APPENDIX THE PREPARATION OF ORE 1

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THE PREPARATION OF ORE 1
1. The preparation of ORE 1 was not typical of the
proceduresto be followed in such oases, because of:
a. The unusual urgency: we received notice
on Friday that a finished report must reach the
Director by Tuesday morning*
b. Our shorthandedness: the Acting Assistant
Director was the only experienced analyst we could
spare from inescapable routine tasks to prepare
and coordinate the report.
c. The existence of JIS 80/26, which provided
a composite statement of the intelligence on the
subject, fully coordinated and concurred in by all
of the intelligence agencies concerned, at least on
the working level.
2. JIS 80/26 was an up-to-date revision of JIC 250/8
prepared by the Working Committee established under C.I.G.
Directive No. 9. Its bulk precluded its use without modifica-
tion as a response to the several similar requests then made
simultaneously upon G-2, J.I.C., and C.I.G., but it was the
obvious starting point for the preparation of the estimates
required.
3. The ORE plan for meeting these requirements was to
have competent personnel extract the required intelligence
from JIB 80/26 and assemble it in an integrated and coherent
form for review, on Monday, by the appropriate specialists
from the Departmental agencies. The Acting Assistant
Director, ORE, expecting to have to do much of this himself,
met with the J.I.S. at about noon on Friday to see how much
could be accomplished on a cooperative basis, eliminating
duplication of effort. He found that the dozen members of
J.I.S. had no idea of preparing any response themselves from
the intelligence available in JIB 80/26, but instead had
referred the problem to an ad hoc committee of Departmental
specialists. In consequence it proved impossible during
Friday afternoon, to reach any of the Departmental specialists
concerned for consultation.
4. On Saturday Horning the Acting Assistant Director,
ORE, made contact with the ad hoc committee and
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a. Confirmed that JIB 80/26 was still valid as
a coordinated expression of Departmental intelligence
on the subject.
b. Learned that, nevertheless, the ad hoc committee
was making no use of JIB 80/26 in the preparation of its
draft. (Instead it was merely compiling such ideas as
occurred to its members impromptu.)
c. Learned the tenor of the draft in preparation
by the ad hoc committee.
5. Regardless of the time factor and the labor involved
in exploiting JIB 80/26, the Acting Assistant Director, ORE,
was unwilling that the maturely considered and coordinated
intelligence contained therein should be discarded in favor of
an impromptu and unanalytio response. Realizing that if
JIB 8026 was to be exploited at all, he must do it himself,
he spent the rest of Saturday (until 9 PM) and Sunday (until
3 AM) extracting the required intelligence from JIB 80/26 and
drafting a report based thereon and on certain cables from
Embassy Moscow (Mr. Kennan) which were known to be universally
accepted. Early on Monday copies of this draft were delivered
to the Departmental specialists concerned, to J.I.S., and to
Gen. Lemnitzer (J.S.S.C.) who had asked to participate.
6. At 1400 on Monday the Acting Assistant Director, ORE,
met with Gen. Lemnitzer, Messrs. Morrison and Barnard (State),
Colonels Park and Bernier (0-2), Capt. Frankel (ONI), and
Col. Wallace (A-2) to review the ORE draft. This representative
group was complimentary in its acceptance of the substance of
the paper. Certain modifications in detail were proposed and
accepted. The only divergence of opinion concerned the wording
of an introductory statement on Soviet foreign policy, regarding
which the representatives of G-2 and ONI contended for a form
of expression which seemed to the representatives of State and
ORE an extravagant and unanalytio assertion irrelevant to the
function of the report. The issue seemed essentially rhetorical.
It moreover lay clearly within the primary competenoe of State.
7. After this meeting, until about midnight, the Acting
Assistant Director, ORE, was engaged in revising the ORE draft
in the light of-the discussion and in checking it against the
ad hoc committee's draft, which he had been able to obtain
only by borrowing the J.I.S. file copy at the close of the
day. In this revision, paragraph 2 was inserted to meet the
issue indicated in paragraph 6 above. The J.I.C, paper proved
to be a miscellany of random ideas, assertive rather than
analytic in approach, but no substantial contradiction was
apparent between it and the ORE draft.
8. Typing of the revised draft was not completed until
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about noon on Tuesday. It was submitted to the Director that
afternoon with an oral explanation that it had been:
a. Based on JIB 80/26
b. Revised after review by the Departmental
specialists,
co Chocked against the J.I.C. report.
The Director was informed of the issue indicated in paragraph 6
above and of the insertion of paragraph 2 to cover that point
as State and ORE saw it.
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