ORE STATUS REPORT; JUNE 1947

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00022R000200040033-3
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• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: July 9, 1947
• Content Type: MEMO

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SUBJECT: ORE Status Report; June 1947
I. IMMMPLNNENTATIOPN OF -RFC F,NTIY PROPOSED PLATS AND POLICIES
1. Interdepartmental Plans and Policies
u.. Concurring or Dissenting Action by IAB Agencies on ORE
Papers. Present ORE procedure is to seta ea ine of one week
for such concurrences or dissents. This deadline has been met
satisfactorily in every case recently with one exception., ORE 17.
In this instance, the State Department statement of dissent was
obtained only after a 'series of conferences involving the greater
portion of a monthts time. The difficulty encountered in this
instance resulted from conclusions which were read into the paper
by the State Department, but which were neither implied nor in-
tended by ORE. This experience is a recurring problem in dealing
with the State Department.
b. Integration of the Basic Intelligence Program Within ORE.
Pending approval by the NIA of the concept of the Basic Intelli-
gence Program contained in IAB #1p and pending formal, action of
the JIC to transfer the Joint Intelligence Study Publishing Board
responsibilities and facilities to CIG, the Basic Intelligence
effort is currently being expended upon the editing and review of
material prepared as a result of the Defense Project.
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SUBJECT : ORE Status Report.: June 19247
I. IMPLEMENTATION OF RECENTLY PROPOSED PI,,q,?S AND POLICIES
1. Interdepartmental Plans and Policies
a. Concurring or Dissenting Action by IAB Agencies on ORE
Papers. Present ORE procedure is--t-6 seta e- .ine of one week
for such concurrences or dissents. This deadline has been met
satisfactorily in every case recently with one exception, ORE 17.
In this instance, the State Department statement of dissent was
obtained only after a'series of conferences involving the greater
portion of a month's time. The difficulty encountered in this
instance resulted from conclusions which were read into the paper
by the State Department, but which were neither implied nor in-
tended by ORE, This experience is a recurring problem in dealing
with the State Department.
b. Integration of the Basic Intelligence Program Within ORE.
Pear"'. ing approval by the NIA of the concept of the Basic Intel~i-
gence Program contained in IAB #1, and pending formal action of
the JIC to transfer the Joint Intelligence Study Publishing Board
responsibilities and facilities to CIG, the Basic Intelligence
effort is currently being expended upon the editing and review of
material prepared as a result of the Defense Project.
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I11ENORMIDUM TO: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: ORE Status Report: July 1947
1. 11IPLFItENTATION OF RECENTLY PROPOSED PLANS AND POLICIES
a. Basic Intelligence Program. A full scale interdepartmental
effort, under CIG coordination an direction, toward the development
and execution of the National Intelligence Surveys is currently
blocked pending JCS action on:
1. Interdepartmental Plans and Policies
(1) Review and comment on IAB #1.
(2) Review and approval of the JIC proposal to tran-
sfer the functions and responsibilities of JISPB to CIG,
and final approval of IAB #1 by the ITIA.
The Chief, Naval Intelligence, has offered comments to the Director
of Central Intelligence on the outline and format of the proposed
NIS Program. These have been forwarded to the other JAB members for
information and with the suggestion by the DCI that the IAB agencies
undertake immediately a study of the proposed NIS outline so that
the ad hoc committee appointed to develop an NIS outline may have
before i the considered opinion of the JAB agencies at its initial
meeting.
b. Scientific Intelligence Program. On 9 July 194.7, representa-
tives of CIG, the IAB agencies an JRDB convened to discuss the subject
of National Scientific Intelligence Requirements. Essential agreement
was reached on the following points:
(1) That coordination of effort in the field was re-
quired and would be supported.
(2) That an inter-change between agencies of monthly
reports summarizing intelligence research projects
currently in process, and projected, by CIG and each JAB
agency would facilitate coordination of effort and pro-
gramming of intelligence research activities, scientific
and otherise, by all agencies.
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Tentative National Scientific Intelligence Requirements have been
developed by ORE in collaboration with JRDB based upon considera-
tion of those already established independently by Air, Army and
Navy intelligence agencies, and in augmentation thereof.
Based upon a 17 July meeting with JRDB representativeo, ORE
initiated a project with a 1 September deadline to develop the
scientific and technological capabilities of USSR which influence
the national defense economy of the United States as of 1949.
The establishment of an officially approved working relationship
between the Nuclear Energy Group and the Atomic Energy Commission
has not as yet materialized. The CIG proposed plan was submitted
to AEC on 14 April 19!47. . . . . . . .
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1. Paragraph 4 of the minutes of the 194th TAB Meeting reveals
that the AEC memorandum, Subject: Atomic Energy Intelligence, was
circulated to the I.A.B. It is believed that this and similar proposals
having, or bearing on, substantive intelligence problems should be
referred simultaneously to ORE and the TAB agencies. In principle, it
is affirmed that ORE, as the exclusive intelligence research facility
of the Director of Central Intelligence, should be accorded an oppor-
tunity to consider and submit to the Director of Central Intelligence,
in advance of his meeting with the JAB, its recommendations regarding
TAB matters pertaining to intelligence research and production. The
ORE interests in such matters differ from those of ICAPS, not neces-
sarily in principle but primarily in orientation. Accordingly, it
is recommended that TAB papers, or those submitted for TAB considera-
tion which contain intelligence research or production interests or
implications, be referred to ORE simultaneously with their distribution
to the TAB agencies in order that ORE recommendations on such papers
may reach the Director of Central Intelligence prior to TAB meetings
thereon.
2: It is believed that each TAB agency should endeavor,to
measure, in terms of manpower based upon its responsibilities, the
minimum strength for its intelligence collection and producing
facility required to provide total intelligence coverage within its
sphere of responsibility; further, that present strength and coverage
capabilities of each agency be compared to minimum required strength
and coverage; and finally, that this data be analyzed by CIG in
collaboration with the TAB agencies with a view toward determining:
the existence of vital gaps in intelligence coverage; the possibility
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of pooling resources for more efficient intel''g"ence production
in fields of common concern.; and finally,, the composite scale of
effort required to assure, from an intelligence viewpoint, total
national'security. This action is essential in order to proceed
with effective implexaentation of IAB #1 and the production of
national intelligence appropriate to the CIG operational level..
THEODORE BABBITT
Deputy Director
Reports and Estimates
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