ABOLITION OF PCG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R004300080001-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 9, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 21, 1955
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
The attached letter addressed to you by General Parker
transmitted drafts of papers relating to the abolition of the PCG.
The draft report of the PCG dated November 7 contains some changes
from the draft which was sent to you by Mr. Rockefeller under date
of October 19, with which you concurred in your letter of October 27.
These changes are as follows:
1. The earlier draft had language describing
the PCG as a mechanism designed "to infuse dynamic,
new imaginative ideas, etc. " This language has been
omitted, apparently to meet a comment made by
Mr. Hoover.
2. Mr. Hoover also apparently suggested that
the "representative of the President on the OCB"
(Mr. Rockefeller) be omitted from the enumeration
of those who would be responsible for policy guidance
to the DCI under 5412/1. Mr. Rockefeller's letter
to Mr. Hoover of November 7, a copy of which is
attached, states that this suggestion was not adopted
"as it is the President's explicit desire that he have
direct staff representation in this regard. " Therefore,
there has been no change in the earlier draft of provisions
relating to covert operations.
3. The draft letter from the President to
Mr. Rockefeller has been amended in language although
not in substance. Here again there was involved a point
apparently raised by Mr. Hoover about the designation
of Mr. Rockefeller as, "representative of the President".
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The issue of whether Mr. Rockefeller should be described
in these papers as "representative of the President" appears to be
somewhat academic in view of the fact that the original executive order
creating OCB provided that among the members, there should be "one
or more representatives of the President to be designated by the
President." With regard to the second issue of Mr. Rockefeller's
being among the group which deals with covert operations, I understand
that you have said that you wish to take no position and that any
resolution of this difference of opinion between Messrs. Hoover and
Rockefeller will be satisfactory to you.
Accordingly, it seems to me that we have no comment to
make upon the attached papers. Nor does it appear to me necessary
that you write General Parker saying that you have no comment.
This matter will undoubtedly be discussed orally at some future date.
We have already drafted the proposed amendments to 541Z/1 and they
can be produced whenever needed.
25X1
Sp e cial Assistant to the Director
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