REPLY TO GORDON GRAY'S MEMORANDUM OF DECEMBER 16, 1960 CONCERNING THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE PRESIDENT'S BOARD ON THE ORGANIZATION OF THE CLANDESTINE SERVICES

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• Publication Date: January 6, 1961
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6 January 1961
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
Reply to Gordon Gray's Memorandum of
December 16, 1960 concerning the Recom-
mendation of the President's Board on the
Organization of the Clandestine Services
Prior to signing the attached draft which was prepared in the
DD/P, I would like to call the following items to your attention.
a. I do not feel that this memorandum really faces up to
the basic recommendation of the President's Board that the DD/P
be relieved of reporting and evaluating the political, psychological
and paramilitary operations of the Agency, and for formulating
the intelligence recommendations which form the basis for plans
for such operations. This memo says, in effect. that the DD/P
exercises great caution to insure that he gets objective intelligence
as a basis for planning his operations. On the other hand, the
simple facts are that it is still a DD/P responsibility to handle the
two functions which the President's Board suggested be placed else-
where. I think this reply would be much better if we simply state
that after examining the situation the CIA decided not to make any
changes and that the CIA believes that this is the better organization.
b. I would point out to you that paragraph 5 does not
represent any change in a procedure which has been followed for
many years.
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c. You will note that paragraph 6 gives the impression
that a "new Assistant Deputy Director (Plans) for Psychological and
Paramilitary Operations was appointed", at least conveying the
impression to me that this was a new job. What they actually mean
and also which had been vacant for a period.
took a position that had been held by
d. Paragraph 6 also gives the impression that when
I&R was abolished something was added to the responsibilities of
the Inspector General. This is not true. The Inspector General
always did operational reviews as part of inspections. Further,
we had repeatedly told the Presidentts Board that this was the case.
e. Paragraph 7 represents basically nothing new except
modification or refinement of procedures.
f. Paragraph 15. a. implies that the DPD was a new
creation. Actually it was simply the AQJATONE staff of Bissell's
which moved over to the DD/P.
g. Does paragraph 18 represent any change, or were division
staff personnel simply re-grouped and given a new name. If it does
represent a change, shouldn't we indicate that there was a saving in
personnel or manpower?
=Layman B. Kirkpatrick
Inspector General
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