EVALUATION OF THE DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 27, 2002
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: December 14, 1964
• Content Type: MF

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14 December 1964
MEMORANDUM FOR: D/DCI/NIPE
SUBJECT: Evaluation of the Defense Intelligence Agency
REFERENCE: Action Memorandum No. A-437
The DDS&T has requested me to submit to you comments on
the above subject. They are as follows:
1. Since the establishment of DIA and as consolidation
proceeded, one can detect in COMOR that DIA has served as a focal
point for central responsibility for DoD intelligence production and
collection activities which are of interest and importance to all three
services. This has facilitated COMOR business and has been
particularly welcome as an alternative to sorting out the true facts
among military agencies where duplication was the rule rather than
the exception.
2. The other side of the coin is in favor of a continuation
of coequal membership on the COMOR. COMOR must frequently be
responsive to USIB requests for statements of requirements within a
very short: space of time. The present ability of COMOR to elicit
individual consumer statements as to their needs permits it to
produce an immediate expression of community requirements. Should
COMOR have to rely exclusively on a distillate of Pentagon require-
ments through DIA, the results would be on occasion more cumbersome
and probably nowhere near as objective.
3. So long as there continues to be a willingness on the
part of the DIA member to tackle problems on their merits rather than
coming in, as was sometimes the case previously with a stated DIA
position which brooked no negotiation, the role of DIA is helpful. On
balance, therefore, I feel that establishment of DIA has aided in the
conduct of COMOR business.
James Q. Reber
hairman
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