WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT #34 20 - 26 SEPTEMBER 1961

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• Publication Date: September 28, 1961
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DATE: 28 September 1961
BRIEFINGS OF SENIOR US. OFFICIALS
1. On 20 September a briefing was conducted for Mr. Lincoln
Gordon, newly appointed Ambassador to Brazil. Participants in
the briefs were Mr. Dulles General Cabell, and the Messrs.
Bissell,
W. Cole, newly appointed Ambassador to Chile. Partici ants in
the briefing were the Messrs. Dulles, Bissell,
2. On 22 September a briefing was conducted for Mr. Charles
3. On 22 September a briefing was conducted for Mr. Charles
F. Darlington, newly appointed Ambassador to Gabon. Participants
in the briefing were the Messrs. Dulles,
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4. On 22 September a meeting was held at State with Mr. Thomas
L. Hughes, Deputy Director of Intelligence and Research, to arrange
a briefing on CIA for Mr. Hughes. Mr. Hughes is a Balliol man
(B. Phil., 1949) and a former Administrative Assistant to Senator
Humphrey and Congressman Bowles.
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ADMINISTRATIVE OPERATIONS COURSE
On 21 September a briefing on CIA was. given for the 13 students
In State's current Administrative Operations Course. After the
briefing there was a one-hour question and answer period. in which
numerous questions were asked and comments made on various aspects
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BRIEFING OF SENIOR FOREIGN OFFICIALS
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DEPARTMENTAL BRIEFING
On 26 September this program was conducted for 36 persons
from State, Navy, Air Force, and USIA.
CIA INTRODUCTION
On 25 September this program was conducted for 73 EOD's.
BRIEFING OF COORDINATION STAFF
1. On 21 September a briefing was conducted for eight
memo of the DCI's Coordination Staff, including
and s Part of the session was devoted to a briefing on
CIA organization and part to a documented historical and legal
analysis of the coordinating responsibilities of the DCI and of
CIA.
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2. It came as a surprise to most of the members to be told
that there was no statutory justification for making a real separa-
tion in the coordination field between the DCI and CIA. The statute
specifically assigns the coordinating responsibility to CIA as an
Agency and not to the DCI as a person. In doing so, Congress knew
of and specifically departed from the Presidential Directive of
January 1946, which established CIG and which assigned functions
not to CIG but to the DCI. Further, the statute Itself shows that
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Congress was aware of the distinction when it assigned the protection
f of intelligence sources and methods to the DCI as a person, but
the coordinating responsibility to CIA as an Agency. While it is
true that the NSC (NSCID #1) has made the DCI-CIA-distincti.on and
spoken of the DCI as the coordinator rather than CIA as the
coordinating Agency, it is a question of focusing the coordinating
responsibility on the man heading CIA. Any other reading, which,
would den any coordination responsibility to CIA as an Agency,
would be contrary to the statute. The NS.C cannot repeal the
statute. I t is a question of the NSC feeling that the concept of
the person of the DCI as coordinator would be more palatable to
the other intelligence agencies.than that of CIA as the coordinat-
ing Agency. The NS.C directive is procedural in its impact and
does not alter the substantive rights assigned to CIA by the
statute.
3. There has been a tendency on the part of some of the
members of the Coordination Staff--understandably, because they
want to emphasize their impartiality--to differentiate so sharply
the so-called "two hats" that they, in effect, tend to downgrade
CIA as an Agency. This is particularly dangerous these days. It
plays into the hands of those who would separate the "two hats"--
downgrading CIA and upgrading the DCI right into the White House
or State, bringing with him ONE and OCI. The Air Force representa-
tive on the Coordination Staff favors the.complete separation of the
two responsibilities. Those who favor it in State and in the White
House seem to have come to the realization that it cannot be done
without changing, the statute. That such a change will be attempted
is a distinct possibility.
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