MEMORANDUM FOR: DEPUTY DIRECTOR (SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY) FROM MARSHALL S. CARTER

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• Document Release Date: August 20, 2003
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• Publication Date: August 1, 1964
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I August 1964
. MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director (Science and Technology)
1. Following up on the DCI's directive at the staff meeting
yesterday morning, this memorandum is to assign to you primary
responsibility for the preparation of the report on the scientific
and technical assets that have been built up m4thin the Agency
during the Director's incumbency but principally since you came
on board. He contemplates acing this report with the President's
Board,. the President himself, Congressional committees, as
well as in discussions on NRO and FMSAC.
2. 1 think what he has in mind is a narrative of the consol-
idation efforts undertaken in the Agency to collect Pete 3coville'a
"critical mass" of scientific talent under one circus tent and to
build on that with the type of competence you have been able to
recruit from outside. You should cover the purpose of the exer-
cise as well as the targets to which you are addressing yourself.
This should be not so rrvach a technical, statistical report as it
should be a talking document or a Vladisson Avenue-type brochure,
perhaps even with pictures and short biographical sketches of
your principal officers. It should also include the development of
FMMC and a discussion of our in-house competence for bleeding
the beat out of industry and the scientific profession without our-
selves establishing laboratory facilities. It should also cover the
type of management competence we now have in-house to oversee
and breathe down the necks of contractors who may be doing the
actual developmental and research work for us.
3. If anything further is needed in the way of guidance,
please come talk to me. You would do well to consult with Kirk
(who prepared the paper on proWsssionalism in the Agency) and
with John Bross for additional ideas. You are aware, of course,
we are required to make periodic reports to the President's
Board on this matter and have recently done so in much abbrevi-
ated form.
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4. Obviously, the sooner the better since it could have a
direct bearing on our NRO discugsion* at the highest level.
Please coins up with a first draft an soon as possible and we
will improve it and expand on it as time passes and the need
arises.
Marshall S. Carter
Lieutenant General, USA
Acting Director
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