COORDINATION OF STATE DEPARTMENT AND CIA INSPECTION PROGRAMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01086A000900090035-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 19, 2001
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: August 17, 1971
• Content Type: MEMO

Approved For ease 2001/11/ CIA-RDP8,0B01'08 09000900
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Memorandum of Conversation
DATE: 17 August 1971
Coordination of State Department and CIA Inspection Programs
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Ambassador McElhiney has recently been named to the newly established
position of Inspector General of the 1)epartrnent of State. He and Ambassador
Coerr came over this afternoon to inquire into the workings of CIA's inspection
program and to explore with us the feasibility of scheduling concurrent State
and CIA inspections at major overseas posts. He commented that Alexis
Johnson hoped eventually to merge the inspection programs of the various
foreign affairs agencies, as was recommended in the Macomber report.
I gave the State representatives a short general briefing on our inspection
program and procedures. Ambassador McElhiney gave me a copy of his
current inspection schedule and indicated his interest in having concurrent
inspections made in I told him that we25 1 A
had recently finished our work in rid that the only inspection curt/ ''A
scheduled is of- I pointed out that our inspection program is so
intensely internal that a merger appeared to me to be out of the question.
As to the matter of scheduling concurrent-inspections, I said that I felt that
trying to mesh CIA's five or six year cycle with State's aa. & cycle would be
most difficult and that little or nothing would be gained if we were to succeed.
The State representatives did not take exception to my statements.
L
Gordon M. Stewart
Inspector General
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FORM NO.
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State - Ambassador Thomas W. McElhiney, Inspector General
Ambassador Wymberley Coerr. INR
CIA - Gordon M. Stewart and 25X1 A
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