OSO ASSISTANCE TO OPC

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• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02294468
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• Document Creation Date: July 13, 2023
• Document Release Date: August 18, 2022
• Case Number: F-2021-00970
• Publication Date: February 16, 1949

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16 February 1949
MORAN= FOR THE ASSISTANT DIR!CTOR, POLICY COORDINAT
SUBJECTo OSO Assistance to OPC
Inclosures Paper on an opc Aesesement P oram pr
Mr. William J. Morgan
1. I transmitting enclosure, I wish to point out that it
represents only the personal ideas of the 'writer, and that by forwarding
it there is neither implied nor expressed concurrence by this office
as mash. More than that, many of the ideas mot with the vigorous
opposition, of my predecessor.
2. Before etnplifying my own opinion regarding the content of
the enclosure, I wish to make certain observations regarding the
procedures by which it has come into being.
3. Personnel of OSO have been instructed to give any assistance .
possible to OPC, and that ineiruotion still stands. However, on apy beT
limited matters of detail, I believe that the desires of OPC should
be formalised to the extent of a request, as a matter of record if
nothing more, so that both Assistant Directors are cognisant of what
assistance is being requested and being given. Certainly on any request
resulting in a dooument *wee seape is 19 pages, ADSO should have
cognisance of the expenditure of labor, although I am informed that,
this partioular piece of work was done outside of regular working hours.
4. Without intendimg personal criticism of any kind, I do feel
that those of OPC who have formerly been with OSO would find it quite
natural to take undue but perfectly unconscious advantage of their
acquaintance here to go directly to individuals on matters that should
really be the subject of more formal approval, and I should be most
appreciative if I were apprised of such matters.
5. As for the content of the attached memorandum, T feel that it
is an unrealistic ectravagansa to provide at the taxpayers expense a
heaven for indigent psychiatrists. No one will prAand that certain
tests and requirements should not be mandatory for applicants, but tat
it should necessitate a 100-acre estate, and dozens of $10,000-psycholofiste
to be waited on by $4,000-housekeepers, cooks, carpenters, gardners,
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and ebauffeurs and other doaestic staff for every menial requiremeat
is a lush dream of buretuerattomoose unrivaled by any proposents
of our eurrent ?inane em of government spending. I should he
interested to know who passes upon the poyehlatric stability of this
elite eorps Oho mike lodgment on everyone else. It is true, as the
aeoompamying report states, that in 1947 OSO did rid itself of the
psychiatric incubus whisdi had transferred to it the strangle hold rained
over OSS in lorld War T1.
6. I realise that my remerke should be interpreted with
tolaranee than I am able to put into them, but I have observed teomany
oraek-pot psychologists to be smelly weaned free Ay belief that their
ever expanding raeket ie a tribute to our gellibtlity in failing to see
that "pathology is the dieoevery by the professors of what the rest of
us knew all the time.* Just a few day, ago I read that a learner
committee, oomposed of a pagehoanalyst, a porchoscsatia doctor, 6.
traineC a fan tly relations counsellor and several top-flight
home ieanIs swperts has made the decision and recommendation that
a reeking hafr in thellitehao is a great help to the hard working
housewife in trying to lighten her labors and keep down phyvical and
nervous tension. Weever, even in ante bell= days every coal-black
Aunt Chloe in every opermfire.-plaoe kitchen men of the Mason-Limon
Line used a rooting oheir for exactly the same reason. Q.E.D.
ALAN R. NoCRACKNN
Acting Assistant Director
Special Operations
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