CLANDESTINE SERVICES REVIEW NUMBER 35 QUESTIONS FOR (Classified), 7 DECEMBER 1961

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
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• Publication Date: December 7, 1961
• Content Type: MISC

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Clandestine Services Review
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Questions for 7 December 1961
1. What is the President's attitude toward the Agency?
2. Is there any hope of a reprieve in the sentencing of the Clandestine Services
to the new building? If not, are Clandestine Services enoployees who have
maintained a reasonable degree of cover now expected to admit Agency employment?
How should this be handled in families with children?
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3. Is there any progress on the plan to create a for
unique DD/P needs?
4e It is probably too soon to know, but can you express an opinion whether the
Director will become involved in running operations or will he give null
attention to administering the Agency since he is reputed to be an administrator?
5. What changes is the Director planning to make in organization, policy, and
senior-level staffing?
6. For many years I have heard that consideration was being given to making the
SR Division a Staff--yet I have never seen anything in writing. Unless this
is just a rumor (though a persistent one) would you please coat?
7. We have heard mach in the last week of conanittees. Granted the need for
coordination does it seem to you that we are being "conmmitteed" to death. The
ratio of personnel direct] engaged in operations to those in coordination and
support appears to be dropping. Would you content on its effect on the Clsnu
destine Services.
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separated from the
Intelligence side. Can you, tell us if such action is really being considered?
9. What has been done to curb irxesnonsibile reporting concerning
the security of the U. S.? Newspapers,. magazines, and trade publications
aske reference to U. S. troop oveMents, the activation or deactivation of
military installations, location of missile sites, aircraft design and capa-
bilities, , etc., thus facilitating the Soviet espionage effort while the U. S.
spends millions of dollars- and uses many people trying to find out about the
inuntions and capabilities of the Soviets.
10. Press stories appear to show considerable knowledge of Agency activities.
Row does the press acquire such information, and what measures are being
..taken to stop leaks?
11. In your opinion what are the armor legitimate aonelaints by intelligence
consumers of the Clandestine Services efforts?
12. Several months ago a book dispatch requested stations to review the security
and possible repercussions
Has any significant curtailment of such operationa,or -tightening of operational
security, resulted from these instructions?
13.
Over the past few years, responsibilities of the field case officer have in-
creased with acorrespondi,ng increase in workload. At the same time, there
has been a decrease in the actual authority which the case officer may emr-
else with the corresponding requirement of greater coordination with various
conwonents of DD/P. In short, the can officer has become an errand boy and
operations coordinator.
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a) Wb riisset e
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rica) ratio between case offs rs and staff, support,
logistics, finance, personnel and general intelligence J officers in M /P?
b) Would it not be mare efficient and productive to add junior case
oMeers to supplement the efforts of senior case officers and also thereby
provide a continuing future supply of senior case officers?
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This would require a consider-:
able increase in personnel, in order to continue at the present level of
operations. Can the Clandestine Services afford such an expansion, or will
activity be reducod?
15. What effect will the I MA and the apparent increased authority of State have
on the covert activity of the Agency?
16. What is the Agency's relationship with on covert
operations Will the now
It ~,chazige this z+eletio ip?
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16. Have the recent se s of the i*partment of Defence can situa . . the
Lion, the results of the Cuban affair, and the Attorney General's close re-
lationship with the President given him any ideas of removing Iatin American
activities from the Agency and giving them back to the FBI?
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20. Aside from harrassmant activities, has the Administration decided on, and is
the Agency engaged in planning, rumored action to unseat AWL thin an 25X1C
established time table?
21. Based on professional intelligence estimates what are the betting odds for
or against a nuclear war in the foreseeable future?
22. There are six geographic divisions in tD/P in addition to SR Division. What
percentage of the effort of these six divisions is directly involved in ac-
quiring positive intelligence on the USSR? What percentage of effort is
devoted to defeating Soviet inspired revolutionary activity as contrasted
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with locally inspired activity?
Is the decline of China's economy slowing down her nuclear research?
Are
there any estimates as to when she will have the bomb?
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What is the main emphasis of Soviet covert action as coq ?axed. with ours?
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What covert action of the Soviets or of the USA would most likely change
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the cold war to a hot war?
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27. One speaker in the CMT has described the extent of theA~`;0Uoviet caiUvign to
discredit the Agency and Mr. Dulles. Another has spoken of the coincidental
State Department effort to reduce the authority and prestige of the Agency.
Is the fact that the Soviet campaign is being inadvertently assisted by State
clear to the higher levels of the U. S. Government?
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30. What is your view on the intercha a of assignments aaang DDP, 1)I and MS?
21. How effective is career service planning in the Clandestine Services?
32. What is the status of proposed legislation for 20 years retirement on fun
annuity (si i ar to the FBI)?
330 What is the Clandestine Services position on its members"retaining military
reserve status? What would be the C1andestine Services reaction in the event
a : Y 3uablee employee is recalled to active duty? Is there any indication the
DIA may use this device for filling its T. 0.?
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34. in sow countries a ast, U. S. admission of the a onage ro o the
U-2 seriously hurt the prestige of the Agency and the U. Be, Government.
How was this decision arrived at? In retrospect, was it a sound decision?
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36. What will be the effects on the more traditional forms of PI Operations of
the increased emphasis on technical collection (MOT, etc.) against mriy
targets in the USSR?
37. On the basis of C'PA's failures and successess against aomminism to date, the
growing use of automation in management, and the trend toward technical
collection devices, would you please project and describe for us a picture of
CIA in 19717
38. As part of this projection, and as a result of some 14-years of experience
with our present enloyees, would you coamwnt on the type or, types of career
enployeeees the agency will seek or need in 1971?
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