ACTIONS TAKEN BY ICAPS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67-00059A000100140025-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2000
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: August 20, 1946
• Content Type: MEMO

STANDARD FORM NO. 64
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Office emora42 um ? UNITED STA ES GOVERNMENT
To The Director
FROM
SUBJECT:
Acting Chiefs Interdepartmental Coordinating
and Planning Staff
Actions Taken by ICAPS
DATE: 20 August 191i6
1. The following is a list of the more important actions taken by the
Interdepartmental Coordinating and Planning Staff since its inception:
5 August - Office of Research and Evaluation was requested to make a
special study on a continuing basis of the scope and value of the
information flow from the China area, submitting to ICAPS any
suggestions for improvement.
5 August - Office of Dissemination was requested to make a general objective
study of the periodic and special intelligence reports prepared
and circulated by the intelligence agencies of this Governments
with recommendations for integration and elimination of overlaps.
5 August - Office of Collection was requested to make a study of the basic
instructions issued by the several intelligence agencies to their
agents and representatives abroad fcr the collection of intelli-
gence informations with a recommendation for such redrafting as
might appear advisable to ensure complete coordination in the
preparation of field reports.
7 August - Memorandum to the Executive Director recommending a plan for the
coordination of the work of the Office of Special Operations with
the collection activities of the other agenoies,providing maximum
security to Special Operations.
7 August - Memorandum to the Executive Director urging the prompt recruitment
of personnel to permit the creation in CIG of a Central Register of
Intelligence Information.
August - Memorandum to the Executive Director requesting that the Office of
Research and Evaluation be directed to assume the responsibility
fcr the evaluation of SSU repcr tss thus relieving G-2.
8 August - Memorandum designating as CIG representative
on the SWNCC ad hoc Committee on Psychological Warfare. ,
9 August - Letter to the Board of Geographical Namess Department of the
Interiors requesting the designation of an eipert to consult ?
with ICAPS on the standardization of all transliteration and
transposition systems now in effect in the intelligence agencies..
9 August - Office of Collection was requested to study the completeness cf
the collection coverage in China.
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13 August - Office of Collection was requested to make arrangements for CIG
to have access to General Marshall's reports from China.
13 August - Office of Special Operations was informed of the importance
attached to covert collection from the Communist Zone in China.
19 August - Offices of Collection and Research and Evaluation were requested
to initiate programs for intelligence production and evaluation
on the appearance of guided missiles over Sweden, for the benefit
of the Joint Research and Development Board.
DONALD EDGAR
Acting Chief a Interdepartne ntal
Coordinating and Planning Staff
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