PROPOSED PLAN FOR REALIGNMENT OF CERTAIN AGENCY FUNCTIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP60-00213A000200070033-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 12, 2003
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: July 31, 1950
• Content Type: MF

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31 July 1950
!1 ,1~:ORA DUP:I FOR: ;vitl'TAG Ta NT OFFICER
SUBJECT: Proposed Plan for Realignment of Certain Agency
Functions
1. This office feels that the proposed plan for the realignment of
certain Agency functions is basically well-conceived and sound. The
following factors, however, should be taken into consideration.
2. with respect to Paragraph 2, suggesting that coordination of
information requirements and assignment of collection action be removed
from OCD Liaison Division and assigned to joint control of the require-
ments Staffs of the Assistant Directors of ORE and 05I, this office feels
that, despite certain administrative difficulties, the plan would be more
workable than the present system. The elimination of an OCD middleman
between ORE/OSI and OSO, where ORE and OSI requirements are concerned, is
desirable, since a fundamental agreement in advance by OSO officers with
O2E/OSI desk officers is the correct basis for realistic requirement
collection action. It should be recognized, nonetheless, that ORE and OSI
will require co.atrol points of some sort. The elimination of an OCD
middleman between LAC requesters and OSO is in no way improved by sub-
stituting ORE:~OSI middlemen. Aside from the continuance of middleman
groups, strenuously objected to by IAC requesters, this has the additional
disadvantage of permitting ORE/OSI to interpret IAC requests to OSO. The
retention of this function in OCD has at least the advantage of assigning
requirements to a disinterested staff. If the proposed reassignment is
made, it must be clearly understood that ORE/OSI will not change the
original IAC requirements and will submit their own requirements only as
additions. It should also be understood that direct liaison between OSO
and IAC agencies is absolutely necessary to insure practicality in the
requirements of the latter groups.
3. If_ the statement on Page 2, to the effect that "all requirements
of 050, OPC, 00, and other intelligence agencies referred for coordi-
nation will fall within the jurisdiction of ORE," means that ORE will
control either all requirements levied on OSO for intelligence collection
or all OSO requirements for intelligence collection by other agencies or
CIA components, that procedure is considered to be unduly cumbersome and
unsound in that no consideration is given to the manifest need for hiCh
security in the handling of special intelligence and CE matters nor to
the difference between general CIA and specific OSO requirements.
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4. The proposal in Paragraph 3, that collection of intelligence
materials available in operating units of other government agencies be
consolidated, appears to be sound, although deserving of careful analysis
with respect to such matters as the possible cover which that office
might give OSO and OPC. In this same connection, the suggested name,
"Office of Overt Collection," by contrast, raises an automatic query as
to the covert functions of the Agency. It is believed that the Office
of Operations should retain its name without the additional qualification
of "overt." It is still felt that thfj basic consolidation contemplated
under IISC-50 is a much sounder approach. In any event, if all overt
collection, including that of intelligence from other agencies, is to
be transferred to the jurisdiction of the Office of Operations, then
appropriate exception should be made to cover the necessity for OSO's
collection of counterespionage and related information, from overt and
all other sources.
5. The transfer of liai.son controls and records to the Inspection
and Security Staff is considered sound and to be a definite improvement
on. present procedure. This office also concurs in the proposal that
machine records support for administrative operations be transferred to
the Special Support Staff.
F. The proposal that the Office of Reference and Dissemination
should maintain the Agency archives, is considered to be too broad in
concept, unless adequate provision be made for the control of sensitive
operational files and records.
7. Emphatic objection is made to the proposal that ORD be given
exclusive responsibility for the dissemination function in the Agency.
Regardless of what jurisdiction ORD may be given as an. office of records,
the originating office should make direct dissemination of all necessary
and appropriate material to customer agencies without the imposition of
an intermediary. OOD, or ORn, as the case may be, has no greater
knowledge of what customers desire than do the originating offices and
owing to OSO-00 direct contacts it frequently has much less. Aside from
the fact that the burden of complaint respecting delay is usually visited
directly on the originating offices, 050 is conscious of the loss of
intelligence value in reports caused by even minimum delay in distri-
bution; under no conditions should OCD be granted the authority of
exclusive distribution. Indeed, on the contrary, consideration should
be given to the improvement of direct distribution by the originating
office through technical means. With regard to OSO requirements upon
other producers, experience has shown that information of the greatest
intelligence and operational interest to OSO which is funnelled through
OCD, frequently does not reach 030 at all or, at best, after considerable
delay. It would seem appropriate that a small committee of CIA office
representatives be established, under ORD chairmanship, to conduct a
continuing, critical review of dissemination practices and perhaps, to
maintain central records of distribution.
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S. With regard to possible future eorsolidations effected under the
provisions of '`eSC-50, following the implementation of the oresent plan,
certain provisions of the Dulles Committee report should be reiterated;
namely, that the natural ~xrowt h of OSO and OTC will require considerable
duplication of 00 functions. The vast untouched potential 25X1
ill ultimately necessitate the establishment of such an office
n CSO or the extension of the 00 overt collection function under the
closest sort of OSO-00 liaison.
25X1
assistant D ctor
Special Operations
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