CIRIS HIGHLIGHTS

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• Publication Date: April 30, 1971
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?- =~~: CIRIS Highlights
'Pt ; C/,?. 1. 4
April 1971
Working Paper: NCF
CIRIS, the successor to TOD, is now in its 4th annual cycle. n t:i&=
_',resent CIF IS exercise, we are now receiving inputs from the various A?enc:r.t3
Services and Program Managers. We expect to turn out CIRIS reports in late
May and in June.
2. CIRIS inputs are made by CIA (less Covert Action) and also by ;re
following organizations and. programs:
General Defense Intel. Prgm, including DIA and the three Ser-
vices: (some 221 Reporting Entities).
Consol. Cryptologic Prgn, including NSA and the three Ser-
vices: some 220 Reporting Entities).
: (some 23 Reporting Entities).
re 20 Reporting Entities).
Advanced Prgm support (6 Reporting Entities).
Other DoD Intelligence Activities (a number of specialized,
sensitive activities that are not included in the above-mentioned
programs): (some 15 Reporting Entities).
State/INR Program.
3. CIRIS uses to date are varied. Rack-ups of community resource.; as
whole and by major programs serve to provide quick overviews. Detailed data,
has provided materials for further analysis in technical studies, such as tilt
current ELINT study being conducted by Dr. Oldham's office with DASD(I). CIF23
information has gone into some NSSM study efforts, and into a current el'fort
by CIA/OSR related to Soviet Intelligence. CIRIS "slices" of resources havE
helped focus attention on areas of intelligence resources that appear tr, re-
quire special attention in the course of DoD program reviews. For security
purposes, all CIRIS dissemination is controlled under policy guidance from t>,,
DCI implemented through D/DCI/NIPE and NIRB. Dissemination to date has beer_
very limited, due to security precautions.
4. The basic rationale for CIRIS is that it is not possible to make ord,3analyses of intelligence programs or types of intelligence activities wichoiv
cutting across agency and service lines. There must be a common, official
data base which racks up information in an orderly and uniform manner. This
serves as a take-off point for detailed substantive analyses.
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5. CIRIS identifies the mix and focus of intelligence resources. It
also measures changes therein. This is particularly important at a tine wl is
intelligence resources are likely to be increasingly limited, and more clo: 14,
reviewed outside the intelligence corrmiunity. It is important that we Ilea--'N.
understand ourselves and our business, and that we have a central source o:'
information that permits coherent and uniform answers to be provided.
6. CIRIS was not intended as a mechanism to measure the value of tntel-
li;ence activities or the worth of the output. CIRIS is intended as a ser-,r.ce
of conrnnon concern and an objective, impartial statement of what intelligeno
resources are and how it is planned to employ them -- as stated by the res-
pective Program Managers with regard to their own resources. CIRRIS slnply
is a mechanism to force resource managers to talk in a common language.
7. CIRIS should not become involved in partisan advocacy. The DCI CT 'E
Staff has a fiduciary duty -- under NIRB control -- to preserve the confide-
tiality of the management data of each agency, service or program. Ni B,
under the general policy guidance of the DCI, should establish specific guii.=S-
lines for the dissemination of specific CIRIS displays and data tabulationa
At present, each contributor to CIRIS receives back only his own data, with
DASD(I), of course, receiving all of the DoD data. CIRIS Staff does not
disseminate CIA data outside of CIA; it would do so only if a specific aut:i(-
rization were given in advance, such authorization coming from the DDCC and r
the D/DCI/NIPE.
8. The sharing of CIR]:S data will become increasingly important. As
move further into coinnunity management, it will be necessary for NIRB, with
DCI approval, to direct that more information be made available to sen::or
levels of intelligence management. In my opinion, however, there is a cash
for excluding the totality of DDP from this sharing of information witli ager n-es
outside CIA. The CIA's activity and resources with respect to the teciinica.:.
sensors (e.g., IMAGERY, COI4I? , ELINT, TELEMETRY) are pretty well knovi to
other agencies through working level liaisons of people in the same buz;ine:t,
and there does not seem any longer a strong justification to hold back this;
kind of information, especially when it is becoming increasingly important 1)
create a feeling of reciprocity among community managers. All of this, houi rrr,
should be worked out on a case by case basis, with NIRB review and approva.
9. Some resources and activities are inherently capable of being nore
specifically described than others. We all recognize that Clandestine HUNLT
activities cannot be described, in advance, with very'~much specificit-y.
think that the DCI CIRIS Staff and DDP Management people are in a?rreemc:nt or,
this, and I believe that the DDP CIRIS data this year will be more meaxmingit:_
and valuable both to DDP and to CIRIS than heretofore, in spite of the inezi?; Lle
lack of specificness.
