NOTE TO MR. LEHMAN FROM E. H. KNOCHE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91M00696R000900020005-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 2004
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: April 8, 1976
• Content Type: NOTES

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Dick:
This is a quick reaction to the proposition you
mentioned to me yesterday afternoon. As I under-
stand it, the essential features would be folding the
DDI and the NIO's together to form a national
production mechanism; this would leave a CIA con-
sisting of the Operations, S&T and Administration
Directorates.
There are a few pluses in such an arrangement.
One is that it rhymes well with what apparently is
going to be a finding and recommendation of the
Senate Select Committee. The arrangement provides
the DCI with production assets in depth; it would also
prove likely to result in some early attention to
production needs for additional resources and
capacity.
I believe this resource relief can also be pro-
vided to the DDI by enlightened Agency leadership
too, and by itself, this point does not necessarily
argue for direct subordination to the DCI.
Having said these things about the proposition,
I find more wrong than right with the idea.
9 First is that it not only has the appearance
of, but is in fact, a fragmentation of CIA.
It thus would confirm the feelings of many
pessimists who already profess to see
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disintegration around the corner.
? What would be left in CIA would no doubt
become even more parochial in time since
its mission and responsibilities would not
only be narrowed, but it would be left without
the objective, supra-national character of
DDI production.
? It would diminish career prospects for
Agency personnel by making it even more
difficult to move from one function to
another.
It would create a production element of
large and unwieldy size for DCI management.
? And last, it would emphasize the symbolism
which I thought all of us agreed is a bad one.
It puts national production in the hands of
what would be taken to be an Agency
component.
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