ROLE OF POLICY AND STRATEGIC PLANS BRANCH IN RELATION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF OPC'S STRATEGIC PLAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01065A000100120035-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 13
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 25, 2003
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: September 7, 1951
• Content Type: REQ

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in at
or ICY AND STUTWIC
in TI i TO THE am"MINT OF
OPCIS STRATEGIC PLAN
I. O has
ties, t
in a
decided that Its i
the navitude of
to dooiasts the
CIA a tthority to - its o
01
ace. and sope of ti's set vitiee abould be
qvi"weato of this Am.
2. At the tine that the deeiii
flea sts Staff ss reor esd.
dr l~r of a Piss tions St
ihtUty as
PI mm has been given to the P law vision id.thin the
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PWVMO of this per is
Strategic
bra of this paper is w ttaa a& that ass
4. X pmt also as
der sable to
of the Policy W4
has at 1s*" 1 e , thou
ob j i" is to
their ado als
nowt a digit
a sad for + rrlr Udd g,
at territorial ion a of a&Wi iar tab ,.
C
OR which
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destruction of the C st Gmenawa
It sows
IA be e
s of of the" two ebJ.ctivss, TMwv i
UA
md
a" sutSicisnt - P"t
OU0 the two
qmw aan4 raw
inber t
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or to bftab G s t. son
fvm, the is another
This ba* to do with
vee with re d to rwisting further ovist agpi"Lon w
out. bs* issued IN~ dir ctiv.s it 01 mm diar i
in s.;* vase
of the 5R, and o
the of bri
with rozuvd to
of view of
to ash objectives aid seams
sass OPG =at have nalem a it to laws that ms's sitar
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with mp"t. to
e
Sob, aM, r aeir
ed bg the reequt ,
o of direect att"ke upon
of as i+ a and objfwUY.e . arei of
7. that this st ti
, of obtain
its efforts
of reaching *bje
with total war PSI
into that O "strategi
1. In rs
for i and t
mid of fore OWAOt"
the Area Divisions of "detai and
of both "sold" seed *hot* war PIms
pre" diieieft "strategies plaw" which will
ties rsquireseante estimates.
OPC fs future
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JCS assu"ti
it
nation of the
China.
b. An effort to roll ha
sate3,lites MA Chin& when a
sufficiently strmg,, and
0. At all. times as feast
attack upon the R
e:
to 51/2, an
shield is
of direct
to the
destruction of the C st Go cr
b4w world.
3.
4. It seam tome that
do the following:
ed in the latter part of April
ffectiing
the areas, with particular attention to )pcts
whether explicit or implicit.
b. Prspare a statsent of the basic
end on which progra
iss
. To be useful, this state.
meat should bee s and therefore should id
total war plan ions.
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be to the Diviatl
sultanto for approval.
d. tosess
jectives,
dity of the
against the mtianel policies referred to in a. and the
referred to in b., determine whether
s, or too smack, is being
titres in order to determine whether them are cots
. "Ist *grate" the revised objectives
etc., and
tained tbroudh fit onal exports in , F` ,
Jectives in support of the
objectives.
0- Investigate the desirobility
Ic pl have b
resolved, and whether tnere arm some
objectives, or different o`cj
through the same Area resour
"irtegnti " would be to dt
of logistics support eases:
ob.
, and w h e r e the, ice xtsbt have
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t b. to the Cu
approval a the
of I-09iB ice capabilities. In
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objective, this ed jt etuaaat would r
War ?law as to the relativo priorities of the
of propam ob3eat.iv
two objective.
Submit the comb .n
match the programs called for the approved objectives.
6. These step e
is etesk
u take the form,
up the tax!
the sit two smiths. After
ion will
place.
situation th
ogres objet,
alert
*uraee,, keeping under eonstan
7. to aun#, with respect to this part of 3PC'e
PS viU review more than It will orii mte.. It
national policies are being followed. It will seek policy guldence
9. It 4emwe that - all functional t
ed
job has been a
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ror ea oitatia2.
ever, perform Tory mcho
leave t o tte Divisions Wier* as t h
ob3eetiv?a.
11.
1.
to s aoasofUl ssrryi out in seen area. Of progarea
objestir s of " Leh are s ive rather defensive
c~t ri e.g., as na sal of he falsities of f than +u Yt p'otemsi j
"ret oa of the Krw&Un central and Lufluene
o the pow of uodi4ftg its behomdor to conform
tod international staam rdW a reduction of the
little is the
of mire cation afdmt the WS1. $ " a e s rwaam
foar t .o lack of activity. in the first pia , the
fassi Uty of doing =wb Me appeared to be a *Umg ii .t fir.
Smoods as noted away our natyio adth reasids, - to aaot~gr o ive
aaiari_t7, am
post to main
clear out objective it bas bomw Impossible to
Third
s emae;* for s at gie air attack, has been
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r tut* for
of derrelopxt of national policies
tr reason, which bears directly u OpC's
S~Labal r would be a cat+astre e
o recogition has
In de
cation
about the defection of A bania. On
combination of carve
al s. We c
we do have
of
iv. *0T*rt1Y and in the vWX7 effective
th overt, than we a
theses goals. A deterrei cat ion of
basis for national policy. However, since the possibilities of tree
as of ?dect attack
ow in our dove t, it is l
s QPC itself g poses the Objective* which can be attained
4. Pipe this is a lame view of Q'C's role
at it is valid, OPC has a vas btlfty which
probably PC can discharge. This is to afftraaktirn r p ,de
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in agile or in port
the incorporation of
bout undue risk
objectives in natiorl policy.
5. Before this guidance can
than it now know about its ow buoij
effort to
the covert weans which will take
effectively, whether
done so, it will be in
knownp whether they can be developed. It amt develop strategies for
the use of these weapons. Pi::l v,. it mat appraise the risks of pro-
to assist in fo . i
6. S should
responsibilities.
of those weaknest*s most
afl,
to do so* PSL' should, in broad to
an intensive and continuing investi
abilities of C u.st Russia to various
foram of covert attack.
b. A * for an intensive investigation of the poeei_
bUitiea of developing now covert weapons and tech-
niques for use in taking advant ge of these weaknesses.
C. Develop
as to those objectives which can be
attained through the us
d. Prepare policy proposals for the incorporation of these
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t learn ,such
a much more
is which are
vert attack.
is fashion.
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the deveio'
Objectives as
tight at
It would irw that those objectiv,
doptt by hi or
course,
been adopted.
the part of two or th
naibi ity sold properly be
out these
he proposed functional divisions accordin
f the particular
workable approach to the delee ;
he direction of CPO and C
t the fu
mthorised to
policies.
any single area divi-
Ives
aios.
ides;
sy had
other eon,
a c reordi
it is uuMsly that the
era"set
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