MEETING OF THE PRESIDENTIAL INTELLIGENCE PRIORITIES GROUP, 17 OCTOBER 1977

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 19, 2004
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: October 27, 1977
• Content Type: MFR

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SUBJECT: Meeting of the Presidential Intelligence
Priorities Group, 17 October 1977
I. Mr. Bowie chaired the meeting, which was attended by
Mr. Saunders, State; Mr. Bader, OSD; Lt. Gen. Smith, JCS; Mr. Long,
Treasury; Mr. Hoskinson, NSC; and Dr. Stevens, CIA.
2. The Group was agreed that List A should provide the framework
for the questions that would make up List B, thus making it possible
to move from one list to the other without confusion.
3. The PRC(I) members, when they are presented with List B,
should be asked to check whether a specific question is of low,
medium, or high =interest, or of no concern to their particular areas
of interest. There should be no limit on the number of questions
submitted, but an effort should be made to keep the list as short as
possible. The questions will concern only items of national interest,
not of narrow departmental interest. Questions as a rule, moreover,
will deal only with substance, not with such areas of activity as
counterintelligence.
4. The procedure for changing the lists will be for the PRC(I)
to address the lasts periodically and change them as it deems appropriate.
Once the PRC(I) has done its work with the lists, it will remain
for Intelligence to decide which questions need to be addressed in
finished intelligence products, which require the development of new
analytical capabilities through basic research, and which require
collection efforts.
5. There followed a discussion about the sorts of requirements
the PRC(I) would have to address in order to make sensible decisions
on resource issues. The Group recognized that it was probably deal-
ing with only one facet of the work the PRC(I) will undertake. It
was further recognized that lists A and B will be probably only one
of several sorts of requirements and priorities that different sorts
of producers, processers, and collectors will require--e.g., the
DCID 1/2 attachment.
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6. Finally, the Group ordered the formation of a working group
to compile a List B, drawing on the contributions of the various
participants. Using List A as an outline, the working group will:
a. when it encounters more than one version of a question,
select the best formulation.
b. when it encounters overlapping questions, combine and
consolidate them.
c. compile a list of question to be dropped.
The working group was asked to complete its work as expeditiously as
possible under the chairmanship of the undersigned..
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NOTE TO ALL NIOs
The NIO meeting with the DCI, scheduled for 9 November,
has been cancelled and will not be rescheduled this week.
Another biweekly briefing book will be sent to the DCI
on the llth. May I have you contributions. by COB on the 10th.
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