CGS, ICRS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85G00105R000100130001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 30, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 15, 1967
• Content Type: MEMO

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DATE: 15 May 1967
Bruce ' Lw
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Would this, typed in final, do anything
for you in connection with this afternoon's
SEG meeting?
This sets up an ICRS strictly limited
to information collection requirements
either singly for one producing office,
or in combination for them all.
It gives Bross a staff.
It sends the PNIOs to ONE, the CIRL,, to
OCI, and the CRITIC and =TALENT control
business to Cps Center. 25X1A2G
If its a little vague on representation
on USIBcommittees concerned with
information requirements business (see
para /f.e), it's b0cause I'm not sure
how far as a matter of policy you want to
#m go to have representation as opposed
to controlling the mechanism that determines
the Agency view.
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SUBJECT: Planning Paper
1. The Collection Guidance Staff is disbanded and
its mission, responsibilities, functions and personnel
are assigned according to the framework below.
2. An Information Collection Requirements Staff
(ICRS) is established in the Office of the Deputy
Director for Intelligence. The ICRS has two major areas
of responsibility within the limited field of information
collection requirements to service the needs of the
Agency's intelligence-producing offices. They are the
"information central" area where the ICRS responds to
questions on information collection, points out directions,
and keeps records, and the "information coordination" area
where the ICRS acts for the DDI and the DDS&T, and for
the intelligence-producing offices, in taking those actions
or making those studies in the field of information collection
requirements that are required on an across-the-board basis.
3. Within the "information central" area, the ICRS
would be responsible for:
a. Notifying analysts of sources or opportunities
of information potential.
b. Processing information requirements: giving
them numbers and recording their contents and
disposition for registry and retrieval purposes.
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c. Alerting analysts with proposed new require-
ments to the nature of related existing require-
ments levied by other analysts or, other producing
offices.
d. Directing requirements to specific collectors
on an all-source basis in accordance with
known capabilities.
e. In coordination with analysts, taking action
to terminate collection requirements that
have been filled or to modify existing require-
ments.
f. At the request of collectors, arranging for
substantive evaluation of reporting performance
by analysts.
4. Within the "information coordination" area, the
ICRS would be responsible for:
a. Participating in the deliberations of the
Collection Guidance Advisory Group made up
of the production offices; staffing studies
for the Group, as directed.
b. Assisting the CGAG and the production offices
in the development of common standards and
procedures to be applied by supervisors in
validating analyst requirements and in monitoring
analyst performance in levying information
requests.
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c. Coordinating collection coverage requirements
for specific collection systems among the
production offices.
d. Assisting in developing and coordinating
collection projects and programs among the
production offices.
e. Providing the staffing necessary to determine
Agency positions on collection requirements
matters under consideration by USIB committees.
f. Providing Agency liaison link with information
collection requirements units in other USIB
and non-USIB agencies.
5. The role of the ICRS would be to respond to the
needs of the DDI and the DDS&T and their intelligence-
producing offices on information collection matters. It
would not have broad policy responsibilities in the collection
guidance field, or be expected to exercise initiative or
discretionary functions except within the limited areas of
information collection requirements as defined above. For
these reasons, the staff of the ICRS would be limited both
in numbers and in grade to those required to discharge its
specific functions.
6. A staff component drawn from CGS personnel would
be added to the O/DCI under the D/DCI/NIPE. The staff
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component would provide the D/DCI/NIPE with support in
such collection-guidance related areas as he might direct,
including:
a. Conducting and participating in studies,
assessments, and reviews of collection systems
and procedures.
b. Conducting and participating in studies relating
projected future collection capabilities to
the level of exploitation and production resources
required for overall cost-effectiveness.
c. Developing and coordinating statements of
intelligence needs in support of collection
programming.
d. Providing "damage" assessments of actual or
potential losses of information.
7. The role of CGS in acting as a monitor of the CRITIC
system is transferred to the Operations Center.
8. The responsibility for the preparation and publication
of the CIRL is transferred to the Office of Current Intelligence.
9. The responsibility for coordinating contributions to
the PNIO's (and Quarterly Supplements) is transferred to the
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10. The responsibility for providing Il and TALENT
control functions for the Intelligence Directorate
transferred to the Operations Center.
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In the field of information collection requirements, CGS will:
. a. Notify analysts of sources or opportunities of information potential
b. Assist analysts in identifying and describing specific information
gaps and deficiencies in terms useful to collectors
c. Ensure all related analyst interests are expressed in requirements
d. Provide analysts with background information on collection
capabilities
e. Process information requirements, assigning them numbers and record-
ing their contents and disposition for registry and retrieval
purposes
f. Coordinate among analysts as to collection and/or exploitation
priorities for requirements
? g. Direct requirements to specific collectors on an all-source basis
in accordance with known capabilities
" h. Monitor collection action to satisfy information requirements
i. Monitor all-source current reporting for information tending to
satisfy outstanding requirements
j. Take action, in coordination with analysts, to terminate satisfied
collection requirements or to modify existing requirements on the
basis of later information
k. Evaluate source performance in satisfying specific requirements
1. Arrange for analyst substantive evaluation of reporting against
requirements at the request of collectors
in. Foster analyst-collector contacts for efficient interaction
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In the field of collection guidance, CGS will:
a. Maintain inventories of collection capabilities and potentials
b. Provide assessments of actual or potential losses of information
c. Maintain awareness of R&D projects and progress which may affect
collection capabies; evaluate potential contributions of R&D
proposals to substantive needs
d. collection coverage requirements for specific collection
systemsi.--~with-,coord4-m"4Q,jL among production offices
e. Assist in developing and coordinating collection projects and
programs among production offices
f. Develop broad collection guidance documents on specific topics
or for specific sources
g. Develop and coordinate statements of intelligence needs in support
of collection programming
h. Participate in studies, assessments and reviews of collection
systems and procedures, including cost/effectiveness studies
i. Assist in developing and coordinating Agency positions on
collection questions before USIB
j. Provide_.Agepcyrepresentation on USIB components concerned with
collection matters
Assist in adaptation of intelligence collection activities to
broader uses
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