DULLES COMMITTEE REPORT UPON THE OFFICE OF COLLECTION AND DISCUSSION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00662R000300050047-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 28, 1998
• Sequence Number: 47
• Publication Date: February 7, 1949
• Content Type: MF

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USJSCTs
7 F 1949
of
The Dullee Committee roponso, in em, t the reference
of OCV be divorced fron the ieison functions, that the
functions be treasforred to ORX, sod that the liaison funs..
Amiaistered by ICAPS. The stated reason for this proposel
o reference eed liaison funetions have little interrelation,
t?-et the termer *re closely related to the reseerch functioe of WM,
awl that he l?tter are closely related to the eoernistatin function
of ICiPb. The best reply to this seemingly logical propeeal is that
the Agency hr s already tried it out in practice, and found it unsatis-
factory.
2. did not
a ? so it is not sur-
its fuse ons were
NKr MAW months of
? trial, and error, to Leer that * eeemiegly different
s of reference vnd Its teas ire, tn fact, so closely related
y are better ,erforeed by e single dmieistrative unit than
parste ones. It is too early to ',ay that the present La the best
possible organisational patterns for tees* functions, but it is
early to eay that it represeuts an inproveseet over the older
obvious pattern which is now ,ropeeed *nee.
It would be *nest to state that the techpioes of OCi are Mbar
ta.a veris, involvine, the use of men unique WWII.** equipment, but it is
only on piper thflt, the funptIons appear nrelated. In truth they ell
serve a *ilia* and common weds to get end store ietelligenee information
end mean it aveilable to those vh, need it.
4. In 1947 the Agency elks organised with the ranee athr,
**bracing library *no registers, La Mal end with the liaison functions
soaign-d to :he -operate Office of OCD. This 1r, the sane, in principle,
At the Committee pow proposes. Tbo only difference is that the
lefer,qice Venter is eoe to be installed in on. of the too Division
into Which On is to he split, and ttw,, '.he liaison functions are te be
Administered by rammed ICAPS staff instead ef by as Assi6Unt Director.
L.
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intorolib
wrod out
tioos tom
'Pith 4T:rop
be reloaood,
difforont api
iii ton people +ere undor differeot odainiotrotiono they foiled to
develop intimoto knooledgo of eaeh other doily problems, and of the
lochniquoe ono, chonnols boino developed to del oitr* thee. Comounioa-
flanks between theta wero by typod memorosda earriod by oouriors and
mew-engere, oith mmltiple *Arbon eopios. Delay* wore many, ond towers
were exaeorbutod. Reference Conter end OCD were stemmed by oll who had
to del ith Ohm. Aoalyot* who ,.sritied rest action oar*, promo to *abort
on indepersooat lioleon vontures of their own, thereby *dialog notobly to
the g000rol confusion nod interodepertmentel misunderstondinge.
o.reUn of iiison ftdroferonet ronctioom did not work
tie,. The odminio oo void Waves), toe two tcrk.d to
both. It en onclyst is ORA tailed for o doounon known
Doportsontos librovy, it woo clearly oho job of the
people in CIA's' library to at it for him; but if it
comment wee subject to striagnt security restrio-
too job or * Lim Laos ?favor to nolo, arroogeoonts,
lois of the tote Dop,rtmonts for to. documont to
The tee jobs were as. and the Dome, but May required
l0000hes end different too-Wilgus*. Alt the library and
6. The Reference eaer, undo'. OR found itoolf without adequate
adoinistrotivo understonding end sapport. The mein busineom of OR/ was
to dool with tritieel 0-oblono of a sobstootive natural, **ad the special-
ist* reprta en inportont estimote ogoinst e tight doodling, noturolly
took precedence over library End rogioter people ones* trobleme could be
put off till the morrow. The moods of the analysts bad priority, end
there woo a tendency to postpone Actioa on the more humdrum mood* of the
Ooferenco Coster. It moons inoutoopoblo that the tame oituotiom oould
develop again if the library end registers Pero to be roopoignod to ORk,
or to a Roseareh end Poports Vivision erootod out of Oki* In oddition,
tooro is new an Office of ocientific Iotellioeoen which requires library
and rogintor *orrice, no loos than ORS, and it you'd be unwioe to mak*
it do-pos*40ot on it* *Astor Offico for thee* aorvioes. I tr*Ii0111 that the
CIA Library and toe rogiatere should servo ell of CIA, 40A t000 they con
boot do so if felosinioterod boporptely *ma apart froa any one of the cow.
comer Office/0 or Divisions.
