'OFFICE OF OVERT COLLECTION' PROPOSED BY OCD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00662R000100070057-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 29, 1998
• Sequence Number: 57
• Content Type: MEMO

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Assistant Director for Reports and Estimates
otor for Scientific Intelligence
Collection' proposed by
g.,. Ohl and ORE concur in
"Proposed Operation
that Office. The ei
ti on* and that the liaison Division of OCD be transferred to
D Memorandum for the D.
nt of an adequate system of collection is
1950,
o ndation made by t OGD
role of an *Office of pert
g problems facing the Can
a y, and in our opinion the AI}/OCD should be commended for making
comendation.
2, ORE and OSI not only concur in the recommendation but urge
that it be implemented without delay. Both. Offices are on record
concerning the inadequac.
Id collection, which can be traced
g organization of the collection machinery.
sent no organization with clear cut responsibility and
collect the required information wherever it may be found.
d that there is so much information r deds and so much of
or collection by an adequately trained and directed
collection organization, that such an organization should rapidly
Office of operations ass,
)ortant single collector of intelligence
States Government.
should continue to formulate requirements and
action to this collection office and
an other co'
.gencie
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d views of suba tantivaly coeten:
i es. This will avoid the
sity of one collection office
assi in collection action to another,, and will allow
offices to assign collection action on the basic of their kno
the adequacy of the various sources of information.. Both offices should
handle the necessary liaison with other intelligence producing components
sponsibilities for fully integrated requirements*
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Lt office.
Lon from govern
Lons already psrfor d
sources has not been
adequately performed by anyr office of the Central Intelligence Agency
up to the present tin.
d 051 believe that the li,son problem now facing
Central intelligence ey is tunda nta:i different from that which
led to the establ.ishr nt of the Liaison Division in O CD. Both OR& and
contemplated that the augmented Office of operation,
onsibility for collection from all sources within the
informed about the lay personnel in other agencies that
td with regard to various stantive jroblea 3 and the
of c-n union and overlap in contact by several different persons
Central Intelligence Agency has been reduced to a a. The
oblem is one
ttti}ye
d key government offici
of office fction,, not
offices concerned. 'They
ose personal liaison between CU
Agency.
a problem
genay control., and should handled by the
ar of course, a necessity for a liaison control
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purposes, through which the offices
could be accomplished even though the
xx Division mre moved to 00.
d that the OCD proposel i realistic and rkab
Dived,
problems created by such a change would be relati 1 i minor and
ould solve fundamental problems in. the izt=
ecntained in paragraph 3a of
OD
d without
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