CONCEPT FOR COORDINATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86M00612R000100080021-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 12
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 17, 2004
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: January 5, 1970
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: D/DCI/NIPE
SUBJECT Coficept for Coordination
Attached is a copy of a draft outline for the concept which
we discussed week before last. Would appreciate your comma nts
on it before expanding it or starting on an outline for "volume
two. "
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Draft Outline
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CONCEPT FOR NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE LEVEL
PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT COORDINATION
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A. PURPOSE
To set forth a basis for improving the coordination of U. S.
national intelligence.
B. GENERAL
Within the existing terms of reference for the U. S. intellige-tce
community, expanded review and correlation of the intelligence
activities of the various departments and agencies and increased
attention to planning for the future should better ensure the appro-
priate direction of effort and allocation of resources. This Pro-
posal for developing a more comprehensive overview is based on
measuring the essentiality and priority of all major intelligence
activities against periodically updated intelligence objectives der.-ved
from an analysis of world trends and related U. S. policy and
priorities. It is recognized that the need for coordination is not ill-
embracing. The nature of some intelligence activities is such, th.,.t
community-wide coordination is inappropriate and would serve no
useful purpose. Justification for the fiscal support of activities iii
this category, however, will increasingly rest in part in demon-
strating their unique character and that community programs neit .er
duplicate nor should be expanded to include them.
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C. SCOPE
This concept envisions an evolving framework within which:
1. The nature of the overall U. S. intelligence c:ommmit-
job is developed by analysis and periodically updated.
2. The intelligence responsibilities of the departments
and agencies are related, organizationally and functionally, to the
job to be done as described by step one above.
3. Priority intelligence production and collection reou.ire-
ments related to the intelligence objectives derived by step one
above are identified and updated on a continuing basis.
4. Intelligence resources and their application are rn. )ni-
tored with respect to the job to be done.
5. Community-wide short, mid-, and long-range as ~vell
as research and development planning is developed and periodicalh
updated to provide an improved basis for intelligence programr-ing
6. Periodic evaluation of national intelligence coordinatio,i
is accomplished in a. more rigorous and comprehensive fashion
than at present, using the planning framework described in stet
five above as a reference.
D. APPROACH FOR DEVELOPING A COORDINATION FRAMEWO?t;. ;
Because of the magnitude of the effort, the framework describe-?
above will need to be developed on a phased and evolutionary basis.
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As a first phase, attention should focus on tasks which relate to Vie
first four points listed above to establish a foundation for community-
wide planning. Here, significant progress has already been made in
one area - that of resource monitoring - and a study is underway to
derive substantive intelligence and management objectives as rev--,ale i
by an analysis of world trends. Two other studies, one reviewing;
responsibilities and relationships and the other intelligence require-
ments, can be initiated now simultaneously. It is particularly im-
portant that guidance for the conduct of these four studies be clos ply
coordinated to ensure that they collectively present the best corre-
lated basis for further planning. Because the results of these first
four studies will be generally apparent before they are completed,
phase two - the development of plans as described in point five above
should be started before phase one is completed. This series of
plans which cover the short, mid-, and long-range period as welt' as
the application of new technology to intelligence will draw heavily on
the earlier studies. With these four plans launched, the third ph