REPORT ON INTELLIGENCE MATTERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00610R000100130015-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 5, 2002
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: October 26, 1945
• Content Type: MF

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WAR EPARTMENT
OFFICE, OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF WAR
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STRATEGIC SERVICES UNIT
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WASHINGTON 25, D.C.
201 October 1943
IEEMOUNDIII FOR MR RONORABLI 1*OB7LIT t. LOV?t*
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Subject: Report on In Iligence Natters
There is submitted herewith in -
eight =Pie* report requested in your mem-
*rand= of 23 October 1945, above subject*
The report in divided into two parte and
the questions in each part are answered in
the order indicated in your memorandust*
John tagruder
Brig* Gen*
Director
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REPORT TO THE LOVETT COMMITTEE
FROM THE STRATEGIC SERVICES UNIT
This report is really a set of documents which is
of particular importance, not so much because it presents
any new plan but because it lays out very clearly the
historical and the theoretical reasons supporting the
necessity of establishing a centralized intelligence service.
By the time this report was submitted the central idea was
no longer new. The reasoning behind it was, however, not
always fully understood, and it has not elsewhere, to my
knowledge, been stated so comprehensively.
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