DRAFT TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR THE JOINT STUDY GROUP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01083A000100020037-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 30, 2004
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: June 29, 1960
• Content Type: MF

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29 June 19W
I ORANDUK FOR: M. Bissell, 104E ?'L" Bldg.
? r. Amory, 354 Admin. Bldg.
Col. White, 128 Past Bldg.
SUBJECT : Draft Terms of Reference for the Joint Study Grcup
i. General Cabell plans to discuss the attached paper at the
Deputies meeting on Friday, 1 July 1960; it is being furnished to you
un an eyes only basis.
2. These draft terms of reference were approved by the Joint
Study Group on 26 June 1960 and each of the Group members are now
chec-;ins them out with their Principals.
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Joint Study Group
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Approved by Group
28 June 196o
PE G4S OF R 'ERENCE
JOINT STUDY GROUP
1. To promote the most effective and efficient use of intelligence
resources and to assist the DCI in carrying out his responsibilities for
coordinating the foreign positive intelligence activities of the US
Government, an Ad Hoc Study Group is established by agreement of the
following Principals, who will be represented on the Group. The
President's Board of Consultants on Foreign Intelligence Activities
will have a representative sit as an observer on the Joint Study Group
and the Board will be given an opportunity to comment on the Group's
report:
The Director of Central Intelligence, who will provide the Chairman
The Secretary of State
The Secretary of Defence
The Director, Bureau of the Budget
The Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
2. The Group, under the direction of the DCI, shall concentrate
its attention primarily upon organizational and management aspects of
the following areas within the intelligence effort. For this purpose
all aspects of foreign intelligence shall be within the purview of the
Group.
a. Toter-departmental, departmental and military service
procedures for handling of intelligence requirements and related
guidance to collectors -- with particular attention to:
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(1) Procedure for keeping down the volume of, and
avoiding any unprofitable duplication in, such guidance, and the
feasibility of establishing a central registry of outstanding
intelligence requirements and of collection responses thereto.
(2) Inter-departmental arrangements for selective levying
of requirements on the most appropriate collection facility or
facilities.
b. USIB arrangements for:
(1) insuring rapid adaptation, adjustment or re-direction
of existing collection assets to meet changes in current priority
requirements, and for deciding upon and supporting expansion of
existing collection facilities or development of new facilities
needed to meet new agreed high-priority requirements.
(2) Periodic community evaluation (including the appraisal
of dollar and man-year inputs) of the foreign intelligence
effort as a whole -- with particular attention to improving the
total program balance, from the geographic and functional points
of view, and to increasing efficiency and eliminating any un-
profitable duplication in the utilization of intelligence
resources.
c. The present military intelligence coordinating machinery
and its relationship to the intelligence community _- with particular
attention to possibilities for closer integration under the authority
of the Department of Defense Reorganisation Act of 1958.
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d. The effectiveness of current implementation of intelligence
coordination directives and procedures -w with special attention to
the field coordination of overseas intelligence activities, and to
community support for the intelligence needs of senior US repre-
sentatives abroad, including military conmanders.
e. Present arrangements for coordinating research and develop-
ment conducted in support of the foreign intelligence effort and
for determining the intelligence community interest in, and providing
support to, any R & D for other primary purposes which may also have
significant potential, usefulness to intelligence.
3. The Group shall present, by 15 December 1960, its findings and
recommendations for appropriate action to the DCI for consideration by
the Principals after which time it shall be dissolved.
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