EXECUTIVE ADVISORY GROUP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79M00467A001100170033-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 21, 2005
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: July 6, 1976
• Content Type: MF

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6 JUL 197G
MEMOJ(AtWUM FOR: Comptroller
FROM: Theodore G. Shackley
Acting Deputy Director for Operations
SUBJECT: Executive Advisory Group
REFERENCE: Memorandum from Comptrollerts Office
dated 28 June 1976, Subject: Potential
Topics for Executive Advisory Group
Topics
Members of the Operations Directorate have been polled
the lead in moving some of these goals forward within the
Community.
for ideas which the Executive Advisory Group (EAG) might
usefully address. Most of these ideas are community oriented,
rather than internal to the CIA, but the CIA might well take
2. Items
a. Consolidation of Ground Photography
b. Centralized vs.. Decentralized R&D
Mission-related R&D possibly should be decentralized,
while U ID duties of common concern should be handled by a
central RFD office. An R&D Board should review all major
CIA Rf;l) actions and should have representation from other
agencies in the Intelligence Community, e.g., DoD, NSA, DIA_
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c. Siijgle Nomenclature System for Agency
Developed Equipment
Thy EAG should commission a panel to recommend a single
nomenclature system for Agency developed equipment.
The benefits
a go , standard. nomenclature system are:
DoD.
(1) positive'identification of the equipment,
(2) avoidance of duplicate assignments,
some idea as to purpose or function of the
.equipment, and
(4) an indication whether it'is a prototype,
production model, improved or modified version,
etc.
The new Agency nomenclature system should be coordinated with
of the Freedom of Information and Privacy Acts on the conduct.
of its operations in terms of secrecy, manpower, funds, and
national interest. The results of such a study should be
made available to key members of the Congress with a view
to better defining (if not restricting) the purpose and
scope of Freedom of Information and Privacy Act legislation.
The Agency in concert with other affected elements of
the U.S. Government should undertake a study of the impact
d. Legislation
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Acting Deputy Director for Operations
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8 July 1976
MEMORAN11lIPI FOR: Jim Taylor
SUBJECT Candidate Agenda Items for the BAG
1. The following list of six items were selected by
a balancing, in my judgment, between importance and appropriate-
ness for the EAG and probability of the EAG making a useful
contribution. This approach has the difficulty of setting
aside certain other issues which are clearly extremely important
but impress me as being so intangible that-the BAG, at least
initially, has little chance of making useful and. coherent
contributions.
A. CIA R&D Program
This is an appropriate EAG item in that the R&D
'program relates, at least in some measure, to all. four
Directorates. As recently as three years ago, the R&D program
was in terrible condition. The program rationale was fragmented.
and frequently there was little or no justification for specific
projects. There was also little or no interaction among the
various involved organizations. The situation has vastly -
improved, but it would be useful to review the program now
that some of the dust has settled from the major restructuring
of a few years ago. The following three areas need examination:
(1) Rationale for the R&D program. Why does CIA
have an R&D program and what are the important products
of that program are both questions that need answering.
(2) Adequacy of the R&D program both in terms
of technical scope and program content. The R&D program
does not cover all areas within the Agency which might
benefit from RF,D. Nor does it treat uniformly all the
areas that are currently supported by the program. RFD
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