CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX OF THE LIAISON FUNCTION WITHIN THE DDI

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• Publication Date: October 21, 1966
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Year
Comment
1947 - May 1948 Within the Collection Branch of OCD, liaison
and assignment of collection action was
conducted by and for that Office and the
DDT area.
May 1948
1 July 1948
A Liaison Division was formed involving
coordination of requirements, liaison,
assignment of collection action and dis-
semination.
Four desks were set up in the new Liaison
Division and were designated as State, Army-
Air, CIA and Navy-Non-IAC. Shortly thereafter
inter-office and inter-agency coordination of
requirements were added to the responsibilities
of this Division.
1949 - 1950 Activities remained essentially the same as
described previously.
28 February 1951 The Cable Branch (which had previously been in
ONE and prior to that in ORE) was placed in the
Liaison Division.
* 1 June 1951
ILLEGIB
The three Service desks (Army, Air, and Navy)
were combined into one branch designated the
Defense Branch and the Non-IAC activities operated
as a separate Non-IAC Branch. Each Branch
handled requirements and dissemination matters
which related to its own activities.
The Division assumed the responsibility of
bringing to the Agency Ambassadors and selected
Foreign Service Officers for debriefing by the
DDI offices.
,; November 1l~,B The International Conferences Branch was created
ILL E GIB and added to the Division with the initial mission
of ensuring exploitation of scientific and
technical conferences.
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Year
Comment
1953 - 1955 The mission and functions of the Division and the
number of Branches therein remained essentially
the same. However, the debriefing of Ambassadors,
etc., described above was expanded to include
briefing and debriefing of military attaches. In
addition, in August 1955 the former Office known
as OCD was changed to Office of Central Reference
(OCR).
1956 - 1957 (estimated) The Division was reorganized and the Cable Branch
was transferred out of the Division; the CIA,
Defense, and State Branches were abolished and
a new branch was formed known as the IAC Branch.
The Division's main mission continued to be the
coordination of intelligence requirements, the
25X18 collecting of intelligence information, and the
conduct and maintenance of liaison with various
outside agencies as well as the specific mission
25X1 B of exploiting
However, the Division embarked upon
25X1 B a new mission of producing a CR information report
series based on intelligence information collected
25X18 from Non-IAC Agencies and participation of US Govern-
ment officials in
In the main, the responsibility of
disseminating a large volume of documents flowing
into each Branch of the Division was transferred
to a new Division known as the Documents Division.
* May 1958
25X1 B
25X1 B
A new branch known as the Collection Branch was
established to perform the duty of exploiting
This Branch
published three series of information reports,
i.e., CR-B, CR-A, and. CR-C. This Branch replaced
the International Conferences Branch which was
abolished. In addition, a new branch was formed
designated the Liaison Branch which handled the
requirements coordination function. The Division,
which now consisted of only two branches, was
called Liaison and Collection Division.
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Year Comment
1959 - July 1961 Activities and functions of LCD remained es-
sentially the same with the exception that the
briefing and debriefing program continued to
expand and now embraced Directors of the Foreign
Aid Program (then ICA).
* 1 July 1961
The Collection Branch of LCD was abolished and
the responsibility for the domestic collection of
foreign positive intelligence information from
United States Government sources was transferred
to the Contact Division, Office of Operations.
In addition, the function of reporting preliminary
information on International Conferences (CR-C
information report series) was assigned to the
Biographic Register, OCR. Also effective 1 July
1961 the Liaison and Collection Division was re-
designated the Liaison Staff.
1 July 1961 to date The Liaison Staff having been divested of the
report writing and requirements coordination
functions presently directs its energies and
activities to a mission which might be termed
"pure liaison". The workload and. scope of the
Staff's mission has continually broadened with
new agencies being formed requiring intelligence
support and contact, e.g. Defense Intelligence
Agency (DIA), Office of Emergency Planning (OEP),
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA), etc.
The Staff also inaugurated the publication of a
weekly list of important foreign visitors dis-
tributed internally to points of interest within
the Agency. The briefing and debriefing program
has expanded considerably within the past five
years and many activities have been added such
as the briefing of Country Inspection Teams, the
addition of Deputy Mission Directors from the
Foreign Aid Program (AID) and arranging visits
and orientation tours for the National War College
and the FSI Senior Seminar in Foreign Policy. The
Program assumes responsibility for overall DDI
area coordination in connection with this mission.
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