7. The original Office at Collection nd Dicooninotion had no
roforenco fonctioaa, but cowman toeets of the liaison
',IVA As u seporoto Offices to the Diroetor of
rel Intelligemoos end tOis would not, b* denied if the ICAPE (or
rdinetion Division') (*toff we interposed. This ,roposal is diffo-
A) understood, foo the Coodittoo 7o*port place's very great emphasis
ueed for morel forceful efforts by CL to benve coordinotioa with
T.A0 , or *gonotos, and it strongly expresses the opinion that diroctioa
of CIA *Mir* by tour-of-duty personnel own never win to the goal. Vow
the anal ataff of ICAPB, or of the propoeod noordinotlea DivisiooP,
coofist6 entirely of rooresentotives of Ute ,:totel end oervico Departments.
These oeu ore on tooroof-duty ossiganonto. If capoblo !olO energetic they
CFA render greet oervice to the Onitot k. t.e oovornmonts to weir re-
soective Doporioonts, ond to too Gonrol Inteloigonce seacy. But it is
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inpoosibl* tmt thesh d, at on* tO6 the szse tin.,
tively brief touro at ut1 ehiev* sooresee Uo 1) to hendling the
deliebt* an4 difficult prebIi of policy aeteroinatioo in labor,-
deportaental rolatioashipop and (2) in learning, understnaing, and
direr:tiro-, the wiled techniques of eollection, bibliography, and die?
*es/Attie*. This scone Job is * cereal' assignmont in itself. *ad it
is unlikoly to be ierformed *roll by men who brit tackling it for the
rirrt time :4rel or * short timo. This Job if of so ',moat common con.
earn to ell the Offices of to. bgeocy tit it should have direct scopes
to t,h* Director.
8. Tao COMAittike 61240 p posoo trmt the Conto.ot Brunen of 00 bad
the nfornation Confrol .:,eetion of 080 be * greater &avow of
autonomy in the diazoolnotion of tteir rep rte. It arguee that those
officoe helm better knowl*C.ge of La* consusers itho stood ,,heir materiels
th*tn dog's OCD and io thi* the Committoe is aieteksn. No ono know*
batter who **ode what matorial than (1) the reeranco ieeplo who, on
direct request from the cosabusere, are daily compiling bibliographioo
eV-tenants of svollc.bl* iftforoation, bnd (0 Ws lieison people
* deily chore it ie to as/atlas+ eloso contbez vith coneuseer* in all
tne agotKiitai ree*ilM toeir roqueote, r4id ensure tour uoty are heALIO
U405 to Lae best of CIA's ability. The COMitilitt00 ie &la. mistaken in
tt bellof that Contact branch and Oak do not new exercise aotonomy
over the ,Astributioo of toeir own products. OCD tms not in may mouths
overrulod * Conteet &laugh decioioo as to usher* IL report* shoold go
*AO from whom they should be withheld, Gad the Informetion Control zAte?
tion of USO freely distribute to other iligoncioG ra,orto which it diodes
both to 01A and to OCD. This luttsr ectivity is clangorous, le damaging
to the morels of an amalysts, end la hormful to the pro/it/is-. of the
voncy. Liaison Officers aro frooueotly *liked by officialo of ether
sgoncios, mrhy doesn't CIA coordioate itsolf7 CIA's left hood doesn't
knor what its right hand is doing.* The Ageoey is now teaing steps to
remedy trap sitotion, end it is certiio thr,t the remody involve loss
autonomy rather than sore outcasts/ for the eeverel Offices.
JAM
*sista-at
CoLiictioo Lien
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