STATUS OF FDIA STAFF

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 2, 2009
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: November 27, 1985
• Content Type: MEMO

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The Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D.C. 20505
National Intelligence Council
27 November 1985
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
FROM : H. F. Hutchinson, Jr.
NIO for Foreign Denial and Intelligence Activities
SUBJECT : Status of FDIA Staff
1. Summary: This is to alert you to the possibility that LTG Perroots,
or the service intelligence chiefs, may ask you why they should detail anyone
to this staff. The major reason, of course, is that we believe that the
Intelligence Community would benefit from staff attention to the general areas
of denial, deception, active measures, security and counterintelligence-
related issues. An additional, and not insignificant, reason is that the
conference report last year urged this action. The weight of DIA staff advice
is influencing DIA and the services to decline your request but Perroots said
he might discuss this with you.
2. Background: You sent memoranda to the Director, DIA and the service
intelligence chiefs last April requesting them to nominate officers to serve
on the FDIA Staff. The negative replies were based on the assumption that the
FDIA Staff would be just another production element for analyzing Soviet
denial and deception activities and, therefore, in competition with their own
production elements. Also, the argument was made that the FDIA Staff would be
duplicative of the DDAC.
3. You sent a second round of memoranda in August requesting
reconsideration of our request for detailees and rebutted the expressed
objections. Since then, I have visited the DIA and the service intelligence
he FDIA Staff chief, to discuss qualifications for the staff
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chiefs or talked with them at the Military Intelligence Board meeting 25
Novembe I also revisited Dick Lord at NSA and asked him to meet wit
4. The current status of the staff is that we have on board one GS-15
from CIA/DO, one GS-15 from CIA/DI, one GM-15 from the FBI, one secretary and
one intelligence aide from the CIA/DI. Dick Lord indicated this week that he
is on the verge of identifying a NSA candidate. Thus, our interagency
shortfall is with the DIA and the services.
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5. LTG Perroots told me this week that the DIA staff had advised him to
decline your request for detailees. Perroots also said that he was reluctant
to do so but wondered why we could not put task forces together to do
particular projects rather than detail people to the staff for one or two
years. The answer to that is two-fold; the political aspect is that the
oversight committees urged us to establish an interagency group and the
practical aspect is that the continuity of a permanent staff provides better
results. In response to their request, I promised Perroots and the services
some examples of projects the FDIA Staff would work on. The bottom line is
that there still is a possibility that we will get 2-3 nominees from DIA and
the services but the staff elements in DIA are working hard against us. There
are concerns within DIA and the services that they cannot afford to detail
more people to the CIA. If that concern is valid, then the intelligence
chiefs must make judgments about reallocating their detailees among the
several requests. There is a less kind judgment to be made and that is that
the particular staff element in DIA fostering this opposition is fearful of
erosion of its prestige within DoD as the only all-source group for analysis
of deception and planning support to DoD deception ope tj ns.
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MEMORANDUM FOR: DCI
DDCI
FROM : NIO/FDIA
SUBJECT : Status of FDIA Staff
Distribution:
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NIO/FDIA Chrono (2)
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