JOINT ARMY-NAVY INTELLIGENCE EFFORT (PLANNING DIRECTIVE NO. 24)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP64-00658A000100080013-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2005
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: April 23, 1946
• Content Type: MEMO

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23 April. 1946
Toint Any-Navy Intelligence Effort
(Planning Directive No. 24
The undersigned has contacted Captain Sabalot for the Na
!Lean for the Arn r and herewith. i s a report of the status
2. The Navy conclusions are in their memorandum for General
raudenbOrg, 20 February 1946, and since that date there has been no
further activity by the Navy on the subject.
Colonel McLean states that MID has studied the Navy recommend-
s and concluded that if a joint effort is to be made. it can be
made on substantially the sane lines as those in the Navy report?
However# the MID Board which studied the project recommended that no
such joint effort be made unless and until there should be an actual
merger of Armor and Navy under one command. This recommendation is
based on the conviction that if ArzV and Navy remain separate# the
chain of command and responsibility for intelligence becomes tangled
and confused.
1. The conclusions and recommendations of the Board are in the
bands of G-2 for action and action has yet been taken. (Colonel
McLean is anxious that the lack of approval of the Board's recommendation
be clearly understood.)
5. assumes that whatever the action by G-2,, there will subsequently
joint committee of Are'', Navy and Air Forces to take cognisance of
ie results of the Ark's and the Navyts stud of the subject,
6.. He further states that the 'recommendations for the areas of
joint effort, if,a joint effort is required? were made before the recent
reorganization of 0-2 and are thus out of -.:ate in. matters of detail,
The undersigned did not attempt to secure a copy of the MID
Board#a report.
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