CURRENT APPROACH TO PROBLEM OF COORDINATION IN THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 28, 2003
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: October 2, 1961
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLEF-ZN ' APPROACH TO PROBL 4 OF COORDI IA 'TO i
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Presented by
Assistant for Coordination Director of Central Intelligence
2 October 1961
BACKGROUND
We entered World War II without a national mechanism to
pull together the intelligence information available to the united
States. During that war, intelligence required for the military
conduct of the ,,ar by the Joint Chiefs of Staff uas coordinated
by the Joint Intelligence Com ittee. This committee included
representatives, not only of the military services, but also the
S? to Department, the Office of Strategic Services and the Foreign
Economic Administration. However, its function as solely to
support JCS strategic planning, and its coordination was accomplished
by committee vote supported by a full time staff detailed from the
various agencies.
One of the early efforts to coordinate information for the
President occurred in !'ay 19+0 when an office for emergency manage-
:cent was established at the national level. A fe'.r months later
the forerunner of a centralized intelligence service eras establ.i.sht~d
under General W. J. Donovan as a Coordinator of information but he
was not to interfere with or impair the duties and responsibilitie!3
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of the Presidents military and. naval advisers. The nee for ighter
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10. Cooperate with CIA for mutual support, common
and combined usage of facilities, resources and training
programs; and the elimination of duplication.
11. integrate intelligence automation and automatic
data processing plans and programs insuring that they
complement each other and those of non-tor) intelligence
agenncies.
12. Prepare a consolidated budget for intelligence
activities.
As can be seen, the Joint Study Group Report and the 43
recommendations have already had a significant impact in the
coordination of the intelligence activities of the L.S. Government.
This will become more apparent as the Defense Intelligence Agency
gets into action. President Kennedy and his Foreign Intelligence
Advisory 3oard have been informed regarding the status of implementation
of each recommendation. He has directed that a semi-annual progress
report be submitted by the Secretaries of State and Defense and the
Director of Central Intelligence.
Although much progress has been achieved, the degree of success
in the coordination field will be determined by the efforts of the
individual agencies of the community to police themselves and the
depth of their desires to mesh their activities with each other
in the common interest of national security.
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