DULLES REPORT'S CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS RE ICAPS

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 21, 2003
• Sequence Number: 60
• Publication Date: January 27, 1949
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27 January 1949
IIORANDUM #1 FOR: THE DIRECTOR
REFERENCE: Memo to Chief of ICAPS, dated 26 January 19119
SUBJECT: Dulles Report's Conclusions and Recommendations re ICAPS
1. The conclusions and recommendations about ICAPS are included
as paragraph #7 along with others at the end of Chapter IV on Coordination
(pages 63 and 61i.) There are other comments throughout the Report about
what ICAPS has not done and suggestions about what it should do if the changes
advocated in this Report are put in effect.
2. This memo will be limited to the'items in paragraph 7 on
Page 63; other references to ICAPS throughout the Report will be discussed
in a separate memo.
3. It is stated that ICAPS should be "reconstituted" as a small
staff, maybe called the Coordination Division, responsible only to the Director
of Central Intelligence with the task of developing plans for the coordination
of intelligence activities.
4. It already is "responsible only to the Director's and does
"develop plans," (although two of its members do have some so-called operating
duties with the NSC Staff and a SANACC subcommittee as representatives of the
Director.) Apparently, therefore, these recommendations mean that full staff
authority to work within CIA as well as among the IAC Agencies -should be given
to ICAPS by charter. To this we agree.
5. If ICAPS should have full staff authority, it is assumed
that all plans for coordination within CIA, as well as with the IAC Agencies,
would be handled by ICAPS in conjunction with the staffs of the various offices.
6.. However, ICAPS cannot see the direct connection between
such a small staff and the recommendation elsewhere in the Report that it assume
direction of the operating responsibilities of OCD liaison collection and
distribution services.
PRESCOTT CHILDS
CHIEF, ICAPS
TOP SECRET
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