ANNUAL REPORT ON COORDINATION OF THE U.S. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE EFFORT

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 10, 2006
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: September 25, 1973
• Content Type: MF

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UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD
HUMAN SOURCES COMMITTEE
25 September 1973
MEMORANDUM FOR: Acting Deputy to the DCI for the
Intelligence Community
SUBJECT Annual Report on Coordination of
the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Effort
1. I have had an opportunity to review the 19
September 1973 draft of the subject report and note
several items which bear on my responsibilities as
Chairman of the Human Sources Committee. My concern
centers on two statements in the draft:
"The community HUMINT collection is being
evaluated in terms of the quantity and
quality of information collected in relation
to intelligence objectives."
--' "The evaluation has identified . . . and will
assist . . . in developing a comprehensive
means of guiding and monitoring the overall
HUMINT requirements situation within the
community . "
2. Use of the phrase "has identified" implies that
the IC Staff has completed a comprehensive assessment of
the quantity and quality of the total spectrum of commu-
nity human source reporting. To the best of my knowledge
this has not been done. Further, it does not seem feasible
to approach human source evaluations in one sweeping
assessment of the several hundred thousand reports per
year produced by elements of DOD, CIA and State, if that
is what the statement is intended to say.
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3. I also question the realism of the statement
that the Staff intends to develop means of "guiding and
monitoring the overall human source requirements
situation." This implies that some sort of master
requirements mechanism will be developed for guiding
and tasking the wide var ety of human source collection
efforts managed by the departments and agencies of the
community. The statement in the report is so broad
and sweeping that it is open to one's own interpretation
as to precisely what is intended in the way of a "compre-
hensive means." Consequently, the Director could find
himself in the position of trying to satisfy a PFIAB
expectation which is far beyond the realm of feasibility.
4. Lastly, the Terms of Reference for the Human
Sources Committee,, which were approved by the DCI in
January 1973, gave the Committee a clear charter for
dealing with requirements and evaluations. Following
are some relevant phrases from those Terms of Reference:
-- "Monitor the various requirements systems . . . ."
-- "Promote the development, as appropriate, of
coordinated statements of intelligence guidance
-- "Assure that . . . responses to (intelligence
needs) are periodically monitored so as to
stimulate maximum responsiveness."
As you know, the Committee has been moving forward with
respect to the problems of human source requirements and
assessments as reflected on page 44 of your draft report.
Certainly there is a leading role for the IC staff in
this effort, but the report should indicate to PFIAB the
interrelationships and respective roles among the Staff,
the Committee and community members in such an effort.
Further, I suggest that the report avoid a tone which
implies to PFIAB a promise of quick and easy accomplish-
ment of a task that in reality is very complex and
difficult.
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