DISSEMINATION TO ECA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04718A000500070051-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 28, 2002
• Sequence Number: 51
• Publication Date: March 13, 1950
• Content Type: MEMO

13 March 1950
SUBJECT: Dissemination to ECA
1. On Friday last you informed me that Mr. Hoffman, Chairman of
the ECA, had expressed strong dissatisfaction with the way in which
CIA has been withholding information which could be of value to ECA.
Mr. Hoffman stated that ECA was extending very substantial aid to
CIA, and that it was getting a brush-off in return. You instructed
me to correct this situation, and noted that if CIA did not do so of
its own volition it was more than likely we would receive hard and
fast orders from the National Security Council. Rather than wait
for such orders, which might leave us no leeway to deal with the
problem, you directed me to work out a system which would ensure
that all intelligence and information of value to ECA is promptly
transmitted. This system must be on a basis of calculated risk,
balancing ECA's need-to-know against operational hazards.
2. Mr. Doherty and Mr. Alexander of ECA's Security and Inves-
tigation Division called upon me this morning, and I have made the
following commitments in accordance with your instructions:
a. Liaison Division readers will set aside each day
copies of all papers produced in CIA which they believe
are important to ECA.
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b. ECA will designate a reader, probably Mr. Alexander
himself, who will be thoroughly cleared by our Inspection
and Security Staff.
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c. The ECA reader will be cleared to see all materials
set aside for ECA, including0 reports and others, even
though of Top Secret classification. He will come to M-Build-
ing as often as may prove desirable in practice, will deter-
mine which of the reports set aside for him are in fact
important to ECA, and will be permitted to take with him
to ECA, against his personal receipt, copies of those re-
ports which. do not present the "sensitive source" problem.
d. Reports which do present a ".sensitive source" problem
will be read by the ECA reader in their original format, but
they will not be released to him to be taken outside M-Build-
ing save with the approval of the originating Office. If
the-originating Office considers that it should edit a given
report before it can be used in.ECA it will do so - eliminat-
ing source descriptions or whatever else ma be necessary -
3. In making these commitments I pointed out that we might
often have to learn from ECA precisely which of their people was
going to have access to particular reports, and that it might happen
on occasion that we would have to demur from letting particular
individuals have access. In such cases ECA would have to give us
the name of someone else. Responsibility for handling the reports
in ECA, and seeing to it that they did not go to unauthorized in-
dividuals, would henceforth rest squarely on the shoulders of Mr.
Yeagley, Director of ECA'- Security and Investigation Division.
4. It is certain that the Office of Operations, and perhaps
other Offices and Staffs, will take exception to the arrangements
described above. Hence I should appreciate your signature of ap-
proval on this memorandum before I transmit copies to COATS, I&9S2
00, and ORE.
CORFIDEATIAL JAMES M. ANDREWS
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