NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100440005-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 23, 2010
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National Intelligence
At a time of increasing danger, the U.S. intelligence community has lost
much of its ability to supply the President, senior U.S. officials, and the Con-
gress with accurate and timely analyses concerning fundamental threats-to our
nation's security. Morale and public confidence have been eroded and Ameri-
can citizens and friendly foreign intelligence services have become increas-
inniv rahirtant to cooperate with U.S. agencies. As a result of such problems,
the U.S. intelligence community has incorrectly assessed critical foreign de-
velopments, as in Iran, and has, above all, underestimated the size and pui-
pose of the Soviet Union's military efforts.
We believe that a strong national consensus has emerged on the need to
make our intelligence community a reliable and productive instrument of na-
tional policy once again. In pursuing its objectives, the Soviet Union and its
surrogates operate by a far different set of rules than does the United States.
We do not favor countering their efforts by mirroring their tactics. However, the
United States requires a realistic assessment of the threats it faces, and it must
have the best intelligence capability in the world. Republicans pledge this for
the United States.
A Republican Administration will seek to improve U.S. intelligence
capabilities for technical and clandestine collection, cogent analysis, coordi
nated counterintelligence, and covert action. -
We will reestablish the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board,
abolished by the Carter Administration, as a permanent non-partisan body of
distinguished Americans to perform a constant audit of national intelligence
research and performance. We will propose methods of providing alternative
intelligence estimates in order to improve the quality of the estimates by con-
structive competition.
Republicans will undertake an urgent effort to rebuild the intelligence
agencies, and to give full support to their knowledgeable and dedicated staffs.
We will propose legislation to enable intelligence officers and their agents to
operate safely and efficiently abroad.
We will support legislation to invoke criminal sanctions against anyone
who discloses the identities of U.S. intelligence officers abroad or who makes
unauthorized disclosures of U.S. intelligence sources and methods.
We will support amendments to the Freedom of Information Act and the
Privacy Act to permit meaningful background checks on individuals being
considered for sensitive positions and to reduce costly and capricious requests
to the intelligence agencies.
We will provide our government with the capability to help influence inter-
national events vital to our national security interests, a capability which only
the United States among the major powers has denied itself.
A Republican Administration will seek adequate safeguards to ensure that
past abuses will not recur, but we will seek the repeal of ill-considered restric-
tions sponsored by Democrats, which have debilitated U.S. intelligence
capabilities while easing the intelligence collection and subversion efforts of
our adversaries.
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