TESTIMONY AT MERGER BILL HEARINGS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00610R000100050003-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 9, 2002
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: March 26, 1947
• Content Type: MEMO

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MAR 2 61947
MORANDUM TO: Assistant Executive Director
SUBJECT: Testimony at Merger Bill Hearings
RXFERENCE: Paragraph 3 of Memorandum, same subject as above from
Assistant Executive Director to Assistant Directors
for Operations, Collection and Disseemination, and Estimates and Chief, Reports
IC,APS, dated 21 March 19!7.
1. The mission _of CIG, as directed _in- Paragraph, 1:of the President's
.Letter of January 22, 19Ii6
that all
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ties be plated, developed and coordinated so as ton sintelligence ure the most
effective accomplishment of the intelligence mission related to the
national security, precludes a monetary saving insofar as the activi.ties
related to this office are concerned. Such a saving; rmuld be possible
if the various intelligence a
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independent intelligence facilities adequate for their own needs. Then
a coordinated effort-could produce substantial mone d
savings. The existing situation, however, not onlyd esn tpprovide for
savings but may well result in an-Increased overall cost if-the mission
of CIG is to be accomplished:
2. On the assumption that adequate intelligence facilities to
insure the national security are to be provided the present and planned
ORE Program does include many phases which should result in economy 'if
money and personnel. Specific examples of the above included
a. Production of Intelligence Reference Ma
ls
nnua
. The
preparation of an outline for, coo ''lation of the production
and 'maintenance of, and the editing, publication and dissem-
ination of Intelligence Reference Manuals should result in a
material saving in both money and personnel as compared to
separate production by the various agencies of the Government.
Under the assumption that the four Government agencies, State,
War, Navy, and Air Forces, produce manuals independently it
is estimated that at least a fifty per cent net saving could
be effected through a centralized procedure. The end product
should be better a so
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 b. Present Machine' Record Program. Reference Branch
is presen.Tly maintaining machine records regarding all
=domestic sources of foreign intelligence. These records'
each such agency duplicating or maintaining like records.
eligible Government agencies and preclude the necessity of
are available to State, Wary Navy, Air Forces and other.
Although no accurate. estimate can be made of the economy
c. Planned Machine Record Program. In addition to:
and publication, and all intelligence services which can be performed
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