PROGRESS REPORT (DUE 1 JANUARY 1952)

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 18, 2002
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: October 23, 1951
• Content Type: MF

MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director, Central Intelligence
Deputy Director (Plans)
Deputy Director (Administration)
Special Assistant to the Director
All Assistant Directors
Executive Assistant to the Director
Director of Training
General Counsel
FROM: Assistant to the Director
SUBJECT: Progress Report (due 1 January 1952)
23 October 1951
On January 1, 1952, Central Intelligence Agency will submit to
the President and to the Fational Security, Council a comprehensive
progress report for the period October 1956 to December 31, 1951. It
is intended that this document provide a critical self-analysis of all
CIA operations that the President may be accurately updated on the
health and condition of our national intelligence system.
Character, and Range of the Report:
1. If this report is to provide a critical self-analysis of all,
agency operations, it is essential that we insist upon obje-
tivity and honesty in our appraisal of the progress we may
claim to have made. At the same time, we must scrupulously
avoid over-emphasis on internal organization at the expense
of a more analytical examination of the concepts that guide
us, the functional responsibilities we claim, and the
difficulties with which we are beset.
2. The report will be a CIA report on CIA and its role in the
national intelligence system. To be effective it must be
penetrating and candid. It must admit to omissions as well
as confess to commissions; it must take a position and reach
a conclusion.
we must say and say plainly:
extoll our achievements for the period under review. Instea
3. It is not intended that the report shall simply enumerate and
a.
This
is what we
have
done.
b,
This
is why we
have
done it,
c,
This
is how we
have
done it.
d,
This
is where we once stood.
e,
This
is where we now stand,
f.
This
is what yet remains to be
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Consequently we must state with unrestrained objectivity the
nature, the magnitude, and the importance of those problems
that have not yet been solved. Where probable solutions to
these difficulties are within range, we can indicate the
probability and means of solution. But we have no desire
whatsoever to conceal those problems for which we may not yet
have found answers.
Style:
To be readable the report must be crisp and plain-spoken.
Wherever possible, specific incidents should be used to make
the point more graphically than it might be made in the
abstract. Above all, we shall try to avoid the conventional
government gobbledygook that produces such terms as "implement,"
"formalize," and "promulgated."
Where drawings, charts, and tables can be used to tell a story,
they should be. Illustrations, however, will be submitted in
work drawings that they may be executed in a standard design.
Classification:
1. TOP SECRET for body of the report.
2. Necessary classification for pertinent annexes.
Timetable:
1. Sectional drafts due November 16, 1951.
2. Board reviews by November 30, 1951.
3. Draft copy to DCI, DDCI, DD/P, DD/A, SA/DCI by December 14, 1951.
4. Completed text December 28, 1951.
5. Printed copies January 30, 1952.
Tentative Outline: Attached.
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TENTATIVE OUTLINE
SECTION I. A preface or introduction that will establish the need for
and value of intelligence in the policy-making processes of
government.
Tentative Title: Intelligence and the National Policy
Structure
Objectives: 1. To provide a basic lead-in to the report
by indicating what intelligence is and
what purposes it seeks to serve.
2. To introduce covert operations and show
how intelligence leads to the necessity
of counter-action in the cold. war.
Length: Approximately 15-20 pages
Responsibility: Sherman Kent, ONE
SECTION II. A historical discussion on how we have sought to fulfill
the need for intelligence. This section should carry us to
the threshold of October 1950 and provide a jump-off for
the phase to be covered by the report. Consequently, it,
too, is in part an introduction whose purpose it is to
provide the background that will enable a reader to under-
stand the reorganization and outstanding problems of CIA.
Tentative Title: The National Intelligence Problem
Content: 1. Establishment of SSU for the liquidation
of OSS.
2. Establishment of CIG, 19116, with emphasis
on an examination of:
a. Concept
b. Its place and role in the intelligence
community
c. The system that was devised by CIG
to carry out its role
3. Establishment of CIA with emphasis on an
examination of:
a. Concept and successive changes in
concept as evidenced by its patter
of growth.
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b. Place and role of CIA in the
national intelligence system
c. The emergence of an organization
in terms of responsibility for:
*1) Coordination
2) Collection
3) Processing
4) Covert operations
Length: Approximately 20 pages
Responsibility: Lawrence Houston, OGC
SECTION III, A critical examination of CIA for the period under review.
This section will probably be subdivided into five parts:
Part 1. The need for and the pattern of REORGANIZATION
Content: 1) The Dulles report; its findings
and conclusions
NSC 50; its objectives and
follow-through
Length: Approximately 20-25 pages
Responsibility: I IODCI
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Part 2, CIA's role and responsibility in the COORDINATION
of intelligence within the national intelligence
system
Content: 1) General statement on the need
for, the authority for, and the
concept of coordination, contrast-
ing previous practice to present-
day practice, tracing the
emergence of the latter.
IAC: A critical examination of
the device with emphasis on the
need for this committee, the
method by which it was employed,
and a study of the use that is
currently made of it.
* This pattern will be paralleled in detail in SECTION
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An examination of the dissolution
of ORE and its replacement by OCI,
ORR, and ONE.
l) Establishment of 010 with an
explanation of its soncept and
role.
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Part 3. Role and responsibility of CIA in the COLLECTION of
intelligence for the national intelligence system.
Content: 1) The need for, concept of, and
role of:
a)
00
b)
2) Critic
OSO
al examination of the pro-
gress
3) An exa
and problems of both offices...
mination of the problem of
"requi
4) The re
rements"
lationship of OPC to covert
intell
Length: Approx
igence collection.
imately 40 pages
Responsibility:
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designate.
Part 4. Role and responsibility of. CIA in the PROCESSING of
intelligence for the national intelligence system.
Content: 1) The need for, concept of, and
a) ORR
b) OCI
c) 0SI
--with a lead-in discussion
of OCD
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2) Critical examination of the pro-
gress, the projects, and problems
of these offices
3) ONE and the production of national
estimates
Length: Approximately 40 pages
j/ t- -? Responsibility:
1) Offices to submit individual
studies; chapter to be melded by
OCI.
2) Sherman Kent to produce discussion
on ONE.
Part 5. Covert operations; (including their relationship
t- e intelligence undertaking.)
Content: The need for, concept of, and
role of OPC with emphasis on:
a) NSC 10/2; the previous,
present, and probable future
relationship of OPC to CIA.
b) The "magnitude paper" and
the problems it entails.
Length: Approximately 35-40 pages
,zzt, -- Responsibility: k / SA/,4D c
h a.'t-SECTION IV. A critical and candid examination of those present-day
problems we have not solved and those we anticipate in the
future with particular emphasis upon:
1) The possible need for access to operational
knowledge if CIA is to perform its mission.
2) The ONE-0CI relationship.
3) Role of CIA in the national intelligence system,
4) Scientific intelligence.
it This selection of "problems" is purely tentative. Some
may not warrant inclusion. There will be many more perti-
nent ones but they must1be spotlighted by the offices.
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5) The relationship of CIA to the military in
theaters of operations.
6) Escapees
7) Specific problems of the separate
Length:
Responsibility: 1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
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ANNEXES: 1. Administration
Content: 1)
2)
Length:
Responsibility:
3)
a) Personnel requirements
b) Fiscal requirements
c) Supply requirements
Existing and anticipated problems
Approximately 30 pages
DD/A
u ~--- 2. Communications Intelligence
Length:
Responsibility:
James Q. Reber
AD/OSI
DD /P
-'9 b /o
Assistant Directors
Concept and nature of the task
Approximately 10 pages
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Length:
Responsibility:
Approximately 15 pages
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