Coordination with Intelligence Division, GSUSA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00662R000100020027-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 28, 1998
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: March 9, 1949
• Content Type: MEMO

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Direetor of Central Intelligence 9 March 19.49
Assistant Director, OCD
Coordination with Intelligence Divieion CSUSA
I. CIA coneiotently receivez from General Irwin and his immediate staff the
finest kind of cooperation. This has been demonetrated again during the past
couple of weeks in the arraneeecete which General Ireiele office has wide for
granting CIA access to certsin wAgterials of perticuler sensitivity.
k. Defeetenate this top-lel attitude of cooperation does not extend
down to the eebordinete of. the Division with welch CIA traneacte its
daily busincsse and the Dulles and Hoover comeeete on notably bee vele:J:10ns
between CIA anci ID reeeie true. Fe enet iron these treublee oet, e can
achieve good cooperation et all levels if the senior officeee both of CIA and
of ID taee forceful enoueh action to ensure teat their aeberdinete brought
into line,
3. this Office, wnicn is the ceief point of contact betteen CIA and the
Army for routine tranzactions, has instracted all hands that no request from
ID or elle ?the's. Artily outfit is to be denied seve iwith my specific eeproval, in
advance, in each case. $o fez ee I knol., ti re ere eo unsatisfied reeueste
from the Army - whether for doceemente or zervicea whicn te have tureed dowu
for any reazon other than that they transcended our ereeent capability. Nor
have there been, - in many months.
A. Intelligence Qro whicn is our ehief point of contact with the Army
for routine transactions, is, on tne contrary, obstructing us at every turn.
The attached exhibits are offered in evidence.
5. It does not appear likely that the senior officers of the Intelligence
Group have deliberately adopted a policy of obstruetionism, unich would be at
variance with the policy of their Director. More likely, thE- barriers and
obstructions are created by teoee of their subordinates eno nurso the (ternal
Service jealousy of a civilian agency and who, by virtue of their 4utiest are
in a position to say "No* to specific requests from their opposite numbers in
Cu.
6. Beepoame 1411pe. It le recommended that the DCI bring the attached ex-
hibits to the attenCeen of Generel Irwin, and that he suggest as a poseible
remedy a firmly worded written instruction from General Irwin to all officers
of the Intelligence Group. Experience has shown that oral instructions or
etatements of policy are fruitless in a came of this sort, for they leave sub-
ordinates free to interpret and amend them in the light of their own ingrained
convictions. To chart a course of improved coordination with the Intelligence
Group we need a fixed point of departure, and that can be supplied only by a
firm instruction clearly written into the record.
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CAW/0G Of EYHIBITS
A. Intelligence Division va Intellinence Group;
coonernttel *bile IG obotructe.
B. Intellinnnee Group Memorandum of 25 June 1948:
IG hue eatablished the nnehintry for obstructionism by
assuring the ID function of nerving as channel between
CIA and ail offices of the Army.
Inteiincc Eeports listed by Chief Signnl Officer;
A recent nnd still unrcmovnJ obstruction cr-entcd by
IG, citing the Third Agency Innie of 1941.
? Intelligence naportn 1ittd by the Surgeon Genernl:
A still morn recent ennmnle, ngain citing the Third
Agency ?nrIc. of 1941.
The *Third :Agency Pule* of InAls an Interdepartmental
agreement written before Pearl Harbor and before the
Netionel Security Act.
4 The National Secarity Act of 1947: providing that CIA
is to have aceene to all intelligence henrinn on the
national security.
? .ongrennional intent concerning CIA: *eking it clear
thut Connress meant- that it wrote into the National
Security Ant concerning CIA's right of acne to Ia.
availeble intelligence- benring on the nntionul secu-
rity.
? SMOCC 252/90 concurred in by State, Wnr and N kfter
peisage of the Nntional. Security net, and recognizing
thnt the *Tinknd Agency* policy does not apply to CIA.
?'toovor Conminsion sport: again effirming that CIA
under the Aot must drew on all ave liable anurces, and
that ito relationships with 0-2 are uneatisfactory.
Ilea Beports, sophasizing CIA10 need for all nvallable
infereation, pointing out that there Is n tendency on
the part of the Services to withhold information on
various and spurious grounde, and anserting thnt CIA
Mot if neonsnary take forceful action to break down
this barrier.
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