KIQ/KEP

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M01048A000400100025-2
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• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 6, 2005
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: September 21, 1974
• Content Type: MF

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certainly ;: ui rstand and apprcciat : the; pro m
you raise. i oweveer, evy agency could raise the sa ao xr )alcLi
if indeed pie IQ/Kk:P process were cixyacted to go as deeply as
you indicates In fact, I have already indicated sonny reservation
,;, to the degree of detail the i P process should includie and
ecd to gn t.irdi g i the trial set of 1974 KIQ evaluation
iag the next month or so in order to determine in i)ra :tidal.
t :r; s the ?: egree of detail needed and reasonably -obtainable.
ubjectives. it the toi.- level of a particular agency (or directorate)..
h~low car I I would hope that a minimum of staff work could ascertain
(with only a reasonable degree of error) Lae wanner in whicxi tie
resources of this particular unit were divided between i; I Y ' s
non--a. Q national questions anu departuieiital or tactical questions
not covered under the l.IQ's. '..aese three categories should
cover the entire budget of the unit, with overhead and general
supI,.~art r.ia.tters allocated according to the percentages developed
for the iuajor three categories noted "ova and the iadivie uai
ails. The process would have to be "simple, arbitrary and
subjective." These resource statements would then be used by
the 410's to hate b up against their view of actual production
agai ant the ,I 's by each unit. The precision and accuracy of
the whole process is subject to challenge., but the overall
conclusions are drawn today with no effort to methodize the
basis on which they are reached. This process is an attempt
to so wethodiz them to ? 1e extent feasia la without a large
bureaucratic exercise.
nag e nt its own fashion, in your case through your
In essen e, I expect every agency to run its own internal
2. That being said, I have forwarded your memo to the IC
staff with instructions to work out the best arrangements they
can with you. I certainly do not expect to change your or any
other agency's method of running its internal operations or set
up separate accounting structures, etc.
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MEMORANDUM FOR: DCI
I suggest an informal response to
Bill Nelson along.the lines of the attached.
You may wish to attach it to the memo leaving
the recommendation line unsigned - an implicit
disapproval. I. will follow-up with Bill to see
whatwe can work :out that meets his needs with-
out scuttling the system.
( Dictated but not read)
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I have read your thoughtful memo and
expect that all elements of the Community
have similar concerns. I want to keep the
KEP procedures simple and in context with
your existing reporting systems and time
frames. The fact that evaluation and
accountability are the key ingredients to
the KIQ process, however, requires me to
get some idea of how you have allocated
your resources against the KIQs. Your
reply, in whatever format you decide, should
tell me how well you performed against the
KIQs and how you allocated your resources
to achieve that result. By resources allocated,
I mean those manpower, language skills,
operational assets, and dollars - the one
common denominator - which you directed
to achieve the results.
I have sent your memo with this note
to the IC Staff with instructions to work out
the best arrangements they can with you.
W. E. Colby
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contains a recomn endstion for your
2. T his I trectorste weic
(MM) for l:"iacal Year 1975 as an illu rir
needs of rrzajor irriportance. As you know
Intelligence
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Intelligence Questions
ton of intelligence inforr.ation
IY 1975 Objectives. we have established a a
n your approval of our
the .IQs into our system by taking them into co
the specific Objectives. noting Which hms are a
by we s sAL sal e
raeration when writing
eI'lected in each C{bjoctive.
In the case of the FY 1975 Y300? we have disseminated them throughout
the T1,'0 in order to inform all Directorate elements of the latest Key
Intelligence Questions of prime=awry i r.portance to the Government. V" e
also plan to send selected ts to appropriate Field Stations. Thxa b
this action, the zK a will suppleir eat the very specific operational
idance provided is the Oper
tiring in mind the fact that the KZs are only partially
applicable to Clandestine collection and the fact that you previously
approved our nr}anagonumt of our Program according to the MB concept.
the handling of t4 ,s in this L irectorate does present some problems.
pie, the scheduling for the issuance of new Kos each Ye
several months after our M13meetings and decisions resa
therefrom which represent our Program submission to you. In fact
the tls ew will probably reach as each year after you have already made
your decisions on our Program. Despite this, they serve as a valuable
supplement to the Objectives, and we l to handle them in that way.
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revise our Einar ia,l accoaxatU4 eye
expenditures by C. jerctlare, O.-.Our ezpeerrierd ?ee bas c
waying a
Perational
us that financial
as coasatia$ can only be done in xr:eea aixa ful terms when we have ' road,
stable objectives. it also sho that it is racticaily trnpoa*iisls to do
when
e: a at
o$ajectivee# themselves as
reporting ty i.
e -doing tb+e work of the Past year hruilt around
a or estabiuehhing a parallel ay'staz to satisfy the
Process. This, I believe. Is ..vsy the c& abUdty of our yield
apparatus to s soria. Any ate apt at specific ac cou i short, of there
a iternati ?e courses wed rpsuit is after wbhcb are n esa togles* for docia
Feae~ae-.
. 1 he FXP Presents the same Problem is the field of evaluation.
will re %xtrr Nl s to evaluate .p,ctfic Progra
axfcrrrr; a e as etiasrr each Kl "labia is far #rc tabs e*tetaxeive oval
?ysteem which we '.falieevee uit b, otee4 for aaia of clydes
r*raatiwjs._ :"8.s yo of course recognize, the nature of clata.destiue
ration* req airees isares iea of resources in the esta lf+e '=eott of
ion capabilities which sezrsetir aes precede and always arre core
a is unlikely to
ion performsact which is necessarily
iaaaciatl re uiroments of the VTP syste , without
get- crioato in nature,
against
a year ago, we have
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exemption of this Directorate from participation in the } process,
concurrence in our handling of the K a under our MW) oyster t and
6a For the above reasons. I request r
W ilii F, Nelao
Deputy Director for Operations
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