CIA 0-49

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00022R000200040061-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 61
• Publication Date: February 14, 1949
• Content Type: MEMO

Approved For Release 2000/09/14: CIA-RDP84-00022R000200040061-2
Transcribed for abd by cein 19 January 1953
Assistant Director, R & E
Chief, Global Survey Group
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?eference: Memorandum for the Director from.the Chief, ICAPS, 4 February 1949
1. The criticism presented in -the Reference is so farfetched
that it is hard to understand how it could be seriously made.
2. There is no denial of the position so stoutly maintained by
ICAPS in paragraph 4 of the Reference, so far as it relates to analysis
of the internal situation in the USSR. It is axiomatic. ICAPS is in
remarkable error, however, in maintaining that analysis of the internal
stability of the United States is a proper CIA function. That is not
only outside of the intelligence function, but is also expressly for-
bidden by the statute from which CIA derives its existence. I cannot
believe that ICAPS really meant to say what it has said in this connec-
tion, preferring to suppose merely that it has not expressed its
thought well.
3. ICAPS, however, is apparently unwilling to adopt as reasonable
an attitude toward ORE. It professes to believe an absurdity; that
ORE really meant to say that the internal situation in the USSR was
of no concern to CIA. This supposition depends on an exceedingly
strained construction on half a sentence read out of context. It is
incredible that ICAPS should really believe that ORE holds the view
attributed to it, but only on that assumption can the ICAPS comment
be regarded as having been made in good. faith.
4. The sentence in question is defective in that the portion
underscored by ICAPS is susceptible to the strained construction which
ICAPS has put upon it. Such a construction, however, is not to be
expected of any intelligent reader. It is contrary to the entire tenor
of the discussion from which the quotation is lifted. Moreover, the
true intent is made perfectly plain by the remainder of the very same
sentence, which expressly states a anew identical to that maintained
by ICAPS: to wit, that the US has reason to give close attention to the
possibility of tensions developing in the social structure of the USSR.
5. This is a teapot tempest unworthy of the Director's time and
attention. Inasmuch as it has been raised, however, let the Director
be shown how ICAPS has abused his confidence, and be assured that ORE
is not so silly as ICAPS misrepresents it to be.
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