MEMORANDUM FOR: GENERAL MARK W. CLARK FROM DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

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• Publication Date: July 26, 1954
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26 July 1954
MEMORANDUM FOR: General Mark W. Clark
REFERENCE : Task Force of the Hoover Commission on Organization
of the Executive Branch of the Government to Study
the Central Intelligence Agency.
1. The Legislation establishing the Commission on Government Opera-
tions states that the work of this body should include studies:
a. recommending methods and procedures for reducing expenditures
to the lowest amount consistent with the efficient performance of
essential services, activities, and functions;
b. eliminating duplication and overlapping of services,
activities, and functions;
c. consolidating services, activities, and functions of a
similar nature;
d. abolishing services, activities, and functions not
necessary to the efficient conduct of government;
e. eliminating nonessential services, functions, and activities
which are competitive with private enterprise;
f. defining responsibilities of officials; and
g. relocating agencies now responsible directly to the President
in departments or other agencies.
It is assumed that you will cover these matters in your survey of the
Central Intelligence Agency.
2. In conducting your study of the CIA you will also examine its
organization and methods of operation. Special attention should be paid
to the relations between the CIA and other intelligence organizations
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including the NSA and the C.I.C. of the Army. It is suggested that attention
should be given not only to the question of duplication and overlapping
between these agencies, but also to how well they serve their respective
agencies and departaents and the degree of their.contribution to the
national intelligence picture. A subject that is of importance is whether
adequate encouragement is being given to - Ti i W development of career
intelligence officers. The security of our intelligence organizations is
also a matter of prime importance.
3. In connection with your study of the CIA, you should be apprised
of the work of a panel of consultants on the covert activities of the CIA
which has been set up under Lieut. General James Doolittle. Inasmuch as
it would be difficult, if not impossible, for your task force to get into
the details of CIA's clandestine operations, yet in view of the importance
of some outside impartial body scrutinizing this aspect of CIA's work which
accounts for such a large proportion of that Agency's expenditures, I have
asked General Doolittle to undertake that specific task. In view of the
complex interrelationship of intelligence operations, it will be inevitable
that certain of the matters covered by General Doolittle's group will also
be of concern to yours. I suggest that you and General Doolittle confer
so as to avoid unnecessary duplication.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Prepared by:L}3Kirkpatrick:rm 26 July 1954
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