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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 29, 2003
• Sequence Number: 55
• Publication Date: February 28, 1961
• Content Type: NOTES

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-.Mr. Dulles:
General Cabell:
A. A progress or status report of which this one is the first
will come over from Gen. Erskine's office to you on the 15th of each
month.
B. Note second paragraph.
C. SecDef has asked the JCS to develop two things:
1) A concept for an integrated Intelligence Agency.
2) The procedures to effect a full implementation of the
Joint Study Group Report.
D. The report is due from the JCS on 8 March
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OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
WASHINGTON 25, D. C.
15 February 1961
SUBJECT: Implementation of Joint Study Group Recommendations:
Current Status
Recommendation No. 1 of the Joint Study Group Report is con-
sidered basic to the great majority of the recommendations which are the
responsibility of the Secretary of Defense to implement. An orderly im-
plementation has been conceived as a phased process beginning with or-
ganizational matters within the Department of Defense and then progressing
to more specific and less pressing items.
Following this approach, the Secretary of Defense has directed
that a study be made by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to develop a concept for
an integrated Defense Intelligence Agency. This study, to be submitted
within 30 days, is also required to address itself to the procedures neces-
sary to effect a full implementation of the Joint Study Group Report.
Implementation of additional recommendations are considered
related to Recommendation No. 1 and would be adopted following a satis-
factory resolution of the many problems connected with an effective im-
plementation of Recommendation No. 1. The recommendations related
to Recommendation No. 1 in this way are Recommendations Nos. 2, 3, 4,
5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 19, 26, 30, 34, and 35.
As you are aware, part c. of Recommendation No. 1 has already
been implemented by NSC Action #2377, approved by the President on 18
January 1961.
Other recommendations lend themselves to separate consideration,
outside the phased reorganization concept referred to above. The Assistant
to the Secretary of Defense (Special Operations) has requested that the
Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force provide comprehensive state-
ments of policy governing their respective Departments' provision for career
development of officers who become more than ordinarily involved in intel-
ligence and related activities. Although this is specifically directed at
implementing Recommendation No. 12, it is also applicable to Recommenda-
tions Nos. 4 and 5.
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In connection with Recommendation No. 9, the Assistant to the
Secretary of Defense (Special Operations), in a letter to the Director of
Research and Engineering (DDR&E), has proposed that DDR.&E, together
with representatives of the National, Security Agency and the Office of
Special Operations, assemble the necessary data and develop the re-
appraisal of the adequacy of research and development programs for
electronic intelligence purposes.
For the purpose of implementing Recommendation No. 39, the
Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (Special Operations), in a letter
to DDR&E, has requested that he nominate a representative to join
representatives of the Office of Special Operations and the Director of
Central Intelligence to consider the matter and make such recommendations
as may be appropriate. DDR&E has responded, nominating Dr. John H.
Rubel. Mr. Clyde W. Elliott will represent this office. It is our under-
standing that the designation of a DCI representative is under active con-
sideration and that an early decision will be forthcoming.
GRATES B. ERSKINE
General, USMC (Ret.)
Assistant to the
Secretary of Defense
(Special Operations)
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