DRAFT REVISION OF NSCID 5

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 1, 2003
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: October 28, 1957
• Content Type: MF

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SMORANDUM : Chief, Cl Staff
OBJECT
Draft Revision of =CID 5
tober
1. The current draft revision of NBC!) 5 raises' runaentai
questions as to the future workload it implies for the Roc
Integration Division, and indicates that the implementing provisions
f the new DCIDe will have to take very strict amount ot ocoh hard
realities as the RI Table of Organixation, the DWI' pereonnel
ceiling, available space, and budgeting for salaries and overtime.
understand from FI that these DCIDe are to be drafted In your
office.
2,
Depending on how the resultant workload is de et in
he catch-ell definition and description of Coueter-Intelli
paragraph lb of the draft could doable or quadriply the
te of RI for personnel and space at the *sprawl of the
Clandestine Services. Or it might have very little
telling, until somebody gives hard thought to thy aver-
tical problems. If the new version does increase the
d significantly, will the Agency 1) ask for more iseople?
money as necessary, 2) out other function's of the Clan.
ices, or 3) accept new functions without diminishing
old, and thereby go on allowing RI services to deteriorate, both
n quality and quantity, with ever-increasing backlogs, congestion,
and over-expenditure on overtime?
3. Paragraph 3d contains several phrases that will require
rigo ouss definition. That is meant by "ell pertinent material",
and whose definition will prevail?ours or the contributing agency is'
Pertinent to their operations (as, for example, all information on
petty theft from a quartermaeter dump is pertinent to CIC's function
of protecting the security of local military installations), or per-
tinent to the national security according to a narrow and workable
definition? Haw such and "'bat kind of "benefit" can the intelligence
community reasonably expect? Do you foresee one central set of
indices and files, incorporating our own with others, BO that only
ambers of the Clandestine Services' could have access, or two pets
ours and the general set, with different standards of sensitivity
and access, so that the community at large could mad Its personnel
to use it and reduce the burden on us
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name traces by other members of the intelligence cG,&u1dty.
This backlog has now been rising for five years. La Jonuary
1957, it stood at 34,338. Two weeks ago it reached the all-
time high of 49,493. (Most of then are of the kind we do
ander the McCarron Act, on temporary visitors sho have left
the country even before the name-trace request arrives in
CIA, or on diplomats and their retinues who would at Ue
excluded no matter how such old derogatory informatton turned
up in our files. But that is mother problem.) Iola will remember
the memorandum fros Col. Edwards early this year emphogisant
what damage we are doing to our position in the community
by delays in answering these requests.
5. All old hands in the Clandestine Services will undoubtedly
applaud the effort, by means of the new 11BC19 5, to make us truly
a Control Intelligence Agency, but if we continue to talte on more
work than we are equipped to do well, as we have done in the past,
we shall certainly do that effort more harm than good.
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