SIGINT EVALUATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84M00127R000100040027-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 26, 2007
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: April 6, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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DCI/ICS 82-3831
6 April 1982
MEMORANDUM FOR: Lieutenant General Lincoln D. Faurer, USAF
Director, National Security Agency/
Chief, Central Security Service
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SUBJECT: SIGINT Evaluation
REFERENCE: D/ICS Memorandum dated 23 September 1981; Subject:
Assessment of the Responsiveness of the SIGINT
System to Requirements
1. The joint ICS/NSA Working Group to develop procedures for
assessing the responsiveness of the SIGINT system to stated requirements
has turned its attention to generating data displays at various levels of
aggregation that could be useful at various levels of NFIP management in
eliciting judgments about the quality, quantity and timeliness of SIGINT,
and in making comparisons of SIGINT responsiveness for various classes of
r~uirements. These data displays are shown in Attachments A, B and C.
2. The data to be developed for Attachment A consists of serialized
product counts for each kind of reporting, e.g., political, military,
economic, etc., by target and requirement priority. Attachment B is
similar except that the targets are individual countries rather than
aggregates of countries. The "By Country".display at Attachment B is
particularly important in eliciting judgments from the all source analysts
because there is no organizational standardization among these groups with
respect to DCID 1/2. As a consequence any aggregation of reporting by
topic may be useful to some analysts but will obscure important
information for others. Attachment C provides a record of serialized
product produced per month for each SIGINT requirement from which the
analyst can estimate the workload that SIGINT reporting presents to him.
This memorandum may be downgrade~X1
to CONFIDENTIAL upon removal of
Attachment A.
Director
Intelligence Community Staff
Washington, D.C. 20505
SECRET.
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3. We have been advised that, because of ~ workload, the data
display of Attachment A will not be available for our review until about
the third week in April. Even greater delays in the progress of the
Working Group are anticipated because of the difficulty involved in
generating the data display of Attachment B. Anything that you could do
to^alleviate this problem and expedite this work would be appreciated.
Attachments: (3)
As Stated.
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