TIME MAGAZINE INTERVIEW OF MR. SAYRE STEVENS AND DR. ROBERT BOWIE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY - JUNE 2, 1977]

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000300190008-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 24
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 5, 2004
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: June 2, 1977
• Content Type: STUDY

2
`
thought it would be a good idea to concentrate or to get on.
the intelligence gathering analysis side of the intelligence
community.
V 1d ;y that it has been an inherently interesting subject is that or
~ 15
17 j
the last three or four years, the considerable ,publicity that
surrounded the Agency, the intelligence community, particularly
18 the CIS, as been almost exclusively due to covert operations
1 and no dnubt we will tuch on that: subject, too, but we would
c like to -ast it in sort of forward looking terms and also
Approved For Release 2004/10/28 : CIA-RDP88-01314R000300190008-5
TIME MAGAZINE INTLEVIi','?
1141
MR. STEVENS AND DP. RCBI:RC ROUTE
CE?NT'RAL, TNTELLIGENCL AGENCY
JUNE 2, 1977
QUESTION: You are nice to give us some time. We,
7 as I am sure Herb explained when setting this up, were doing
8 what: we hope for.. TIME is a fairly complete report on the
I state of the intelligence corranunity and when Bruce and I
originally talked about the idea of doing such a story we
Look t e Side of the Agency 1 s work which is nerhacs a little
less sensational and sexy but extremely irlnort__nt, and to
ort of `ia.d ouL what you two gentlemen are u- to an what.
`'ou can to Ll us aboult: so,-,.e structureL chanties t.7a -
t h.-.\7(-,-. bF_'~~..7
made and Love been conter,niated.
Approved For Release 2004/10/28 : CIA-RDP88-01314R000300190008-5
 Approved For Release 2004/10/28 : CIA-RDP88-01314R000300190008-5
been Ito r _ J ec to hear about:
Is_Lon I gather von have a lot to with " Dunn the turn
i 1" u the year to me qn , ~se two poi i L ... "ices within the
DDI -- OPR and OCI -- into a new sing, l.e. office of regional
5 and political analysis. Have I used the acronym correctly?
6 Why did you do that and how does this improve the efficiency
ti ~_
7 it of what you are trying to do here and improve the product?
8 it
MR. STEVENS: I think that the basic motivation behind
9 that was involved in more than just bringing the political
t1
IC offices together. One of those offices was largely concerned
11 with producing current intelligence, that is producing what we
12 call event-driven kinds of analysis as opposed to primarily
ii ,.
13
11'
14
-term, more basic research kinds of things, and while that is
essential and we have to do some of that, it had gotten
sort of divorced from the major problems that we were trying
Lodea1_ with to some extent. So we wanted to get all our
osse is in one spot and see if we couldn't atdsoss the more
critical juestions, particularly in total nro5tem `ashion,
than Jost reporting
what was goincr cn day to cia.- on the one
ing function at the expense of doing deeper analysis.
The other group was totally committed to doing longer-
issue driven or broader kinds of analysis that deal with key
problems as a whole that are affecting the policy.
We realize that we were putting too much emphasis and
spending too many of our resources on kind of the daily report-
Approved For Release 2004/10/28 : CIA-RDP88-01314R000300190008-5
ALDERSON REPORTING CouaaNY. iI:C.
 Approved For Release 2004/10/28 : CIA-RDP88-01314R000300190008-5
1 )-r clo. (1 10 rcfer -.er,, t
c{UOstions t"...
with.
QUESTION: L)oc s this involvo c~ittin , back on the
total staff involved i.n political anaiys:Ls within DDI?
1 R . STEVEN`S : No .
7 QUESTION: You clot more or less Lhe sa mte number of
~ troops on the ground?
N
u Y T.R. STEVENS: That is riuht.
a
z ?~ DR. BOWIE: I am sure you understand this is
only one office of the DD]: out of s-1.x.
QUESTION: That: i an Of: ice of Stral.-eqic Analysis
-
13 and an Of -ice of Economic analysis, right?
f,1 R. .`'TEVENS : Weapons, intelligence and sc en I f is
r it intelligence.
y
15 QUESTION: Those are two different -- weapons
j
lr IiR. SEVENS: beat:)ans intellic;ence, scientific
L: 18 intelti:-, _nce, economic research,
recx,,onal anci nolitrca]_
analysis, geographic and cartographic re!search.
r., QUESTION: I have lost count al.readv.
`? :. STEVENS: O`f.ice of StraLegic Research which
- ~ 1
i
L
y bbal:~nce K a n(Is o duest
Y n al r
.~< 3 [ LVf'%TC
- - :c), the re are sev^n ---- c,h t i'~-oc;:~i1c r
)t111r_~~__7 the [){ 1-CC? C1 irotuer` !`.T~ .1` Sly; .~.~13"CBduc hae added to what are already
recognized as Policy Issues r policy problems.
QUESTION: There has been f a14- L 11- 7 lively in.--gr-~
delbate~ about vSyhethe the intelligence l t
es ~Im