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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000200150010-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 16, 2003
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: July 14, 1964
• Content Type: MF

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14 July 1964
MEMORANDUM FOR: Executive Director
1. Attached is correspondence between DCI and the Deputy Secretary
of Defense going back to last fall and concerning the NPIC role in wartime.
2. The DCI in his letter of 25 October promised to be in touch
"at a later date. "
this stands and am not at all certain that further action is required. In any
case, I wouldn't know who to contact to get a current reading. // 1 A
3. With the phase -out of the Staff, I am not sure where all
H. Knoche
EA / DDCI
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17 January 1964
MEMORANDUM FOR:
2. In reviewing tt s correspondence on this matter including
Gilpatric's letter to thg' DCI of 2 October, DDCI notes that the ICI
letter of 25 October es, tp fact, promise a further letter.
General Carter askemeb to inquirs of you as to the status of your
evasive and puzzling.
1. Apparently there is 54me feeling among some Pentagon
officials that the DCI's response to secretary Gilpatric on
25 October 1963 concerning )+e role of NPIC in warti?T,e was
studies.
FT. Knoche
EA / DDCI
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14 January 1964
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Conversation with General Alva Fitch, 14 January
1964
1. I lunched today with General Fitch to explain the
background and purpose of the NIPE Staff. I taAmd mostly
about the two task forces under
Nolting and the review authorized by the Secretary of Defense
of NSA.
STATINTL
STATINTL
2. Two specific points of some importance developed.
a. NPIC. General Fitch said that the Joint
Chiefs of Staff were disturbed by the Agency's response
to their inquery about the transfer of NPIC to the
Secretary of Defense in the event of war. According
to General Fitch, JCS regards the answer as evasive.
I said that I was only ~bg was my impression there background
of this request but th
was concern in certain quarters of the Agency about the
proposed definition of "outbreak of war." There seemed
wording in the ev entsof some vague
to be some fear that
as to justify the
minor disturbance
that conversely there was hsome fear
General Fitch
on the part of the Military that CIA was attempting tod s
get out of its commitment
General entirely.
Fitch appears to feel
in a very amicable way.
that this is an
CIA and the JCS and one which can
difficulties between
be, he thinks, easily resolved.
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b. Duplication. I transmitted the Director's
request to General Fitch to inform himself of the
facilities and services available in the Agency and
the Director's desire that DIA make full use of these
facilities. I said that where appropriate the Director
proposed that CIA make full use of the facilities
and services of DIA. If such an arrangement is fully
implemented, it should, in the Director's view,
eliminate useless duplication.
STATINTL
Distribution:
Orig - DCI
1 - DDCI
JOHN A. BROSS
D/DCI/NIPS
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