NSDD ON THE INTERAGENCY PROCESS

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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 30, 2012
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: May 5, 1987
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR:
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Washington, DC. 20505
Executive Secretary
Maj Gen Frank B. Horton III, USAF
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NSDD on the Interagency Process
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Since the draft NSDD from NSC of 29 April deals with policymaking
bodies, the NIC has no comment on the draft. We are preparing comment for
other portions of NSDD 266 dealing with our response to implementation of
the Tower Commission recommendations regarding the intelligence process
which will be due in July.
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MEMORANDUM FOR MR. MELVYN LEVITSKY
Executive Secretary
Department of State
COLONEL JAMES F. LEMON
Executive Secretary
Department of Defense
Central Intelligence Agency
CAPTAIN JOSEPH C. STRASSER
Executive Assistant to the Chairman
Joint Chiefs of Staff
SUBJECT: NSDD on the Interagency Process
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Attached at Tab A is a draft NSDD on the Interagency Process,
which implements recommendations of the President's Special
Review Board. I would appreciate your agency's comments by
close of business, Friday, May 8, 1987.
Attachment
Tab A
Draft NSDD
UNCLASSIFIED WITH
CONFIDENTIAL ATTACHMENT
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Executive Secreta
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National Security Decision
Directive
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National Security Council Interagency Process
Introduction
In National Security Decision Directive (NSDD) 266, I directed
that the recommendations of the President's Special Review
Board, including the model for the National Security Council
(NSC) system, be implemented in full. To that end, I chartered
a review of the structure of senior interagency groups and
regional and functional interagency groups established pursuant
to, or under the authority of, Presidential Directives or
applicable memoranda. This review was designed to identify
such changes in the interagency process as might be necessary
or desirable to realize fully and promptly in practice the
Special Review Board's recommendations, including the specific
recommendation that the Assistant to the President for National
Security Affairs (the "National Security Advisor") chair the
senior committees of the NSC. The present Directive reflects
changes in the interagency process I have authorized as a
result of that review.
Interagency Groups
Interagency groups can provide an effective medium for the
development of advice and policy for consideration by the
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President. They achieve their goal when they provide thorough
and clear analyses of all policy choices, coordinate policy
implementation, and review policy in light of experience.
NSDD 2, dated January 12, 1982, established the senior
interagency structure. It created three functional senior
interagency groups (SIGs) -- one on foreign policy, chaired by
the Secretary of State; one on defense policy, chaired by the
Secretary of Defense; and one on intelligence policy, chaired
by the Director of Central Intelligence. Subsequent Directives
and memoranda established some 22 additional SIGs and 55
interagency groups (IGs), including certain groups chaired by
the National Security Advisor or members of the NSC staff. IGs
in turn typically have established working groups and task
forces to assist in, and support, their work.
After five years' experience, a review of the interagency
process was due, even without the impetus of the Special Review
Board's report. This review revealed that many interagency
groups, although formally established, have not met or ceased
to meet when the circumstances that brought them into being
changed; and that new interagency groups have come into being
to deal with contingencies as they have arisen. As the Special
Review Board noted, these groups have not, in every case,
served the goal of effective policy deliberation.
To improve the interagency process at large, and to implement
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the Special Review Board's recommendations, I therefore am
directing or authorizing the following:
1. National Security Council. As specified in
NSDD 266, the NSC shall be the principal forum
for consideration of national security issues
requiring Presidential decision. The functions
and membership of the NSC shall be as set forth
in the National Security Act of 1947, as amended,
and NSDD 266. The NSC shall meet at the
direction of the President.
2. National Security Planning Group. The
National Security Planning Group (NSPG) shall be
a committee of the NSC. The President, the Vice
President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary
of Defense, the Attorney General, the Secretary
of the Treasury, the National Security Advisor,
the Chief of Staff to the President, the Director
of Central Intelligence, the Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Director of the
Office of Management and Budget shall attend
NSPG meetings. The NSPG shall meet, as
circumstances warrant, to monitor and review the
development and implementation of national
security policy on behalf of the NSC. The
responsibilities of the NSPG with regard to
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special activities shall be as provided in a
separate Presidential Directive revising NSDD
159.
The National Security Advisor or the Deputy
Assistant to the President for National Security
Affairs (the "Deputy National Security Advisor")
shall be responsible for the attendance, agenda,
and conduct of such meetings at my direction.
The Directors of the United States Information
Agency and the United States Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency, the heads of other Executive
departments and agencies, and other advisors to
the President shall be invited by the National
Security Advisor, acting at my direction, to
attend NSPG meetings as matters on the agenda of
such meetings shall dictate.
3. Senior Review Group. A Senior Review Group
(SRG) shall be the Cabinet level interagency
group for the consideration of national security
issues. The SRG shall be comprised of the
National Security Advisor, the Secretary of
State, the Secretary of Defense, the Chief of
Staff to the President, the Director of Central
Intelligence, and the Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff. The National Security Advisor
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shall invite the attendance of heads of such
other Executive departments or agencies, and of
such senior officials within the Executive Office
of the President, as matters on the agenda of SRG
meetings shall dictate. The National Security
Advisor shall chair the SRG, which shall meet at
his request or the request of its standing
members, to review, coordinate, and monitor the
implementation of national security policy on
behalf of the NSC.
4. The Policy Review Group. The Policy Review
Group (PRG) shall be the senior sub-Cabinet level
interagency group. The PRG shall be comprised of
the Deputy National Security Advisor, a
representative of the Office of the Vice
President, and an Under Secretary or other senior
official of equivalent rank of the Department of
State, the Department of Defense, the Central
Intelligence Agency, the Organization of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Office of Management
and Budget, and, as matters on the agenda of the
PRG dictate, of the Executive Office of the
President and other interested Executive
departments and agencies. The Deputy National
Security Advisor shall chair meetings of the PRG,
which shall meet regularly at his request or the
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request of its standing members. The PRG's
primary responsibility shall be to review and
make reccmmendations concerning national security
policy developed through the day-to-day
functioning of the interagency process, including
such senior interagency groups and regional and
functional interagency groups as may hereafter be
formed or authorized to continue in existence as
provided in paragraph 5 hereof. The PRG shall
assume the functions described in NSDD 30 and
previously exercised by the Crisis Pre-Planning
Group and those described in NSDD 207 and
previously exercised by the Terrorist Incident
Working Group. The Planning and Coordination
Group (PCG), as provided in a separate
Presidential Directive revising NSDD 159, shall
continue to be the senior sub-Cabinet level
interagency group responsible for special
activities.
Matters considered and recommendations for
follow-on action made by the PRG shall be
referred to responsible Executive departments and
agencies. Recommendations made by the PRG shall
be submitted for consideration by the SRG, NSPG,
or NSC, as appropriate.
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5. Other Interagency Groups. Within their
respective areas of authority as set forth in
NSDD 266, the Secretary of State, the Secretary
of Defense, and the Director of Central
Intelligence may approve the continuation of
existing senior interagency groups and regional
or functional interagency groups to the extent
necessary or desirable to promote an effective
NSC process; by may 31, 1987, the National
Security Advisor shall be notified of those
interagency groups they have determined shall
continue to function.
The National Security Advisor is authorized to
approve or direct the formal establishment of
additional senior interagency groups to the
extent required for an effective NSC process, and
to approve the continuation of such existing
senior interagency groups as may be chaired by
members of the NSC staff.
NSDD 2 and other Presidential Directives and
applicable memoranda, to the extent inconsistent
with this Directive or with NSDD 266, are
rescinded.
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