INSPECTOR GENERAL'S REPORT ON FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION REQUIREMENTS

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• Publication Date: March 4, 1967
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4 MAR 1907
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT : Inspector General's Report on Foreign
Intelligence Collection Requirements
REFERENCE : Your memorandum, same subject, dated
18 January 1967
1. This memorandum is for your information. It
presents our general reaction to the Report and out-
lines the steps that are being taken in response to
it.
2. The DDI has reviewed the Report in some
detail and certainly agrees with the basic thrust
of the Report---problems do exist in the areas of
requirements and collection guidance. Although not
agreeing with some of the assertions, he decided
not to argue with these but rather to do what must
be done to use the Report as a basis for developing
workable actions for remedying the deficiencies that
do exist.
3. As you forecast in your memorandum, it is
taking a good deal of staff work to consider each of
the recommendations---there are 27 and 20 of them are
assigned to the DDI for action. These must be related
one to another and to the total responsibility of the
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Directorate. In order to develop workable actions
from the Report, the DDI has established a team of
senior persons from CGBand the interested producing
and collecting offices in this Directorate. The DDI
has instructed the team leader, to 25X1A
analyze each of the 20 recommendations ong the fol-
lowing lines:
a. Define the deficiency the recommendation
is supposed to remedy.
b. Assess degree to which action recommended
in the report Is likely to remedy the stated
deficiency.
c. Restate the action in operable terms.
d. Insure action element is proper.
e. Determine whether situation after recom-
mended action is taken will have undesirable
side effects.
f. Recommend acceptance or rejection of
restated action or merits.
4. In addition to reviewing each separate recom-
mendation, the team is examining the principal problems
and deficiencies to make certain that appropriate action
is provided for each.
5. There are a number of problems that crop up
in giving this kind of a report the serious attention
it deserves.
a. The impact of recommendations concerning
collection requirements on the other responsibi-
lities of management have to be weighed carefully.
I agree with the thrust of the report that manage-
ment has given this subject area only sporadic
attention in the past. But in righting the balance,
we must be careful not to swing too far in the
other direction.
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b. It is clear that most of the recommen-
dations require some restatement if they are to
serve effectively as directives or guides for
action. Furthermore, the recommendations need
to be sorted into categories and priorities.
For example, recommendations No. 1, No. 8, and
No. 26 obviously are major matters and they
interrelate. Recommendation No. 2 in a detail
which is easily subsumed in No. 1.
c. The authority responsible for each
recommendation needs careful consideration in
terms of insuring effective action. Recommen-
dation No. 16, for example, calls on the DDI
to provide the members of the SIGINT Group in
COS with certain training and entree. We
believe, however, that the action that will be
required if the recommendation is to be effec-
tive rests with the CIA SIGINT Officer.
6. Nine of the 27 recommendations call speci-
fically for joint action by DDI and DDS&T. In others,
the recommendation to be effective will also require
such joint action. I mention this because, although
our review and that of DDS&T has been on a unilateral
Directorate basis so far, any implementation is going
to require the close collaboration of DDI and DDS&T.
The next step probably should involve some staff work
between the two Directorates.
7. 1 believe we can have comprehensive comments
ready for you by close of business, Friday, 10 March
1967. However, I wish to note that the DDI has a keen
interest in this report and its implications for
management responsibilities and resource demands within
this Directorate. He will return to Headquarters on
20 March. I would prefer to hold off any final response
to your memorandum until after his return. In the mean-
time, I will be available to participate in whatever
discussions your Senior Executive Group may have on
this subject.
EDWARD W. PROCTOR
Acting Deputy Director for Intelligence
ODDI:BCC:EWP:fk
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