[LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS GOVERNING CIA AND ITS POSITION UNDER THE NSC]

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86B00269R000500020035-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 13
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 21, 2003
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: July 6, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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islati'v'e Novi .one G
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Moos, liais6n has been and. is maintained
ton 102 of the Nation . purity Act of 1957 is
State and Defense.
er# sufficient pars h we not Ueen
:tor of Central intelligence by the
The Coordination of into ence Activities.
ive conours In the proposed revision of N IM
has worked
red, and the rwxmmendod *maiga in paragraph
:e ? r improve the current pro d . (The General
our in revision . of rsraph i of N I
Le reports and
change to mks the Director a manber of the
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Of QPS tM I
the proposed clime is Asti
Gf .C relationships,
fiber is subordinate in
esidento vddle the lAO rarbers are in no way
sib l
b. The oueion of the r
to eoordimti
es ac ti:
is believed unwarranted. No real paw of direction has
ie Director
Therefore, enforc .ent of
the part of T
the
achieved and farther progress is
TOP SECRf.1
is dependent upon
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rs'. ip of the Intelli Wince Advisory nittee.
Concur in retention of JCS and AEC members on ThC, and
BI to rejoin the comnittee. The FBI was previously a
d dropped out of its own volition on the basis tha
reason for continuing; the a ,mbership.
Particular Intelligence Questions I equirin Coordination or Attention.
:ant necessary.
National intelli ence Esti? ates.
conclusion in the reports that there has been confusion
in CIA been tho responsibility for producing coordinated national
Bence and the responsibility for miscellaneous research and
reporting is unwarranted and not supported in the text of the Dulles
GIL has in the past, does now, and will continue to draw upon
and view t ,e specialized intelligence production of the agencies in
connection with the preparation of coordinated national intelligence.
Such intelligence is also renarally discussed with opposite members in
ft-encies by CIA analysts pr paring the eati*nates. They a then
coordinated final.3,;1i with opportunity for dissent, before publication.
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of our previous reCON30n,
ontained in our reply to
(pp ITs
and .9) would do much to clarify And Amp"
A does not enter
Concur
conclusion that the concept of collective
a ibi ty for estimates is unsound.
Organization of GTA
of internal organiza
of CU roc
a not -concurred in and is based on a theoretic
by
ORE, ZGAPS and QCD are concern c these orga .satire
developed over a period of three years o
saperienoe into sound :y conceived and f'unctiona3;1y correct elemen
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sained the,
omplete and further w
efficien
4Ad justifiable a
p has been provided for in the ORB organization.
,ct on of CCD should in no
situation.
ed with
s staff plann ziS functions of ICAPS.
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of the armed services to detail officers for this
in ICAPS have resulted and still moult from t} failu
arts direct access to and the. confidence of their intelli n
tional responsibilities
adequately discharged only if tba s,
rnded by the reports (eo pt the addition of the CCD fuuc
provide representatives w have su
d actively speed and smooth the processes of coo
AO'r is and bas been directly responsible to a
VWV had this direct access to the Director on a problem,*
is
combinatii.a of 030 and CPC into a single operational unit
Theses offices were originally combined and were
separated against our best ~dSmon
en from inception those
of th
Contact
rational unit with 050 1
tab;
of a pletely separate adteinistretive srppo
or such a unit is not concurred
is basically unsound,
four factors involved in such a reorganization
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q*mr ty, which is admittedly primary; efficiency, meaning ability
desired results g econorq? without love of either security
or efficiency; end the Directorae ability to discharge %dequat*3
nt responsibility*
(a) It has been proven conclusivel in the course
,ctual experience that security of covert
vend since the eetabl
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centralized administrative organization.
(b) It has also been proven conclusively by actual
experience that the
of covert activities has. improved
major degree through can
responsibilitZ. Administrative
capabilities behind it. There are fezr
oneive to operational needs Ei. th, the full:
d adainis
speeded
practically disappeared ci mV port is
misunderstandings ' much less confusion in dealing with
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outside agencies and activities. Our relations particula
u of the fidget f the General Accounting Office
The Civil Service Commission and with the Congress have
continually been strengthened and improved.
(c) There is no question on the subject of econo
has proven,., obviously, much more economical to operate With
single, centralized support facilities.
support facilities within CIA will involve pro
mplete
ever before
ed either in CSS, CIG or CIA as none of these
has ever had such a separation. 06$ had a
support facility, CIG and initially CIA ha ; a separate adaini s_
trative staff which draw heavily on the overt administrative
staff for support. Some of the major problems involved In
separate autonomous staff operatiox
uld bet
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Duplication of security and inspection staffs.
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placation and loss of reasonable control over
seination problem.
t. A major increase in personnelr quire nts for
duplicated and parallel administrative staffs.
Separate budgets and multiplication of external
contacts in connection with support require;
leading
back into old conf ai.one, which have now been resolved.
From the standpoint of the responsibility. of the Director
Security Council., the Congress and the President for
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efficiently discharging his management responsibilities,
on which more emphasis is being placed daily by the President
as as a result of the report of the Hoover
Commission, the establishment of a whole series of duplicate
staffs directly responsible to an operations chief is considered
inefficient, time wastin ;, expensive and not justifiable
from a security point of view,
just received a letter from the Director of the
dget Bureau containing a directive from the President on
our fiscal year 1951 budget presentation.
cted,,
in effect? and are in complete agreement with the necessity
therefore, to keep below our fiscal year 19% budget if
possible and to limit any exAnion or activities to those
necessa for urgent public need. In the face of this
directive it is even less justifiable to adopt a new
organizational aprroach which will considerably increase
our budget without any real necessity for such action.
The Security of Information m d the Avoidance of Publicity.
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that all publicity in undesirable,
b* A proposed ASCII) on this subject can be drafted for
ed by the NBC,
hip of the United States Communications lntelli e
Concur that the Director should not be permanent Caairman of the
ways taken this stand.
Problems Relating to Clandestine Activitir,e.
clue ions of the reports are concurred in. Considerable
progress has been made in each item mentioned.
Question of Civilian or Military Personnel in Key CIA Positic i
a. comment on
at of the Director.
b. No ratio of military to civilian perso
established for
positions in CIA and no such positions are earmarked or held for
percentage of
CPC will have special needs for an increased
proximately 2%. However,
neral Appraisal of the Leadership and Policies of t
cont,
for the service members of 1CF
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nt of State.
No comment
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a, The report by the Secretaries of Mate and Defe
ce Intelligence Agencies.
That the Duties escort is factual add correct and
eked by erroneous assumptions such ass
its conclusions warranted#
no process has been made in CIA
than three years of experience and development have
c. No mentin
of the effectiveness of our product and its
value to the HSC and the Presidentf
d. The Defense
:scent and the Department of State are
oned and apparently are quite pure.
a. The only real basis for continued inexistence for autonomous
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operations,, including., p tact Branch,, appears to be to insure that
be lifted intact and n>ved to the Defense Establishment
without pain
is no justification operationally or curia
for the reorganization,, wid it would add indefensible expense.
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