WHAT'S WRONG WITH U.S. INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES

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• Publication Date: January 30, 1985
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SA;y FRANCISCO c'- PONICLF
BRIEFING
WHAT'S WRONG WITH
U.S. INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES
The problems
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the intelligence
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so deeply
rooted
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hcmdamental
changes can
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How to improve U.S. Intelligence
fromhge1 -
waw an for p anti til Intent
-genes to 10 cnunrrwr ahmr atahl-
sty was judged dtr""-v toafrtxr ma?
jor American it
The group i. tended more
tecourtea to hire expert political an?
atysla - not collectors - and do.
creed greater coordination in the
collection of political tntelllgertcd
between the Foreign Service and
time tauNllgeece community.
? the ' only tangible result
achieved by the group, however,
was a substantial expansion of re.
porting requirements that fell
largely on clandestine collectors be
cause the Foreign Service was not
given the staff resources to re
.pond.
During his 1900 presidential
ClM21ign Reagan pledged to make
I ved intelligence 3ne of his top
ust. Once elected, he appoint.
d'= campaign manager William
d as director of central lnteUl-
Pk-
CIA Director William Casey
CIA director to the Reagan adminla
trauon.
The appointment of Casey and
his elevation to cabinet status have
put the intelligence community
deeply Into the poUe7making areas.
in the atmosphere of a National
Security Council meeting, the obi-
net room, and the Oval Office Itself,
the central intelligence director can
be tempted, If not basically Ino,
cUned, to take sides and to express a
polity preference.
dent Anita Gemayel, and especially
its army, were not viable and that
they would not be significantly
strengthened bye U.S. Marine peas
ens.
Charge that reports have been
shared have also attrfaced in can.
neetlon with the CIA's work on Cen-
tel and South America. Two senior
analysis resigned recently claiming
that Carry ordered their finding to
be rewritten to inflate the threat to
US. security.
Senate Minority Leader Robert
Byrd, DW.Va" has asked the Senate
fivlect Cutmnlttee on Intelligence to
conduct a thorough evaluation of
their allegations. If accurate,".
Byrd sold in a letter to the commit-
tee's vice chairman, `thee reports
indicate there has been a shocking
misuse of the CIA for political pur?
le,"
from ng ~ .>
luenty. whea edMrtan a enatyasa
In out port of the rnmmenlty find
rtes date that rhellr?ner aw,
vvntlona ayannrn? their first ut-
eUnrt h, I. squirrel them away.
What Is MCad.4
7116 Immediate need b for of the a an
analytic car star.
vice and produetfou process that
W ect Mtn of thinking
and of Cement that Save eta
trlbuted W past lntettigdoce faOE
artsc
A central. commudty voMe for.
eignanteligence data base should
be created to asters that an analyst
waking on a specific problem
would have accost to all the
nation Infer-
collected.
Analysts also should be pro-
vided with Incentives to do more
reflective writing and rsearch.
Work and travel abroad should be
facilitated and a tborottgh, sub
stantive review procedure for all
products and publications should be
developed. Thee steps would great.
ty improve the accuracy and quality
of the Intelligence product
Analysis must also pay more
atuntlon to distinguishing between
what they know and do not know, to
Identifying judgments based on ape-
cif c evidence va those based op
speculation, and to making proje_
Was about the future,
Reorganizing the way U.S. it,
. telligence service collect, analyse
and disseminate the knowledge as.
sential for national derision-making
should be a high priority.
In particular, a return to the
concept of central intelligence Col-
lection and analysis would help lm.
prove the performance of both
tasks. Such ceatraUaton, along
with the separation of collectors
from analysts, would break down
agencyvected barriers to the bad-
Casey moved decisively and
rapidly to bring in his own team to
reorganize the analytic part of the
CiA along geographic tines, to paral-
kl the organization of the opera.
tiorti directorate, and to substantial-
ly increase the National Foreign In.
-elligence Program budget.
According to a Jan. 16, 1$S3,
New York Times Magazine report
by Philip Taubman, the CIA Is the
Cutest-growing major federal agen-
cy. Its 25 percent budget increase in
fiscal year 160 exceeded even the
Pentagon budget's 1S percent
growth that year.
Although the Intelligence bud.
get's also is clasUled. Taubman
quotes congressional source IS peg-
ging the cat of annual CIA opera.
,tons at more than $13 billion.
in his exhaustive 1957 study,
-fbe Puzzle Palace," James Dam
ford reports that eallmats of the
Z rsecret National Security
ry s budget run "as high as Sit
billion."
,Yet little improvement is ap-
ptQgtt with respect to the accuracy
et- the Into ligence community's
lxoduct.
Marge. of Intelligence failures
have surfaced over estimates of the
5ovlet military buildup, the occurs.
' of arms-control monitoring, the
treat against the U.S. Embassy and
to Marine barracks in Beirut, the
ability of the Lebanese army, the
tsure and extent of the Cuban
eaence in Grenada. and the likely
nctxne of elections in El Salvador,
well as that country's domestic
ditlta in general.
Another major congressional
ad public concern has been the
atlticiation of the position of the
Yet the tempuUon is an into
portent one to rslst, especially for
the prsldent's cake. As the Israel?
dent's principal adviser, only the
CIA director can provide the ..cu6
ty council with assessments lode
Pendent of policy prefereaat
import en LOW**
The tread today at the CIA and
elaewbere In the Intelligence coal--
munity to to sailor the product to
the needs and nuances poky de.
bate.
As one senior intelligence of.
facer said in an interview, "Casey
comes back here from the White
House loo for reports to but.
-tram his stand. He doe Dot ask to
for a review of an in,* or a altue.
ion. He wants material bt can use
to persuade his colleagues, justify
controeertiel policy, at expand the
agency's involvement in covert ac
lion."
A case in point is Lebanon. Ca-
sey repeatedly returned drafts of
one National Intelligence E Umate
for revision with the notation "try
again.'
Many analysis think Casey was
dtaatisfled with the National Intel.
llgena Estimate's conclusion that
the government of Lebanese Prel?
In addition, the Senate select: needed sharing of all Worms-tim
committee has repeatedly 6x4--
Dressed "concern about whether' Thus the United Sutm should
Casey would keep the emmittee establish a central collection ages
"fully and currently Informed 01 411 .. cy. able to command and max his.
Intelligence acou"Us .' .man and technical Intelligence eel.
These anxieties proved lectors to use each most effectively
well-founded when It was revealed 1 Also needed h a central agency
by the New York Ttms that the CIA' . for research and analysis where,
had launched i covett action b'-' sin, the boo talent can -be do.
mine the harbor of Ni aragea to work on a problem In as
without adequately biding tbe? itch depth se required now two
nominates. go tic should replacto the CFA.
Unfortunately. some of tone and other m urgent.
problems art not new. Pollty.mak. .aborts
krs constantly seek intelligence to C.TW raMC~yb s"4...r
support their policies and frequent.
ly encourage the CIA director U; ', EzrerpN hem the W4trerkave of For,
provide It. And intelligence officlais ` a'e" Poky moO ?J "a snO1 E. C1ood
have always tried to tell congrexlo. non served it ae,wcl ?:ar ahrHpesi?
sal oversight committee as Uttle IS to aO"' in Ow Coeftv4 I n 4ofty apaxy emso.
vat op rations. Co. dwb+ali~peeraGreOx msio
ilo-49en,:a. Fit it auociate hest of Mw
One fundamental problem isj School of fon.'pn Semis. el Georps-
that the current reporting system izsm tic lt?sfy.
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