RESPONSE TO NSSD-2/82

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90B01013R000300400033-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 20, 2008
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: June 18, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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h1EMORANDUM FOR: Director, Intelligence Comrunity Staff
Chief, Community Counterintelligence Staff
NSSDm2/82 Study Director
FROM: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: ~ Response to NSSD~2/$2
Orre of the things we are going to have to do with the response to
NSSD~Z/82 is to give the policymakers a fix on the size of the overall
US Government counterintelligence effort and of the people applied to
dealing with it in each agency and for each significant function. Without
that, there is nothing to come to grips with fn seeking to measure how
and to what extent the capabilities need to be enhancedr I recognize
the need for caution to developing priorities, but there is a need for
developing some kind of a roadmap on where one would start in improving
the overall capabilities for dealing with the situation.
William J. Casey
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b4EMORtiNDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
VIA: Deputy Director for Operations
FROM:
Staff
Deputy Chie Counterintelligence
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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, .iri 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 .prob.lem 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 mead 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 carryout
counterintelligence operations. The. earlier draft had focus-
sed on defensive CI probhems, 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.
S. 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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