FOCUS PROCEDURES

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 22, 2004
• Sequence Number: 32
• Publication Date: January 30, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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NOTE TO: General Wilson
SUBJECT: FOCUS Procedures
30 January 1975
. 1. -Attached is a one page note on FOCUS
....procedures. I thought we might use it or something.
like it at our meeting next Wednesday as the
discussion starterregarding Agenda item 3. By then,
we will have some better guidance from Mr. Colby,
assuming that letter goes to him this
weekend or early next week. The way the letter is
to be transmitted to the Ambassador also should be
clear. THE MEETING WITH 6ISCO IS NOWT SCHEDULED FOR
TODAY--THURSDAY: Thro will inform us re the results.
We can modify the attached procedures paper as
.necessary.,
the assessment report to the field would be to
send it via the State country desk officer to the DCM.
I have offered this possibility in my paragraph S.
You should know that Q and Carver are talking
with the.Deputy State -IG on Monday, 3 February-
.2. On Wednesda from the Secretariat
talked with NIO/Japan-Pacific
regarding the FOCUS Project and its relationship
with the State foreign service inspections. We
certainly will want to schedule our FOCUS assessments
with the foreign service inspection= in mind. Also,
we should send the assessment reports to the State
Foreign Service Inspector General.
also suggests that a more palatib-le way of getting
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1. Agenda. NIO---with appropriate advice from
individuals and agencies--devises discussion agenda,
(HSC Secretariat provides advice as to participants).
monitors and supports..
past. Participants urged to be candid. Secretariat
porting performance of Embassy components during recent
2.- Seminars. NIO or his designate chairs. Dis-
cussion, looking to information concerns of future-as
expressed in.KlQs', CNTDIOs, CIRL, etc., considers re-.
3. Assessment Summary. Report prepared summariz-
ing FOCUS discussions, as seen through NIO/Focus Chair-
man perspective. The NIOs encouraged to seek comment
and counsel regarding draft report from some or all
seminar participants (e.g., via telephone reaction,
second meeting, written comments). In any case, the
report forwarded to Chairman HSC will specify the ex
tent of formal or informal coordination. Major dis-
agreements among participants should be noted.
4. Collection Managers. Summary report will be
sent through HSC Members to appropriate collection
managers for their information and use. Ordinarily,
written reactions and suggestions for improving future
reporting will be invited or requested from some or
all collection managers. A copy of the report will
be furnished to the State Foreign Service Inspector
General for his use in connection with the scheduled
State inspection visits.
5. Colby/Wilson Letters. The completion of an
assessment seminar, the followup assessment report,'and
related collection/guidance actions. will be the occas-
sion for a letter from Mr. Colby (or General Wilson)
to the appropriate Ambassador. The letter, sent via
channels agreed upon in consultation with the Depart-
ment of State, will emphasis the importance of Embassy
reporting to the functioning of the US foreign intel-
ligence program. Actions. taken in Washington and sug-
gestions for consideration by the Ambassador aimed at
improving-Embassy reporting will be mentioned. The
assessment report may be (a) surrunarized in the letter;,
(b) referred to in the letter and attached; or (c) re"
ferred to and sent via the State country desk officer
to the DCM.
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