JOINT STUDY GROUP RECOMMENDATION NO. 21 AND 22

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Approved For Release 2007/01/17 :, .lt fif86BOO269RO00200060110-1 a 1 MAR to be ob*vtum t7 fto Tc-39 .0 fvlOP,'IfCDF 773216 i.J .s aoi~c:. 1, Approved For Release 2007/01/17: CIA-RDP86B00269R000200060110-1 Approved For Release 2007/01/17: CIA-RDP86B00269R000200060110-1 USIB-D-1.5/23 19 June 1962 U N I T E D S T A T E S I N T E L L I G E N C E B 0 A R D MEMORANDUM FOR THE UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD SUBJECT Joint Study Group Recommendations No. 21 and 22 REFERENCE USIB-D-1.5/5, 10 March 1961 The attached Coordination Staff memoranda, which are forwarded for review, respond to instructions of the DCI in the reference, and contain an analysis of NSC-approved Joint Study Group Recommendations No. 21 and 22, including identification of factors and elements bearing on the implementation of those Recommendations. This matter will be placed on `w~ the agenda of an early USIB meeting for discussion and action on the Coordination Staff recommendations set forth in paragraph 9 of Attachment B. 25X1 Executive Secretary Group I Excluded from automatic downgrading and declassification Approved For Release 2007/01/17: CIA-RDP86B00269R000200060110-1 Approved For Release 2007/01/17: CIA-RDP86B00269R000200060110-1 Attachment A USIB-D-1.5/23 19 June 1962 MEMORANDUM FOR: Chairman, United States Intelligence Board SUBJECT. Joint Study Group Recommendations No. 21 and 22 REFERENCE: USIB-D-1.5/5, 10 March 1961 1. The attached memorandum for the Chairman, United States Intelligence Board (USIB), on the subject is a response to instructions by the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) in the reference that the Coordination Staff initiate an analysis of Joint Study Group (JSG) Recommendations No. 21, 22 and 23. The attachment concerns JSG Recom- mendations No. 21 and 22 only; Recommendation No. 23 will be reported on separately later. 2. JSG Recommendation No. 21 proposed the establishment of a central requirements facility, initially to coordinate requirements for clandestine and SIGINT collection, and if successful subsequently to be expanded to other requirements. JSG Recommendation No. 22 provided that the CIA Office of Central Reference be used as the reference facility by the new central requirements body. National Security Council action approved by the President on these recommendations referred them to the USIB for implementation in consultation with the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, because the Secretary of Defense, while concurring with the intent of these recommendations, desired further study on the method of their implementation. 3. The attached memorandum notes that there are within the intelligence community serious reservations as to the need for or feasibility of the particular kind of action called for in these recom- mendations. Despite these reservations, however, the attachment cites many actions taken within the community to improve the development, processing and coordination of collection requirements, a number of them stemming from or stimulated by JSG recommendations. 4+. The attachment concludes that the total effect of these actions, if energetically and systematically pursued and supported, should be substantial progress toward the general objective of the JSG GROUP 1 Excluded from automatic downgrading and declassification Approved For Release 2007/01/17: CIA-RDP86B00269R000200060110-1 Approved For Release 2007/01/17: CIA-RDP86B00269R000200060110-1 Noo, %W recommendations, namely, more effective coordination of collection requirements throughout the community. Therefore, it recommends that USIB members, collectively and in their agencies, encourage and support the strengthening and improvement of systems for coordinating require- ments within member agencies and the USIB structure; meanwhile, deferring consideration of the need for or feasibility of a central facility as envisaged by the Joint Study Group. Recommendation: That the attached memorandum be circulated to the USIB for consideration of the recommendations contained in paragraph 9 thereof. Approved For Release 2007/01/17: CIA-RDP86B00269R000200060110-1 Approved For Release 2007/01/17: CIA-RDP86B00269R000200060110-1 S-E-C-R-E-T Attachment B USIB D-1.523 19 June 1962 MEMORANDUM FOR: Chairman, United States Intelligence Board SUBJECT: Joint Study Group Recommendations No. 21 and 22 REFERENCE: USTB-D-1.55 dated 10 March 1961 1. On 10 March 1961, the Coordination Staff of the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) was instructed by the Director td initiate an analysis of Joint Study Group (JSG) Recommendations No. 21, 22 and 23, for the purpose of identifying those factors and elements thereof which the community might be able to implement without prejudice to the ultimate decisions