LETTER TO WILLIAM J. CASEY FROM DAVE DURENBERGER

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• Document Release Date: November 30, 2009
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: October 23, 1985
• Content Type: LETTER

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The Director of Central Intelligence
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The Honorable Dave Durenberger
Chairman, Select Committee on Intelligence
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
There seems to be a misunderstanding as to how we should go about
developing a national foreign intelligence strategy and a plan to
implement such a strategy.
I hear from up on the Hill that I have approved the draft Guidelines
which have been circulated. That is not correct. I told Bernie McMahon,
and reaffirmed to you in a briefing last week, that I thought it was
counterproductive to spend time writing Guidelines in the abstract and
that instead I would go ahead and have a strategy paper--based on our
interaction on this thus far--developed by the managers of the
Intelligence Community. This process is already underway, and I expect
to have a first draft in November.
If we undertake to develop a plan pursuant to Guidelines developed in
a vacuum rather than in the context of actually addressing the challenges
and issues themselves in their detail, it is likely to be a long, drawn
out and unproductive undertaking. Some elements in the draft Guidelines
we have seen would require an amount of precision and effort far beyond
their value.
I believe the course on which I told you I would, and have now
embarked, is a more practical and useful method of achieving our joint
purpose. Therefore, I hope that, at this stage, no language referring to
specific Guidelines will be put into the Authorization Bill. I'm afraid
that would restrict and divert both of us from what can best and most
usefully be accomplished in this process and delay us in what we have
already started to do.
The practical and cooperative way to address this would be for us to
get our proposed plan to you, review it together and then see how we can
meet any shortfalls you may find in what we do. If you feel that some
reference to this effort needs to be included in the Authorization Bill,
I would suggest it be confined to a statement along the following lines:
-- The Director of Central Intelligence, in cooperation with (or at
the request of) the Committees, is developing a national
intelligence strategy. As a result of this collaboration, the
Director of Central Intelligence is preparing an implementing
plan which will include both the Intelligence Community's
assessment of long-range intelligence needs, capabilities and
shortfalls, and its proposals for dealing with these shortfalls.
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This would be the operative provision. The Committees or the
conferees--either before or after such a statement--can spell out general
objectives and goals in the overall strategy and take note of factors
which will shape the development of any plan such as the information
explosion, the increasing difficulty and complexity of collection, the
competition for resources, etc.
If we proceed quietly and expeditiously, as we have already begun, I
believe we will get to the heart of the matter and get something valuable
done in fairly short order.
cc: The Honorable Lee H. Hamilton
Chairman, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20510
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1 ^? ^ MNL]OiA. CHAIRMAN
PATRICK LEAHY, VERMONT, VICE CHAIRMAN
WILLIAM V. ROTH JR, DELAWARE LLOYD BENTSEN. TEXAS
WILLIAM S. COHEN. MAINE SAM NUNN
GRAIN MATCH. UTAH .GEORGIA
FRANK THOMAS F. EAGLETON. MISSOURI
FRANK M ALASKA ERNEST F. HOLLINGS. SOUTH CAROLINA
W ARLEN SPECTER, PEN PENNSYLVANIA DAVID L BOREN. OKLAHOMA
CHIC HECHT. NEVADA BILL BRADLEY, NEW JERSEY
MATCH McCONNELL, KENTUCKY
ROBERT DOLE. KANSAS. LR OFFICIO
ROBERT C. BYRD, WEST VIRGINIA. ES OFFICIO
BERNARD F. MCMAHON. STAFF DIRECTOR
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SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE
WASHINGTON, DC 20510
The Honorable William J. Casey
Director of Central Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
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Thanks for your letter of October 23, 1985, setting forth
your plans relative to development of a National Intelligence
Strategy. We want to assure you that nothing that we presently
intend to accomplish through the Conference Report on the
FY 1986 Intelligence Authorization is inconsistent with your
plans. In fact, what we are doing is supporting your plans by
specifying in the Conference, to quote your letter: "general
objectives and goals in the overall strategy and ... factors
which will shape the development of any plan ...".
At today's-Committee meeting, Senator Boren stated in'-
simple terms the technical language which we are seeking for
the Conference Report. We thought it would be worthwhile to
share with you Senator Boren's perspective on what we are seeking
with our language in the Conference Re
port:
o We need to understand the legitimate needs
of intelligence consumers and policymakers
of the United States Government and the
goals you establish for the Intelligence
Community to meet these needs;
o We need to see your programs, with justification
identified by lead agency, to achieve the goals
you have identified. We need to understand
which programs you are requesting full
authorization and funding, those which you are
requesting partial authorization and funding,
and those which, in the best of all worlds
the Director feels need to meet his needs but
neither current authorization or funding is
requested. We would like to know why each
program is included on each list.
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The Honorable William J. Casey
October 23, 1985
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While the Conference Report language is a bit more
technical and specific on how best to report this information
to us, our guidelines for the National Intelligence Strategy
are not micromanagement on the part of Congress. It gives
you a free hand to get on with articulating an integrated
strategy for U.S. intelligence.
Bill, we have recognized from the start that any effort
to develop a National Intelligence Strategy required the
commitment of Members of the two Oversight Committees and
the Intelligence Com This consensus has now been
achieved. We appre ate yo support in helping to build
this consensus, an look forty d to seeing your first cut
PCqick'ahy
Vice Chairman
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-United States senate
SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE
WASHINGTON, DC 70510
OFFICIAL BUSINESS
The Honorable William J. Casey
Director of Central Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
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