Dear Ray,

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79B00972A000100190032-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 22, 2000
• Sequence Number: 32
• Publication Date: May 23, 1963
• Content Type: LETTER

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DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON 25, D.C.
23 May 1963
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Mr. Ray S. Kline
Deputy Director (Intelligence)
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington 25, D. C. DIA DECLASSIFICATION/RELEASE INSTRUCTIONS C
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Dear Ray, FILE
I appreciate your letter of 21 May regarding the origin and progress
of the CIA/DIA Panel instituted to respond to Mr. McNamarats request re-
garding Soviet Ground Forces. However, while I share your concern and
interest for the need for marked achievement of the Panel, I feel that we
have made considerable progress in the months since the requirement for
such a study was first identified by the Secretary of Defense.
Specifically, We in DIA have scheduled the Aberdeen trip of 23 May;
we have provided a one day presentation of our methodology of maintaining
ground order of battle; and we have completed a comprehensive study on
the Soviet Bloc Ground and Tactical Air Forces, copies of which we furnished
you on 20 May. Concurrently, we are reviewing and moving to provide addi-
Reference for the Panel. I would appreciate your react-Lon to our proposed
approach to the requirement we are obliged to satisfy.
Since there are differences between your suggested Terms of Reference
and ours, I again suggest an early meeting of the Panel members as proposed
for Monday, 27 May. My main concern is that we achieve a truly joint effort
as expressed by Mr. McNamara in his memorandum to the JCS of 12 April. In
this memorandum he relieved the DIA of our earlier independent and similar
requirement to that of the now existing Panel, and stated, "0n February 13,
1963, I wrote Mr. McCone, Director of Central Intelligence, indicating my
concern about this matter and requested a joint CIA/DIA effort to insure
that the total capability of the intelligence community be brought to bear
on this most important problem."
tional review of material to examine our holdings of the Soviet ground
order of battle on an all source basis.
Additionally, on 21 May, Admiral Frankel forwarded to Mr. McCone a
copy of our Memorandum to the Secretary of Defense which summarized our
progress to date in these matters and attached our proposed Terms of
Sincerely,
SEPH . CARROLL
ieut ant General, USAF
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