AFFECT ON THE FUNCTIONS OF SPECIAL ASSISTANT FOR PLANNING AND COORDINATION BY ESTABLISHMENT OF THE OFFICE OF DEPUTY DIRECTOR (COORD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61S00750A000200080112-6
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 13, 1999
• Sequence Number: 112
• Publication Date: July 3, 1957
• Content Type: MF

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3 July 1957
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director (Coordination)
Affect on the Functions of the Special Assistant
for Planning and Coordination by Establishment
of the Office of Deputy Director (Coordination)
1. The purpose of this memorandum is to call to your attention
the official statement of missions and functions tli It' the office of the
Special Assistant for Planning and Coordination as set forth in Regulation
1-110 dated 27 October 1954 and the manner in which it might well be
changed to accord with the missions and functions now assigned to the
Deputy Director (Coordination). The purpose is also to indicate to you
the actual coordinating functions now conducted by the office in order
that a determination can be made as to whether any change in the location
of these functions is required.
2. As a means of dealing with the first of these purposes, I have
set forth as Tab A the current statement of missions and functions of
the Special Assistant for Planning and Coordination with amendments
(indicated by deletions in brackets and insertions underlined) required
by the establishment of the DD(C) mission and functions.
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3. As a matter of current business, there are only two functions
conducted by this office which deal with coordination and which on inspection
I suspect we will both agree ought to be left in this office. However, these
functions which have overtones of integration and duplication as well as
coordination will be subject to review by your office from time to time on
the initiation of either of us.
4. I refer to the interagency implications of Project AQUATONE
and the coordination of External Research. In the case of AQUATONE,
as you well know, that Project is a joint one with the Air Force, and
there exist established procedures whereby we work together. To insure
that AQUATONE serves the intelligence community, there exists an
Ad Hoc Committee for requirements on AQUATONE (ARC) composed
of Army, Navy, Air Force, NSA, with CIA as Chairman (but including
designated representatives of the Offices of Scientific Intelligence,
Research and Reports, and Current Intelligence, along with the observers
the Special Assistant (Planning) to the DD/I and the Chief of HTAUTOM.AT).
The State Department is kept informed of the proceedings of this committee
but so far has not found it necessary to have a representative present.
In addition to formulating requirements, this committee also has been
the interagency forum for reaching agreements dealing with the security
system for handling the products of AQUATONE and for agreements
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bearing upon the processing and preliminary reporting on the materials,
The Director has established by agreement with the other agencies a
Utilization Advisory Board composed of representatives of the Army,
Navy, Air Force, and NSA under the chairmanship of the DD/I whose
function is to insure that the products of AQUATONE are imaginatively
exploited to the benefit of the community and that proper procedure for
the removal of information obtained by AQUATONE when properly
sanitized.
5. Inquiries which your office may wish to make with regard to
the interagency relationship of AQUATONE particularly with the Air
Force should be directed to me. Inquiries regarding the coordinative
efforts of the ARC I am asking Mr. Reber of this office to handle in the
first instance. And, of course, Mr. Amory, Chairman of the Utilization
Advisory Board, or the Secretary, would be proper
officials to whom inquiries regarding the operations of that Board might
be placed.
6. With regard to the role of this office in the coordination of
External Research projects, I submit herewith as Tab B the regulation
under which such coordination is conducted. to get regulation
and to fill in information regarding functions of this office viz. Social
Science Research Group, Defense Advisory Panel, etc.)
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7. Let me mention what is obvious: that this office does not
have a comparable role in regard to External Research of the government
agencies in the national security area regarding operational hardware.
RICHARD M. BISSELL, JR.
Special Assistant to the Director
for Planning and Coordination
Attachments
Tab A
Tab B
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