NOTES FOR THE FILES RE ICAPS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67-00059A000200110063-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 18, 2000
• Sequence Number: 63
• Publication Date: January 31, 1949
• Content Type: NOTES

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31 January 1919
Notes for the Files re ICAPS
1. still assume that the IAC really want a "Standing
Committee" to do their CIA work and will not readily abandon
this idea. On this primary assumption was based the suggestion
for re-vamping ICAPS. I doubt if the Dulles Report will-change
it.
2. Accordingly, I still think there is expensive redundancy
and that ICAPS could get along with smaller personnel as mentioned
in the Draft Memo of January 11. Others, however, think that
the Standing Committee should be whittled down or even abolished
and ICAPS kept dominantly strong. I hope the Director and the
IAC will decide which way they wish to work it, and then we
can either issue the draftm mo of January 11 or again abandon
this idea of streamlining ICAPS.
3. If the Dulles Report is to some extent put into effect,
it will materially strengthen the IAC and put them into the
"oer+-by
working-substantive-intelligence field of national
intelligence. Then they would undoubtedly wish to set up not
just a "Standing Committee" but probably a whole staffs
4. If the Dulles Report should be followed to the extent
of giving ICAPS internal duties within CIA in addition to its
external IAC duties, then ICAPS also would require a full staffs
i.e., present compliment rather than a reduction as has been
contemplated in recent months.
Prescott Childs
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