MEMORANDUM FOR: MR. CASEY (Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83B01027R000100040018-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 20, 2005
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: June 4, 1982
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. Casey:
Attached are some talking points for the 8 June
MFIB concerning warning.
The Warning Working Group will ,meet on 9 June to
begin implementation of your de~-isi own memorandum.
NIO/
cc: DDCI
Ex Dir
DDI
Ex Sec
NFIB
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DCI TALKING POINTS
ON WARNING
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I. Decision Memo on warning completes a series of efforts to improve our
ability to produce warning intelligence.
A. New initiatives in research support production of warning.
1. Center for Terrorism Instability and Insurgency will identify
causes and indicators of change.
2. Intelligence Producers Council will coordinate Community
research efforts on Third World and Soviet Bloc developments
having warning implications.
B. NIO's will identify mid- to long-term warning situations through
their estimates and monthly warning meetings.
C. Watch Committee will highlight short-term warning developments.
D. Alerting of fast breaking events will continue to be the function
of our Ops Centers through the use of procedures such as CRITICS
and NIOWONs.
II. NIO for Warning and National Warning Staff will oversee and advise
all the above. fits in here as Special Assistant for
Warning)
A. Identify events and alternative outcomes not given adequate
hearing in standard products.
B. Participate in and contribute to the production of estimates and
Watch Committee reports.
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C. Nominate, contribute, participate, conduct or coordinate specific
research projects on warning matters.
D. Draw upon the results and products of individual agency and
departmental warning activities, but not rely exclusively on
their efforts. The whole should be greater than the sum of the
parts.
III. The Warning Working Group will be retained to assist the NIO/W. I
look to them to carry out the implementation of this decision.
IV. Warning function and Warning Staff will continue to be a Community
effort.
A. Warning function will be lodged in the National Intelligence
Council.
B. NIO/W will be a full time position.
C. Composition, size and location of the staff will be worked out by
Warning Working Group.
V. The Warning mission will continue to be to insure "no surprise" to
the President, NSC and Armed Forces. Obviously warning of an attack
on the US or its allies is first priority; however, we must also
address slowly-developing, longerl-term threats to US security--
within the warning context.
VI. The Alert Memorandum will be retained as a warning medium, but it is
not the exclusive one since both estimates and the Watch Committee
reports will have warning content. Other means of conveying the
warning message will be employed when needed. Content, not form, is
what is important.
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