NSDD 276 National Security Council Interagency Process

TH WHITE HOU E UNCLASSIFIED SYSTEM II 90476 June 9, 1987 NATIONAL SECURITY DECIS10 DIRECTIVE NUMBER 217 National Sectrit Council Interagency rocess (C) Introduction In National Security Decision Directive (NSDD) 266, I directed that the recommendations of the President's Special Review Board, including the model for the National Security Council (NSC) system, be implemented in full. To that end, I chartered a review of the structure of senior interagency groups and regional and functional interagency groups established pursuant to, or under the authori of, presic sectives or applicable memoranda. s review wa designe to identify such changes in the aver gency proce as mia t be necessary or desirable to 1 11y and prempt y ITI Iractice the Special Review Boand's re ommendatic buding the specific recommendation the the A sistant to the Pres ent for National Security Affair th "Na ional Secu advis ") chair the senior committees he SC. The vesent ire tive reflects changes in the interagend process I have a thoi zed as a result of that review (d Interagency Groups Interagency groups can provide an effective medium for the development of advice and policy for consideration by the President. They achieve their goal when they provide thorough and clear analyses of all policy choices, coordinate policy implementation, and review policy in light of experience. (U) NSDD 2, dated January 12, 1982, established the senior interagency structure. It created three functional senior interagency groups (SIGs, -- one on icy, chaired by the Secretary of State: e on defens policy, chaired by the Secretary of Defense; mo one on int ligance olicy, chaired by the Director of Centra Intelligelce.subsequent Directives and memoranda estakwished some 22 ad iti SIGs and 55 interagency group (IGS) including ertain 9- ups chaired by the National Adv sor or men the NSC staff. IGs 2 eclassified/Released on 10/23/98 under provisions of E.O. 12958 by L Salvetti, National Security Council F98-515