PRINCIPLES - THE SOUNDNESS OF WHICH IT IS BELIEVED HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED BY OUR OWN EXPERIENCE AND A FIRST-HAND STUDY OF THE SYSTEMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00610R000100030022-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 4, 2003
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PRINCIPLES - THE SOITDNESS OF WHICH IT~ IS BELIEVED
HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED BY OUR OY%N'PERIENCE AND A
FIRSTHAND STUDY OF THE SYSTEMS OF OTHER NATIONS -
WHICH SHOULD GOVERN THE ESTABLISEDENT OF A CENTRALIZED
UNITED STATES FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM.
1. That each department of Government should have its own
intelligence bureau for the collection and processing of sued
information material as it finds necessary in the actual performance
of daily functions and duties. Such a bureau should be under the
sole control of the department head and should not be encroached
upon or impaired by the functions granted: any other Government
intelligence agency.
2? That, in addition to the intelligence unit for each
departments there should be established (for the purpose of obtain-
ing information upon which long range policy could be based) a
national centralized foreign intelligence agency which should have the
authority:
To serve all departments of the Government;
To procure and obtain political, economical,
psychological, technological, socialogical, military
and other information which may bear upon the nationa:l
interest 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 authorized governmental agencies
and officials, intelligence in the form of strategic
interpretive studies.
3. That no executive department should be.{permitted
to engage in secret intelligence, because secret intelligence covers
all fields, but in a proper case call upon the central intelligence
agency which should be in charge of secret intelligence.
4. That such an agency should be prohibited..from,carrying
on clandestine activities within the United States, and should be
forbidden any police functions either at home or abroad.
5. That since the nature of its work requires it'-to ,have
status, it should be independent of any department of the Govern-
ment (since it is charged to serve all and must be, free of the
natural bias of an operating department). It should be under a
director, appointed by the President, and be administered under
Presidential direction.
6. That, subject to the approval of the President, the
policy of such an'intelligence 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.
7. That this agency,
as the sole agency for secret intelli-
gences should be authorized, in the foreign field only, to carry on
services such as espionage, counterespionage, and those special
operations (including morale and psychological) designed to ant_t cipate
and counter any attempted penetration and subversion of our national
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security by enemy action.
~. That such a service should have arx independent budget
granted directly by Congress.. It should be authorized-'to hav its
own system of codes and should be furnished Facilities by depart-
meats proper and necessary for the performance Ofits, duties.
9? That such a service should 'include in its. staff 4.k
specialists -(within Government, departments, 'civilian and, :mill tarp
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and in Private life
)Professionally trained in the .analysis Uf,&`
information and possessing a high degree of linguistic ,region al r T . ri a
or functional -competence to analyze, coordinate and. evaluate
incoming information, to make special intelligence reports
provide guidance for the collecting branches of"'the agency.y:
10. That in time of war or?unlimited national emergency
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and. shall be subject to the approval of the Joint .Chiefs'vf.,gta
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or if there be a consolidation of the armed services, under the
all departments of such agency in areas of actual and p7ro jected
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