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10. Misapprension about CTRIS Detail. There has been concern, ane perbY_
Misapprehension,among some people who have had only a limited e
CIRIS that we expect more detail from CIA than is the case. That pis,t~ifton-
only looks at the extensive and detailed CIRIS structure, one might assume
that it would be a man-killing; job to provide all that information. The fac~i:
is, however, that we do not ask everybody to tell us everything. Rather,
the CIRIS structure has to be extensive and detailed because we must find
"home" for all of the parts of the intelligence coimnunity, all of the dive.-apt
activities, all of the different kinds of resources, and all of their 1if-
ferent types of hardware and techniques. But there are only a fairly smal:_
number of organizational components reporting to CIRIS that perform a {,on-
siderable variety of different activities. Most CIRIS Reporting Entities t1r
only one or two things and their reporting into CIRIS is quite straighn,-
forward and not an undue burden on the submitters.
11. CIRIS -- like any data base -- can be misused. This possibility hLI.L
caused concern to us and to some other senior people reviewing the Pl.aannin;
Programing and Budgeting world. Any tool must be used with discriminetior
and by an experienced person. We have a continuous job to do in the DCI
CIRIS Staff to help people learn to use CIRIS properly and correctly. We
have to carry this out in step with the policy directions of NIRB with regar
to the release of specified CIRIS data to specified users.
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30 April 197-
Working Psper :
SUBJECT: CIRIS Structure Compared to CIA/OPPB Program Structure
1. On the whole, the CIRIS structure that is used for the commurity, `:I-
eluding data inputs from CIA, and the OPPB Program structure are syncnymci is
many important areas, and are only divergent significantly in two respect.}.
Both of these are discussed below, and in my opinion neither presents a val.,
difficult problem to resolve; these are Counterintelligence and Info Proca_..i.
2. The CIA/OPPB Program structure, through which management data is
vided from the Directorates to OPPB in order to construct the Agency's pro3'ram
and budget, is subdivided as follows:
Collection (including Counterintelligence; i.e., F1/CI)
Information Processing & Exploitation
Production
Research & Development
Communications
Covert Action
Program Wide
3. The CIRIS structure compared with the CIA/OPPB structure as folloi-r:
Collection. In CIRIS, this is called Positive Intelligence
Collection and the two are synonymous as far as HUNT Collectiari is
concerned. CIRIS does not handle Counterintelligence here,.but rather
as a separate Mission, due to the fact that military counterinte:ligev:-
is a large activity and treated separately by the Services. Altlougt;
in an operational sense, FI and CI are interrelated in the Clandf:stir.e
Services, the DDP has had four years experience with CIRIS/TOD and doe.:
not seem to have any trouble in making this distinction for CIRI A.e..injt
the two CIRIS Missions (PI-Coll. and Counterintel.) together equates to
the CIA breakout of Collection by OPPB.
Information Processing & Exploitation. In CIRIS, Positive Intel-
ligence Processing deals only with the black box sensors (i.e. I1AGEFY_
COOMINT, ELINT, TELEMETRY, RADINT, ACOUSTINT, A.E.). The CIAJOPPE stra..;re
includes these, and in addition covers such matters as information ret,:.era.l
and centralized-computer services, the'library function, and dissemin:-:_oa
services. While CIRIS and OPPB structures cover different areas. the_^: ~.s
no serious philosophical difference; this is, rather, a technical area i.-:t.t
we all agree needs to be rationalized and harmonized, and we are in a.;-?!emmnt
to do it during this year. It is technically complicated because it
involves DLL and W.A.
Production. In CIRIS, this is called Positive Intelligence Prod.i. t i.)r..
There is no difference between CIRIS and CIA/OPPB structures.
Research & Deyelo ment. There is no difference between CIA/OPPJ s_.,-
CIRIS in concept. The CIRIS total for CIA is the same as the OPP:3 P' ram
Memorandum total of resources. The difference between the two is onl,r in
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how this information is displayed: CIA puts it all together in one
package; CIRIS associates each piece of R&D activity with the op ,ra-
tional activity that the R&D supports. But CIRIS computers can
tabulate R&D as a separate whole, so both CIRIS and C7A/OPPB come out
at the same place.
Communications. There is no difference between CIRIS and CIA/
OPPB structures.
Covert Action. CIRIS does not include Covert Action resources
as part of the community data base. CIA requires DDP to provide a
CIRIS-format input on the use of these resources, so that OPPB can
present a total Agency resource tabulation in CIRIS format.
Program-Wide. CIRIS calls this Multi-Mission Support. To a ve:.-
large extent these two are synonymous, including such totalities as
Training, Security, Personnel, Logistics. There is no difficulty as
between CIRIS and the OPPB structure, nor workload imposed on Agency
inputters to CIRIS because these support-type activities are not 1;argF4 -
oriented, and hence their CIRIS inputs are very simple to prepare.
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