PRESENTATION OF THE 1959 NET EVALUATION SUBCOMMITTEE REPORT

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R001100060006-0
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• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 14, 2003
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: October 29, 1959
• Content Type: MF

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NET EVALUATION SUBCOMMITTEEa
MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. Allen W. Dulles
Director of Central Intelligence
Subject: Presentation of the 1959 Net Evaluation Subcommittee
Report
1. It has been decided that the 1959 report of the Net
Evaluation Subcommittee will be deferred in its presentation
until next spring.
2. The Director of the Staff, Net Evaluation Subcommittee,
has been instructed to be prepared to present the report of the
1959 Net Evaluation in April or May of 1960 and to cancel plans
for the conduct of a 1960 Net Evaluation.
N. F. TWINING
Chairman
cc: Mr. Gordon Gray
Lieutenant General Hi.clcey
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR
SUBJECT: Present Plans of the Net Evaluation Subcommittee Staff
1. Attached hereto is a letter from General Twining indicating
that the report of the 1959 Net Evaluation will not be presented to
the President until April or May of 1960. This is the evaluation
which was begun a year ago; the war game has been completed and
the staff will begin in a week or two to draft the written report.
2. The report on the 1959 Net Evaluation would normally be
completed in November and presented orally at the White House in
December. Following immediately thereafter, the staff would have
begun a new study. The President has informed General Twining,
however, that he would pr efer to receive the 1959 report in the
spring and that this was the only report he desired before expiration
of his term.
3. General Twining has therefore instructed General Hickey
not to undertake a 1960 evaluation, and he is writing to you in
his capacity as Chairman of the Subcommittee to advise you of his
instructions to General Hickey,
4. The President's decision naturally raises the question of
whether the staff should be continued after it has submitted the 1959
evaluation. I believe it is General Twining's opinion that the staff
should be kept together until the new administration can decide
whether it desires the net evaluation studies to continue. In order
to keep the staff employed, General Twining and General Hickey
appear to believe that an evaluation, to be presented in 1961, should
be initiated by the Subcommittee on its own responsibility next
spring after presentation of 1959 report. It is also their view that,
during the months between now and April, the staff will - in addition
to completing the 1959 report - engage in general orientation and
planning looking toward a 1961 report.
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5. During the past three months the staff has been heavily
occupied with preparation of the special target study for the Joint
Chiefs of Staff which was begun this past spring. As you will re-
call, this was not a Subcommittee project but the use by the JCS
of the staff's experienced personnel. CIA supplied th~~ intelligence
input, but you, as a member of the Subcommittee, are not re-
sponsible for the report itself. That report was passed to General
Twining on 30 October. Presumably, if the staff is not heavily
occupied over the next several months, the JCS may