INFORMATION FROM JCIC REQUESTED BY COMMANDER RUFUS L. TAYLOR (MEMO TO THE ADVISORY COUNCIL, 27 OCTOBER 1949)

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• Document Creation Date: January 30, 2024
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• Case Number: F-2017-00264
• Publication Date: March 23, 1950

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TO: Advisory Council
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SUBJECT: Information from JCIC Requested by Commander Rufus L.
Taylor (Eemo to the Advisory Council, 27 October 1949)
1. Attached, pursuant to Commander Taylor's request, is a 10-
page memorandum reflecting the information presently contained in
the files of the JCIC which appears to bear on his request. I have
made no effort to supplement this material from the files of 030.
In connection with this matter, I wish to point out again that Com-
mander Taylor's request is of such a nature that it is difficult
for us to honor it in OSO and still be consistent with our accepted
principles of counterespionage operations and controls. You will
note that Commander Taylor's request asks for the most specific de-
tails concerning counterespionage matters and Soviet intelligence
operations, which normally we do not and cannot disseminate except
in a very restricted fashion and on the basis of a most strictly'
construed need to know. I fail to perceive any valid need to know
on the part of the On in connection with certain phases of Com-
mander Taylor's request, nor am I aware of any effective action
Which the OKI can take within their jurisdiction on a number of
\-.tategories of information which Commander Taylor has requested...
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2. I am not raising these questions with regard to the infor-
mation contained in the files of the JCIC,- in view of the agreed
Naval participation in that installation. I must very definitely-
raise these questions, however, as far as any general answer to
these reqUests is concerned, based on operationally-procured 030
information. This and other requests which have been received
Iron. Commander Taylor, as I have pointed out to you previously,
raise in our minds in OSO very definite questions as to his under-
standin of the functions of the JCIC, and particularly as to the
apparent conflict between his understanding of those functions and
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our own. , As a.matter of basic policy, counterespionage information
is not considered the proper subject for shot-gun distribution. In
addition, the honoring of a number of requests paralleling those
which have been received in recent months from Commander Taylor
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involves a volume of work which I doubt is justified on the basis
of any use which can be made of the information by the Office of
Naval Intelligence.
3. I feel strongly that the type of request referred to should
be made in a slightly different fashion, possibly through different
channels, and should involve requests not for full information
extracted from available files, but for finished intelligence on
pertinent counterespionage problems, when possible and. practicable.
Your specific attention is directed to the fact that the preparation,
copying and transmittal of portions of the information in the attached
summary involve at least pro forma violations of the restrictions
placed on the handling of some of the intelligence concerned.
Action: Your views on the above points would be greatly opera-
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elated and I should like to reiterate my previous sug-
gesLions that the entire handling of such requests be
made the subject of appropriato personal discussion
with Commander Taylor.
Ref. No, SO B13-23560
Attachment:
memo - Sov Int Cap in Iran & Persian Gulf Area
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