LETTER TO MAJOR GENERAL JOHN M. WILLEMS FROM L. K. TRUSCOTT, JR.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R003200200016-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 12, 2003
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: December 16, 1958
• Content Type: LETTER

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December
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Mat. Chief of Staff for Zcterli':. tt
Executive Registry
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ton, D.C.
Aefere : our conversation the other day, I failed to toleiho
yOu on Friday as I intended to do and bea I called on Monday I
i.r4ormed that you vould be away until this coming Friday.
ere um to including the dug ted draft subpxragruph 7-c-
/10 4 tterr considering it I do ?t think it would be
ac ; table becaua= it vu.d permit a dspertieent or agency to initiate
an operation ever. if the Director of Central Intelligence himself
it hrrr ful or w esirab y deiplicative. The basic effect
t u,S.d also be to ttxs pt from the Director's coordinating authority
amt nteUigence Ketivity a departeeent l to ligenc a Chief claimed
conducted to saatisl demon needs.
All this would be c r;trary to the provisions of CID 5 and
w d certainly be contrary to the whole effort of the side tk' S
enbance the authority of the Director of Ceatral Intelligence.
it `Would also be contrary to specific desires which the President
ittael'f h era exjjr`eaed*
ever require. I ea hopeful, therefore,, that you will $u st any
other c o you consider desirable in these DCID* end let us get
ef.ford a .U d ier ants a t d agencies the protection they
.ass I xvmarket. the other day, I thIxs that the revised
With kindest regards, I
the other day.
rely yours,
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h. K. Iruscaott
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12 December 1958
31UBJECT . General Willeras Proposed (New) Paragraph 7.c. in
DCID No. 5/1
The proposed paragraph is unacceptable because:
(1) It would permit a department or agency to initiate
clandestine intelligence activities even if the DCI, himself,
considered them harmful or undesirably duplicative.
(2) The basic effect of the proposed paragraph would be
to exempt from the DCI's coordinating authority any clandestine
intelligence activity a departmental intelligence chief claimed
was conducted to satisfy a "departmental need."
(3) It goes well beyond. the authority given to commanders
in the field under present sub-paragraph 7.c. which allows
them to initiate action pending resolution in Washington.
General Willems provision would allow the Army to go ahead without
the necessity for any consideration or resolution in Washington.
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