RESPONSIBILITY FOR CONDUCT OF (Sanitized) OPERATIONS

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 22, 2002
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 9, 1963
• Content Type: MEMO

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(CLASSIFICATION)
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
Action Memorandum No. A-298
Date 9 October 19&3
TO : Deputy Director (Plans)
SUBJECT : Responsibility for Conduct of Special Operations
REFERENCE:
1. The attached Top Secret letter of 30 September from Secretary
Gilpatric to Mr. McCone reports the reassignment of responsibilities from
Lansdale's office to DIA and General Kru ak's office.
2. In connection with the assignment to General Krulak's office.
Secretary Gilpatric says, "General Krulak's office will assume responsibility
for the Washington-level planning and direction of special operations and
special activities in which DoD participates and which are not principally
intelligence in character. "
3. The foregoing quotation may be solely a simplified and somewhat
naive teary of NSAM 57 and all of our subsequent discussions and
negotiations on this point. On the other hand, it could be a very carefully
worded statement of policy by DOD designed to downgrade the existing
NSAM's and to put General Krulak's office in the position of monitoring CIA
mounted operations. Certainly it appears to be a clear definition designed
to limit CIA participation in special operations to those which would be
"principally intelligence in character. "
4. It seems to me that we must keep our guard up and it may perhaps
be timely to introduce this entire problem to the Special Group again. In any
event, please prepare a draft reply for the Director to sign to Gilpatric
indicating that he has received the letter of 30 September. that he feels sure
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that the rearrangement of rospons bilities withia DOD will not in any way
inhibit the close cooperation of the two agencies In these activities, and that:
(a) for the provision of cover +arrsuge ants be underst a-ds that this will be
a saran office at Gene rail C:'. trail's level to makes the arrangements but not to
become a part or a a:i&tter of rederd within the DIA covert operating elements.
and (b) as regards General K rulak'S office, the Agency Will continue, to operate
under the previsions of NSAM $7, NUM 16*, and o r current policies pf
the Special Group.
S. The foregoing language should be cleaned up, of course, and put into
proper phraseology.
Marshall S. Carter
Lieutenant General, USA
Deputy Director
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