PROPOSED IMPLEMENTATION OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP PROVIDED IN PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE DATED 22 JANUARY 1946

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 5, 2000
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• Publication Date: February 7, 1946
• Content Type: MEMO

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SUBJECT: Proposed Implementation of Central Intelligence Group Pro-
vided in Presidential Directive dated 22 January 19)6
1. PROBLEM PRESENTED
To provide a plan for the early implementation of the
Central Intelligence Group provided in Presidential Directive of
22 January 1916.
a) By Presidential Directive dated 22 January 1946, the
President established a National. Intelligence Authority and provided
a Central Intelligence Group to assist the National Intelligence
Authority in the accomplishment of the correlation, evaluation, and
dissemination within the Government of the resulting strategic and
national policy intelligence.
b) The terms of the above-mentioned Presidential Direc-
tive provided that the Secretaries of State, War and Navy should
assign personnel and facilities to the Central Intelligence Group,
and furnish funds within the limits of existing appropriations for
the operation of this Group.
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The Directive further provides that such "persons
shall collectively form a Central Intelligence Group."
c) The Directive did not provide an administrative or
operating framework by which the persons could. collectively be ad-
ministered to carry out the policies promulgated in the Directive.
d) Standard. governmental practice requires that all
groups be furnished certain administrative facilities which include
personnel administration, supply, fiscal controls, transportation and
allied services, and the direction of operating groups.
e) The War Department has a self-contained experienced
unit geared to furnish certain operational techniques, as well as
personnel administration and servicing sufficient for the immediate
purposes of tri-departmental intelligence organization.
This unit, however, has certain obligations incident
to wartime operations which are being liquidated, and which for
security and administrative reasons should not be identified with the
operation of the newly created Central Intelligence Group.
III. DISCUSSION
a) The Presidential Directive provides a Central Intelli-
gence Group which lacks the necessary operational control, adminis-
trative and supply facilities. The Director is, therefore, faced
with creating these facilities from a group of unrelated persons fur-
nished by the three Departments, or he can utilize an existing unit
possessing the group experience obtained from actual operations.
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In the first instance, such a group would lack over-
all experience in functioning as a team. They would require a con-
siderable period of time spent in planning, organizing, implementing
and training prior to undertaking the necessary operations.
b) Wartime experience has proved the necessity for
specialized skills in the field of clandestine intelligence. These
include: (1) procurement, training, processing and placement of
agents in strategic locations in foreign countries; (2) supply, pay
and administration of these agents; (3) cryptographically secure
methods of communication; (Z,.) knowledge of foreign currencies Iff
(5) procurement of ade-
quate cover and documentation necessary to implement the secure
operation of clandestine agents; (6) knowledge of methods and pro-
cedures of foreign intelligence agencies; (7) collection, evaluation
and dissemination of intelligence through secure methods and chance ls.
c) It is believed that failure to utilize existing
and proven skills will seriously disrupt present profitable operations
and will dangerously delay the development of new operations.
IV. CONCLUSIONS
a) That there exists within the War Department an ex-
perienced unit which can furnish the necessary administrative frame-
work to enable the Central Intelligence Group to undertake and to
accomplish one major part of its mission at once.
b) That this unit possesses certain obligations to
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complete its liquidation of War activities which responsibilities
should not be transferred to the Central Intelligence Group.
c) That these obligations can be liquidated within the
War Department by selected personnel of this unit. That sufficient
experienced personnel from the remainder of the unit can be made
available by the ','Tar Department to furnish the administrative frame-
work referred to in paragraph (a) above.
d) That to make these additional personnel available
to the Central Intelligence Group certain administrative procedures
are necessary. These procedures are:
1) Establish within the Secretary of War Group a
division to serve the Central Intelligence Group in accordance with
paragraph 2 of Presidential Directive dated 22 January 1946.
2) That the Secretary of War issue letters of in-
struction substantially as per the attached drafts. (Exhibits "All and
"B")
3) That the Director of the Central Intelligence
Group or his representative collaborate with the Assistant Secretary
of War or his representative in the survey of the personnel and
facilities to be made available in accordance with the instructions
contained in Exhibit "B".
4) That the Secretary of War request the National
Intelligence Authority to authorize the Director of the Central
Intelligence Group to assume operational control and utilize the
division provided in sub-paragraph (1) above, as the nucleus of the
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Central Intelligence Group, and thereafter to be known as the Central
Intelligence Group.
5) That the initial operations of the Central
Intelligence Group be financed from funds furnished by the 'Nar Depart-
went. Further, that the Central Intelligence Group prepare for the
National Intelligence Authority a budgetary procedure which will pro-
vide for reimbursement by the State and Navy Departments of their
proportionate share of the funds advanced by the War Department for
the initial operations.
6) That the Central Intelligence Group prepare for
the National Intelligence Authority a plan which will provide for
the distribution of the personnel of the Central Intelligence Group
among the several departments and provide for subsequent distribution
of additional personnel as acquired. It will also present to the
National Intelligence Authority a detailed budgetary plan to be
followed for the Fiscal Year 197 and thereafter.
7) That the Central Intelligence Group will furnish
a plan for personnel administration excepted from the usual Civil
Service Laws and Regulations, in a manner similar to that employed
by certain other departmental agencies.
8) That the Central Intelligence Group provide a
complete and detailed method of operation for the procurement, corre-
lation, evaluation and dissemmination of intelligence relating to the
national security.
JOHN MAGRUDER
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