TENTATIVE PLAN FOR DISPOSITION OF STRATEGIC SERVICES UNIT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00022R000200100029-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 18, 2001
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: January 28, 1946
• Content Type: MEMO

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28 January 1946
OSD Declassification/Release Instructions on File
IT1.0A.NDUM FOR THE ASSISTANT SECRET= OF WAR: .
Subject: Tentative Plan for Disposition of Strategic Services
Unit
1. With the, establishment of the Central Intelligence Group
(CT0), the question of the disposition of Strategic Services Unit
(SSU) arises. The following are the three most obvious courses
to follow:
a. Transfer the activity to 0-2,
Liquidate the activity,
c. Place appropriate parts of SSUIs resources and activities
under control of GIG.
2. a. Retention of SSU under 0..2 would probably result in
its liquiZation and the loss of personnel and operations suitable
and valuable to CIG. Many individuals, either civilians or mill-
tory personnel eligible for discharge, are anxious to join a
central agency but are unwilling to serve 0-2. These would probably
be lost if transfer to is made.
b. Actual liquidation of the activity is undesirable since
dertain VWIuable assets will be dispersed, and trained personnel
lost to the service. However, the continuation of SSU as such is
undesirable duo to its known character and ita identification with
OSS.
c. Transfer of SSU to the GIG would furnish that agency
with an organization in being for intelligence operation. The
organization has certain defects, its operations have exposed much
of its personnel to foreign intelligence aj,encies and its identi-
fication with OBS and its known clandestine activity would deprive
it of cover essential for future activity. While transfer appears
desirables it must be done in such a manner as to retain assets
without unduly compromising future operations of the intelligence
section of the CIO.
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The following to recommended:
a. An administrative group, selected from present SSU,
be retained with the decimation ',Strategic Services Unit,' to
continue the liquidation of SSU and whatever remains of OSS under
War Department control.
b. The remainder of SSU be transferred to operational
control of the Director, under Whatever designation he may prescribe,
including the bUildings? equipment, etc., now under control of SM.
c. Sal, and that portion transferred to the War Depart-
ment repA"isentation in On, be kept in the Secretary of Warts
group in the 'War Npartment? for convenience in administration and
for budget purposes.
S. Lela IRWIN
Major General, USA
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