CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67-00318R000100790103-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 29, 2013
• Sequence Number: 103
• Publication Date: May 5, 1961
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

ueclassified and Approved For Release 2013/05/29 : dA-RDP67-00318R000100790103-8
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In the process the rationsdivi-
sion of the agency will probably be
transferred to the State or Defense
Departments.
The peculiar combination of intelli-
gence galligiTn?g?a-lirletret opera- ,
ece
2ftrVttd by the CIA from
or, the World War II
ic Services. The
was a'
lids a law unto itself
under the leadership of Maj. Gen.
William (Wild Bill) Donovan. It ga-
thered intelligence, engaged in sabo-
tage and led and supported partisan
, units operating behind the lines in
lRoth? countries.
Evidence at hand indicates that
ighard.M. Bissell, deputy director
of CIA, was in charge of the Cuban
operation.- This special Cuban sec-
tion?Collated intelligence gathered
from Cuban and domestic sources,
trained rebel forces, supplied them
with arms, ammunition and trans-
portation, and produced estimates of
the situation upon which President
Kennedy acted in approving limited
U. S. support of the landing. The
failure of the effort raised serious
doubts as to the advisability of com-
bining the functions of intelligence
collecting with direct operations
based upon that intelligence.
The transfer of the operations func-
tion to some other agency will not
interfere in the slightest with the
CIA's primary mission of producing
raw and refined intelligence, collat-
ing it and drawing up intelligence
estimates. This would follow the Brit-
ish example of rigid separation of
MI-6 (secret intelligence) and Spec-
ial Operations. In most cases opera-
tions involve political and policy de-
cisions that can be Made properly
only at the highest levels of govern-
Vent.
Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/05/29 : CIA-RnDa7
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