BRIEFING FOR SPECIAL STUDY GROUP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86B00269R000300010024-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 26, 2006
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: July 28, 1954
• Content Type: MF

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SECRET 3 g 3
28 July 19 5 4
SUBJECT: Briefing for Special Study Group
1. The attached memorandum for Deputy Director (Plans), subject:
Divisional Responsibilities and Functions, dated 27 July 1954 and signed by
Executive Director, Special Study Group has been seen by DCI and DD/P.
2. The purpose is: (1) to provide the Group with basic information
well in advance of each briefing in an effort to cut down on the amount of
time which the individual briefers will have to spend before the Group and
(2) to assist the Group in formulating questions which will bring forth the
facts clearly and expeditiously.
3. All memoranda prepared under this directive will remain secure
in the Administration Building and will be returned to appropriate Agency
authority for destruction at the end of the exercise.
4. These memoranda, in so far as they are generated within the
Clandestine Services, should be delivered to C/PPC, 2036 L Building.
Memoranda generated by segments of the Agency outside of the Clandestine
Services should be delivered to the Executive Director, Special Study Group,
Room 224, Administration Building, telephone extension 4353-4.
5. This memorandum is transmitted for prompt compliance.
Chief, Planning and Program
Coordination Staff
Memo to DD/P from Exec.
Sec. , Special Study Group,
dtd 27 July 1954
CDF
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2? July 1954
MEMORANDUM FOR: DEPUTY DIRECTOR (PLANS)
SUBJECT: Divisional Responsibilities and Functions
1. For purposes of this study group it is requested that it be furnished
at an early date (before the scheduled briefings) with individual memoranda
outlining the following with respect to each area division, branch, major
office, etc. (both in Washington and the field) under the jurisdiction of the
Deputy Director for Plans:
a. Responsibilities and functions in detail.
b. Number of personnel by categories (e. g. , covert,
semi-covert, etc. ).
c. Nature of major "covert operations" (as defined
in NSC 5412): (1) completed, (2) pending, (3) contemplated.
2. An original and four copies of each of the memoranda would be
desirable in order that they might be examined by the members of the
study group prior to detailed briefings of the group.
Executive Director,
Special Study Group
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