SUBSTANTIVE REVIEW OF THE AGENCY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M01048A001500130040-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 2, 2005
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: August 27, 1964
• Content Type: MEMO

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OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
Action Memorandum No.
A-420
27 August 1964
Director/Budget, Programs Analysis and Manpower
Substantive Review of the Agency
1. I have just completed careful studies of the Inspector
General reports on two research offices, OS1 and ORR. I thought
both of these were good IC "ports but noted very specifically that
owhere in them did they give any indication as to whether all Of
the research being done was needed, all of the publications being
printed were required, the quality of the research or the quality
of the product produced. In other words, they are good reviews
of what is going on without any really searching as to why it in
going on or whether it should go on.
2. What this leaves us with is either accepting the unanalyzed
recommendations of the Directorates and relying UP011 some
consumer reaction, which we know is very little, or devising a
system for getting at the substance. It seems to me that this is
a responsibility of the Programs Analysis Stall, but I am not eur
we are geared up to do it properly. Please let me have your views
at your earliest convenience.
(signed) L n n a :. B. Kirk ;atlick
Lyman B. Kirkpatrick
E"cutive Director
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