LETTER TO BARRY M. GOLDWATER FROM JOHN N. MCMAHON

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 11, 2008
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• Publication Date: April 7, 1983
• Content Type: LETTER

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The Honorable Barry M. Goldwater
Chairman, Senate Select Committee
on Intelligence
Senate Russell Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Attached is the requested impact statement on the Subcommittee's
recommended cut of = positions in the FY-84 budget request for the 25X1
Directorate of Intelligence. Together with the detailed description
of the specific analyst specialties we are seeking (provided to the
Committee staff earlier) this document expands on the explanation in
the budget submission on the role and importance of the requested positions.
The United States has paid a heavy price in recent years for the
inadequacy of intelligence resources to investigate problems of instability,
international economic and finance problems and the Soviet defense
industrial complex. Over the last two years this Agency, with the support
of the Senate Select Committee, has been attempting to remedy these short-
comings both in terms of resources and improving the quality of our analysis.
As the listing of positions provided to the Committee makes explicit, we
are looking principally for military analysts, economists and computer
specialists -- not people in the soft sciences. We consider it essential
to keep our analysis of the problems I have described as down to earth and
specific as possible. This not only ensures more accurate analysis, it
also makes it more helpful to the decisionmaker.
The FY-84 Directorate of Intelligence budget submission was developed
on the basis of our view of our resource needs both now and for the next
several years, and was influenced considerably by the judgment of the Senate
Select Committee itself, which last year assessed our analytical resources
as inadequate and even added positions to our request for more analysts for
the Directorate of Intelligence.
Mr. Casey and I strongly endorse the request for =positions for the 25X1
Directorate of Intelligence and earnestly hope that the Committee will support
this request. CIA's entire program is keyed to our analytical needs which
in turn are based on requirements assigned us by the President and other
members of the National Security Council. We must have the analytical
resources to evaluate and analyze the increasing amount of high quality
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 The Honorable Barry M. Goldwater
Chairman, Senate Select Committee
on Intelligence
information flowing in from our present and projected collection
capabilities and to get this analysis into the hands of the
decisionmaker.
Attachment:
As Stated
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 The Honorable Barry M. Goldwater
Chairman, Senate Select Committee
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RECOMMENDATION: Delete) Inew positions for production of political/economic 25X1
CIA COMMENT:
The deletion of 1:1 new positions would have a devastating impact on CIA's 25X1
efforts to rebuild analytical capabilities lost over the past 20 years (e.g. the
Soviet defense industries; Third World data base) and to develop new capabilities
to meet present and future needs of senior decisionmakers (e.g. technology transfer,
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identification of instability of the kind that led to the revolutions in Iran and
Nicaragua and economic problems of East Europe and LDCs that impact heavily on
the US). This agenda reflects the tasks we have been given by the President, the
National Security Council and the Departments of State, Treasury and Commerce.
CIA is the only source of analytical support for the US Government in most of
these areas.
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operations. The othe~=positions include specialists to develop and maintain
our automated data bases and large economic models,Jpositions for the DCI's
Technology Transfer Intelligence Committee Staff, and positions for secretaries,
cartographers and other support functions.
In sum, the Directorate of Intelligence request for additional personnel
focuses on economic and military analyst positions, with computer specialists the
next largest group. These are hard requirements in key areas. We hope these break-
downs will allay Committee concerns that we seek to add only political scientists
and others in the "soft sciences."
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 We also understand that the Subcommittee is concerned about whether CIA
should be involved in four specific areas of analysis--international finance,
Third World instability, civil technology and psychological assessments. While
our FY-84 personnel requests for these four areas together total fewer than a
positions out of the =(and no new positions at all for civil technology 25X1
or psychological assessments) we take this opportunity to explain the nature of
our work in these fields.
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