BRIEFING ON THE OFFICE OF INTELLIGENCE COORDINATION

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
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• Publication Date: March 29, 1954
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MEMORANDUM F
SUBJECT:
March 1954
Assistant to
Manning and Coovdine
Director for
on
Briefing on the Office of Intelligence
Coordination
1. Following up our conversation on Friday, I submit
for your information;
a. A compilation of the Law. National Security
Council Directives and Director of Central intelligence
Directives which govern CIA and the major relation-
ships among the intelligence agencies with a covering
note.
b. A file besting on the LAC.
c. A statement (with explanatory papers here
necessary) of the disposition or proposed disposition
of dm nine current functions of OIC a. Listed in Tab A
of my 13 January memorandum to the DCI.
d. A file of papers bearing upon problems on
which OIC has worked over the years. Some of these
are concluded and some may arise again. They are
presented to give you a perspective of the typical
coordination problems of the Agency.
e. A list of file headings of the action. file. now
maintained by this Office, in order that you might have
at least a cursory view of the subjects which have en-
gaged us.
Z. In terms
staff office dealing vri
State Department review completed
the historic organisational rote of a CIA
you should know the following:
COO
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a. Up until 1949 there was
to the Director called " rdepa
and Policy Staff."
b. From 1949 to 1951 the ssme it; as cal d:
"Coordination and Operations Policy Staff." It dealt
with intra-agency as well as interagency problems.
c. In 1951 the Office of Intelligence coordination
was established. composed exclusively of CM personnel.
The Terms of Reference are already in your hands.
OIC reigorted directly to the Deputy Director of Central
Intelligence until 1951. when the Office of the Deputy
Director (Intelligence) was established. The first DDI.
Mr. Becker. took the view that as DDI it was his role
to be the principal advisor to the Director on problems
of intelligence coordination and that OIC was his staff
aid in this regard. The present DDI has not formally
declared his role in, the same way. though generally
speaking he has so operated when making use of 01C.
3. These various staff,, over the years. have played a
ole in the development of most of the NSCIDs and DGLDs
closely, of course, with the appropriate officers of CIA
r agencies.
4. The principles on which the Office of lflt?UigeuCe
Coordination has operated have been as fo
flows
a. ClAmust achieve coordination (short of recourse
to the NSC) by leadership, stimulation and persuasion.
b. The primary role and expert knowledge of any
agency having substantive responsibility for a particular
problem should be recognized.
c. Actual coordination on specific problems should
be decentralized. whenever possible, to the individual
CIA offices and IAC agencies having functional responsi-
bility.
Coordina
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d. The DC1, however, maintain, a general
supervisory role over all the coordination process
AD/IC should be responsible for assisting the DCI
this role.
it. The effectiveness coordination depends in
the last analysis on the relations of the intelligence
chief. themselves, particularly in the IAC.
1. In order to solve relationship problems
flexible, practical attitude is fax superior to a jur
dictional doctrinaire approach.
g. Interagency and bare-agency problems are
often related and neither should be decided without
consideration of possible effect on the other.
S. In our experience, the role of the Secretary of the
has generally proved very useful, although it could be argued
absolutely essential to the solution of interagency problems.
following are the reasons why it has been useful:
a. It has provided insight into the relationships
among the chiefs of intelligence as they have met and
solved their problems.
b. It has provided a ready
municate with the other into
necessary staff work done on
*ming before the LAC on which ther
any staff-level mechanism.
e. It has insured that recornm
approval would be subject to staff critic
assistanc, by OIC at an early stage. I
that OIC has made extensive couttibuttori
even though, being anonymous. 01Cie ro
proved after the fact.
for OIC to
et chiefs to get
problems
did not exist
AM
Asatitan
Intelligence Coordination
for LAC
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ix belief
in this area,
cannot be
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29 March 1954
EMORANDU OR: Special A s 'neat to tbeDirector for
Planning and Coordination
SUBJECT:
REFERENC ?
The Intelligence Advisory Committee
Progress Reports of the LAC Agencies t
the NSC and of Six Interagency Committees
to the LAC (in notebook. attached)
1. The LAG is established by N -1 (parag
and operates under procedures established by DCII) 1
Z. The Committee now meetsevery Tuesday at 10:45 a. in.
n the Director's Conference Room Beginning with the first
meeting under General Smith (20 October 1950), the business of
the Committee has been reflected in agenda (the LAC-"A" series)
minutes (the LAC-"M" series) and documents (the LAC-11D" series).
The bulk of the Committee's time in session is devoted to con-
sidering and adopting national estimates, but all members under-
stand. sad Mr. Dulles recently reaffirmed, that they are free
to bring before the Committee any question affecting the intelli-
gence community as well as estimates. Much of the business
of the Committee is conducted out of session by the consideration
of circulated documents. (la its first 140 weeks. the LAC con
sidered 150 estimates and 149 documents). The Secretariat
has been continuously furnished by OLC. servine as 25X
Secretary from October 1950 to November 195z and 25X
from that time since. 1
-1- 3. Over the past six years. the IAC has established
Interagency committees to handle various aspects of in-
telligence. These groups, listed in the front page of the attached
notebook, are responsible to the IAC and provide a mechanism
for discharging some of the community's business short of the
LAC.
