LETTER TO MR. ROGER HILSMAN FROM C.P. CABELL

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• Publication Date: June 8, 1961
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ER 61-4318/a
JUN 1961
1 r. Roger Hileman
Director of Intent ence and Research
Department of State
Washington 25, D. C.
Dear ilaman:
Thank you for your letter of 23 Xay addressed to
ivir. Dulles, accepting the conditions pertaining to the
transfer of the Biographic and National Intelligence Survey
programs.
This Agency is making every effort to transfer
as many people as can qualify to our rolls. To this end we
are working closely with the Bureau of Intelligence and
Research and the Department's personnel office.
With respect to financial arrangements, representatives
of our Comptroller's Office have arranged to meet with their
counterparts in the Department.
sincerely,
SIM
STATE review(s) completed.
P. Cabell
General, USAF
deputy Director
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
THE DIRECTOR OF INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH
Dear Allen,
I refer to General Cabell's letter of 29 April
1961 setting forth the conditions under which the
transfer to CIA of the Department's Biographic and
National Intelligence Survey programs would be
acceptable to the Agency.
As a result of the Civil Service Commission
General Counsel's informal ruling that the withdrawal
of these functions from the Department of State will
be considered as a reduction in work rather than a
transfer of functions, the Department is now able to
accept the conditions stated in the General's letter.
The General Counsel emphasized that in making
this ruling, he expected that State and CIA would
jointly make every effort to transfer enough people
to avoid a reduction in force in the State Department.
I am sure we may expect the continued full cooperation
of your staff in pursuing this objective.
There will also be the problem of working out
fairly complex financial arrangements to cover the
transitional and liquidation period. I believe members
of your staff are aware of this problem and I feel
sure that mutually satisfactory plans can be developed.
Sincerely,
Roger Hilsman
The Honorable
Allen Dulles,
Director, Central Intelligence Agency,
Washington.
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Copies of this letter have been sent
to the DDS for necessary action and to General
Cabell and Bob Amory for their information.
Attached is a copy of your 29 April letter
to Roger Hilsman.
FORM NO. ~q REPLACES FORM 10-101 (47)
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i ; .; a Roger Oman
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have studied your lettur3 with respect to the pro; OS3d tr ns ax to
Cc t ai Intelligence Ag=y of tide portiM'13 Cl Um iwao intei.jig a Survey
tad o aphis Progrwns whicu have ?eeretofore t erforncci by the ;3epart-
.t of State. vie are., in pri ple, in favor of 3vur pro io3 i3 and axe i ra-
cd to proceed with the trans er of the persxr l Lavo vc;i c ith the undcrt d-
tizt these transfers v ill tt place in the ?.anz rester a i under tilt saw
at... t 9 a3 apply to all trasfers from ether Go-rrernr t at tea to the
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not under the jurisdiction of the Civil Service Com `3ston. Consequently, sit
;lutmeats to this Ager-zy ate: tam under do as rity of Sectiou 8. of the
irate r A racy A of 1949, a3 amoed. in ma;dng &p,-oiut ?uta
s tabs authority cermia sta r s are &p.- .ed c Leh la same cases are not
c g to a Government employees. It .ii, t rcfore, b nececaary to
iy our se~ity. mad k:al ml cz r trrr ?caz? y c~fi ria to 1 dividi
c p1Oy 3 scim"ed. for trasasf"ar. For excrm e, an crapioyza rriei to or
C. plating marriagr to an alien will require special cc.laiderat n. Person-
;'A evolved should *l3o underf"tand that It is the practice in Chia P racy tint en
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is asked to re.maia In : r,rice. Also, w perammul who have acqui
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 it appreciate the deaira dlity of coming to a ftnal conclusion r ith regard
to the matter and Meeting the persormel actions tavolved as sow at possible.
the end we an prepared to proceed with your representatives to work out
L%O caasary details.
S ncsley.
C. P. Cabell
General, USAF
Deputy Director
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 DEPARTMENT OF STATE
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WASHINGTON
Under separate cover, I have forwarded you our
thoughts on the transfer of State biographic functions
to your Agency. The enclosed paper covers, in general
terms, a proposed plan for the transfer of State NIS
operations to CIA. I have forwarded this plan separately
because we would prefer to arrange the details of the
biographic transfer first and then use the experience
gained in that transfer to refine implementation of the
NIS transfer.
My staff is available for consultation and assistance
in implementing the transfer. Our NIS Coordination Staff
should be able to provide information and advice concerning
the professional competence of the personnel involved, and
I have asked the Staff Director, Mr. Daniel Clinton, to
assist in every way possible.
