THE 1988 EDITION OF U.S. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE REQUIREMENTS CATEGORIES AND PRIORITIES (FIRCAP)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90M00551R000800400021-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 3, 2013
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: September 12, 1988
• Content Type: MEMO

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Deputy Director For Requirements and Evaluation
Intelligence Community Staff
Washington, D.C. 20505
ICS-6114-88
12 September 1988
MEMORANDUM FOR: DDR&E Ad Hoc Steering Group
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SUBJECT: The 1988 Edition of U.S. Foreign Intelligence Requirements
Categories and Priorities (FIRCAP)
1. Attached for your information and use is a copy of the 1988 edition of
the DCI's guidance for substantive intelligence priorities--the FIRCAP. In
concept and format, it is essentially the same as previous editionG. The
special purpose of this 1988 issuance is to make available to intelligence
consumers and the Intelligence Community the reorganized military and S8tb
categories, and all of the associated and new priorities, developed by the
Community over the past year or so.
2. This document, mandated by DCID 1/2 and prepared under the auspices of
the DCI's Foreign Intelligence Priorities Committee (FIPC), provides an
important framework and reference point for the US foreign intelligence
effort. Moreover, the document's importance is growing as the foreign
intelligence target becomes more diffuse and more difficult and intelligence
resources become leaner. Accordingly, I believe we should do everything we
can to improve understanding and use of the top-level priorities guidance
provided in the FIRCAP.
3. The relationship of the FIRCAP to the National Intelligence Topics
(NITs) and the Compendium of Future Intelligence Requirements (COFIR) is
outlined on pages 1-5. Of course, as discussed at our meeting on 4 August
1988, our ongoing review of the top-level requirements structure may result in
changes in this relationship. However, in any new structure it is clear that
an essential element will be a top-level statement of priorities similar, and
likely identical, to that contained in the FIRCAP.
4. If you have any questions or comments on the document or the process
by which the categories and priorities are maintained, please call
the Chairman of the FIPC,
Attachment:
1988 edition of FIRCAP
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