REGULATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R003200150032-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 10, 2003
• Sequence Number: 32
• Publication Date: March 12, 1956
• Content Type: MF

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12 March 1956
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director, Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: Regulations
REFERENCE: Report of Inspector General, dated 4 February 1956,
subject: "Survey of CIA Regulations"
1. In accordance with your request for Comments, the referenced
report on CIA Regulations, by the Inspector General, has been
reviewed in considerable detail. It contains a number of suggestions
for further regulatory simplification with which we are in full accord.
2. Specifically, we concur in the following proposals which
require DD/P action:
a. (Paragraph I-C-4) That 28 Field Instructions of the
25X1 DD/P antedating FN 0 be rescinded or merged with Field
Regulations.
b. (Paragraph I-C-6) That OSO Regulation" be
replaced by an Agency Regulation.
c. (Paragraph I-C-7) That 338 Clandestine Services
issuances be rescinded, reissued as Intra-Office issuances or
renumbered to fall within the Agency numbering system. Because
the Clandestine Services have need, however, for some operational
categories not required by other elements of the Agency, it is
requested that certain sub classifications in the Agency
numbering system be adapted to take care of the DD/P needs
in this respect.
3. Proper-steps are being taken within the Clandestine
Services to initiate necessary actions on the above.
4. We furthermore concur in the following suggestions which
do not require DD/P action:
a. (Paragraph I-C-1) That 56 "CIA Regulations" be
rescinded or replaced by Regulations or Field Regulations.
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b. (Paragraph I-C-2) That the balance of 4+7 applicable
sections of the "Confidential Funds Regulations" be replaced
by Regulations and Field Regulations.
c. (Paragraph I-C-3) That 12 Agency "Field Notices" be
replaced by Regulations or Field Regulations.
d. (Paragraph I-C-5) That 2 "Covert Regulations" be
replaced by Regulations or Field Regulations.
e. (Paragraph II-A) That Regulatory indexing be kept
more current.
f. (Paragraph II F) That rescissions of Regulations
be specific, citing Regulation numbers and, if applicable,
paragraph numbers.
g. (Paragraph II-D) That "Notices" be limited to
transitory material and have reasonable expiration dates.
h. (Paragraph II-C) That the use of handbooks be
extended as a means of reducing the physical volume of the
Regulations. In this respect, however, we feel very strongly
that all such handbooks be referenced in the Regulations in
order that the requirements placed by Handbooks upon operating
officers be of record in one central, properly indexed system.
5. On the other hand there are several items in the report
with which we must disagree either as to fact or as to policy:
a. (Paragraph I-H) To combine the Agency Regulations
Control Staff with the publications group (assigned to DDS)
which services DD/P presents, in its practical application,
many difficultires. This topic has been the subject of a
number of meetings between SSA/DD/S and the Management Staff, and
it is our understanding that another but satisfactory solution
is being achieved.
b. (Paragraph I-E) We believe that the Inspector has
25X1 misinterpreted 0 of 21 January 1953. The purpose of
this notice was merely to delegate authority within DD/P
for issuance and applicability of Intra-Office notices and
instructions. The notice serves a necessary internal function
in limiting DD/P staffs and Divisions to issuances directed
only to their own personnel; and requiring full coordination,
with centralized DD/P control, for issuances affecting other
DD/P components. There is no attempt through this notice to
consider Intra-Office issuances of the DD/P to be subject to
any different interpretation than the Intra-Office issuances
of any other Deputy Director, although the title of the notice
could be so interpreted.
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c. (Paragraph II-G) To limit DD/P use of Intra-Office
issuances merely to those cases where special security demands
that DD/P alone issue instructions is a completely unrealistic
recommendation. This would impose upon DD/P limitations beyond
those imposed upon DD/I and DD/S, and completely ignores the
direct responsibilities of the DD/P with respect to command
of overseas installations and of Headquarters Clandestine
Services units.
d. (Paragraph I-E) To deny to DD/P the use of Agency
printing facilities certaigly could not be seriously considered,
e. (Paragraph I-E) With respect to format of Clandestine
Services publications, we