COORDINATION STAFF REPORT REGARDING THE COMMITTEE STRUCTURE OF THE UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD, 28 MAY 1962 (USIB-D-27.1/18, 31 MAY 1962)

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21 June 1962
:tit i:MO .ANDUM FOtR: Chairman, Critical Collection Problems
Committee
SUBJI..CT Coordination Staff Report Regarding the Com-
mittee Structure of the United States Intelligence
Board, 28 May 1962 (USIB-D-27.1/18, 31 May
1962)
1. Paragraph 9h of subject paper proposes a broadening of the
CCPC's responsibility to permit it to deal with collection problems
referred to it by the USIB, by a USIB committee or agency, or identi-
fied by the CCPC itself. At present the CCPC concerns itself with col-
1'ction on certain critical problems specifically referred to it by the
USIB. The CCPC is currently charged with collection problems
relating to all aspects of the Soviet missile program.
2. Although recent USIB actions relative to collection efforts in
Southeast Asia and Berlin are cited in subject memorandum as justifi-
cation for extending the powers of CCPC, it is noted that the USIB
chose to use elements other than the CCPC for the examination of col-
lection actions in these problem areas. For example, in the case of
Southeast Asia, an ad hoc committee was formed by the Board which
studied the situation, recommended certain actions to the USIB, and
was then dissolved. Presumably, the Board selected this approach as
being appropriate to the problem at hand.
3. It would thus appear that the USIB, having available to it a
number of ways to accomplish its ends, selects those it deems most
suitable for the job at hand. Therefore, it seems that the USIB will
utilize the CCPC when the services of that body are needed, and that
this can be done by direct charge rather than by charter modification.
4. In short, the (:.CPC, under the terms of its present charter,
is an instrument exclusively responsive to needs identified and expressed
by the Board. A broadening of the Charter, aF proposed in paragraph
9h, could result in the CCPC's concerning itself with problems not
identified by concerted Board action, but with those brought to the fore
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by action of a single committee or a single CCPC m.en-?ber. If this
indeed is to be the role of the CCPC, a mechanism should be devised
whereby the Board would ratify an action submitted to the CCPC prior
to the corrirencerrent of work on it.
25X1
Technical Secretary, CCPC
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