REORGANIZATION OF ICAPS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67-00059A000200110072-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 18, 2000
• Sequence Number: 72
• Publication Date: October 5, 1948
• Content Type: MF

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D R A F T
5 October 1948
MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR
FROM: CHIEF OF ICAPS
Subject: Reorganization of ICAPS
1. Attached are the detailed views of ICAPS Members on the above
subject.
Briefly, most of us think that, with CIA "legitmatized" in the
National Defense Act and thus being more firmly established in its own
right, many of ICAPS' original functions have naturally changed or have
ceased to exist.
3, The Standing Committee Members in the IAC Agencies do much of the
coordination work, making ICAPS an expensive duplication.
4. And, most of the current planning is done by the various planning
staffs in CIA offices - who maintain direct 1isisan on the operational level
with most of the IAC agencies.
Accordingly, nowadays there is not enough work to keep ICAPS
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6. Only -''CAPS Officers are now more or less permanently occupied
part-time on outside committees (K$O Staff and SANACC Subcommittee) and
much of this work is non-essential from the CIA point of view.
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7, Some overall interdepartmental coordination and liaison is
desirables in addition to that performed on the operational level., and some
overall planning? and some representation on committees., at least in the
initial stages of a project or when a subject under discussion is of
especial interest to CIA. We think that all of this can be done with a
much smaller personnel in ICAPS and that the balance of the ICAPS personnel
can be more advantageously used elsewhere in CIA.
8. This memo refers only to ICAPS as presently constituted and only
to the work now allotted to ICAPS. Whether or not additional duties
should be given to ICAPS or the former survey and inspection work restored
to ICAPS are matters which I think are within the purview of the Directorate.
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