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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73B00296R000400010001-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 2001
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 5, 1971
• Content Type: MEMO

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NOVEMBER 5, 1971
Office of the White House Press Secretary
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THE WHITE HOUSE
The White House announced today that the President has directed a number of
management steps to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the U. S. foreign
intelligence community,
The President's objectives are to ensure;
-- Continuing review of the responsiveness of the U. S. intelligence
effort to national needs.
-- Strengthened leadership for the community as a whole.
-- More efficient use of resources in the collection of intelligence
information.
-- Elimination of less efficient or outmoded activities.
-- Improvement in the quality, scope and timeliness of intelligence
information.
The improvements directed by the President follow an exhaustive study
conducted at his direction by the staffs of the National Security Council (NSC)
and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) with contributions from the
President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB), the President's Science
Advisor, and the Intelligence community.
The major management improvements include:
An enhanced . leadership role for the Director of Central Intelligence
(DCI) in planning, reviewing, coordinating, and evaluating all
intelligence programs and activities, and in the production of national
intelligence.
Establishment of a National Security Council Intelligence Committee,
chaired by the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.
Its members will include the Attorney General, the DCI, the Under
Secretary of State, the Deputy Secretary of Defense, and the Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, The Committee will give direction and
guidance on national intelligence needs and provide for a continuing
evaluation of intelligence products from the viewpoint of the intelligence
user.
Establishment of a Net Assessment Group within the National Security
Council Staff. The group will be headed by a senior staff member
and will be responsible for reviewing and evaluating all intelligence
products and for producing net assessments.
Establishment of an Intelligence Resources Advisory Committee, chaired
by the DCI, including as members a senior representative from the
Department of State, the Department of Defense, the Office of Manage-
ment and Budget, and the Central Intelligence Agency. This Committee
will advise the DCI on the preparation of a consolidated intelligence
program budget.
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-- Reconstitution of the United States Intelligence Board chaired by the
DCI, including as members the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
(Vice Chairman); Director of Bureau of Intelligence and Research,
State Department; Director of National Security Agency, Director of
the Defense Intelligence Agency; representatives of the Secretary of
the Treasury and of the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
and the Atomic Energy Commission. The Board will advise and
assist the DCI with respect to the production of national intelligence,
the establishment of national intelligence requirements and priorities,
the supervision of the dissemination and security of intelligence
material, and the protection of intelligence sources and methods.
The President has also directed certain changes in the Department of Defense's
intelligence organization.
A National Cryptologic Command will be set up under the Director of the National
Security Agency. Under this command will be consolidated activities now carried
out by separate agencies. A further change is the consolidation of all Department
of Defense personnel security investigations into a single Office of Defense
Investigations, The President has also directed that a Defense Map Agency be
created by combining the now separate mapping, charting and geodetic
organizations of the military services in order to achieve maximum efficiency
and economy in production.
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