MINUTES OF THE FIRST CIPC MEETING, 21 MARCH 1983, 1400-1545 HOURS

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• Publication Date: April 4, 1983
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The Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D.C 20505
Critical Intelligence Problems Committee
DCI/ICS 83-3739
CIPC-M=01
4 April 1983
MEMORANDUM FOR: Critical Intelligence Problems Committee (CIPC)
Executive Secretary
SUBJECT: Minutes of the First CIPC Meeting, 21 March 1983,
1400-1545 Hours (U)
Minutes of the Meeting
The Director, Intelligence Community Staff, opened 25X1
the meeting by welcoming everyone. He emphasized the importance which he and
Miss Eloise R. Page, DD/ICS, placed on the Committee and the opportunities
before it. He continued, observing that he views the Committee as key in
implementing a new direction for the IC Staff by making it a vehicle for
community coordination, particularly on vital issues. He advised the members
that he had selected some of the IC's best staff officers to provide the
Committee with efficient and effective staff support. Furthermore, he pointed
out to the members that it was their Committee and it should be utilized and
tested to the fullest. He closed noting that the success of the Committee
depends upon their active participation in it. Miss Page seconded 25X1
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The Chairman (stated that he was looking forward to 25X1
chairing the Committee. He noted that the CIPC Staff stands ready to support
the Committee. The Chairman also stated that he would welcome any
recommendations for future agenda items and that he intended to keep his
promise to each member to hold meaningful meetings, limited to ke issues and
structured in such a way to utilize their time effectively. 25X1
Draft CIPC DCID
The Committee approved without comment the draft DCID as presented.
(Note: Subsequent to the meeting the draft CIPC DCID was forwarded to the DCI
for approval.)
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International Illicit Narcotics Production and Trafficking
The Chairman pointed out that the purpose of this briefing was to bring
all members to the same level of understanding on this problem.- He
acknowledged that some of the members probably had a better understanding than'
others; however, he surmised that this probably would be the first time they
had received a compre on the overall narcotics -7 espntation intelligence problem. rasi
also reported that a Narcotics Working Group had been
established under the auspices of the CIPC and that they had convened their
first meeting on 18 March under the chairmanship of Mr. Jon Wiant,
State/INR.
Miss Page noted that the narcotics problem had been referred to her when
she assumed her present duties; however, with the creation of the CIPC she
thought the problem was appropriate for CIPC action. Miss Page also informed
the members that she had opened the Working Group meeting on 18 March. She
charged them to look at the narcotics problem in the broadest way possible and
to include in their Terms of Reference (TOR) the aspects of coordination,
dissemination, overt and clandestine collection, research, analysis,
production and support to the operational law enforcement agencies. She also
stressed that the Group was chartered not only to prepare recommendations, but
also to follow implementation of solutions as they were developed and
promulgated.
noted that the subject of narcotics is one of the top
issues before the Congress today and that the various Congressional committees
are quite concerned over narcotics trafficking.
CIPC Staff, briefed the Committee on the narcotics
intelligence pro em, identifying the principal organizations involved in this
issue, providing a background perspective, identifying the roles and
responsibilities of various organizations as stated in Executive Order 12333.
He focussed in some detail on key and critical issues that needed to be
addressed by the Working Group and the Committee
The Chairman pointed out that the Working Group is in the process of
developing their Terms of Reference. He welcomed members' comments or
recommendations on the key issues so they could be included in the TOR.
Miss Page and MGEN Marks noted that adequate funding does not appear to
have been provided for activities associated with narcotics intelligence.
Consequently the subject is having to compete with other equally high priority
issues. Because of this budgetary situation, managers are faced with what
appears to be large resource constraints in dealing with the narcotics
problem.
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Subsequently, the members reviewed and discussed the "key issues"
highlighted in briefing. It was the consensus of the Committee
that a working group was required to address the narcotics problem-in its
broadest spectrum. Messrs (CIA) and 0 (DIA) pointed but that it
was confusing to sort out which working groups and task forces were doing what
and they would look to the CIPC Working Group to provide linkage between the
various disciplines and customer and bring to focus an awareness and
objectivity to the problem. Mr. Long (Treasury) concurred with the linkage
problem among the respective disciplines. He also agreed that law enforcement
organizations hold considerable information that has not been made available
to intelligence community analysts. However, the situation is presently being
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addressed and some preliminary corrective measures are being
(NSA) and Kelly (Army) noted the lack of any reference in
the "key issues to HUMINT collection. Mr. Kelly further commented that,
although the DCID 1/2 priorities have recently been increased, there has not
been an attendant shift in some of the corollary collection assets, especially
in SIGINT and HUMINT resources. The members agreed, noting that SIG(I) had
recently reviewed the priorities problem, and concluded that the priorities
incongruity needed to be explored further. The Chairman accepted an action to
look into this problem and advised to include the HUMINT collection
aspects in the Working Group's TOR
Considerable discussion also centered around the legal aspect of
collection against narcotics intelligence. MGEN Marks (AF) pointed out that
it was difficult to ascertain what could or could not be done legally.