May I have your comments and/or approval of the
proposed plan at an early date?
Proposed plan for transfer of State NIS
operations to CIA
The Honorable
Allen Dulles
Director, Central Intelligence Agency,
Washington
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
BUREAU OF INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH
March 21, 1961
MEMORANDUM
Subject: Transfer of NIS Functions to CIA
How to transfer the NIS functions, personnel and
working material (files) now in the Department of State to
CIA with the minimum effect on NIS production and the
personnel involved.
a. Functions
NSCID No. 3 assigns the responsibility for the
production of political and sociological intelligence on all
countries outside the Sino-Soviet Bloc to the Department of
State. However, Paragraph 1 b. of the same directive states
that changes in outline or allocation of production and
maintenance responsibility shall be effected by agreement
between the DCI and the Departments and Agencies concerned.
Under the latter clause, it is presumed that the DCI has
authority to approve changes such as we have proposed.
There are, at present, 289 NIS positions
authorized in the Bureau. This figure includes 20 positions
in"the Library. The transfer of NIS to CIA is not a simple
movement of personnel and functions such as the biographic
transfer, because most segments of the Bureau either worked
on, or serviced, NIS and, therefore, have NIS-financed
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positions authorized. Further, because of the flexibility
required in staffing, frequently S&E-financed personnel have
worked on NIS and NIS personnel have worked exclusively on
S&E production or State Department production other than
NIS. In addition, there are NIS-financed positions in the
A Area which may, or may not, remain once the transfer is
completed.
A preliminary survey has been made of each Office and
Staff. Each Office and Staff Director has furnished a list
of the personnel whom he feels will be available for transfer.
These are, in the main, personnel who have devoted the major
part of their efforts to NIS production. A list of these
personnel has been furnished Captain Knowles of OBI. However,
since it is perfectly natural for Office and Staff Directors
to wish to retain the best personnel, we have furnished
Captain Knowles with an additional roster which lists the
personnel on the Offices' retention lists and includes some
of those primarily engaged in NIS production.
We believe that there must be a meeting of the minds
regarding security requirements on behalf of the Agency before
we can approach personnel and ask them if they wish to transfer.
To keep the security cross-check requirements at a minimum,
we have asked Captain Knowles to indicate which personnel he
would like to have transferred and we will then arrange for
appropriate security checks on these personnel prior to
interviewing them for transfer.
The same problems regarding rights, privileges, length-
of-service, Civil Service dismissal regulations, etc. must be
explored and resolved as in the case of the BI transfer.
We are agreed that OBI must be furnished competent professionals
in order that the work may be carried forward without serious
gaps in production.
As in the case of BI, certain reign Service Officers
now working on NIS may be detailed to the Agency until the
Agency has an opportunity to recruit Civil Service personnel
to fill the analysts' slots.
The NIS and other basic files of the Bureau are, in
many instances, integrated. In order that the transferred
analysts
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analysts may continue in their work, a certain portion of the files
will have to be transferred with them. This is a difficult process
and may require an analyst-by-analyst approach. Undoubtedly, the
Agency now has much of the needed research material. However, it
will probably be some time before they have built up complete
coverage on each area.
In order to keep the transferred files current and provide
CIA with access to all information and intelligence resources, all
material formerly forwarded to various segments of the Bureau for
basic research on NIS must also be furnished CIA.
k. Liaison
There will undoubtedly be a step-up in liaison activities.
Analysts from CIA researching for, or working on, political,
sociological and cultural sections of NIS must have access to the
Geographic Bureaus, INR's country analysts, and other portions of
State. Conversely, State officers must have similar access to
CIA personnel. The present system of substantive review by the
Department and the field must be continued and expanded if necessary
5. Field Reporting
There will be no change in field reporting. However, the
Department, and specifically INR, must see that the NIS requirements
of CIA, formerly the Bureau's requirements, receive full consideration
within the Department and the Foreign Service.
6. Recommendation
The following recommendation assumes that the transfer can
be made without excessive damage to the work in the transitional
period and without the generation of large-scale placement problems
in the Department. If these problems should become too acute, it
might be necessary to consider basic modification of this plan; that
the transfer, as outlined under discussion, and the solution above
be approved. I would also recommend that transfer of NIS follow the
transfer of BI. Based on the difficulties encountered in the transfer
of BI, such modification as may be necessary can then be placed into
effect. In any event, both transfers should take place as soon as
possible. Additional delay is extremely harmful to the morale of
the employees and is effecting the biographic and NIS production.
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