INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES UNDER SWEEPING STUDY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600450017-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: January 8, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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adhnent of State, Gen. Reynolds
Killian Jr. as the chairman.
The new task force was origi-
ally ordered by President Ken-
edy shortly before his death,
ut its members were named by
lr. Johnson last month.
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errestsests, aconsiderable amount of
Frederick F. Nolting Jr., a for-
eign service officer and former'
embassador to South Viet Nam;
Maj. Gen. Jahn M. Reynolds of
the Air Force, who has served
since 1961 as vice director of the;
Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Joha
A. Bross, deputy to the director
our or five mionths and it is
i p$ r ~; ,ot intended as a permanent
~t U ~~- g 4 ~~ LS i ddy. After Bay of Pigs
The over-all effort and quality
r l y, Times sews Senlro' I United States intelligence is
~, i r , Jan. s u nder continuous review by the
of the world-wide activities of ?oreign Intelligence Advisory
,United States intelligence agen-, oard, which was established by.
Gies has been undertaken by a' resident John F. Kennedy in
rpecial task force n a m c d by' .lay 1961, after the failure
President Lyndon B. Johnson to f the rebel invasion of Cuba at
faring about greater efficiency: he Bay of Pigs, The board is
and co-ordination, ow headed by Clark M. Clifford
The group is composed of 'ho last year succeeded James
:itii its recommendations within
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such of it, it is felt here, can
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capacity of director of central
intelligence, is responsible for::
co-ordinating the work of the,
United States intelligence com
unity as a whole.
The xnteliigence community is,
lade up of the three main in
eIligenee components. of the:
rafted States Government: the:
entral Intelligence Agency, the!
ureau of Intelligence and Re-
earch of the Department ? of
hate; and the Defense Intelli-~
ence Agency plus the intelli-
once sections of each of the
tree military services.
Delegated Responsibility
McCone holds the post of direc-.
or of the CIA but the law as
ell as specific directives of the!,
ational Security Council and the
President- have given him the,
imultaneous functions of direc.,
or of the Intelligence comunu-
i'ty.
His responsibility is to co-ordi-
ate the activities of all'the ele- !
ants in the intelligence com
unity.
The current study has thus
een ordered to provide the :
resident and_McCone with spe-
ific recommendations as to how
-e work of a'11 the intelligence
gencies can be meshed for:
rester efficiency, a mare com-:
lets world-wide coverage and a
9nrhnuan of waste and duplica?'-'
as a part of the immediate staff
of John A. McCon.e who, in his