SUGGESTIONS FOR YOUR MEETING WITH THE MIB

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87R00529R000100040013-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 16, 2011
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: December 13, 1985
• Content Type: MEMO

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The Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D.C. 20505
NIC No. 06126-85
13 Dec-ember 1985
National Intelligence Council
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chairman, National Intelligence Council
FROM: George Kolt
National Intelligence Officer for Europe
SUBJECT: Suggestions for your Meeting with the MIB
1. My relationship with the DIA and Service reps has been
excellent. The problems have come with higher-ups in the DIA hierarchy
who are unwilling to challeng ilder assertions, which
then turn into DIA reserves and eventually too notes. I, therefore,
suggest that you praise DIA and the Services for their excellent
cooperation with the NIO in the coordination process. DIA/DE should be
singled out for special praise as it almost always comes to coordination
meetings with handouts of the changes it wants to suggest, a procedure
that greatly facilitates things. You could then, diplomatically, enjoin
the Director of DIA and the Service Intelligence Chiefs to pay careful
attention to the reservations and footnotes proposed by their staffs to
make sure they are not tilting at windmills (i.e., taking exception with
something the NIE does not say) and truly represent a reasonable
substantive difference.
2. You may also want to reassure the MIB of the continued
impartiality of the NIC, particularly since your meeting will probably
come shortly after the reconfirmation of your dual-hatted position. You
could point to the footnotes you have taken as DDI in some NIEs and to
the great mix of backgrounds among the NIOs, about half of whom are not
career CIA.
3. As a problem area to be discussed together you might want to
raise the issue of how Agencies (including CIA) should handle judgments
that either go beyond NIEs or run counter to NIEs. (You may want to take
a crack at State's blatant disregard of any judgment that goes counter to
its preconceived notions
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logical way to handle the issue, it seems to me, wou or Agencies to
indicate to their audiences what the National Intelligence judgment is.
and then how particular Agency's views differ from it or go beyond it.
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CL BY SIGNER
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 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/03/16: CIA-RDP87R00529R000100040013-6
NIC No. 06126-85
13 December 1985
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chairman, National Intelligence Council
FROM: George Kolt
National Intelligence Officer for Europe
SUBJECT: Suggestions for your Meeting with the MIB
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