ENCLOSURE DRAFT LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT

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• Document Release Date: September 29, 2011
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E N C L O S U R E
D R A F T
LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT
The Memorandum of the Director of Strategic Services, dated
18 November 1944, on the establishment of a central intelligence
service was referred to the Joint Chiefs of Staff for comment and
recommendation. The matter has received careful study and consider-
ation.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff recognize, as does the Director of
Strategic services, the desirability of (a) further coordination of
intelligence activities related to the national security; (b) the
unification of such activities of common concern as can be more effic-
iently conducted by a common agency; and (o) the synthesis of depart-
mental intelligence on the strategic and national policy level. They
consider that these three functions may well be more effectively car-
ried on in a common Intelligence agency, provided that suitable condi-
tions of responsibility to the departments primarily concerned with
national security are maintained. They believe, however, that the
specific proposal to these ends made by the Director of Strategic
Services in the Appendix to his Memorandum is open to serious
objections in that, without adequate compensating advantages, it
would over-centralise the national intelligence service, and place
it at such a high level that it would control the operations of de-
partmental intelligence agencies without responsibility, either
individually or collectively, to the heads of the departments con-
cerned. Consequently, the Joint Chiefs of Staff recommend against
the adoption of the draft directive of the Director of Strategic
Services.
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The Joint Chiefs of Staff append hereto an alternative
draft which, they believe, retains the merits of the Director's pro-
posals while obviating the objections thereto. In brief, it provides
that a central intelligence service be established in two steps. To
this end they recommend approval and early issuance of the appended
draft directive. This directive would at once set up a National
Intelligence Authority (Secretaries of State, War and the Navy, and a
representative of the Joint Chiefs of Staff), a director of a Central
Intelligence Agency, and an Intelligence Advisory Board, (heads of the
principal military and civilian intelligence agencies), The first
duty of this group would be to prepare and submit to you a basic
organizational plan for implementing the 'complete directive.
The success of the proposed organization will depend largely
on the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. In the opinion
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff he should have considerable permanance
in office, and to that end should be either a specially qualified,
high-type civilian or a retired military officer of appropriate back-
ground and experience. It is considered absolutely essential, par-
ticularly in the case of the first director, that he be in a position
to exercise impartial judgment in the many difficult problems of
organization and cooperation which must be solved before an effective
working organization can be established.
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A P P E N D I X
D R A F T
DIRECTIVE REGARDING THE COORDINATION OF INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES
In order to provide for the development and coordination of
intelligence activities related to the national security:
1. A National Intelligence Authority composed of the Secretaries
of State, War and the Navy, and a representative of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff is hereby established and charged with responsibility for
such over-all intelligence planning and development, and such in-
spection and coordination of all Federal Intelligence activities,
as to assure the most effective accomplishment of the intelligence
mission related to the national security,
2. To assist it in that task the National Intelligence Authority
shall establish a Central Intelligence Agency headed by a Director
who shall be appointed or removed by the President on the recommendation
of the National Intelligence Authority. The Director of the Central
Intelligence Agency shall be responsible to the National Intelligence
Authority and shall sit as a non-voting member thereof.
3. The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency shall be
advised by an Intelligence Advisory Board consisting of the heads
of the principal military and civilian intelligency agencies having
functions related to the national security, as determined by the
National Intelligence Authority.
V"" 4. The first duty of the National Intelligence Authority, assisted
by the Director of the Central Intelligencf'Agency and the Intelligence
Advisory Board, shall be to prepare and submit to the President for
his approval a basic organizational plan for implementing this direc-
tive in accordance with the concept set forth in the following paragraphs.
5. Subject to the direction and control of the National Intelli-
gence Authority, the Central Intelligence Agency shall;
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a. Accomplish the synthesis of departmental intelligence relating
to the national security and the appropriate dissemination within the
Government of the resulting strategic and national policy intelligence.
b. Plan for the coordination of the activities of all intelligence
agencies of the Government having functions related to the national se-
curity, and recommend to the National Intelligence Authority the est-
ablishment of such overall policies and objectives as will assure the
most effective accomplishment of the national intelligence mission.
c. Perform, for the benefit of departmental intelligence agencies,
such services of common concern as the National Intelligence Authority
determines can be more efficiently accomplished by a common agency,
including the direct procurement of intelligence.
d. Perform such other functions and duties related to intelligence
as the National Intelligence Authority may from time to time direct.
6. The Central Intelligence Agency shall have no police or law-
enforcement functions.
7. Subject to coordination by the National Intelligence Authority,
the existing intelligence agencies of the Government shall continue to
collect, evaluate, synthesize, and disseminate departmental operating
intelligence, herein defined as that intelligence required by the several
departments and independent agencies for the performance of their proper
functions. Such departmental operating intelligence as designated by the /
National Intelligence Authority shall be freely available to the Central
Intelligence Agency for synthesis. As approved by the National Intelli-
gence Authority, the operations of the departmental intelligence agencies
shall be open to inspection by the Central Intelligence Agency in connec-
tion with its planning function. In the interpretation of this paragraph,
the National Intelligence Authority and the Central Intelligence Agency
will be responsible for fully protecting intelligence sources and methods
which, due to their nature, have a direct and highly important bearing
on military operations.
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8. The National Intelligence Authority shall have an independent
budget upon which the Central Intelligence Agency shall be dependent for
budgetary support. The National Intelligence Authority budget shall
also be available for other intelligence activities as the National
Intelligence Authority may direct. Within the limits of the funds
made available to him, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
may employ necessary personnel and make provision for necessary supplies,
facilities and services. With the approval of the National Intelligence
Authority, he may call upon departments and independent agencies to
furnish such specialists as may be required for supervisory and
functional positions in the Central Intelligence Agency, including
the assignment of military and naval personnel.
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