Status of Intelligence Programs as of 30 June 1952

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61S00750A000100080141-5
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 25, 2001
• Sequence Number: 141
• Publication Date: June 30, 1952
• Content Type: MEMO

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June 1)52
MEMORANDUM
SUBJECT: States of Intelligen:m Program a* of 33 June 1952
1. he following memorandum to the DCI ha a been received from
the Executive Secretary of the NSC:
"The President hes requested that he departments and
agencies reoponsible for the programs described in the NSC 114
series prepare for his information and for the National Security
Council reports on the states of the progrema se of June 30, 1952,
in relation to approved objectivez.
Accordingly, it is requested that the Central Intelligence
Agency submit by August 1 a report on the status of the foreign
intelligence program as of June 30, 1952.-
2. Discussions with the NSC secretariat reveal that a fairly
detailed report is desired specifically dealing with the various dub-
divisions of the U. S. intelligence effort. For each of these sub-
divesiono a summary evaluation should be elide describing explieitly
though concisely how good or poor our Intelligence effort is in
relation to our goals and, if helpful, in comparison with our situa-
tion at the end of FY 1951 or 1950. We should try to tell the NSC
the :Mate of our knowledge in the various areas, fields ant aetivities
not in substantive terms of what vs know., but from the administrator'
viewpoint evaluating our relative success in amassing the knowledge
and producing the studies and estimates that are needed. that can
we do and what can't we do? 4hat can the ESC reasonably expect and
how reliable are we in the different- aspects of intelligence?
3. This paper is to be a detailed report of the status of
intelligence as we begin the "program" we have outlined for ourselves
in general terms for FY 1953. (See Annex 7 of NSC W/3 which was
approved by the IAC as IAO-D-29/9.)
4. For the purpose of organizing contributions to this report
(which covers all of foreign intelligenee but not "related activities
the following hes.dins have been used:
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