INTELLIGENCE NETWORK IN MOVE TO REUDCE DUPLICATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100270004-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: January 8, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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'In Move to Reduce Duplication
Activities of State Department' and I
Group Named, by Johnson Will Survey,
Military Agents, as Well as C.I.A.:
By TAD SZULO
CPY GHt
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 - A.i On ffic task force, m a sa-
study of the worldwide activi- dor Nolting isrepresenting the
ties ? of United States intelli- State Department, General Rey-
gence agencies has been under- nolds the Defense Departnten
,taken by a special Presidential and Mr. Bross the Central In.
;task force. Its goal is to bring tell irrcnce Agency.
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,about greater efficiency and; Tlie group expect to dra va ua on Disagree
coordination. fup recommendations ,thin four In other instances; coordina-
The group' is composed of or five months. It ?s not in lion in the field is virtually un-
Frederick E. Nolting Jr., a For- ~tcnderf as a perman t body. possible because of the special
eign Service officer and former The, nation's over all intelli- ?:hccret assigiments Involved.
Ambassador to South Vietnam; Igencc effort is under ontinuou ? There have been deep
Maj. Gen, John M. Reynolds of review by the Fore n Intelli-disagreements at times among
the Air Force, who has served 1gence Advisory ,Bo rd, whit State Department, C.I.A. and
since 1961 as vice director of{{Was established by President military agents as to the signs
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, andll{ennedy in May, .19 1, follow- ficance of developments and the,
John A. Bross, deputy to the.ing the failure of th rebel. in- policies necessary to deal with!
director of the Central Intelli-I?vasion of Cuba at e Bay of them. i
gence Agency. Pigs. The board is w headed This was notably true during,
The task force is functioninnlby Clark M. Clifford, who last the crisis in South Vietnam pre-I
as a part of the immediate staff !year . succeeded Dr. James R. ceding the ouster of the regimes
,of John A. McCone, who, in ! Kiillan Jr. of the chat man, headed by the Ngo family.
his capacity of director of :pen- Ordered by lien edy For months there was a run-
tral ? intelligence, is respp;nsible Wing dispute involving the State
for 'coordinating the work of The new task fore was called Department, the C.I.A. and the
the nation's intelligence com-;for by President Ken edy short- military as to tho viability of
munity as a whole. 1y before his death. Its mem- the regime and the success. or
failure of the war against the
The intelligence community,bers were named b President Viet Cong guerrillas.
is made up of the three main Johnson last month. I
intelligence components of the The Wnite house was flooded; Administrk United States Government: the!itoday that noispecifi Isil.u3tion with contradictory information
iCental Intelligence Agency, the led to the appointor nt of the and reconiniendations on what
;Bureau of Intelli ence and Re- I was happening and what to do.
g panel, although it w felt that often . is was, hard. to tell
search of the State Department,! the time had cone o take a
and the Defense Intelligence new look at the opet tional re- whether policies pro posed by r to
to
Agency plus the intelligenectlationship of the vari is autono- donartmentt were intended
sections of each of the three. t 11 confirm intelligence from .the.
military services. mous in c igence age ties, field or whether the information
While in theory the dif- was used to justify the recom-
Coordinates All Agencies !ferent agencies purs separate mended policies.
?. Mr. blcCone holds the post of objamountectivesof a overla c innsiderable Though officials insisted that
director if the Central intelli- g , and the study of the intelligence
gence Agency, but the law as duplication 4n field ssignment community was based on a gen-
well as specific directives of the is inevitable. Much f it, it is eral need to streamline over-all
National Security Council and felt here, can be climb ated. operations, - some, sources ac-
the President have'vested in him Although under a Presidential! knowledged that the Vietnam
the simultaneous function of di-. directive the Ambass dor is the situation might well have In-,
rector of the intelligence com- senior United States official in spired President Kennedy's dec
munity. each foreign country in prac ion to order the review.
His responsibility is to coordi- tee there frequently occurs. an It is also known that there)
overlapping of politi I re port- r '
pate the activities of all the 1 e frequent differences in coal j
elements in the intelligence inn by C.I.A. repro entatives, ation of 'various aspects of then]
community. State Department of icials and uban situation among the
study has thus the military attaches. hree main elements of the in.
The current stu 11
been ordered to provide thu- On occasion, the degree of co-, elligence community..
den ordered
and ovi ordination is determi ed by the There is no desire in the Ad
with Johnson and Mr. McC McCoonne e personal rclationshi among inistration to impose tmiform-
the representatives o the three t of vie
w
bas to now best the work of alligroups although final evaula- rouPs, but 3 0- the th ho inte is igthae.
the agencies can be meshed to-
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