REORGANIZATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67-00059A000200110075-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 27, 2005
• Sequence Number: 75
• Publication Date: September 16, 1948
• Content Type: MEMO

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CIRCULAR M AORANDUM FOR THE +IBERS OF ICAPS
SUBJECT: Reorganization
ATTACHIERITS : (1) Memo to Chief of ICAPS
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(2) Proposed Circular-of 15 August 1947
"Reorganization of CIG"
I- Plense give consideration to the attached memo from
and to the Proposed Circular of August 15, 1957,
which was never sent out of CIA, and then let me have your ideas
on the subject.
2. I have been thinking this over for some time myself
and was planning to bring it up next month on the anniversary
of my arrival here.
3. As I see it, ICAPS, when originally constituted, was
chiefly a planning unit to set up CM and, subsequently, to help
in the conversion of CIG to CIA. Maybe this function will be
revived upon receipt of the reports-of-the Hoover and Dulles
Committees.
1. For the last few months at any rate, the planning duties
of ICAPS have been almost negligible and most of its error has
been of a coordinating and liaison nature.
Planning -- All of the working offices have their
planning staffs so the over-all ICAPS planning is not
now so necessary as it was a couple of years ago. Ad hoc
committees of professionals, now that CIA is a going'
concern, could undoubtedly take care of the planning
functions in conjunction witi-i thelanning staffs in
the different offices of CIA 1"!A e
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Coordination and Liaison -- With the Standing Com-
mittee members as buffer states in the IAC agencies, there
is duplication, i.e., expensive duplication, more or less,
to the extent of double salaries for the single job. ICAPS
members coordinate with the Standing Committee members who,
in turn, do most of the coordinating within their own
agencies.
So far as representing the Director on different com-
mittees is concerned, the two continuing ones seem to be
Block's SANACC Subcommittee and the NSC Staff.
(1) The SANACC Subcoe shou7 d have died
a long time ago as its work being considered by
the NSC Staff and now, subsequent to the issuance
of NSC 10, it should no longer function for SANACC
but rather for the new JJ? rectar set up under 1G,
if he wishes to have it, or under State's Assistant
Director for Public Affairs, if he wishes to have
it under NSC It. It should be, in any event, a
working committee under one or the other of those
two NSC Directives and have on it a professional
from the office concerned., not an over-all ICAPS
representative.
(2) The NSC Staffs when it started, required
a good deal from CIA and the CIA representative
thereon, though not a voting member, was a convenient
"leg-man" and liaison officer. Lately, however, many
items of purely military nature have been referred
to the NSC Staff which have required nothing special
from CIA, so much of the time of the CIA representative
is wasted on that job. I should think it could be
arranged for the CIA representative to be called in
whenever necessary, i.e., 20% - ILO% of the time rather
than 100%.
- The work here in ICAPS is of some usefulness to CIA and
the agencies and is very pleasant and agreeable, but I do
think it is an expensive "ration which could be handled
by one or two officers, pl le of clerks, instead of
the present complement of Y-1hat
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100% of the time is something I have never yet been able to
find out. I imagine it is ordinary CIA-Joint Chiefs liaison
with the working offices, the way there are various liaison
officers in Qom, 00 and OCi for the IAC agencies. As I recall
it, he was considered a part of ICAPS merely because it was
not known where else to put him.
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5. Whatever your ideas are on this subject, please think
it over so that we can talk it over upon my return from my vacation
early in October. There is considerable correspondence in the
17 - 148 files about ICAPS and :its organization. The Proposal
I sent to the Director some months ago about the redundancy of
the Standing Committee, after our meetings drafting DCI 1/1, seems
to have disappeared into the blue. I tried several times to get
an answer, but nothing was forthc ning from the Directorate, so I
assumed the Director thought that the IAC members wished to have
a Standing Committee and he wouldnot interfere with that set-up.
I was told, when I came here, that there was a unanimous desire
to have such a Standing Committee on the part of the IAC members,
but when we got down to working it out in the DCI. 1/1, there seemed
to be no such firm unanimity.
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