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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00764R000300080039-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 18, 2001
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: December 22, 1949
• Content Type: MEMO

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OSD DEOLASSIF:ICATION/RE
IMMa. FOR the Seehet .ry
This study ire:.erts some background discus's-ion
and suggests seve?al alternative solutions for the
organizational setting of M . Wisner'3 O?C.
alternative 6 on page
r concur.
Generals
While.I do iot know State Departmentts final
position, the alternative recommended would furnish
the basis of disc1ssion w'r:ich I think would lead to
a solution satisfactory to you and Mr. Webb.
I should be]glad to exolain any -pointz.,venich
might be clarifiedl.
/s/ JOIN W GRUTDFETR
John Magruder
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SCVt 'S1 ON The pr nc plea governs g She functions and general composition
CTflected in the National Security ,,,et of 19
tf r 47 had been t~ e
bye long debate. lt,: yas not casual that to o?ne d
e irGcV
'w s given such r idely diire ;nt orate
responsibilities as the production
national intelligences
_,~ ~ _ collection of foreign intelligence
b cc a es ine, me. coda. /. Th n the need for instituting covert Opera-
ns inr peace, me .,beca ?e a pax?ent g ;
s "t,"-L it :ras not casual ghat they
8 u_1 hav'e,.,been, assigned to CIA and placed alongside the ,r related
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vitieS, lion and c9unter-espionage. To avoid t e Croat fi
a oating ~~ agency 0Perat~'"v i +
o n?lly nappropriate to any department
era ch"wras o d'rec.` , G,~ .e,
' ~' 4 ., "1de:24 upon clandestine intelligence,
i wa ur ]. to r
r~F , . cQ rpo_ a zp, covert operations
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widely differin7 enus.
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.Central Inte11 pence is. uniquely an American concept.
? hnr ar;ementR had historic va Lid .ty which includes our
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, ur intimate ob ervation of ? ;
m for e._gn practices in
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:last and most, important our governmz;ntal structure which dictates
its being as it,is. The more you try to change the composition of CIA
e y d y_
co ~eoteoob~.tenaZ ly do co dj11 ~o..s force j you
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ale T do not advocate ;it,, the only major organizat~onal charge
in dour national intelligence system which logically suggests itself
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.the separation of the ges ee~tra est4 Organization
for producing mates'anc studies from the clandestine organ` jlSYtC for coil
organ-,
L...GYtV.SU iz; c- ing,
intelligence.. ` he functions of these two agencies arc, not a_.-al o rous,
w How ver, their separation c"wd create another the, obv ous canva splinter agency lyit`.
nkanes inJ~lved and, further mare, would deprive thr
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s~ There re-mains tIne decision as to
@ra~. dJ.Y'ECt;1.071of within C iet,,een CSC and
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. a, they latter of which' noti4 is engaged exclusi-vely in the clandestine
c lection of intelligence.
jh view o the initial assumptions and the Ore~Oin., genera CCI;?-
?dexavians, there are oitlitned belov,~ the' several alter:~tive soli- 111 Lions
eo ildbeimplemented 1y 1SC directive.
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Leave CPC in stata3 qno ante publication of cc-u. In is
anerr;ent is *discarded as`'being unsatisfactory ~to all v~ho operate
ti der , and o all invESti-ators who have studied the nro'ole.,
~ combining un er an assis'a~>~, nor o_
' i/ ntact Branch" and essential separate covert cervices, retain the sepa-
14 ..`and O O, with their existing functions, each under .^_
} t on off"
r ter4he d A This arrang Trent provides for the separation of 3S0 aj d
.rhxls perm tt. nQ some d >gree of caerc3ir_a Lion `troug'^ a ss~s are
r eo or's ? n 4 ch rge of both. Wit} common control oily at: the top, ~t
ill leaves,parall:el butnbn-integrted organizations g a n whose personnel
a y b-e i activities and u avo d i_e
11 41evi?abl be forces i
a,Ctl.On? # ? t erpe uuateseC nJi s dera duplication of personnel and,
z, ii tG CG12~ ~_ l operations Of 0,71C,
l any services. The iTru ly covert political _..p
yy at home and abroad
v r ?[e ? ~~? s r d i ni. gyration
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4 4 it f ering t1' es G o f e1 atio'ns 7xL 1h ? n '~,n_' e na.. < Jana tion.
piety d f types ti . c ~~ie or
is alternative is discarded
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Same as alternative 2, except triat cP and ?`1 e inter' tea
ccI a to the extent o prevena,in~; f isuuf
donoeh'pa butr_at men
R ?a 3 '+ ~' par ~ " dd` o
ssi~ e separation ;isca dew for reasons giver. above are' ~o _
use it introduces anoti'er echelon of a zt7nority
Same as alternati e 3, except 'hat and O e serge 1 under
h ;a 111 '{ ard.ed as being the merger to which the seecreta ?y Of ref e so
,sects anc as having the major disadvarttages referred ,bin prey o,,~s
ternatives
.i If assumption 2 shouid be disregarded, all covert operations
ese tly ass gnetd to OPT, coin d. be ' if Led from C T A and assigned.
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(a) To department of State - all Truly covert operations of
! ',!political., economic and psyc_.olo{:cal character .
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