COMMENT ON STATE/DEFENSE STAFF STUDY RELATIVE TO ORGANIZATION OF CIA FOR NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE PRODUCTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-01084A000100090070-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 70
• Publication Date: July 25, 1950
• Content Type: OUTLINE

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COI::ETTS OIL STl TE, EFTN'SE ST M' STIMY PEUTM '.I'O
ORGA 'IZtTIOTT Or, CI FOR N(TIQT L IfTIMUPIEMCE PRODUCTION
L Analysis of the Staff Study
1. The effective result of subject study and its i lenrenti
TSC directive is to cue the individual d 1. statutoa res ibix:3t
the Director of Central tea- tgenc s +ric is t e a owl
intelligence. to that of a collective :s nsibi .it of the Intelli-
gence Advisory Committee.
2. The study accomplishes its actual objective in the NSC Dir-
ective as followsr
as by' reading into the National Security Act of 19Z7J, as
amende?d, in paragraph 10 b and 10 c the following:
(1) to . . . Until the emergence of a national
estimate or study from the IAC, collective responsi-
bility is inescapable under the Act of 1947-11
(2) tt . . . The full statutory responsibility of
the D/Cl for the production of national intelligence
becomes operative or 2y when . . . final drafts of nap
tional estimates or studies are recondcd by the
IAC to the D/Cl. tt
by by definite;, national intelligence in paragraph 2 in
such a way as to pro-scribe its production as bek a "coopera-
tive process of prepares on"" (production by committee) for the
purpose of integrating (i.e., incorporating the substance of)
the best intelligence opinion of the departments.
CO by providing the IAC in paragraph 3 with responsibilities
for planning,, prescribing scope and terms of reference, initiat-
ing projects, reviewing and accepting or rejecting drafts, and,
in certain cases,. produci ; national intelligence estimates ate d
studies, including related liaison and coordinating functions,
presently allocated to the D/Cl and CIA,
d, by providing In paragraphs 5, 6, and. 7 an organization-
al re alJgnm nt of the intelligence production facilities of CIA
which transfers the current intelligence and estimating facilities
from the jurisdiction of the D/CI (except for administration) to
the functional direction and operational control of the TAC, and
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which provides the IA with respo ibil,ities for ftti onal. direction
of the remainder of 0W3 Intelligence production and col.l ea tim
maohin ry (See Chart attached)
3., Using the National Security Act of 1941.7 as amended, the 111 c s.,
the D es Report and 00 50 as terms of referwice, the staff assertsa
a,, that a fence has indicated that the quality of ratiol
intelligence es m-dM9-hw not aubstanti.ally i prof since issuance
of WO 510(1J-417199).
b:, that umwranted duplication of effort as betwem the
various agemies has continued.
1,, sum of these assertions, the, stand r states that the above
conditions resilt in large measure .frame
a,. disagreement be en CIA and departsne tal agencies as to
the weaning of national i t lli ce0
b o inadequaetes of ex sting mechanisms and procedures for
the production of national intelligence,
c, c ont< uig internal CIA c o-.+ usi.on between its re . ibi li y
for producing national intelligence and miscellaneow3 research and
report4ing.
5. The study concludes that re 3ial action required consists of t
a,, re. defining tional intelligence in such terms as to
: escri?he the principle of collective responsibility of the lAG
.Ts $'roductiou the criterion ,ch distinguishes it fro .
all other WA-ads of i&,: -, i,.geice a
b:v revising existing mechanisms and procedures in accordance
ii t i the pri ipl a of collective rsapo i bili ty.
c o recr izi CIA to place its gent intelligence and
t rat g facilities under the functional direct&an and operattcnal
:ontr ,l of the O $ and the remainder of CIA a production and col-
lection facilities =O.ear the functional direction of the IAC@
Accordir he, 1 std re c; rda that the
_pay
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a0 a:r pr;ove and issue the imr'lementi rigs i,~SC directive attache`.
to the study.
-b. place a l..ixeLt on t e strength of the proposed National
Intelligence Group, not to -llceed 100 officer and/or professio, ia:l.
personnel of whoa