PROBLEMS RAISED BEFORE THE SPECIAL STUDY GROUP AND QUESTIONS RAISED BY THE GROUP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86B00269R000300010021-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 2, 2003
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: September 23, 1954
• Content Type: MF

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23 September 1954
MEMORANDUM FOR: DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
SUBJECT: Problems Raised Before the Special Study
Group and Questions Raised by the Group
1. In response to a request fromi to Mr. Helms,
the following broad problems, which have been discussed by and with
the Study Group, are furnished as an aid for your meeting with the
Group. In my opinion the Group has been very sympathetic to our
problems and have not shown a critical attitude. They have frequently
asked questions pertaining to our security, our organization and
personnel, our training program and our long-range plans.
a. Organization and General Administration:
J (1) Need for simplification of PRC procedures.
/~(2) Need for a simplified program and budget
procedure based on a maximum delegation of authority
to DD/P within approved overall programs and budgets.
(3) Need for a change in chain of command
procedures --i.e.,
(a) Senior representatives in the field are
not responsible to the Area Division Chiefs nor
to DD /P. The DD /P Washington Headquarters
is just one big staff for DCI.
J (b) Headquarters officials going directly
to the DCI and the DDCI, by-passing COP and DD/P.
(4) Need for a central CIA building.
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(5) Need for an overall DD /P operations staff, plans
staff, and support staff.
(6) Several speakers pointed out that we are merged
at field level, at Desk and Branch level, at most Division
levels and in the person of COP and DD/P. However, the
PP and FI Staffs were not merged and this fact led to
confusion, endless delays and inefficiency.
(7) The need for a strong administrative staff
responsible to DD /P. The present Administrative Staff
is in essence only a liaison shop with DD/A who also
controls all personnel within DD/P who have an adminis-
trative career designation.
(8) Problem of our inability to conform with normal
government requirements and procedures -- i. e. ,
(a) The need for a new leave legislation for
CIA employees in the field.
(b) Existing vehicle regulations create
problems in the field due to the use of quasi-
personal vehicles.
(9) The need for improvement of security both at
Headquarters and in the field.
b. Personnel and Related Subjects:
(1) The need for a separate integrated system for
recruitment and personnel management to provide for long-
term needs of DD /P. This system could be integrated into
the overall CIA system but maintained on a separate basis.
(2) Need for a better Career Service System incorpora-
ting the necessary incentives to attract and hold high-caliber
personnel.
(3) Difficult ,iri obtainin sufficient qualified personnel
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i. e. , area specialists,
linguistic ability, technical personnel (TSS).
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(4) Difficulty in retaining clerical help.
(5) The overall morale problem. There is a need for
fringe benefits to offset the difficulties created by security
requirements. Praise a job well done; discipline person
doing one badly.
(6) The problem of rotation. There is a need for
authority to order people to specific locations in accordance
with the needs of the services.
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(8) Training Problems. Need for a fully integrated
long-range program tied in with a personnel management
program and related to future operational needs.
(9) The need for flexibility in personnel ceilings which
would enable both the release of area people for training and
the continuation of operational obligations.
(10) Non-utilization of existing training facilities.
c. Miscellaneous:
(1) Agreed Activities. A resolution of the status of
CIA vis-a-vis other members of the intelligence community
pertaining to the National Espionage and Counterespionage
effort.
(2) Problems in dealing with State and Military Service
personnel who are antagonistic toward CIA and its activities.
(3) The Army informed the Study Group that the relation-
ship between CIC and CIA in the field was not good. Army
indicated that there was overlapping and one attempting to pene-
trate the other.
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(6) The Study Group again raised the question
of They have the impression that contrary
to our successes in th that
the
(7) The Study Group stated that CIA was organized to do
today's job today and that it seems that it has not adequately
prepared itself to do tomorrow's job better.
Does CIA have a long-range plan? For example,
2 years, 5 years, 10 years hence ?
(8) The Study Group stated that inasmuch as CIA of
necessity necessarily grew very rapidly, untrained personnel
had to be utlized both in headquarters and in the field.
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What plans does CIA have for training their present
people ? (Perhaps by reducing the number of tasks now
undertaken, thereby making qualified people available for
training or by increasing ceilings for the purpose of
providing training slots. )
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(10) Potential in The Study Group was
informed by the State Department that, due to the effectiveness
of the that all resistance
elements have been erased.
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What is the best long-range estimate of a resistance
potential and the possibility of its organization in
? Have we exploited the potential sufficiently?
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(11) The Study Group feels that the close association of
CIA with is detrimental to CIA
operations because of the animosity that
What are the plans concerning a new approach in
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(12) Command Relationships:
What mechanism has been set at headquarters and
in the field to insure that during wartime, necessary
information will continue to be forwarded to headquarters
promptly, thus making it available to the Government?
What is the status of CIA's Plan for War indicating
the scope and magnitude thereof ?
(13) The Study Group was concerned at what seems to be
the excessively long waiting period to obtain security clearance
before joining CIA.
(14) The Group seemed apprehensive regarding the
effectiveness of our counterespionage effort.
FOR THE ACTING DEPUTY DIRECTOR/PLANS:
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