COMMENTS ON USIA INTELLIGENCE SURVEY.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04718A000100250021-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 26, 2000
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: July 6, 1954
• Content Type: MF

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1. The "Note" at the top of the first page, Tab As, is ertre?ae-
ly important, The publications reooaieraied for distribution to U&LA
are, in many casea, very sensitive and the distribution within '[It
sous to be reasonably wide, While I am not familiar with Tiii&'s se-
curity standards and practices, it is reasonable to ass,me that in
the conduct of their particular business they mutt employ many people
who would not meet security standards of the agencies from which these
publications originate.
2, The USIA Intelligence Unit, itself, should ae kept as small
as possible, It would seem to me that recomcrrdations A., :Ii., and C.
of Tab B should be emphasized with a minimum of effort spent in carry-
ing out those functions provided for in D. and Every effort should
be made to insure that this Unit is served by other agencies and ac-
tivities and they should not build up a big staff of their own. Based
upon the functions indicated the staff of ninety would aeom to be ad-
equate.
3. Presumably, a part of the Da..artment of State i.n elli,-arce
organization which has been supporting U+IA will go to U 'LA to form
a part of the recommended intelligence organization, and, presuvably,
the burden on -Mate, exclusive of the rocoamended expansion of :al.`s,
will be correspondingly reduced.
4. 'r'rankly,I was rather surprised at the apparent extmme use-
fulness of the NIS Program to USIP and I had also assumed that the
type of information needed in the field of international communism nor-
mally would not he found in an N#5. I had t cufht that the material
needed would be of a much more. current natire than one would expect tx25X1A
find in the NIS, I have discussed this matter briefly with II
of the NIS Staff who indicated that while he was not familiar
vith-this study the Psych lor;ical Oarfare people had from time to time
suggested that there be a "package" in the NDT which would contain in-
formation on international c xsisn, foreign trade, east-q,ect trade,,
and other subjects useful to them. He felt that on examination,
soventy-=Yre to eighty per cent of the information they needed was in
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 the NIS already but not wrapped up in one package. He also felt that
it would defeat the purpose of the NIS to start developing special
sections to meet the particular needs of are agency or activity. Rath-
er, he believed that the real purpose was to provide basic over-all
information from which all agencies and activities could draw to meet
their specialized needs. said that while he had
heard that this study was taking plaoa it had not been discussed with
him........he is responsible for the NIS Program.)
5. I believe it could be argued that the NIS Program is not the
proper vehicle through which to meet this situation. However, accept-
ing the conclusions of the task force as valid, we should insure that
6. In our discussions with the Bureau of the Budget concerning
budgeting generally, I telieve it is usually their philosophy that work
should be assigned to the various agencies and that each agency should
budget so as to finance all work for which it is responsible. This,
as you know, is contrary to the present method of financing the NIS
Program and, in accordance with our conversation of 5 July, I believe
that it is entirely proper to undertake a study of this situation.
This would not, however, influence Fiscal Year 1955 inasmuch as these
funds are included in our appropriation for that period.
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