COORDINATION OF INTELLIGENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00662R000300050045-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 28, 1998
• Sequence Number: 45
• Publication Date: February 17, 1949
• Content Type: MF

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Approved For Release 2000/05/23 : CIA-RDP75-00662R000300050045-8
17 February, 1949
OF DThA FOR THE DIFMCTOR OF CEWRAL IN?!'ELLIGENCF.
STTUJEGT s "Coordination of Intelligence"
f'. 'ER NCF:a Eezorandum, 6 February 19h9, to T+irector from
Thief, ICaPS
1. Reference memorandum lend; considerable weight to the re-
co. mendatl ons concern. g the functions of I^? PS contained in 011"s
comments on the 'pollee Report. It should be pointed out that
TCAPS, In reference u emorand-wn, is reprecentir_r t A roir.t of view
of O',T and is passing on this point of view to the pirector with-
out cc>n.sult .t9.Tjn wit j. the Interested Offl-ce T r CL., to-wits O .
2. Pef0;rence r , rora du'a refors,first, to Intelligence
memoranda, and second, to the monthly Review of the World situa-
tion. In regard to the N's, as the S-irector is well swax ,
requests for these reports come in from a variety of sources but
in almost all cases it can be za J t? .t the normal procedure is
"Urgent" because of the short time factor permitted. ORE is
cuzrrertl.y informing OIR of the subject of each D! as exoaeditio~:sly
as possible. Such notices of the subject matter and scope of
reference canrot be done by telephone for security reasons In a
vast majority of cases. Delays In co:naxanication being what they
are, it is q' Ate true that OIR frequertiy gets its information after
the report is prepared and sonetime even after it rias been forwarded
to the T irector. Attempts are being made, r"r-erever possible, to gri.ve
advance information to 0I0. as well as to the other T,;C agencies con-
cerned.
3. Paragraph 5 of ref=rrence memorandum more than im~3lies that
OTZ: is not "doing its part in accordance with the eoltabitshad regu-
lations". In spit of the fact ti-