DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91M00696R000600100006-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 30, 2004
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: June 16, 1976
• Content Type: MF

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16 June 1976
NIO #939-76
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MEMORANDUM FOR: D/DCI/NI
SUBJECT : Defense Intelligence Officers
Memorandum of 10 June 1976,
Same Subject
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1. Reference memorandum expressed your interest
in the Defense Intelligence Officer as seen from here.
I can only address the questions posed in relationship
to the Defense Intelligence Officer f onventional
Forces and MBFR, (BG, USA,
Retired). In this discussion it should be borne in
mind that I had the advantage of having gone to the
War College with I I which immediately made
a close rapport possible.
to me on all matters of national interest. We have
maintained close and frequent contact and sharing of
views both by telephone and in my office. Whenever I
chair (or referee) any ad hoc group to discuss items of
concern to conventional forces, I expect him to be at my
side (as I do the senior OSR man) and he is.
b. I have no information on the support he or his
colleagues provide to the Director of DIA.
c. The ability of the DIO to "ensure effective
and coordinated Defense inputs to national intelligence"
appears effective from here based on the indirect evidence
of witnessing fewer differences of opinion among segments
of DIA, than were evident to me prior to the creation of
the DIOs. I also have the feeling in this regard, although
a? has provided excellent support
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I cannot support it by evidence, that the DIOs do not
have as much effective clout as do the NIOs. I believe
this stems from a more limited ability to bang heads
together within segments of the DIA bureaucracy. I may
be wrong on this, but it is certainly a feeling I have
absorbed through osmosis.
d? has been very useful in "identifying
and evaluating the needs of intelligence users for Defense
intelligence production." He has been able to maintain
more frequent contact with some segments of OSD consumers
than have I. He freely apprises me of this set of consumer's
reactions.
2. One thing pertinent, although not queried, and on
which I know very little, is whether the DIOs have authority
to bring the Services as well as segments of DIA together
to reach agreements. I do know that the Military Intelligence
Board (chaired by Director DIA and including the Services)
has been invigorated and utilized at least on substantive
matters over the past several years. As such, it has re-
duced much of the extraneous quibbling that I had previously
seen at the old USIB table. I do not know what utility the
DIO provides in this respect.
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