FORMULATION OF NEW NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE TOPICS OF CURRENT INTEREST (NITS) FOR FY 1989

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• Publication Date: May 18, 1988
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The Director of Central Intelligence
ICS 88-3320
18 May 1988
MEMORANDUM FOR: Committee on Requirements and Priorities
Senior Interagency Group--Intelligence
SUBJECT: Formulation of New National Intelligence Topics
of Current Interest (NITs) for FY 1989
1. In October 1987, the SIG(I) approved a schedule of NIT-associated
actions that included a call for proposed new NITs for FY 1989. This
memorandum issues the call and provides some background information relative
to the format and content of your submissions.
2. I request that each of your organizations identify the critical
concerns that our government is likely to face over the next year. These
critical concerns will serve as guidance for the Intelligence Community in
planning our production activities. To stimulate your thinking, I am
including a paper, prepared by the National Intelligence Council, that
provides an overview of world events and issues that could impact on the
interests of the United States and its allies (Attachment A).
3. The structure and arrangement of the FY 1989 NITs will he similar to
that of previous years (see Attachment B), and as you prepare your inputs for
the new NITs, I would ask that you do three things:
a. Review the FY 1988 NITs and make whatever updates or
modifications you think are appropriate.
b. Create any additional NIT items you consider necessary.
c. Identify existing NIT items that are no longer of major policy
interest and should therefore be deleted. In this way we can
ensure the relevance of the NITs and keep them from being an
undiscriminating catalog of topics and issues.
4. As always, we welcome your comments for enhancing roducer-consumer
relations. Please send your inputs to the new NITs to Chief,
Intelligence Producers Council Staff by 7 June 1988. His address is
(secure). We will
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consider the draft NITs at a SIG(I) meeting in July.
William H. Webster
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SUBJECT: Formulation of New National Intelligence Topics of Current
Interest (NITS) for FY 1989
Distribution: ICS 88-3320
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Deputy Assistant to the President for
National Security Affairs (Attn: Mr. D. Barry Kelly)
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Department of State (Attn: Mary Tracy)
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- Department of Defense (Mr. Charles A. Hawkins)
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- Department of Treasury (Mr. Randall Fort)
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- Department of Commerce (Mr. Kim FitzGerald)
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- Department of Energy (Mr. Robert J. Walsh)
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- Senior Representative of the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
(Attn: VADM Howe)
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- Director, Intelligence Community Staff (Attn:
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DDCI
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- Executive Director, CIA
11 - ADDI/CIA
12 - IPC Staff
13 - Executive Secretariat
14 - Executive Registry
15 - SIG-I Chrono
16 - SIG-I Micro
17 - ES/SIG-I
18 - ICS Registry
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SUBJECT: Formulation of New National Intelligence Topics
of Current Interest (NITS) for FY 1989
DISTRIBUTION:
1 - Members of SIG(I) Committee
1 - Robert Gates Chairman, SIG(I) Committee on Intelligence Priorities
1 - Chairman, Intelligence Producers Council
1 - Executive Secretary SIG(I) Committee
1 - Executive Director, CIA
1 - Executive Re istry, CIA
1 - IPC Staff
1 - IPC Staff Subject
1 - IPC Staff Chrono
1 - ICS Registry
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