AD/OCD MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR DATED 27 MARCH1950, SUBJECY: 'PROPOSED OPERATIONS SOVMAT'

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• Publication Date: April 10, 1950
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Director of Central Intelligence
Assistant Director flor Reports and stinmtes
Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence
AD/COD Memorandum for the Director dated 27 March 1950,
?Proposed Operations Seveat"
10 April 1950
1. OSI and ORE concur in the recommenda ion made by the AD/OCD
that the Office of Operations assume the role of an 'Office of Overt
CoLledtionn and that the Liaison Division of OCD be transferred to
that office. The establiehnent of an adequate oaten of collection
is one of the most pressing problems facing the Central Intelligence
Agency, and in our opinion the pimp should be commended for making
this important, far-reaching recommendation.
2. ORE and OSI not only concur in the recomnendation but Urge
that it be implemented without delay. Both Offices are on record
concerning the inadequacies in field collection, which can be traced
in a large part to the existing organization of the collection machinery.
There is at present no organization with clear out responsibility and
authority to collect the required information wherever it may be found.
It is believed that there is no such information needed, and so much of
it available for collection by an adequately trained and direeted
collection organization, that such an organization should rapidly become
the largest and most important single collector of intelligence informa-
tion in the United States Government,
3. OSI and ORE should continue to formulate requirements and are
prepared to assign collection action to this collection office and to
all other collection agencies ((80 and /AO agencies) in the form of
requirements that will represent trio integrated views of substantively
competent analysts of the /AO agencies. This will avoid the necessity
of one collection office assigning collection action to another, and
will allow the evaluating offices to assign collection action on the
basis of their knowledge of the adequacy of the various sources of
information. Both offices should. maintain the necessary liaison with
other intelligence agencies to fulfill their responsibilities for fully
integrated requirements.
4. It is contemplated that the augmented Office of Operations
would assume responsibility for collection from all non- AC sources
within the United States Government in addition to the functions
already performed by that office. Collection from non-IAC governmental
sources has not been adequately performed by any office of the Central
Intelligence Agency up to the present time.
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5i am and OSI believe that the liaison problem
Central Ihtellionce Agency is fundamentally different from that which
led to the establishment of the Liaison Division in OCD. Bo
OS/ are now well informed about the key personnel in other agenc
that should be contacted 4th regard to various substantive problems,
and the danger of confusion and overlap in contact by several different
persons from the Central Intelligence Agency has been reduced to a
minimum. The present problem is one of stimulating close personal
liaison between CIA analysts and key government officials outside the
Agency. This is a problem of office function, not of agency control,
and should be handled by the offices concerned. There is, of course,
a necessity for a liaison control point in the Agency for security
purposes, through which the offices could screen new contacts. This
could be accomplished even though the existing Liaison Division, were
moved to 00.
6. It is believed that the CCD proposal is realistic and workable,
that it mead solve fundamental problems in the intelligence process, and
that the problems created by such a change would be relatively minor and
easily resolved.
7. It is therefore the recommendation d OSI that the OCD
proposal contained in the reference be implemented without delay and that
the production offices be authorized to assign collection action directly
to the CIA collection components and /AC agencies. Other implications
of the proposal can be worked out in future negotiations.
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