JOINT STUDY GROUP (RECOMMENDATION NO. 11 OF THE JULY 2, 1961 REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT BY THE PRESIDENT'S FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY BOARD)

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 31, 2003
• Sequence Number: 66
• Publication Date: August 30, 1961
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August 30, 1961
MEMORANDUM FOR: The Secretary of State
The Secretary of Defense
The Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: Joint Study Group (Recommendation No. 11
of the July 2, 1961 Report to the President
by the President's Foreign Intelligence
Advisory Board)
The President has been advised of the recent submission of
status reports on the subject by the Departments of State and Defense
and by the Central Intelligence Agency.
The President has noted the view of the Secretary of Defense
that implementation of many of the Joint Study Group recommendations
applicable to the Department of Defense and to other organizations in
the national intelligence community must await completion of studies
now under way and, in some cases, the activation of the Defense Intel-
ligence Agency on October 1, 1961.
In accordance with the foregoing, the President has directed
submission of semiannual reports, beginning March 1, 1962, by the
Departments of State and :Defense and by the Central Intelligence Agency
on the status of implementation of each of the recommendations of the
Joint Study Group for which your respective agencies have primary
action responsibility. Copies of the status reports should be furnished
directly to the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.
s/
McGeorge Bundy
cc: The President's Foreign Intelligence
Advisory Board
(Attention: J. Patrick Coyne)
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Proposed courses of action on which the views or recommendations
of the Board, as appropriate, would be most helpful:
(1) Take steps to carry out the approved recommendations of
General Taylor regarding paramilitary activities as they affect CIA.
(2) Extend the practice of making contingency estimates to
include estimates of the probable consequences of proposed major
covert activities.
(3) Elevate the Board of National Estimates by making the
Chairman of the Board a Deputy Director, and by providing that the
I)CI, after consultation with the Secretary of State and the Secretary
of Defense, respectively, would appoint one or two senior Foreign
Service officers, and three military officers (as at present) to the
Board. Such officers should be either retired officers or should
be serving on their last tour of duty, and should act in their
individual capacities as do other members of the Board, and not
as representatives of the respective departments from which they
come.
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(4) Proceed urgently to develop a community-wide system
for ensuring that collection requirements are related more
effectively to priority needs, already available information, and
current or potential collection resources.
(6) Review present procedures for congressional appearances
with a view to reducing the burden of requirements for Agency
presentations without, however, changing existing procedures with
respect to the special committees established by the Congress for
CIA, namely, Appropriations and Armed Services.
(7) Arrange through USIB to meet any requirements for the
early warning of developing "cold war" crisis situations in any area
of the world. (Indications respecting hot war dangers involving the
Communist bloc are covered by the National Indications Center and
the Watch Committee.)
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(9) Seek the views of the President's Board with regard to the
steps being taken to effect coordination of intelligence activities
pursuant to the recommendations of the Joint Study Group and the
NSC Action of January 18, 1961. Any Board recommendations,
approved by the President, would be most important for securing
the necessary cooperation of all intelligence agencies.
(10) Review the espionage laws and also the feasibility of
legislation somewhat similar to the British Official Secrets Act, as
further measures to protect the security of intelligence operations.
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