STATE DEPARTMENT CABLES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00022R000200100033-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 4, 1999
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: June 3, 1946
• Content Type: MEMO

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TO William L. Langer
Special Assistant to the
Secretary of State
FROM William W. Quinn, 091. Inf.
Director
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1. It is requested that this agency be authorized to have access
to intelligence cables received from State Department representatives
abroad. It is proposed that an officer from this headquarters be allow-
ed to examine incoming cables daily and to extractor to paraphrase
those cables, or portions of cables, likely to be of interest to this
agency, acid to make a copy of such extract or paraphrase for the Director's
office.
2. As you are aware, such a service was regularly in effect
during the period of OSS, and was continued for SSU until February of
this year. Primary responsibility for the extraction of material from
cables rested with the R & A Branch which made a copy available to the
SI Branch. Security arrangements called for the retention of single
copies of cables under 'strict control as laid down by the thief SI.
Simal.ar controls would be established by the Director in the event that
the service was reinstituted.
3. It is unnecessary to point out to you that the reports were,
and would be again, of immense value to this organization. At the same
time, they would enable this agency to provide more effective service for
the State Department. Specifically, the Department cables would provide
authoritative material on current situations abroad which would be extreme-
ly useful in (a) apl:sraising our own incoming reports; (b) enabling Sits to
avoid duplication and overlapping in coverage; (e) pointing up specific
areas and topics on which SSU right undertake to provide coverage; and
(d) assisting in the planning of operations.
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