COMMENTS ON NE DIVISION REPLY TO OUR REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62-01094R000300060014-5
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 20, 1999
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: September 30, 1960
• Content Type: MFR

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SUBJECT: Comments on NE Division Reply to Our Report
1. With the exception of closing or drastically reducing Project
I don't feel very strongly about any of the NE Division
nonconcurrences. I believe some of the nonconcurrences are based on simple
misunderstanding and that NE might go along with our suggestions if they
were properly understood. Examples of misunderstandings are the
following:
a. We recommended that young junior grade officers would
25X1A6a benefit by a tour at an isolated post like We intended
that these young officers be in addition to the more mature Chief of
Base. NE apparently misunderstood and disapproved on the grounds that
a young fellow could not manage such a base alone.
b. We recommended that young case officers be assigned to
reports duty at Headquarters as part of their training before being
sent abroad. I had intended that a young officer so assigned would
spend at least a year or two on the reports job. NE misunderstood
this recommendation and disapproved on grounds that the young case
officer would not benefit by a brief reports assignment.
2. In several places NE refused to consider our recommendations,
simply because they called for stopping some activities which we
consider marginal. Examples of this are our recommendations to close
In both cases NE
oesn't really justify the activities, it simply expresses the hope
that it will prove valuable in the future.
3. NE also refuses to consider consolidating the work and budgets
25X1A6a of the two fairly senior men it maintains in _ I had two objections
25X1A6a to the setup:
a. There isn't enough work for one man much less two and only
one of the two men is charged against the NE budget, the other one being
carried by WE. I would not be disposed to fight if NE insists on
maintaining two men, but certainly both of them should be charged against
NE's budget.
11. It is rather pointless for me to comment on NE's blanket
rejections of our recommendations on In its reply NE answered
none of our comments and criticisms. I understand that the Director
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favors retaininE~ My objection is not so much to the concept
of as to the gross inefficient and lavish extrava ances with
whit 1 s operated. I believe the could be 25X1A2d1
cut at least two-thirds without seriously effecting any operational
benefits which we might in the future hope to obtain from the foreign
representatives.
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