WE HAVE HAD RELATIVELY "SMOOTH SAILING" DURING FINAL COORDINATION ON THIS PAPER, AS WELL AS ON (SANITIZED)

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• Publication Date: October 24, 1986
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The Director of Cen I Intelligence
Washington, D.C. 20505
National Intelligence Council
NOTE FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
FROM: Chairman, National Intelligence Council
importance and sensitivity of some of them (e.
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respectively. These may slip, but if they do not, they may also become
candidates for telephone votes. The next full schedule is
20 November--currently seven topics on the agenda. One or more of these
will no doubt slip, but given the likely high number remaining, and the
M/H on an NIE and an NIE
one topic each
24 October 1986
We have had relatively "smnoth sail 'n g" during final coordination on
this paper, as well as on th These two NIEs are the only
Estimates on the NFIB's agenda for Thursday, 30 October. The respective
NIOs are checking with their agency counterparts on the possibility of a
telephone vote. If the answer is "Yes" on both NIEs, we plan to go that way
and would propose to cancel the 30 October NFIB unless otherwise directed.
The next two NFIBs after that are scheduled for 6 ,and 13 November. only
, I feel that a meeting will be required on the .
In the meantime, progress on the Production Plan proceeds apace. It has
been reworked once to reflect all the inputs we received from you, Bob
Gates, the SRP and the NIOs, and the rest of the Community. This revision
has been reviewed by the NIOs and will be further revised and distributed
for comment to the SRP and the Community reps early next week. We'll redo
one more time and have it to you and Bob for review the following week. The
thrust of the changes is to eliminate duplicates and gaps, to reorient with
an eye toward relevance, and to add more "new style" estimates, as
appropriate, tying together factors across national and functional lines in
the interest of a more comprehensive and comprehensible estimative story.
We anticipate a slightly longer list than before after all the adding,
combining, and deleting is done--one that will come a little closer to
making the best use of the evidence and the talents at hand to generate
policy-relevant products. By spreading this list judiciously across our
NIOs and a wider array of diverse drafters, and more evenly over the coming
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months, we hope to also allow more time to work and coordinate each of the
Estimates (a common theme in agency comments to us), and more time to
produce speculative and/or stimulative policy-oriented pieces on individual
initiative for your use and consideration for further distribution.
V/R
Brig,/Gen Frank B. Horton III, USAF
Chairman
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