TOP
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4. Apart from these and in addition, each agency
maintains a staff, of varying wise and internal location, whose
members are readily available for informal consultation.
singly or together, on any intelligence coordination problems.
The efforts of these officers are often productive of interagency
recommendations to the IAC which that Committee can consider
with & minimum of original inquiry (e.g.. the Semi-Annual
Status Report to the NSC on the Foreign Intelligence Program.
the current version of which is included in the attached notebook).
25X1 OIC
Distri
(29 March 19
SA/DCl/PC
OIC (file)
JAMES Q. REBER
Assistant Director
Intelligence Coordination
T9P I
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A Statement (with Exptanatory Papers as Noted) of the Disposirn
or Pr*pos.4 Disposition of the Nine Current Functions of OIC as listed
in Tab A of 13 January Memorandum to the DCI
4.
Secretary to the lAG See book on LAG):
The lacaties of this function remains a question
mind. I would like to discuss further with you.
Publications:
A proposed Regulation on this subject is attached, with
an ezplanatory comment from 01C. No further action necessary.
Coordination of External Research (Explanatory paper attached):
Should go to the Office of the Special Assistant to the
r for Planning and Coordination.
c Review of Effectiveness of Operational on:
All that is needed here is to change to 25X
read OCD for MC. This will be done by (MC. 1
Chairman - Advisory Committee on Foreign Language Publications,
NSC1D-16:
Regulation has bsen changed. Chairman to
puty Director (Intelligence),
presentation on Interagency Prioritie Committee for
Clandestine Collection:
by 01C.
Should go to the Office of the DBI. This will be azransed
. Coordination
attached):
s of Dissemination(Explanatory Papers
OIC is transferring its
necessary.
nt files to OCD. No further
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sr Report on Intenise See IAC book for stest copy):
8h.44 so to DDI (Bundy) or could go to the Special it iodation
Director for Planning and Goordirisdon. Would like to die
this further with you.
9 Reviiton of Substantive Royalist
Practically cornpt,t. no proble
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oblerns on Which OIC Has Worked
(Not listed in order of importance. Attached
papers are keyed to the numbers.)
1. Revision of NSCID-1 to provide that national intelligence
would be disseminated to foreign governments on the concurrence
of the IAC (1AC-D-40).
2. The establishment of NSCID46, having to do with the
ng of foreign language publications (IAC-D-60).
3. The transfer to the Department of State of CIA'. previous
function of political, social and cultural biographic intelligence
(AD/IC memo to DWI of 10 October 1952).
4. Intelligence support for NATO (IAC-D- 9
S. Intelligence support for Psychological Warfare
memo of 5 September 1952).
6. Intelligence support (NIL.) for U.S. embassies and
theater commands (AD/1C memo to DCI of 22 January 1954).
7. Intelligence support for Foreign Assets Control (ADAC
memo to DEVI of 19 November 1952).
8. Intelligence support for Economic De
ittee (IAC-D-53/1).
e Advisory
9. Review of the State Department's functions under NSCI 0
(ADAC memo of 5 January 1953).
11. The correction of deficiencies revealed in post mortems
of national intelligence estimates (IAC-D-57/1).
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12. The continuing coordination of requests from the State
Department for assistance in pursuance of N5C49. "Security of
Strategically Important Industrial Operations in Foreign Countries"
(ADrIC memo of 24 August 1953).
13. Study of Anti-Communist Resistaice and Resistance
Potential IAC4)-75/2).
14. The rendering of assistance to the Bureau of the Budget
in its proposed survey of intelligence programs (IAC-D-77/1).
A draft paper on the strengthening of intelligence activities is
also attached.
.i SECRET
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heti draft regulation hais been concurred in by
eats and wilt shortly be issued. It lodges re
DDI for the coordination of CIA's finished in
licatione. Coordination of the publications of all
at present an assigned responsibility of any unit,
ork is performed by OCD. through its "Intelligence
ea," In regularizing the nomenclature sad other
specie of publications. Substantively. the CIA
cies consult with other producers and with con-
ereby seek to refine their products and make them
ve to needs. Should it become a fact that depart
utions to national intelligence are suffering from
to emphasis on departmental publications, it would
for the DCI to work with the agencies to achieve
ce. It is not believed that that situation now exists.
Li: II
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EMINATION
Accumulation of In ellije ce Public
Procedures to reduce the accumulation overseasof
?nal and CIA finished intelligence (IAC-D-6912 and memo
ra AD/IC to DCI dated 30 April 1953).
National InteUi enceSu v
Procedure for IAC control of dissemination of the National
Intelligence Surveys to non-IAC agencies and foreign governments
(LAC-D-415/1Z).
.Control StaniPs
oposat to standardize, and thereby reduce, the
over the disseminati n and use of intelligence
Considered by the LAC representatives (Draft
a
DC
V.
A
semination
don of CIA
Intelligence
posal to clarify the responsIbIlities of the die-
d security officials in questions of foreign dissemina,
telligence is before the Deputy Director of Central
or decision.
GDEN iAL
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