SUMMARY CONTENT AND EMPHASIS OF OMB'S CONCEPT PAPER: 'IMPLEMENTING DCI'S RESOURCE REVIEW ROLE'

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 14, 2005
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• Publication Date: April 10, 1972
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1EMORAI1DUM FOR: D/DCI/ IC
10 April 1972
SUBJECT Summary Content and Emphasis of OtlB's Concept
Paper: "Implementing the DCI's Resource
Review Role"
1. The paper reiterates the DCI's new responsibility to
plan and review all intelligence activities and the allocation of
all intelligence resources," and to submit to the President
through OMB a Consolidated Intelligence Program Budget (CIPU)
which reflects the results of that review. (The concept paper did
not delete the need to review "tactical" programs, though it did
not dwell on the subject.) 91B identifies three "critical" pro-
cedures which should be included as part of the OCI's new manage-
ment responsibilities:
a. The DCI must be able to identify important intelli-
gence resource issues in the current and future fiscal years.
Success will depend first upon the extent and quality of DCI (staff)
participation in the various existing resource review forums, and
second upon the DCI's establishment of new issue review processes.
b. The DCI must take a position on the issues based
upon his understanding of substantive intelligence needs. Some
mechanism must be devised to match costs ("particularly of collection
programs") to the relative importance of each requirement.
c. The DCI must communicate his views to the Secretary
of Defense and to the President. OMB sees IRAC as the forum in
which to share views with Defense and others; the CIPB is the
vehicle to use to reach the President.
2. The responsibilities above would be fulfilled through
the following actions:
a. From 18 to 12 months before the budget year, the
DCI should issue planning ~ guidance for all of Defense intelligence
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assets. This guidance would be based upon policy direction from
the NSCIC, the views of such intelligence users as the DDI and
DIA, and upon USIB requirements. It would call on the various
program managers to reflect the thrust of the guidance in their
financial decisions. The paper fails to take note of the existence
of DCID 1/2 Supplement "U.S. Intelligence Objectives and Priorities?
which is an integral part of our "ultimate" guidance series.
b. The DCI should initiate studies (in IRAC of issues
raised by the planning gu dance. The results of these studies
should be weighed in the development of CIA's program call in late
November and DoD's fiscal guidance in January. The results of
other studies completed by IRAC or within the various departments
and agencies should be available before the Deputy Secretary of
Defense makes his decisions on programs and resource levels (usually
around August).
c. The DCi's staff must be an active participant in
all planning, p r o g r a m , and ` G U 3get reviews and in all ssue studies.
Especially important are the periods before Defense fiscal guidance
is issued (March or earlier) and before the Deputy Secretary signs
the Program. Budget Decisions (about October). The DCI should also
be represented as last minute adjustments to the current year
budget are made in response to congressional or other decisions.
d. The DCI mustprrepare the CIPB. This document is
to be a statement of tie DC'I's views about the resource levels of
the various intelligence programs.
1) It should identify objectives by priority and
then relate resource levels to the priorities.
2) It should reflect the results of issue studies.
3) It should be organized around functional pro-
gram categories (especially "production" and "collection")
in order to demonstrate how It serves the President's desire
to improve analysis and production and to find savings in
collection costs.
3. OMB will review the CIPB and prepare materials for con-
sideration by the President. (Dr. Hall and Mr. Moot do not like
this procedure.)
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4. "After all decisions on the budget, beginning in January,
the DCI will need to coordinate preparation of materials required
for a joint DCI/Defense/CIA presentation to the Congress of the
President's intelligence budget." After this presentation, the
individual intelligence program managers will defend their own pro-
grams.
NOTE :
As you know, I have an orderly plan outlining a process to be
used by the Comptroller Group in its support of you and the Director
in fulfilling the tasks assigned by the President. The concept
paper arrived too late to be helpful in the design of this plan
which I have forwarded to you with recommendation that it be adopted.
There are differences from OMB's concept -- particularly in the IRAC
role and in the format, content, and timing of DCI decision points.
The proposed plan adopts present procedures insofar as possible,
but leaves the door open to evolutionary change in these procedures --
several of which I feel strongly do need alteration.
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