REVITALIZATION OF PNIOS

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 7, 2005
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• Publication Date: April 16, 1963
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Office of the Executive Secretary
16 April 1963
MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. Ray S. Cline, Deputy Director (Intelligence),
Central Intelligence Agency
Mr. Allan Evans, Deputy Director for Research,
Intelligence and Research Department of State
Chief of Staff,
Defense Intelligence Agency
Deputy Assistant Director for
Production, National Security Agency
Mr. Ludwell L. Montague, Board of National
Estimates, Central Intelligence Agency
A. draft memorandum on the subject has been prepared under
Mr. Cline's direction in light of the discussion at the last
meeting of the PNIO Review Committee. It is circulated herewith
for consideration by the PNIO Review Committee at a meeting
scheduled for 1430 hours Monday, 22 April in Room 7 E 30, CIA.
Headquarters Building.
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SUBJECT: Revitalization of PNIOs
1. At present, PNIOs are used for two quite dissimilar purposes:
as a basis for the planning, funding and development of intelligence resources
in a long-term context, and as a description of intelligence problems calling
for research, estimative production, and priority reallocation of collection
resources over a short term. Pulled in two directions, PNIOs in their
present form can be found wanting for either purpose.
2. In an effort to restore PNIOs to their originally intended role as
"a guide for the coordination of intelligence collection and production!' in
response to the needs of national security policy, the following proposals
are offered:
a. Replace the text of paragraph 1 of DCID 1/2, Comprehensive
National Intelligence Objectives, with a less generalized but still long-term
statement of major intelligence objectives somewhat as set forth in categories
1 and 2 of the present PNIOs. The existing Comprehensive National Intelli-
gence Objectives, unchanged since 1958, are so broad and encyclopedic as
to be virtually meaningless. A statement of the general objectives expected
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to control the intelligence community for a considerable time in the future
would endow this DCID with fresh usefulness to the intelligence process and,
with a validity term of five years (though subject to semi-annual review),
it,could serve one of the roles now encumbering the PNIOs: a basis for
long-term development, training and deployment of collection capabilities,
and the budgeting therefor. This would bring some stability to these protracted
processes, while giving them real relevance to the enduring concerns of
national security policy.
b. Redraft the present (January 1963) version of the PNIOs -
DCID 1/3 - to reflect more current and. relatively short-term future concerns
of the intelligence community. These PNIOs would be expected to contain
objectives that would remain valid for approximately a year ahead, but
they would be subject to reexamination every six months. As a separate
document from the new CNIOs, these could be revised and kept current as
reflections of changing intelligence problems without jeopardizing the
stability and continuity of long-term programs in response to the CNIOs.
Since both CNIOs and PNIOs would be reviewed at the same time, they could
readily be kept in basic consonance with one another, the former the long-
range plan, and the latter the intermediate steps toward the long-range
objectives.
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c. Establish as a permanent subcommittee of USIB a National
Intelligence Objectives Committee (NIOC). This committee would include
representatives of ONE and its estimative counterparts in USIB agencies,
and would be charged with carrying out the semi-annual reviews of CNIOs
and PNIOs described above, assisted by established USIB subcommittees
dealing with specific fields of collection, e. g. , COMOR, IPC, et..al. The
primary task of NIOC would be to make recommendations to USIB on the prac-
tical implications of both the CNIOs and PNIOs for national intelligence
production and collection programs so as to ensure that the intelligence
community's actions are pertinent to national security policy problems.
Implementation of such recommendations as approved by USIB would be the
province of the USIB collection committees or the production and collection
elements of individual USIB agencies, not of the NIOC.
3. Adoption of the above proposal would enable national security policy
makers and USIB to, express themselves on both long-term and relatively
short-term needs with assurance of relative permanence with regard to the
former and with improved flexibility with regard to the latter. The community
in both its production and collection areas would receive from a common source
reasonably concrete long-term development and deployment guidance for
planning purposes and positive and specific requirements to meet the needs
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of the nearer future. The NIOC would insure repeated high-level review of
both sets of directives, which in turn would insure up-to-date supervision
and coordination among and within the activities of the several USIB
agencies.
4. There i s attached as TAB A a proposed draft for new CNIOs, as
TAB B a proposal for new PNIOs and a sample DCID. 1/3, and as TAB C a
draft charter for the NIOC.
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DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTIVE NO. 1/2
COMPREHENSIVE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE OBJECTIVES
(Revised April 1963)
1. Pursuant to NSCID No. 1, paragraph 3, the following Comprehensive
a.tional Intelligence Objectives are hereby established:
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2. Priority National intelligence objectives, with reference to specific
countries and subjects, will be set forth in a separate DCID.
3. DCID 1/2, "Comprehensive National Intelligence Objectives",
15 September 1958, is hereby rescinded.
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PRIORITY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE OBJECTIVES
Proposal: With the broader and more enduring objectives now contained
in DCID 1/2, "Comprehensive National Intelligence Objectives", it should be
possible to rework the present PNIO's in language which would reflect the
current and near future character of the new PNIOs. In these terms, statements
recast to reflect the greatest needs anticipated by such expert groups as
GMAIC and JAEIC within the next 12 to 18 months. Likewise, such quasi-
long-term objectives as I I G, I I I A, I I I E could be redefined in terms
more responsive to current situations and their expectable evolution.
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