REQUEST FOR NOMINATION OF A US ARMY OFFICER TO THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE COUNCIL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90T00435R000100030002-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 25, 2012
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: March 3, 1988
• Content Type: MEMO

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The Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D.C. 20505
National Intelligence Council NIC# 00703-8$
3 March 1988
FROM: H. F. Hutchinson, Jr.
Acting Chairman, National Intelligence Council
VIA: Chairman, E Career Service
SUBJECT: Request for .Nomination of a US Army Officer to the National
Intelligence Council
1. The National Intelligence Council requests the Army nominate an
officer in the grade of Lieutenant Colonel or Colonel for a three year,
reimbursable joint assignment as the Assistant National Intelligence Officer
for the USSR (Position number GP 089). The position is authorized a GS-15.
This is a rotational, overt assignment commencing in the summer of 1988. In
December 1988, the Director, Intelligence Community Staff, will consider this
position for joint assignment credit.
2. The Assistant National Intelligence Officer for the USSR supports the
Director of Central Intelligence, the Deputy Director of .Central Intelligence,
and the Chairman,-National Intelligence Council regarding intelligence and
policy implications of developments in and affecting the USSR; participates in
planning and coordinating interagency intelligence assessments on the region;
and represents the DCI at meetings with and for directing or executing tasks
levied by policymakers concerning the USSR. A detailed position description
is attached.
3. The officer assigned to this position should be a Soviet Union Foreign
Area Officer with a broad based. military background, in-country, experience and
Russian language capability.- He must possess mature judgment, initiative, and
keen analytical, written and verbal skills. An Army officer is preferred for
this position because he will be able to bring to bear a perspective and
expertise on the USSR that cannot be matched by currently available CIA staff
officers. In addition, the assignment of an Army officer to this position
will greatly assist the Director of Central Intelligence in maintaining a
staff which is truly community-wide in character. An intelligence officer is
not required for this assignment; in fact, a combat arms officer is preferred.
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4. We believe that an assignment of this nature at the national level,
with daily exposure to the highest levels of the policy making structure and
the Intelligence Community, will contribute significantly to the professional
development of the officer assigned.
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Position Description
Assistant National Intelligence Officer/USSR
Major Duties
The A/NIO/USSR is the 31ter ego to the NIO/USSR, singly performs a
significant portion of the office's work, and substitutes. as required for the
NIA/USSR on the latter's absence, request, or otherwise as appropriate, often
for considerable periods of time. Incumbent is expected to have much of the
knowledge and skills that the NIO/USSR brings to the job as well as other
unique and complementary qualities. More specifically:
? The A/NIO/USSR supervises the preparation of interagency national
intelligence, such as Special National Estimates, National. Intelligence
Analytical Memoranda, Interagency Intelligence ~4emoranda, Alert
Memoranda, and other interagency memoranda as may be directed by the
NIO/USSR.
? At his own initiative or request of NIO/USSR or the DCI, incumbent
drafts various forms of memoranda and analytic papers on diverse topics
pertaining to the Soviet Union for senior executives and others in the
intelligence and foreign and defense policy communities.
? Represents DCI and briefs on intelligence collection, assessments and
forecasts up to the Assistant Secretary level, and occasionally higher.
? Incumbent is a primary actor within the Intelligence Community as
concerns intelligence collection, production, assessment, and
coordination of developments related to the Soviet Union that are
significant to US interests..
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? Represents the DCI and maintains liaison with leading figures in the
business community, consultants, contractors, and educational
institutions. Incumbent must know the abilities and contacts of
numerous non-government officials so as to obtain intelligence data and
other support from them.
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