NOTE FOR: THE DIRECTOR FROM E.H. KNOCHE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M01048A001100070014-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 29, 2005
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: June 16, 1977
• Content Type: NOTES

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NOTE FOR: The Director
I do not want to hold up this: thoughtful report from John McMahon
responding to your request for some fresh thinking on the organization
of overt human collection. The report, once again, raises a question
which has plagued us over the years. That is, the proper location of
the organizational elements of CIA engaged in overt collection. The
present arrangements are the result of our experience over the years
and reflect judgment which necessarily weighed a host of considerations
and criteria in addition to those which are reflected in the IC Staff
memorandum.
I suggest that when the larger organizational questions now being
resolved in the PRNI-11 process have been worked-out, you instruct me
to study and report to you on this proposal for the centralization of
CIA overt collection activity. Alternatively, I can initiate such a.
study at once if you feel the'time is right to do so. -
Knoche
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