PRINCIPLES - THE SOUNDNESS OF WHICH IT IS BELIEVED HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED BY OUR OWN EXPERIENCE AND A FIRST-HAND STUDY OF THE SYSTEMS OF OTHER NATIONS - WHICH SHOULD GOVERN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A CENTRALIZED UNITED STATES FOREIGN INTELLI

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Principles - The Soundness of Which It Is Believed Has
Been Established B Our Own Ex erience And A First-Hand
Study Of The Systems Of Other Nations - Which Should
Govern The Establishment Of A Centralized United States
Foreign Intelligence System.
The formulation of national policy both in its
political and military aspects is influenced and
determined by knowledge (or ignorance) of the aims,
capabilities, intentions and policies of other nations.
All major powers except the United States have had
for a long time past permanent worldwide intelligence
services, reporting directly to the highest echelons
of their Governments. Prior to the present war, the
United States had no foreign secret intelligence service.
It never has had and does not. now have a coordinated
intelligence system.
The defects and dangers of this situation have been
generally recognized, Adherence to the following would
remedy this defect in peace as well as war so that
American policy could be based upon information ob-
tained through its own sources on foreign intentions,
capabilities and developments as seen and interpreted
by Americans.
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1. That each Department of Government should have
its own intelligence bureau for the collection and process-
ing of such informational material as it finds necessary
in the actual performance of its functions and duties..
Such a bureau should be. under the sole control of the
Department head and should not be encroached upon or im-
paired by the functions granted any other Governmental
intelligence agency. Because secret intelligence covers
all fields and because of possible embarrassment, no
executive department should be permitted to engage in
secret intelligence but in a proper case call upon the
central agency for service.
2. That in addition to the intelligence unit for
each Department there should be established a national
centralized foreign intelligence agency which should have
the aut1.rity:
A. To serve all Departments of the Government.
B. To procure and obtain political, economic,
psychological, sociological, military and other
information which may bear upon the national inter-
est and which has been collected by the different
Governmental Departments or agencies.
C. To collect when necessary supplemental informa-
tion either at its own instance or at the request
of any Governmental Department by open or secret
means from other and various sources.
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D. To integrate, analyze, process and
disseminate, to authgpiged Governmental
agencies and officials, intelligence in
the form of strategic interpretive studies.
3. That such an agency should be prohibited from
carrying on clandestine activities within the United
States and should be forbidden the exercise of any
police functions either at home or abroad,
4. That since the nature of its work requires
it to have status it should be Independent of any
Department of the Government (since it is obliged
to serve all and must be free of the natural bias
J of an operating Department). It.should be under a
Director, appointed by the President, and be admin-
istered under Presidential direction, or in the event
of a General Manager being appointed, should be estab-
lished in the Executive Office of the President, under
his direction.
5. That subject to the approval of the President
or the General Manager, the policy of such a service
should be determined by the Director with the advice
and assistance of a Board on which the Secretaries of
State, War, Navy and Treasury should be represented.
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6. That this agenncy, as the sole agency for
secret intelligences should be authorized, in the
foreign field only, to carry on services such as
espionage, counter-espionage and those special
operations (including morale and psychological)
designed to anticipate and counter any attempted
penetration and subversion of our national secu-
rity by enemy action.
7. That such a service should have an inde-
pendent budget granted directly by,the Congress.
8. That it should be authorized to have its
on system of codes and should be furnished facili-
ties by Departments of Government proper and neces-
sary for the performance of its duties.
9. That such a service should include in its
staff specialists (within Governmental Departments,
civil and military, and in private life) profession-
ally trained in analysis of information and possess-
ing a high degree of linguistic, regional or func-
tional competence, to analyze, coordinate and
evaluate incoming information, to make special intel-
ligence reports, and to provide guidance for the
collecting branches of the agency.
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10, That in time of war or unlimited national
emergency, all programs of such agency in areas of
actual and projected military operations shall be
coordinated with military plans, and shall be sub-
ject to the approval of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
or if there be a consolidation of the armed services,
under the supreme commander. Parts of such programs
which are to be executed in the theater of military
operations shall be subject to control of the mili-
tary commander.
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(From "UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT MANUAL, September 1941,"
page 96.)
COORDINATOR OF I NFOR11iAiTI ON
Room 158, Federal Trade Commission Building
District 2370, Branch 600
Coordinator of Information- - - - - -William J. Donovan
The position of Coordinator of Information was
established by the President on July 11, 1941. The
Coordinator was authorized "to collect and analyze
all information and data which may bear upon national
security; to correlate such information and data, and
to make such information and data available to the
President and to such departments and officials of
the Government as the President may determine; and to
carry out, when requested by the President, such\\sup-
plementary activities as may facilitate the securing
of information important for national security not now
available to the Government."
The functions of this office do not supersede or
duplicate the activities of the War Department General
Staff, the regular intelligence services, the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, or other existing departments
and agencies.
Approved.
William J. Donovan
Coordinator of Information
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(From "UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT MANUAL, Spring 1942,11
page 98.)
COORDINATOR OF INFOMhTION
Administration Building, Twenty-fifth and E
Streets, NW.
EXecutive 3300, Branch 600
Coordinator of Information- - - - William J. Donovan
Deputy Coordinator- - - - - - - - Robert E. Sherwood
Deputy Coordinator- - - - - - - - James P. Baxter, III
Deputy Coordinator- - - - - - - - Atherton Richards
Deputy Coordinator- - - - - - - - Elmo Roper
Executive Officer - - - - - - - - Thomas G. Early
Liaison Officer- - - - - - - - - - William A. Ydmbel
The position of Coordinator of Information was es-
tablished by Presidential order on July 11, 1941. The
Coordinator was authorized "to collect and analyze all
information and data which may bear upon national se-
curity; to correlate such information and data, and to
make such information and data available to the Presi-
dent and to such departments and officials of the Govern-
ment as the President may determine; and to carry out,
when requested by the President, such supplementary ac-
tivities as may facilitate the securing of information
important for national security not now available to the
Government."
Approved.
William J. Donovan
Coordinator of Information
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(From "UNITED STATLS GOV:RNMETNT MANUAL, Summer, 1944,
page 162.)
Office of Strategic Services
Twenty-fifth and E Streets N.W.
EXecutive 6100
Director - - - - - - - - - - - - - Brig-Gen William J. Donovan
First Assistant Director - - - - - G. Edward Buxton
Second Assistant Director- - - - - Charles S. Cheston
Executive Officer- - - - - - - - - Lt.Col. O.C. Doering, Jr.
Deputy Director,Administrative Services - Louis Ream
Secretary- - - - - - - - - - - - - Maj. Duncan C. Lee
CREATION - By Military Order of June 13, 1942, the
office of Coordinator of Information, exclusive of the
foreign information activities transferred to the Office
of War Information by Executive Order 9182 of June 13,
1942, was designated Office of Strategic Services and trans-
ferred to the jurisdiction of the Joint United States
Chiefs of Staff.
ACTIVITIES - The functions of this agency as modified
by Executive Order 9312, of IVIarch 9, 1943, are collecting
and analyzing such strategic information as may be re-
quired by the Joint Chiefs of Staff for military opera-
tions, and planning and conducting special operations
not assigned to other Government agencies.
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