Dear Admiral Hillenkoetter:

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00662R000100030020-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
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• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: May 23, 1950
• Content Type: LETTER

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P Office of the Chief of Naval Operations
Y Washington 25, D,C,
ONI DECLASSIFICATION/RELEASE INSTRUCTIONS ON FILE
23 May 1950
Rear Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, USN
Director of Central Intelligence
+ashington 25, D.C.
Dear Admiral Hillenkoetter:
ER 1-536
Ref ER 1-351
120333
IN REPLY REFER TO:
Op-322H3/mjc
In the absence of Admiral Johnson who is presently in Europe, I am taking the
liberty of answering your letter to him of 11 May relative to the delay in the
dissemination of ONI Intelligence reports.
The question of excessive delay in the dissemination of Naval Intelligence
Reports has been a matter of continuing concern to the Director Naval Intelli-
gence. A review of the administrative channels set up for handling and pro-
cessing reports from the field indicates that the principle delay occurs in
reproduction, a facility which under present arrangements obtaining in CNO, is
not under the control of the Director of Naval Intelligence. However, all
means for rectifying this situation are now being explored.
With repard to the distribution of reports to the Central Intelligence Agency
in unevaluated form, a check indicates that the evaluation proeedur injects
a delay of only two to three days for the greater part of reports from the
field; While the Director of Naval Intelligence would have, I m sure, no
objection to making unevaluated reports available to CIA,, to do so under the
present system would involve duplication of reports and their siddemination to
all recipients in unevaluated form, a process counter to long established policy.
As an immediate measure to speed up dissemination of reports, pending all
embracing corrective action as indicated above, the ONI Reading Panel has been
?instructed to insure that reports considered to be of particular interest be
separated from the others and given special handling to preclude protracted
delay. Furthermore, effort will be made to eliminate all incidental delays in
the routine processing of other reports.
Pending a comprehensive revision of the existing system, it is hoped that the
measures outlined above tvrill insure that reports of a timely interest to the
Central Intelligence Agency will reach you with a minimum delay.
Sincerely,
/s/ Carl F. Espe
CARL F. ESPE
Rear Admiral, U. S. Navy
Acting Director of Naval Intelligence
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