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Document Type:
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Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
CIA-RDP58-00597A000200040010-7
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RIFPUB
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K
Document Page Count:
1
Document Creation Date:
November 17, 2016
Document Release Date:
July 27, 2000
Sequence Number:
10
Case Number:
Content Type:
REPORT
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Approved For Release 2000/08/25: CIA-RDP58-00597A000200040010-7
A group of us met this week with Allen Dulles, Director of the
Central Intelligence .Agency,, and a number of his top aides for our
regular Wednesday morning breakfast. After breakfasts, r. Dd les took
to his conference room and described to us the organization and
functions of the Central Intelligence +iic + &.-at; indicated the nature
!tf its relationship to the intelligence services of the Army, Navy,, Air
au of Investigation., the Atomic Energy Commission
of state.
a great deal of the work of the Central Intelligence
Agency is top secret. Hower, one of its most vital functions
coordination of intelligence work,, particularly to produce ratio
rational estimates are the agreed view of all of the inteil.i-
geas agencies on"what may happen in critical areas of the world.
Mr . Dulles meets with the heads of the other intelligence agencies once
a wok ?r more often if the situation requires--to decide on the final
vwsion of the estimate which their staffs working together have drafted.
as of the national estimate is to inform the policy makers of
ranch of the possible developuenta in such spots as
Iz o.Chiy*, Korea* etc. Upon agreement by the heads of the intelligence
agsncies
estimates are sent to the interested departments and
with the National. Security Council-composed of the
t, Secretaries of State and Defenses etc. It
pbasised that the whole structure of the Central
Intelligence Agency and the workings of the intelligence agencies were
read to insure that an information received by the United "sates
eerneent was properly assessed and evaluated--and put in the right hands-
to insure that every precaution moo taken to prevent another Pearl Harbor.
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