ORGANIZATION OF DEPUTY TO DCI FOR COLLECTION TASKING (D/DCI/CT)

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• Publication Date: January 1, 1977
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ORGANIZATION
OF
DEPUTY TO DCI
FOR
COLLECTION TASKING
(D/DCI/CT)
This records the substance of briefing to Admiral Turner
on November 16, 1977, on organizing for his new ,dab as D/DCL/CT. The
charts are those presented to Admiral Turner, refined somewhat for greater
clarity.
STAT
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This chart portrays the overall scope and sequence of the briefing:
approach to the problem, assessment of` principal strengths
and weaknesses in the national intelligence collection effort, proposals
to organize against the weaknesses, specif is recommendations to Admiral
Turner at this time, and, finally, what to do next in pursuing the re-
sults of those recommendations.
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APPROACH
1.
REVIEW NSC-17 AND DRAFT EXECUTIVE ORDER
2,
VISIT NFAC, ICS, DDO, DDS&T, OSD, DIA, NSA, NRO, STATE
A,
B.
SOLICIT VIEWS ON CT ORGANIZATION _
FOSTER CONSENSUS THROUGH TRANSPARENCY AND DECENTRALIZATIOtd
3,
ESTABLISH ORGANIZATION BEFORE LOCATION
4.
ORGANIZE AGAINST ~JEAKNESSES
Upon coming aboard in early Ctctober, first step was to
review the two principal documents pertaining to the scope of his new
fob. His second step was to visit the principal members of the Intelli-
gence Community to obtain their respective views on organizing for his
new fob and to indicate his strong desire to achieve an Intelligence
Community .consensus on how to organize. He seeks this consensus through
adherence to the principles of transparency and. decentralization:
1. Transparency permitting all to see and have a voice in the organi-
zational process so that no one's turf is encroached upon without
his knowledge and chance to react.
2. Decentralization aiming to retain functions with those closest to
the problem best equipped to handle them -- in no way should the
new organization attempt to take over functions already being done
well by the various collection activities.
The most common question raised in these visits concerned where to locate,
the organization. It is too early to answer this. We intend to address
first what to do and how before addressing the question of where. And
the "what to do" should be focused against the major weaknesses in the
national intelligence (NI) collection process.
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NSC-17
1, TRANSLATE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE REQUIREf~ENTS INTO OBJECTIVES AND 'TARGETS
2, ASSIGN OBJECTIVES AND TARGETS
'3. ESTABLISH STANDARDS FOR DISSEMINATION, PROCESSING, A~dD FLOW
4, INTEGRATE COLLECTION IN CRISIS MANAGEMENT
5. PROVIDE ADVISORY TASI (WE) (ME) (AF) (S$T) (STRAY)
IMAGERY 1 1 1 1 1 2
SIGINT 2~ 1 1 1 2 1.
HUP1INT 1 1 2 1 1 1
OVCOL 1 2 1 1 1 ].
OVERVIEW
TASKING AND DISSEMINATION
COLLECTION PRIORITIES
CRISIS MANAGEMENT
"~ ILLUSTRATIVE BREAKOUT
As illustrated here, the NITC will be organized into National Intelligence
Tasking Officer (NITO) teams structured to support the National Intelli-
gence Officers (NIO's). For example, teams will be formed tp collect against
the Warsaw Pact, Western Europe, Mideast, Africa, science and technology,
strategic areas; etc. Each NITO will have supporting him specialists in the
various intelligence disciplines -- IMAGERY, SIGINT, HUMINT, and a new one,
OVCOL, designed to add emphasis to the collection of overt intelligence
including public information. The NITO's will prepare tasking documents
described later. The five-man NITO Team for Crisis Management will, as its
name implies, prepare for national intelligence collection in times of crisis.
