LETTER TO JAMES A. WILLIAMS FROM WILLIAM J. CASEY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87M00220R001001140058-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 4, 2009
• Sequence Number: 58
• Publication Date: July 24, 1985
• Content Type: LETTER

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The Director of Central Intelligence
Lieutenant General James A. Williams, USA
Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
Washington, D. C. 20301
Dear Jim:
Please express my appreciation for a job well done to each DIA participant
in the recently completed Future SIGINT Capabilities Study (FSCS) and for
their contribution to our understanding of .future intelligence needs. The
FSCS will provide a valuable guideline for an investment strategy that will
help ensure that the United States SIGINT System will remain viable through
the year 2000. It will also impact on the production of intelligence
information for national decisionmakers and military commanders. Those DIA
persons named in the enclosed listing may well be proud of their contribution
to this Herculean effort.
While it is somewhat unfair to single out individuals for special
recognition wh ifi sections,
I wish to cite
for their exceptional contri ution to a en ire u y.
was the DIA representative to the Tiger Team. The Tiger
Team represented and reported directly to the DCI. It was
responsible for providing high-level guidance to the Study.
was the DIA representative to the Executive Panel and
a so serve as Co-Chairman, Phase I Requirements Working Group. The
Executive Panel was chaired by the Chairman, SIGINT Committee, and
provided overall guidance to the Study.
as the DIA member of the Technical Staff and also
served as mem er of the Support to Military Operations Working
Group. The Technical Staff was composed of a representative of each
involved organization and provided expertise on technical topics.
also helped to blend the architectures looking for
overlaps, risks, opportunities for mission transfer, and unresolved
problems.
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as the Chai rman of the Phase I I Support to Mil i tary
pera ions Working Group. This Working Group developed an
arc hi tecture designed to remedy SIGINT System deficiencies related to
support to mil i tary operati ons.
Pl ease convey my personal commendati on to these officers for thei r
excepti onal contributi ons.
Sincerely,
William J. Casey
Enclosure:
As stated
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SUBJECT; Letter of
DCI/ICS 85-055
DISTRIBUTION:
1--Dir DIA
1--DCI
1--DDCI
1--ER
1--D/ICS
1--DD/ICS
IC Registry
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1--SORB
1--MASINT
1--SC Chrono
1--SC Subject
1--FSCS Staff
1--FSCS Staff
1--FSCS Staff
1--FSCS Staff
DCI /ICS/SI GINT~
Appreciation for FSCS Study to Dir DIA
(10 July 1985)
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