DCI COMMENTS ON DRAFT CI STUDY- -NNSD-2/82

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• Publication Date: June 18, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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18 June 1982
CI 155-82
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
VIA:
FROM:
Deputy Director for Operations
Deputy Chief, Counterintelligence Staff
SUBJECT: DCI Comments on Draft CI Study--NNSD-2/82
1. At your request I have reviewed the draft study and
your comments on it. The paper which you read and marked up
was the first draft, and some of your suggestions, as well as
other additions and changes, have been incorporated into later
drafts. I have compared the first draft and your comments
with the latest available draft, and I am sending separately
to the Study Director (copy attached) a paper with some general
comments of my own and a list of 25 suggested changes, ranging
from several words to several paragraphs each. The suggested
changes are keyed to the latest draft but most are directly
related to your own comments and marginal notes. The suggestions
are intended to help shape the paper in line with what I perceive
to be your objectives.
2. With the exception of some of your marginal notes in
parts of the paper based on input from other agencies, where I
did not feel competent to comment, I found myself in basic
agreement with most of your suggestions, including most of the
"stylistic nitpicking" as you termed.it. The biggest short-
coming of the paper, in my opinion, was the fact that CIA
responsibilities and capabilities were indeed given short shrift.
Most of my suggested additions are intended to rectify that weak-
ness. (This may be resisted somewhat by the Study Director, as
he is understandably trying to keep the paper from growing too
long.) In other words, most of my proposed changes were geared
to the problem you discussed in paragraph 2 d of your memorandum.
3. Regarding paragraph 2 b of your memorandum, I'm not
certain I understand what you mean by "potential for better
analysis through joint analytical centers". This seems to me
to come dangerously close to proposing a joint analytical
facility, centrally run,. to which all agencies would contribute.
I believe that such a facility is neither necessary nor workable.
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This is so because there is in being an effective liaison
relationship among the various services which permits them
to exchange the information they need without relinquishing
control over the source-sensitive aspects. This is a very
important principle for both the DDO and the FBI, and one
on which neither service will compromise. Certainly, however,
increased resources in the analytical. capabilities of the
various components are needed.
4. Regarding your paragraph 3, I found the version of
Section VI in the latest draft much better than the one in
the first draft, which you had already described as "quite
good." The latest draft incorporates resource shortfalls
which affect the ability of the FBI and CIA to carry out
counterintelligence operations. The. earlier draft had focus-
sed on defensive CI problems, and I believe it is just as
important, if not more so, to point out the resource short-
comings which restrict our offensive ability to mount counter-
intelligence operations.
5. I think that with the changes you have requested, and
with some additional. editing and polishing, the final product
will be quite acceptable.
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