NITO
(CRISIS)
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OP CENTER CONCEPT
1. FIVE-MAN NITO TEAM
2, PREPARE FOR COLLECTION TASK FORCE IPJ CRISES
3, UPDATE ALL DISCIPLINE COLLECTION OVERVIEW
4, TRAIN ALL NITC PERSONNEL FOR DUTY IN CRISES
5, NOMINATE AfJY POTEPJTIAL SUBJECT FOR SCRUTINY
FOR COLLECTION (SCHEMA)
The five-man NITO Team for Crisis Management will man one position in an
Operations Center around the clock, 24 hours a day. It will display and
update continuously the deployment, capability, and status of our collec-
tion means in all disciplines so the DCI and other senior officials can
quickly learn the collection picture for any situation. It will also
prepare SOP's for operation of collection task forces in crisis, organized
with the most knowledgeable persons available in the CT organization so
that task forces can operate most effectively around the clock in support
of the NIO's and their production task forces. The Team will train all
Collection Tasking personnel for crisis management by means of tours in
the Operations Center during off-duty hours that familiarize them with
data display, reporting systems, communications, and other equipment. It
wall.also monitor the world situation day to day to :identify and nominate
areas in which to intensify NI collection effort to cope with a possible
future crisis. ?
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SCHEMA - SCHEMATR~'
1, A DIAGRAMMATIC DEPICTION OF A TYPICAL SITUATION
2, AN ABRIDGED, OR GENERALIZED PRESENTATION;
A FRAMEWORK OF REFERENCE; OUTLINE; PLAN
3, ORGANIZATION OF EXPERIENCE IN THE MIND OR BRAIN
* WEBSTER'S THIRD INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY
Our basic cross discipline collection tasking plan will be called a
collection schema. The definitions of schema are shown above. We
looked for a name somewhat out of the ordinary so everyone would
associate it with our particular format which is discussed next. We
had considered calling it collection scheme but objections to the
nefarious connotation of that word led us to settle on schema, which
has essentially :the same meaning. The plural in Latin is schemata.
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COLLECTIQIU SCHEMA
OBJECTIVES
REQUIREMENT
IMAGERY SIGINT HUh9INT
DISSEMINATION -
ADDITIONAL OPTIONS .
DECISION MAKERS
TECH CAPABILITY
30C1/2H
MATERIAL RESOURCES
TEST CAPABILITY
ETC,
NOTE; EACH BLOCK IN BREVITY CODE;
A. .EFFORT, ECG ? 3O MAN-DAYS
B, COLLECTION PRIORITY, ECG,, C
C. COVERAGE, ECG,, HALF
D, EXPECTED YIELD, E,G ? HIGH
The basic format for the collection schema is shown above. The intent is
to aggregate on one page collection objectives and tasks for each national
intelligence collection requirement together with .our expectations for.
success. To da this on one page we will use brevity codes. In essence,
the collection schema is a matrix in which we list the various collection
objectives down the left side and the collection means across the top. The.
NITO Team prepares collection schemata for all national intelligence collec-
tion requirements in its area of operations. Starting with his highest
priority requirement, the NITO will work with his respective NIO and other
users as appropriate to develop specific objectives against which to collect
to meet the requirement. It is an important and often difficult process to
settle clearly on objectives needed to meet a collection requirement. Once
these objectives are set, the NITO will assemble his technical specialists*
and prepare a draft schema that presents in each blank in brevity code the
information listed in the note below-the chart. For example, in one SIGINT
blank, they could indicate 30 man-days of effort at Priority 3 should cover
about half the collection objective, with high yield, or expectation, of
success. We will work hard at limiting the collection schema to a single
page in order to constrain tendencies to go into too much detail and to
facilitate its staffing. The draft collection schema will lie circulated
for comment among involved Intelligence Community users, analysts, collec-
tors, and collection committees. Upon resolution of all coriunents, the
schema will be published in final form as the NITC tasking document.
Turning next to the Office of Collection Disciplines - - -
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* Enclosure 1 describes how these specialists serve the NITO an 0 D.