within the Department of Defense concerning reorganization of its intelligence elements. The Coordination Staff has included information as to its activities pursuant to this instruction in the reports which it has prepared for the DCI on the status of actions on Joint Study Group Recommendations as of 1 May and 21 August 1961 and 1 March 1962. This memorandum concerns JSG Recommendations No. 21 and 22 only; a separate report on Recom- mendation No. 23 will be made at a later date. 2. Recommendations No. 21 and 22 themselves, viewed in the light of the supporting text of the Joint Study Group Report, may be sum- marized as follows: a. An interagency body should be established, made up of top-quality experts drawn from and representing the collection and production agencies' which should have full knowledge of all collection resources of the U. S. Government and to which all intelligence information requirements of all elements of the Government should be forwarded. This inter- agency body would make a determination as to the availability in Washington of the information desired, either in intelligence reports already disseminated or in the usual public reposi- tories or both. b. To assist this interagency body in determining whether the information desired is available in Washington, the Office of Central Reference of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) should have .a record of all of the information collected through intelligence media. GROUP 1 Excluded from automatic downgrading and declassification Approved For Release 2007/01/17: CIA-RDP86B00269R000200060110-1 Approved For Release 2007/01/17: CIA-RDP86B00269R000200060110-1 S-E-C-R-E_T Nw~ c. After determining that the information desired as expressed in a requirement is not available in Washington, the interagency body should assign the requirement to a particular collector or collectors in accordance with the information in the hands of this body as to the collection resources of the various collectors. d. This bod should report to the United States Intelli- gence Board (USIB) any failure to act upon assigned requirements. e. For the time being, this body should concern itself only with clandestine and signal intelligence collection. 3. The action of the National Security Council as approved by the President concurred in principle with Recommendations No. 21 and 22 and referred them to the USIB for implementation in consultation with the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. This action was taken because the Secretary of Defense, while concurring with the intent of these recommendations, desired further study on the method of their implementation. 4. The Coordination Staff, pursuant to the instructions of the DCI, discussed and conferred with representatives of the interested agencies concerning factors involved in implementing Recommendations No. 21 and 22. It has also participated in or kept informed of developments throughout the intelligence community related to this subject, including a number of exploratory studies and experiments. 5. Discussions within the intelligence community with respect to these recommendations, as well as consideration of the exploratory efforts, have made clear that there are within the community serious reservations as to the need for 'or feasi'bili-l y' of the'-particular 'kind of action called for in these recommendations. Questions have been raised as to the feasibility of comparing and coordinating, in a single central office for the entire community, requirements which vary widely in form, content, subject matter, specificity, and timing, and differ markedly among agencies and for types of collection. It has been pointed out that many, if not most, requirements are state- ments of continuing information needs, more often generalized rather than specific or detailed requirements that can be satisfied at any given time or through any particular collection means. Information requirements related to highly sophisticated collection techniques, such as space surveillance and overhead reconnaissance, require special treatment and are being effectively coordinated on a functional basis. The areas suggested by Joint Study Group Recom- mendation No. 21 for initial experimentation, namely clandestine Approved For Release 2007/01/17: CIA-RDP86B00269R000200060110-1 Approved For Release 2007/01/17: CIA-RDP86B00269R000200060110-1 S-E-C-R-E-T and signal intelligence collection, have formal coordination mechanisms in the Interagency Clandestine Collection Priorities Committee (IPC) and the SIGINT Committee. The need for a single central office to police duplicate requirements has been questioned, both as to the seriousness of the problem and the possibility of other remedies. Finally, concern has been expressed as to the effect of these recom- mendations upon command channels and established operational concepts which could lead to serious administrative and management problems. 