LETTER TO ALLEN W. DULLES, ESQUIRE FROM DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

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• Publication Date: July 26, 1954
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
26 July 1954
Allen W. Dulles, Esquire
Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. Dulles:
I am sending you herewith a copy of my letter of today's
date to Lt. Gen. James R. Doolittle, WAVE, requesting him to
act as Chairman of a panel of consultants to review the covert
activities of the Central Intelligence Agency under the conditions
and for the purposes set forth in that letter. You will kindly
extend to General Doolittle the facilities necessary to enable
him and his associates to carry out this study including access
to any and all information relating to the covert activities of
CIA.
Sincerely,
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Incl.
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Lt. Oen. James R. Doolittle, GSM
Washington, D. C.
WASBIJOTON
26 July 195k
Bel Panel of Consultants on Covert Activities
of the Central Intelligence Agency
General Doolittle:
I have requested you, and you have agreed, to act as Chairman
of a panel of consultants to conduct a study of the covert activities of
the Central Intelligence Agency. With your concurrence I have invited
Messrs. William B. Franke, Morris Badley, and William Fawley to
act with you as members of the panel. Mr. S. Paul Johnston has kind-
ly agreed to serve as Executive Director of the panel.
It is wiry desire that the Panel of Consultants should undertake a
compreheneive study of the covert activities of the Central Intelligence
Agency., in particular those carried out under the teras of NSCID #5
of August 25, 1951, and MSC 5412 of March 15, 1954. You viii consider
the personnel factor*, the security, the adequacy, the efficacy and the
relative costs of these operations and, as far as possible, equate the
cost of the over-all efforts to the results achieved. You will oak: any
recommendations calculated to improve the conduct of these operations.
To the extent that agencies of the Government, other than the Central
Intelligence Agency, are engaged in covert operations which may
parallel, duplicate, or supplement the operations of C/A, you may
investigate such other operations conducted by any other department
or agency of the Government in order to insure, insofar as practicable,
that the field of foreign clandestine operations is adequately covered
and that there is no unnecessary duplication of effort or expense.
In view of the particularly sensitive nature of these covert operations,
their relation to the conduct of our foreign policy, and the fact that these
sensitive operations are carried on pursuant to National Security Council
action approved by as, I desire that your report be mode to me personally
and classified TOP MM. I will determine whether or not the report
or any part thereof should have any further dissemination. I should
appreciate it if your report could be available to me prior to October 1,
1954.
As you know, the Commission on Orgenization of the Executive
Branch of the Government, generally known as the ,over Commission,
is constituting a Task Piave to study and make recommendations with
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to the organization and methods of operations of the CIA. General
Clark has been designated by Mr. Hoover to head this Thsk
ch, I understand, will probably be organized and start its work
in September next. Under the law constituting the Hoover
on, the Teak Force shall study and investigate the present
organization and methods of operation of the Agency to determine mbat
changes therein are necessary to accomplish the policy of Congress to
promote economy, efficiency, and improved service by:
a, recommending methods and procedures for reducing
expenditures to the lowest amount consistent with the efficient
performance of essential services, activities and functions;
b. eliminating duplication and overlapping of services,
activities, and functions;
c. consolidating services, activities, and functions of a
/miler nature;
d. abolishing services, activities, and functions not
necessary to the efficient conduct of Government;
e. eliminating nonessential services, functions, and
activities which are competitive with private enterprise;
f. defining responsibilities of officials; and
g. relocating agencies now responsible directly to
the President in departments or other agencies.
As the work of the Hoover Task fierce will get under way shortly,
I suggest that you and General Clark confer in order to avoid any un-
necessary duplication of work as between you. The distinction between
the work of your Study Group and of the Hoover Task Force is this:
You will deal with the covert activities of the CIA
as indicated in paragraph (2) above, and your
report will be submitted to me. General Clark's
Task Imbrue will deal largely with the organization
and methods of operation of the C/A and other
related agencies within the limits prescribed in
the law as outlined in paragraph (4) above. Re-
ports of the Hoover Commission are made to the
Congress.
The purpose of these studies, both that of the Hoover Tisk Force
and that of your Group, is to insure that the United States Government
develops an appropriate mechanism for carrying out its over-all intel-
ligence responsibilities and the related covert operations. I consider
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these operations are essential to our national security in these days
when international Communism is aggressively pressing its world-wide
eubversive program.
Sincerely,
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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