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DIRECTOR
If~~1GERY*
SIGINT*
HUMINT*
DISCIPLINE SQUEEZE (P~)
DESIGN SCENARIOS
MEASURE OF EFFECTIVENESS (MOE)
DISCIPLINE MIX
JARGON
* COLLECTION COMMITTEE LESS DIVERSIONS TO NITC AND OCS
OVCOL
.The Office of Collection Disciplines will be organized according to spec if is
collection disciplines as shown above. As stated earlier, the Office of
OVCOL will handle overt intelligence including public information, exploring
the best ways to obtain information from newspapers, magazines, publications,
etc., and push them to the producers so as to minimize effort required of
.classified and more expensive collection means. The Off ice of Mix will look
across disciplines to seek ways to measure and achieve the best mix of col-
lection disciplines. Each of the five offices will have the functions listed
above. Discipline squeeze is a shorthand term for the four "p's" pertaining
within each respective discipline or mix -- policy, programming~~ersonnel
management, and priority. Design scenarios specify target patterns, opera-
~ ona -conditions, and circumstances anticipated for the various collection
systems. We already have some very good design scenarios for certain col-
lection disciplines but none-for others. In order to integrate across
disciplines, we must seek design scenarios and measures of effectiveness
that are consistent within and across the disciplines and make them availab:Le
to hardware developers for use in their systems analyses to determine the
'relative effectiveness and contribution of alternative systems. The word
"jargon" addresses our desire to simplify our diverse and confusing ways of
naming systems and procedures. Turning now to the Office of Collection
Systems - - -
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INTERFACE WITH BUDGETEERS
OCS BUDGETEERS
l.' PRIORITIZE COLLECTION SYSTEMS IfdTERLEAVE COLLECTION, PRODUCTION,
AND SUPPORT
2. PRIORITIZE TOP TO BOTTOM FOCUS MAINLY ON BUDGET MARGIN
3, MAXIMIZE COLLECTION CAPABILITY OPTIMIZE BUDGET RETURN
Budgeteers have asked whether our prioritization process wi:11 duplicate
or interfere with their zero based budgeting (ZBB) of collection resources.
We think not. On the contrary, we believe it will aid and complement the
budget process.. As reflected above, we will be primarily involved in
prioritizing NI collection packages and pass them to the budgeteers to
interleave with production and support packages into their overall ZBB
list. We will prioritize the entire collection list from top to bottom,
freeing the budgeteers to focus mainly at the budget margin which counts
most. Sitting at the nexus of NI collection operations, we will be in the
best position to prioritize collection means from the operational point of
view. The budgeteers., of course, are in the best position to decide how
to adjust and accommodate these priorities to optimize the overall budget.
In this process, we intend to work closely .with the budgeteers, sharing
each other's action officers so as to reduce redundant effort to a minimum
and avoid duplicative tasking of program managers for data.
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Q.FFICE OF COLLECTION SYSTEf~S (OCS)
DIRECTOR
OVERHEAD
COLLECTION
OTHER
COLLECTION
COLLECTION
PROCESSING
COLLECTION
'ANALYSIS
SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
COSTING (FROM RM)
SYSTEMS PRIORITIES
As stated earlier, t overall function of the Off ice of Collection Systems
is to prioritize th .various collection means. We will organize the off ice
~as shown above wi one off ice handling the various overhead collection
systems -- , Taxes-,--ete:, a second off ice handling other
types of collection means on land and sea; and a third off ice handling col-
lection processing, such as photo-interpretation, decryption, translation, -
and dissemination. The Collection Analysis Division will t-ave the main job
of making our analysis consistent across disciplines. This office should
n.bt d.o much systems analysis itself -- that is the principal function of
the various hardware developers. Its^,__job is to review the systems analyses
,rpr~ared by hardware developer~o insure they incorporate in a consistent
_ _ ~__._~
manner design scenarios and measures o~ effectiveness provided by the Office
`o Col ect on sci-T pines, thereby enhancing and support in?; credibility. At
present, annual operating costs receive insuff icient attention in our collec-
tion systems analyses community. This office will work to correct this. _We
would. hope to get costs from the Deputy to the DCI for Resource Management
ARM) in order to remain consistent with his program data and reduce the like-
lihood of cost distortion due to analyst bias, inadvertent or not.
