24 MARCH MEETING WITH (SANITIZED) OFFICIALS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85M00364R001903740024-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2007
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: March 30, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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30 March 1982
MEMORANDUM FOR: Executive Director
Chief, Planning Staff
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SUBJECT: 24 March Meetin STAT
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and I met wit and various other officials, STAT
includin went through a STAT
presentation that was similar to the one he gave you. His planning methodology appears
to be centered essentially around the projection of historic fiscal trends into the future,
an approach that seems to be of some utility to Defense Department management in the
programming'and budgeting area, once fundamental strategic decisions have been made.
As I have noted before, the relevance of this approach to the development of a strategic
plan either here, or for that matter in the Defense Department, seems to be marginal.
2. I gave a brief rundo - of the basic features of our long-range planning process
and its rationale and asked th officials to think about ways that they could help us STAT
in two areas:
a. To identify likely changes in the world scene over the next
ten years that would affect our planning, and
b. To identify changes in US policies, technologies, or
capabilities that we should take into account in planning.
Th particularly the former CIA officers, understand our approach and saiiSTAT
they would think about the questions that I had posed and see if they had anything to
offer in this regard.
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FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
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