ORGANIZATIONAL PROPOSA LFOR THE PRODUCTION OF INTELLIGENCE ON INTERNATIONAL COMMUNISM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00549R000100260011-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 16, 2012
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: August 22, 1955
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANIUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT
Organizational Proposal for the Production
of Intelligence on International Communism
1. There appears to be general agreement that the output
of finished intelligence on communism needs to be substantially
increased. This need has been recognized and voiced from
time to time for several years and restated recently in the
USIA survey, an OCB paper concerning propaganda against com-
munism, and other internally circulated CIA papers. In
order that steps might be taken to provide for the desired
increased output, the SA/PC/DCI was directed to examine
the appropriate location of primary responsibility for the
production of intelligence on international communism and
to consult with the Special Assistant/Intelligence, Dept.
of State, on this subject. After preliminary consideration
of the referenced memorandum, the SA/PC/DCI was directed to
develop specific recommendations concerning any desirable
expansion of functions and new organizational arrangements
within the CIA that might be required to meet the recognized
need. This memorandum sets forth a recommended course of
action in response to both of these requests.
2. The more important conclusions are that there are
three distinguishable intelligence production activities all
of which need to be initiated or expanded. They are:
a. The production of finished intelligence of a
level of generality useful to policy makers, organized
for the most part in the form of studies of institutions,
situations, and developments in particular countries,
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including most contributions to NIEb and the NIS and
much current intelligence;
b. The provision of operational intelligence in
support of FI and CE activities and of specific and
detailed information on communist organizations, Witl-
munication nets and personalities, including much
unclassified specific detail useable for propaganda
and other PP purposes at home and abroad;
c. Gontinuing_Rsicsad operational research on
speculative study of communism and the means of
countering communism.
CONCLUSIONS:
3. That the productioncf intelligence outlined in
paragraph 2a should continue to be the responsibility of
the Department of State inasmuch as there is no practical
way to divide the subject matter of political and social
intelligence as a whole, which is the responsibility of
State, into two distinguishable subjects one of which is
"Communism" and the other "everything else."
I. That the production of intelligence outlined in para-
graph 2b above should be assigned to CIA (DM).
5. That the activity outlined in paragraph 2c above
(which is in part intelligence, in part estimation, and
in part speculation on policy) should be carried on by
several senior officers serving as a Senior Research and
Planning Staff and attached administratively to the DM.
RECOMMENDATIONS:
6. To implement the foregoing conclusions it is
recommended:
a. That a sum on the order of be
authorized for reimbursement to the lepar merit of
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State for the production of NIS material along the
lines of the outline of a coiitierstrpplemerxt and in
an order of priority by country to be approved by
CIA, the specific amount to be dependent upon the
25X1 establishment of mutually agreed specifications and
responsive to the needs of the community.
b. That to carry out its production responsibility,
_CIA,. enlarge in
DD?/CI either through the addition of personnel doing
'aimilar work obtained from other parts of DDP or/and
25X1 the addition of new T.O. to carry out the second pro-
duction activity, namely, the operational intelligence
support. This staff should, of course, have access to
25X1 operational material in the DDP area but should also
make maximum use of intelligence produced in the Depart,
ment of State and in the offices of the DDI as well as
of overt intelligence. The expanded
should recognize clearly that its function
is not only to provide intelligence support for the
Clandestine Services but also to meet the needs of
other components of the community for specific and
detailed intelligence. /n particular it should make
every effort to sanitize its product to meet the needs
of agencies such as the USIA and the Defense Otpartment.
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c. That several senior officers be assigned to
devote themselves to the kind of work described in 2c
above. They should be administratively assigned to the
DIE, encouraged to develop mutually stimulating rela-
tions with the DDP/CI and particularly
with access to such information as
would be relevant to their task. These research and
planning officers should not have administrative res-
ponsibilities or the management of research programs.
They should have the objectivity expected of intelli-
gence officers and, while they should be accessible
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to operational personnel for consultation on opera-
tional problems, they should not become involved
in operational responsibilities. They should have
overt status in order to permit easy consultation
with policy officers in other departments, with
scholars and academic institutions, and with
individuals and institutions of other countries.
RICHARD M. BISSELL, Jr.
SA/PC/CI
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