6. Despite these reservations concerning the precise terms of JSG Recommendations No. 21 and 22, many improvements have been made by the intelligence community in the development, processing and coordination. of collection requirements, a number of them stemming from or stimulated by these and other recommendations of the Joint Study Group. Among the actions which contributed to such improvements, many of which are also the results of continuing efforts by the agencies involved, are the following: a. USIB has revised and refined the Ptiority National Intelligence Objectives (PNIO's), as well as approved coordi- nated statements of requirements in a number of fields such as space surveillance. b.:.,.Various USIB committees have strengthened their coordi- Vi.+' nation of requirements, as for example the revised IPC lists and the new COMINT and FLINT requirements lists. c. A compatible system for numbering requirements has been adopted by the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the State Department. d. DIA has been charged with registering, evaluating, and assigning priorities to all Department of Defense (DOD) intelli- gence requirements and those levied upon DIA by non-DOD agencies. The system for discharging this responsibility has been activated and is-in the process of evolutionary development, including a requirements registry which is compatible with that being developed in CIA. e. 'I'he Office of Central Reference in the 'CIA designed a system for and conducted an experiment in the indexing and recording by machine-processing of individual collection require- ments. Based on this experiment, a Requirements Registry.has been authorized on a provisional basis, to report to a newly appointed Staff Requirements Coordinator. The Registry is to Approved For Release 2007/01/17: CIA-RDP86B00269R000200060110-1 Approved For Release 2007/01/17: CIA-RDP86B00269R000200060110-1 %No ?or S-R-C-R-rn-T provide management-type information and subject-area coverage .of requirements originated in or levied upon CIA. A CIA Requirements Committee has been formed to consider collection guidance and requirements problems within CIA. While the specific scope of its activities and responsibilities is not yet firm, a working group of this committee is drafting a revised collection guidance program designed to provide more adequate guidance to collectors upon whom CIA levies requirements. rovements have been made in specially related to require- atisfaction of requirements. g. The State Department has initiated, on a limited scale, a program of annual guidance to foreign service posts for reporting in fields of primary intelligence interest to the Department. 7. The total effect of these actions, if energetically and systematically pursued and supported, should be substantial progress toward the general-objective of the Joint Study Group recommendations, namely more effective coordination of collection requirements throughout the intelligence community. The role of DIA in integrating DOD requirements should reduce markedly the problem of interagency %/ coordination of requirements, and facilitate such coordination between and among CIA, State, DIA and the National Security Agency. Improve- ments made in the requirements system within CIA should offer further benefits to the community at large. Continuation and strengthening of State's program of reporting guidance to overseas missions would help serve the community's needs. 8. Actions taken or being considered by the individual agencies, supplemented and supported by the USIB and its committees, provide an essential foundation on which any system. of community-wide coordi- nation of intelligence requirements must be built. Further development and evolution of these agency programs should therefore be pressed forward vigorously prior to determining the necessity for or merits of any central facility for coordinating all intelligence requirements. 9. Recommendations: a. That USIB members, collectively and in their respective agencies, encourage and support the strengthening and:i?aprovement of the systems within member agencies and ifn the'USIB committee structure for coordinating the development and processing of collection requirements. Approved For Release 2007/01/17: CIA-RDP86B00269R000200060110-1 Approved For Release 2007/01/17: CIA-RDP86B00269R000200060110-1 S-E-C -R-E-T b. That, pending the results of further action pursuant to a. above, USIB defer consideration of the need for or feasibility of a central requirements facility as envisaged in Joint Study Group Recommendations No. 21 and 22. Assistant for Coordination Approved For Release 2007/01/17: CIA-RDP86B00269R000200060110-1 Approved For Release 2007/01/17: CIA-RDP86e00269R000200060110-1 Approved For Release 2007/01/17: CIA-RDP86B00269R000200060110-1