JOB SUMMARY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81B00493R000100130016-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 13, 2004
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: February 3, 1972
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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CONFIDENTIAL
3 February 1972
JOB SUMMARY :
My job is to head the INDICO (Indications Control)
staff of the Production Staff of OCT. The two intelli-
gence officers on our staff review all-source information
in order to select significant warning/indications intelli-
gence for me in support of my responsibilities on the USIB
Watch Committee. I attend the Watch Committee each week
as the CIA Member and regularly brief the Chairman of the
USIB Watch Committee. (The Chairman's position is
regularly filled by the Deputy Director of CIA, and until
recently the Chairman was General Cushman.)
(Note: My office's activity is in response to the
Mission of the Watch Committee to "provide the USIB with
the earliest possible warning of, and a continuing judgment
on, the intentions of the USSR, China or any other Communist
or hostile nation to initiate military action . . . or to
provide military support to any other nation to an extent
that US security interests are affected." our staff's
activity is closely allied with the inter-agency National
Indications Center (NIC), which is the secretariat of the
CON IDENTIAL
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Watch Committee, and with the NIC's production of the
weekly USIB Watch Report.)
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Attend the weekly meeting of the Watch Committee
as the CIA representative, and present the agency's sug-
gestions for change in the body of the report.
2. Act as the CIA delegate to another committee, a
small ad hoc committee known as the Strategic Warning
Working Group (SWWG).
(This committee is chaired by
of the DCI's NIPE staff, and
places its emphasis on reviewing new methods for the
collection of indications intelligence.)
3. See to it that the Chairman of the Watch Com-
mittee is sufficiently briefed on all pertinent items of
indications/warning significance.
4. Conduct liaison with a large number of analytical
shops in and outside the agency. This involves not only
eliciting information and comments from the desk analysts
in the DDI producing offices but also passing them useful
information. It also entails continuing liaison with
the personnel of the NIC at the Pentagon, and DIA, INR,
and NSA personnel. It includes the detailed reviewing of
the weekly draft USIB Watch Report with the pertinent
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analysts, and relaying their criticism and suggested
changes.
5. Maintain continuity on a large number of sub-
stantive developments in the areas of specific interest
to the USIB Watch Committee.
6. Give briefings to various groups inside and
outside of CIA on the workings of the warning intelli-
gence mechanism and the INDICO staff.
7. Work with the Requirements Staff, and parti-
cularly carry on liaison with the Siqint and photo
intelligence elements of the Requirements Staff, in order
to keep our office up to date on pertinent developments.
SUPERVISION AND GUIDANCE:
Receive general supervision from the Chairman of
the Watch Committee, the Director and Deputy Director of
OCI, and the Chief of the Production Staff. Perform
much of the work in a generally independent manner, with
general guidance from my supervisors. Give direct
supervision to the two intelligence officers in the staff
and to the secretary.
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"INDTCATIONS/WARNING ANALYSIS WITHIN TFIE DDI
DDI elements are in the business of producing
current intelligence. (The CIB, etc.)
h. They are also,tied in to a parallel circuit to
follow indications of enemy attack--"strategic
warning"--through the Watch Committee/National
Indications Canter (NIC) reporting mechanism.
c. Within Oct th'c INDICO, "IndicationsiControl
officer", provides the main link between the
Watch Committee/NTC and the principal analysts,
roughly 40, in the DDI who follow these indications
matters (roughly 20,in OCI, 15 in OSR, 3 in OER's
Current Support Staff)
a. Principal Functions of the INDICO shop:
i_. Fans out the weekly Watchor_t and achieves
its coordination. INDICO solicits comments
on the draft Watch Report, and suggests
changes, at the Watch Committee.
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ii. Reads and. reviews indications/warning
intelligt:ice reporting.
iii. Helps bring about an exchange of reports
concerning indications/warning within the
offices .
iv.. Coordinates ruirements on indications/warn-
ing. (W3 deal with the Intelligence
Requirement Staff and also with DDP and
other el'tments such as OSI)
v. Briefs the Chairman of the Watch Committee on
regular basis.
e. Other Warning Activities: INDICO is the CIA rep on
the Strategic Warning Working Group (SWWG)
This committee places emphasis onlreviewing new
methods for collection of indications intelligence.
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