MANAGEMENT STAFF STUDY OF OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE MISSION AND FUNCTIONS DATED 19 APRIL 1954

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00274A000200130011-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 20, 2003
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: October 23, 1954
• Content Type: MEMO

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Chief, Management Staff
FROM : Assistant Director, Scientific Intelligence
SUBJECT: Management Staff Study of Office of Scientific Intelligence
Mission and Functions dated 19 April 195+
1. The Inspector General's office is making its periodic
review of OSI and in connection therwith has asked for a written
critique of your survey of 06I, and consequent recommendations.,
as carried out in the spring of 1954. To provide this paper, I
am addressing the present memorandum to you with copies to the
Inspector General and DD/I.
2. As you know, cooperation of your staff has continued
since the spring. The internal missions and functions that you
mention in paragraph 3 have been issued and are now in force in
25X1A9A OSI. Messrs. are presently engaged with members
of my office in reducing to writing the Missions and Functions of
the various components of the Agency involved in the ELINT activity,
25X1A9A spear-headed by DAD/SI. This exercise includes
the definition of the ELINT responsibilities o as he 25X1A9A
has been divorced from the responsibilities of DAD for the next
five or six months to devote full time to the organization of this
2 5X1A9A important work. II has also provided me with a "proposed
statement of mission and functions" of a publications staff and a
production control staff. You will remember that these two staffs
were suggested as a part of your proposed reorganized OSI.
3. Two fundamental planning exercises are going forward in
the office and should be completed within the next month or so.
They will serve as the basis of a possible reorganization in the
office. One exercise is by the Chief of IPS, which is intended
to define the long-range production research program. This may
result in some parts of the office being created on a vertical
structure rather than a horizontal structure in such fields as
etc. The second planning is being carried
out by detached for that purpose from the Operations
Staff, to derive e long-range goals, non-substantive, of the
office. His iiecommendations, when accepted, can also provide
basis for planning for future reorganization of the office.
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ii. I believe you will agree with me that it is most desirable
to base any organizational changes within the Office on the recom-
mendations contained in these two office planning exercises. At
such time as these recommendations have been approved, I plan to
call upon members of your staff to assist me in reducing to practice
such organizational changes as may be appropriate, not only from the
point of view of office programs, but also from the point of view of
the most efficient use of available manpower.
5. Please let me take this opportunity to thank you and the
members of your staff, particularly for
the fine cooperation which has been and is being afforded to this
office.
25X1
Assistant Director
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