However, RADM Butts (Navy) noted that recent judicial rulings have made it
somewhat easier for Navy to monitor U. S. ship and aircraft activities while
the Coast Guard is experiencing little if any problem.
informed the members that NSA has a ruling pending before the
U.S. Attorney General that will clarify NSA's legal role and responsibilities
in disseminating narcotics intelligence information.
The Chairman advised the members that he would ask the Working Group to
consider establishing a sub-panel to address legal issues. At a minimum,
however, the Working Group will be asked to include the legal aspects of the
narcotics problem in their TOR. The Chairman also assured the Committee that
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the TOR would be circulated for their comment and review prior to forwar
to the DDCI for concurrence and formal tasking of the CIPC.
Collection Against Soviet Strategic Cruise Missiles
The Chairman introduced this problem, advising the members that the
Committee had inherited it from the previous CIPC. He noted that in October
1982 the DDCI, in response to a request from the Chairman, WSSIC, directed the
predecessor CIPC to analyze the problem and develop proposals for upgrading
the Communit 's collection capabilities against Soviet strategic cruise
missiles. also reported that an interim report on the subject was
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forthcoming and the purpose of this briefing was to apprise them of what had
been done to date, what needs to be done in the future, and to solicit their
nominees for establishing a working group as well as input for the, development
of a TOR to address this problem further.
CIPC staff, briefed the Committee on the Strategic Cruise
Missile problem, noting the present collection difficulties, by discipline; he
outlined the conclusions contained in the interim report prepared by the
predecessor CIPC and recommendations for a follow-on effort against this
intelligence problem.
expressed the growing concern of the Intelligence Community 25X1
with respect to the adequacy of our information base on Soviet strategic
cruise missiles. He advised that the Chairman, WSSIC, had forwarded a
memorandum to the DCI expressing concern about the limitation of our data base
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wondered whether a working group was necessary since there did
seem to be an aooreciation of the importance of the subject by both collectors
and analysts.
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Miss Page pointed out that the problem should be analyzed on an overall
basis, the intelligence gaps needed to be identified, and the Community should
be working in concert. She further noted that no one is presently focused on
the problem on an across-the-board basis. stated that it was 25X1
bothersome that the Intelligence Community did not have a handle on what the
Soviets are up to, particularly in an area as important as this. 25X1
Mr. Kelly indicated that we do have some knowledge of what cruise-
missile-related technology the Soviets are seeking to acquire from the West.
Consideration of this aspect should be included in our final report. 25X1
Ambassador Cohen (State) opined that the U. S. is ahead in cruise missile
technology and what we may be observing in the current Soviet cruise missile
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cruise missiles, adequate tip-off information is paramount. 2 Al
Messrs. also noted the importance to the Committee and
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Working Group of having access to the appropriate U. S. R&D programs and the
attendant compartmented security clearances.
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The Chairman concluded the meeting by reiterating his invitation to the
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commented that a study on Soviet Stealth technology and
development would be of value to the Intelligence Community. Mr. Kelly stated
that he had some ideas to table but deferred for the present. He wanted time
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to develop them further. The Chairman adjourned the meeting at
Action Items
-Promulgation of CIPC DCID - Executive Secretary.
-Formation of pane c~to onsider narcotics legal issues - Chairman/Narcotics
Working Group.
-Establish Strateoic Cruise Missile Working Group - Members/Executive
Secretary.
-Develop TOR on cruise missile problem for Committee review -
0/Cruise Missile Working Group.
-Reconcile apparent incongruities of DCID 1/2 and SIGINT priorities on
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narcotics intelligence collection - Chairman.
Future Meetings
The next monthly Committee meeting is scheduled for 1430 hours, 18 April
1983, in Room 6W02, CHB.
The Narcotics Working broup ntatively scheduled to meet on 6 April
The Cruise Missile Working Group met on 4 April 1983 to initiate
development of their TOR.
Attachment: Participants
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Participants
Chairman 25X1
Director, Intelligence 25X1
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Miss Eloise R. Page, Deputy Director, Intelligence Community Staff
Executive Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Deputy Director for Internal and External Affairs,
Defense Intelligence Agency
Rich, Deputy Director, National Security Agency
Ambassador Herman J. Cohen, Deputy Director, Intelligence and Research,
Department of State
Rear Admiral John L. Butts, U. S. Navy, Director of Naval Intelligence,
Department of the Navy
Major General John B. Marks, U. S. Air Force, Assistant Chief of Staff,
Intelligence, Department of the Air Force
Mr. Merrill Kelly, Acting for Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence,
Department of the Army
Mr. Arthur W. Long, Senior National Intelligence Advisor, Department of the
Treasury
Briefers and Subjects
Intelligence Community Staff
? International Illicit Narcotics Production and Trafficking
, Intelligence Community Staff
? Soviet tra egic Cruise Missile Problem
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