devoted to areas _of major
concern- to the Secretary-'-of State: and -otber-~keY administration
officials: - This--request- while quite modest= reflects cur=
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first step into a five year resources augmentation program
which should provide INR with a capability to respond more
fully to the continuing needs of our policy makers.
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