LETTER FROM JOHN A. MCCONE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000700070021-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 16, 2003
• Sequence Number: 21
• Content Type: LETTER

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When I assumed the responsibility as Director of Central Intelligence,
I immediately organized a task force composed of:
Mr. Lyman Kirkpatrick, Executive Director-Comptroller, CIAJ
Mr. J. Patrick Coyne, Secretary, President&Foreign Intelligence
Advisory Board, a,.,
General Cortlandt ;'-ft~-R -s.e>aer Schuyler
to work under my direction and with me in examining the activities, operations
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and management of each and every division and 4epai,4ment of the Central
Intelligence Agency for the purpose of determining the need for the work undertaken
and the efficiency with which the elep to were managed. The oral and written
reports of this group have been most usefulbin to me and my Deputy in administering
the affairs of the Agency.
As a result of their examination, two task forces were established, one
under Mr. John Bross, my Deputy for fv~i to study in depth manpower
utilization; the second under Mr. Lyman Kirkpatrick on personnel management.
The1studies of these two groups ' ' + VG significantly
improved our management functions and-ke=e stemmed the built-in personnel growth.
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Fes; ?a - like -tu-pntnt-o t that the Central Intelligence Agency, in and
of itself, represents only between
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effort. The exact percentage depends upon whether certain military activities
such as Air Force and Naval reconnaissance units are classed as ''intelligence''.
At least" of the intelligence effort is in the Defense Intelligence Agency, the
intelligence units of the Services, the National Security Agency and the
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terms of reference of my appointment, which placed upon me responsibility
for coordination and guidance of the community, is of utmost importance
if our intelligence costs are to be minimized and duplication and unnecessary
effort avoided.
Coordination has until recently been undertaken by me personally,
supported by CIA staff and it has been effective in a great many areas.
Last Fall I appointed Mr. John Bross as my Deputy for National Intelligence
Programs Evaluation and he is now equipped with a most capable staff drawn
fromBureau of the Budget (Mr. /I Pettibone), Department of Defense (Major
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General Reynolds), White House (Mr. 'Sam Parrott) and others
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Mr. Bross's responsibility is to examine various intelligence activities, to report
to me and to the United States Intelligence Board on them, and to recommend
changes and modifications considered necessary in the interests of improved
intelligence and economy. As of now a task force under
is commencing an examination in depth of our communications intelligence
organization and activity which in itself involves about Eivilian and
military personnel. A second task force under Ambassador Nolting is examining
intelligence collection and reporting on the Middle East. This examination will
be extended to other geographic areas.
The level of effort in the field of intelligence is not measurable by any
"norms" applied to other government activities or to private enterprise. I have
found that the establishment of intelligence objectives without consideration of
the cost or manpower required to accomplish the objectives has in the past been
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a serious deficiency in the management of the intelligence community. I
therefore plan that the United States Intelligence Board in establishing
intelligence objectives, which is the Board's responsibility by NSC directive,
will concern itself with the issue of manpower and cost involved in such
decisions.
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