E. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Senior Intelligence Officer
(U) Committee staff also contacted a DIA senior intelligence officer (SIO) whose name had been provided to the Vice Chairman's staff by a former DIA intelligence analyst who believed the SIO had information about the OSD pressuring analysts.
(U) The SIO told Committee staff that he worked with the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Special Plans and NESA regularly and said that he did not have any information that the Deputy Under Secretary had pressured analysts or coerced them to alter their assessments. The SIO said that the Deputy Under Secretary had very strong views and sometimes did not agree with the SIO's analysis, but said the SIO was always encouraged to brief on whatever information he had to provide. The SIO said that the Deputy Under Secretary asked tough questions and pressured analysts to have the intelligence to back up what they were saying, but never pressured them to come up with judgments to match preconceived notions.
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