ORGANIZATION OF CIA CLANDESTINE SERVICES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04718A001100110039-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 21, 2001
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: July 15, 1952
• Content Type: MEMO

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15 July 1952
;:' .IORANDDM FOR: Deputy Director of Centr Intell3,gence
Deputy Director (Plans)
Deputy Director (Administration)/
Deputy Director (Intel .gonce )
Director of Training /
Assistant Director for Communications/
SUBJECT a Organization of CIA Clandestine. Services
1, a,, This paper describes the structure of the organization of CTA clan-
destine services which will become effective on 1 August 1952.
bm It is designed to create a single overseas clandestine service,
while at the same time preserving the integrity of the long-grange espionage
and cotmtereespionage mission of CIA from amalgamation into those clandes-
tine activities which are subject to short texas variations in the prosecm
Lion of the cold war. The experiences of the British and the 05S during the
last war, as well as within CIA during the last three years, justify the
c _clusion that the best organizational arrangement consists of a single
field organization with a single chain of command and a single set of admire--
istrative procedures., rather than two or three separate world-wide commands,0
each vrith its own field network and with separate policy and administrative
procedures o There is no reason why the establishment of a single. chain of
coamand and of uniform administrative procedures would have any effect of
sWimerging specialized OSO or OPC missions and techniques if intelligently
applied,,'
26 It is intended to establish the single chain of command from Washington
Headquarters to the chiefs of the merged field organizations by:
a. Designating the Deputy Director (Plans) as the Director's deputy
for all CIA clandestine activities. In this capacity DD/P is responsible
to the Director for the planning, execution and review of the missions en-
trusted to the Director under NSCID 5, NSC I and NSC 0 and to him 25X1A
is delegated the authority to carry out these ctiona
b0 Establishing in the asasmediate Office of the Deputy Director (Plus)
a Chief of Operations,, as well as staff elements specializing in long-rangee
plaiming and programming and review and analysis, The Chief of Operations
w,L-l function as a Chief of Staff and, Deputy to DD/P with responsibility
for the direction of operations, for coordinating the efforts of anal, eli zt`
hating duplication among all staff elements under DD/P, and for insuring
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prompt and effective compliance with operational directives, including
those which establish priorities for clandestine operations.
c. Eliminating the current AD/30 and AD/PC command structure and es-
tablishing under DD/P staff elements specializing in secret intelligence
and counter-espionage, psychological warfare, paramilitary
operations, technical supports and adm nistration. The chiefs of these
staff elements are comparable to Assistant Chiefs of Staff in a field
Army organization. They will be responsible for:
(1) Planning and supervising the proper performance of the
missions and operations of their respective services.
(2) Career planning for their respective specialized corps
of officers,
(3) Establishing standards for the recruitmenlt, training,
and professional performance for their respective services.
(4) Supervision, guidance, and inspection in all matters per-
taining to their respective services.
(y) Timely and adequate recommendations within their respec-
tive spheres of activity and for staff supervision and follow-ap
to insure the effective execution of all orders and instructions
issued by competent authority.
(6) Such additional functions as may be delegated to them.
d. Establishing the official aesignations and general functions of
these staff officers as followt r
(1) Chief of Foreign Intelligence (formerly AD/SO). Senior
officer for espionage and counter-espionage. Represents the Di-
rector in routine contacts with other agencies affecting the es-
pionage and counter-espionage mission. His immediate office will
include personnel specializing in these and related activities,
(2) Chief of Psychological Warfare (formerly
AD/PC). Senior officer for covert psychological war-
fare, resistance, and economic warfare, His 3 Maw o ce will.
include personnel specializing in these and related activities.
(3) Chief of Paramilitary Operations. Senior officer for
covert paramilitary activities including war plane ng and prepa-
ration..] escape and evasion, and
guerrilla, o s activities along military
lines capable of close coordination with the military services in
time of war.
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(4) Chief of Technical Support. Directs the Office of Tech-
nical Services in support of clandestine activities.
(5) Chief of Administration. A qualified Administrative of-
ficer serving on the staff of the Deputy Director (Plans). Re-
sponsible to DD/P for Insuring adequate support in trained person-
nel, equipment, funds, transportation, communications, facilities
and services for all clandestine activities.
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ea Maintaining the Area Divisions as present],y established and desig-
nating the Area Division Chiefs, subject to paragraphs 2. a. and b. above,
as the channels between Washington Headquarters and the various field in--
stallations in their geographic areas of responsibility. For example all
c?a mmicatioans pertaining to activities In[ I
originating with any Was oar Headquarters
office and addressed o any CIA activity in those areas will be coordina-
ted with and sent physically through the EE Division. In effect, the
Chiefs of the Area Divisions will act as the Director's executive officers
for their respective geographic areas of responsibility.
f. Designating Senior Representatives in all countries abroad where
there are CIA clandestine activities. These Senior Representatives will
be responsible for the command supervision of all CIA activities in their
areas. To those Senior Representatives will be delegated the authority
for routine administrative decisions in consonance with established admin-
istrative procedures.
3. Zlocedures. The changed organizational structure recognizes only two com-
mand echelons: The Director and the Senior Representatives, with the Deputy Direc-
tor (Plans) acting for the Director through the medium of the Area Divisions on mat-
ters pertaining to the conduct of clandestine activities. Orders to the Senior Re-
presentatives will be transmitted in the name of the Director. Technical and pro-
fessional correspondence will be kept as informal as possible and will be encour-
aged between the Area Divisions, specialized staffs in Washington, and their coun-
terparts in the field. Cable procedure will be adopted similar in general to the
current practices of other major Government agencies, The Assistant Director for
C i.cations will prepare for approval and prompt distribution a cable procedure
manual in conformity with the above, and will arrange for the establislzie nt of a
message center, under the direction of a cable secretary., to centralize and stan-
dardize the handling and distribution of commications traffic. When in operation,
the message center will become the responsibility of the Executive Assistant to the
Director.
). An existing directives and regulations in conflict with this daft are
rescinded effective 1 August 1952.
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Organization chart
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WALTER B. SMITH
Director of Central Intelligence
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