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ORGANIZATION ATTRIBUTES -
1. NSC-17 AND EXECUTIVE ORDER FULFILLED
2, ORGANIZED AGAINST WEAKNESSES
3. CLEAR INTERFACES WITH MAIfd INTELLIGENCE ELEMENTS
4, SET FOR TRANSITION TO CRISIS
5. INTERNAL COHERENCE AND FLEXIBILITY
6. DECENTRALIZED OPERATION
7. EASY TRANSPARENCY
This chart summarizes the principal attributes of thc~ organization.
The next three charts summarize our approach in other ways.
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 NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE PROCESS
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USERS
REPORTS
* INCL NFAC AND OTHER PRODUCERS
Rah1T
INTEL
COLLECTORS
TASKS
This chart shows the interface among users, the CT organization, and the
collectors as represented by circles for each. In its interface with
users, the CT organization receives requirements. It translates these
into tasks and passes them on to the collectors at its interface with
them. The collectors submit the results of their effort back to the
.users at their interface in the form of reports. The users evaluate
these reports and produce finished intelligence which sits at the common
interface of all three circles.
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* INCL NFAC AND OTHER PRODUCERS
The functions shaded on this chart portray the manner in which we propose
to address the prioritization effort. In tasking collectors, we establish
effort involved and what we hope to achieve. Later ?we will. go to the
users to obtain their views on the yield or value of what was collected.
Evaluation of what was achieved against what was expected c,~ill provide
helpful insights for use in prioritizing the various collection means.
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 CT INTERFACE
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This chart portrays how we will interface with people outside the
organization. Users will interface in an operational sense with their
counterpart NITO's in the NITC. Collectors will interface with their
counterparts. in the Off ice of Collection Disciplines. Resource managers
and hardware developers will interface with their counterparts in the
Office of Collection Systems. Thus, we believe the proposed organiza-
tion will provide good clean interfaces with most important elements of
the Intelligence Community.
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RECOMMEND APPROVAL OFc
1. FUNCTIONS; TASKING, EVALUATION AND P4, PRIORITIZATION
2, COLLECTION OFFICES; NITC, DISCIPLINES, SYSTEMS, ADMIN
3, GRADE OF OFFICE DIRECTORS; EP-5
4, PRIORITY FOR PERSONNEL, FACILITIES, AND SUPPORT
We recommended that Admiral Turner give conceptual approval on the four
points listed above as a basis for seeking consensual. agreement in the
National Intelligence Community in Washington. He gave his conceptual
approval to organizing in the three functions and offices briefed. He
also agreed to investigating further the possibility of obtaining off ice
directors at the EP-5 level and providing appropriate priority for per-
sonnel, facilities, and support.
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1. COORDINATE WITH NSA, DIA, NRO, OSD, STATE, AND HILL
2. OBTAIN ADMIN OFFICER
3. DEVELOP TABLE OF ORGANIZATION (T/0)
i
4. HIRE OFFICE DIRECTORS AND~ASSOCIATE DEPUTY
5. SELECT LOCATION
6. TAKE OVER ICS ELEh1ENTS
7. RECRUIT AND START UP
Upon receiving Admiral Turner's conceptual approval, we indicated we
would undertake next the steps listed above. The first task is to seek
Intelligence Community consensus on the concept. After this, we will
undertake the administrative tasks involved in developing a table of
organization, hiring principal assistants, and determining where to place _ _
the various elements of the organization. We will then take over elements
of the Intelligence Community staff coming to us, recruit the rest needed,
and start work. Admiral Turner wholeheartedly endorsed these steps and
said he will support our efforts as much as practicable.
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Enclosure 1
JOINT USE OF DISCIPLINE SPECIALISTS
In order to ensure coherence between the cross discipline sr.hema effort
and the ongoing, more detailed tasking procedures within each discipline
(e.g., in ICRS and SIRVES), the NITC and OCD will employ the same disci-
pline specialists. In effect, each specialist will wear two hats -- an
operational hat responsive to his NITO and a discipline hat responsive
to his discipline division within~OCD. Accordingly, his fitness report
will be rated by either his NITO or his division chief and endorsed by
the other. This arrangement should help minimize tendencies toward
redundancy within the NITC and OCD and at the same time enable OD/DCI/CT
to interface more clearly with users, analysts, and collectors.
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