POLICE ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 27, 2012
• Sequence Number: 74
• Publication Date: August 13, 1962
• Content Type: MF

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
EXECUTIVE MEMORANDUM
OFFICE. OF THE DIRECTOR
EXECUTIVE MEMORANDUM No._ _
DATE 13 ANIMISM 1
DEPUTY DIRECTOR (PLANS) I
DEPUTY DIRECTOR (INTELLIGENCEI
DEPUTY DIRECTOR (RESEARCH)
DEPUTY DIRECTOR (SUPPORT)
COMPTROLLER
INSPECTOR GENERAL
GENERAL COUNSEL
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
FOR NATIONAL ESTIMATES
for DDCI
- Mr. Elder for DCI
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J/- Exec Dir
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This memorandum contains information for the addressees. Ad-
dressees may give this memorandum additional circulation within
their components as required. All copies should be destroyed not
filed, upon completion of circulation. A master file will be kept in
the Executive Director's Office and will be available upon request.
(CLASSIFICATION) .
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The White House
Washington
SECRET August 7, 1962
NATIONAL SECURITY ACTION MEMORANDUM NO. 177
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE
THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
THE ADMINISTRATOR, AID
THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
SUBJECT: Police Assistance Programs
I hereby approve the recommendations of the interdepartmental
committee on Police Assistance Programs, and direct that they
be promptly put into effect as follows:
1. The US should give considerably greater emphasis to police
assistance programs in appropriate less developed countries
where there is an actual or potential threat of internal subversion
or insurgency; to this end, while individual programs should be
subject to normal review processes, AID should envisage very
substantial increases in the global level of the FY 1963 program,
with further increases in subsequent years where there is a demon-
strated need. The DOD should also give, where appropriate, in-
creased emphasis to the police aspects of existing MAP programs.
2. The Committee's statement of the role and function of police
programs and criteria for their initiation in its report be the basis
for guidance in Washington and to the field; using this guidance,
AID should insure that Washington agencies and country teams give
appropriate priority to police assistance, including equipment
where needed.
3. Subject to the general policy guidance of the Secretary of State
in internal defense matters, the Administrator of AID is charged,
in his capacity as coordinator of US aid programs, with responsi-
bility for coordination and vigorous leadership of all police assis-
tance programs; that he establish an interagency police group, to
be chaired by his designee, to assist him in this responsibility.
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4. AID is charged with operating and funding responsibility for all
such programs, except for their covert aspects and for those pro-
grams which the Administrator of AID, in consultation with the
Secretary of Defense, decides should be carried out by the Depart-
ment of Defense.
5. To carry out its responsibilities, AID should establish an office
specifically charged with police matters, staffed with sufficient
qualified personnel to: (a) provide centralized professional and
technical planning guidance to the country teams, police missions
and State and AID regional bureaus; (b) provide professional and
technical guidance and professional and technical supervision in
implementing programs; (c) establish and supervise training re-
quirements for US police technicians, and standard for evaluating
professional competence; (d) to conduct surveys and program evalu-
ations; (e) to provide an essential repository of technical knowledge
based on research in the latest techniques of controlling subversion
and mass violence; AID should appoint a senior professional to head
this office, responsible to the Special Assistant-Internal Defense
with direct access to the Deputy Administrator; while line responsi-
bility for AID police programs remains with each regional AID
bureau, sufficient professional personnel should be assigned to the
new Office to provide the centralized staff support outlined above.
6. AID should promptly devise methods for improving recruitment
and training of personnel especially suitable for work with foreign
police forces; other US agencies should cooperate in making quali-
fied personnel available for duty with the police assistance program
without prejudice to their career status.
7. AID should initiate the necessary studies and interdepartmental
coordination looking toward early establishment of an international
police academy under Government management to coordinate train-
ing more closely with US internal defense objectives and tighten US
Government: control over all training to improve its quality and in-
sure its responsiveness to need.
8. To protect police programs, with their primarily internal defense
rationale, from suffering as marginal competitors with primarily
economic development projects, AID and the Bureau of. the Budget
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should develop some means of providing the necessary degree
of funding autonomy, such as creating a new AID line item for
"internal defense" in the FY 1964 budget or funding through the
Military Assistance Program though keeping the program in AID.
9. AID should develop ways to expedite a delivery of equipment,
perhaps through stockpiling standard items.
10. Wherever possible, we should coordinate our police efforts
with similar programs of other friendly Western countries to
assure that they are complementary; we should encourage such
countries to provide similar assistance where appropriate, but
not rely exclusively on them for this purpose; our aims in this
respect should be to assure that adequate Western assistance is
available to any country which needs it and to deny the police
assistance field to the Communist Bloc.
11. The Administrator of AID, as coordinator of US aid programs,
is charged with carrying out the above recommendations, and
he should report to me no later than 1 December 1962 on progress
made; this report should include his revised FY 1963 and proposed
FY 1964 program level. .
12. The Special Group (C-1) should review the implementation of
the Police Committee Report in accordance with the responsibili-
ties assigned under National Security Action Memorandum 124.
/s/
John F. Kennedy
cc: The Secretary of the Treasury
The Director, Bureau of the Budget
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