JOINT STUDY GROUP RECOMMENDATION FILES

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 4, 2003
• Sequence Number: 68
• Publication Date: April 13, 1964
• Content Type: MFR

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SUBJECT Joint Study Group Recommendation Files
Joint Study Group Recommendations contained in this file pertain
to the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA), and the United States Intelligence Board (USIB).
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TO: All Chiefs of Stations and Bases
FROM: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: Joint Study Group Report on Foreign Intelligence Activities
of the United States Government
1. An ad hoc Joint Study Group under the chairmanship of Mr. Lyman B.
Kirkpatrick was established in July 1960 to review and make recommendations
concerning the most effective and efficient use of intelligence resources
and to assist the Director of Central Intelligence in carrying out his
responsibilities for coordinating the foreign intelligence activities of
the United States Government. The Joint Study Group consisted of repre-
sentatives of the Director of Central Intelligence, the Secretary of State,
the Secretary of Defense, the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, and
the Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. In
pursuit of their task, the Group made exhaustive inquiries in Washington
and other installations in the United States, and in a few selected over-
seas posts, in an effort to obtain the most complete picture possible of
the problems along with representative views as to their solution.
2. The Study Group submitted a report on 15 December 1960 containing
43 recommendations, the Lulk of which w:s subsequently approved by the
National Security Council and the President. The approved recommendations
include:
a. steps which the Department of Defense should take to provide
more coordination and strengthening of the intelligence activities
of the armed forces, consonant with the Defense Reorganization Act
of 1958, both in Washington and overseas;
b. steps to ensure more effective coordination in the overt
collection efforts of the U. S. Government;
c. improved development and coordination of requirements and
their evaluation in terms of collection resources throughout the
intelligence community;
d. more comprehensive community-wide coordination in future
planning and programming and in research and development in the
U. S. intelligence effort;
e. greater attention to counterintelligence and security; and
f. clarification of arrangements for coordination of the
clandestine collection efforts of the U. S. intelligence community.
3. Under my general leadership and assisted by the newly formed
Coordination Staff, steps are being taken to implement these recommendations.
Several of them will have a direct bearing on the activities of many of
our stations and bases as well as on the activities of the U. S. embassies
and military commands abroad. Their precise effect on our stations and
bases will become clear in the near future, and Headquarters will from
time to time give specific and timely instructions, guidance, and infor-
mation to our stations and bases as appropriate.
iL-
Allen W. Dul Yes
Director
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"The chief of mission or principal officer in each overseas
area should be given affirmative responsibility for coordin ti
of all overt and clandestine intelligence requirements cone
that area." ~
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Herewith is my understanding 01 -Irnu
meaning of Recommendation 24 of the
Joint Study Group report. This inter
pretation follows my conversation with
Mr. Kirkpatrick, Chairman of the grouk.
I have not had an opportunity to c
the language of my interpretation with
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RECOMMENDATION
Mr. Kirkpatrick s rstb ? interpretation
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FORM N0. 23 Replaces Form 30 4
I APR 55 which may be used.
U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1955-0-342531
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