INTELLIGENCE NETWORK REVIEWED IN MOVE TO REDUCE DUPLICATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00036R000400020007-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 12, 2005
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: January 8, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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Group Named ' by Johnson Will Survey.
Activities of State Department and
Military Agents, as Well as C.I.A.
HS C SG - c~ /
Mq(p`f- By TAD SZiTLC
Special to The New fork Times
W. SHINGTON Jan. 7 - A bers were named by President
study. of the worldwide activi- Johnson last month.
ties of United States intelli- Administration sources said
gence agencies has been under- today that no specific situation
taken by a special Presidential led to the appointment of the
task force. Its goal Is to bring panel, although it was felt that
about greater efficiency and the time had come to take a
coordination. new look at the operational re-
The- group is composed of lationship of the various autono-
Frederick E. Nolting Jr., a For- mous intelligence agencies.
elfin Service officer and former While in theory the dif-
Anibassador to South Vietnam; ferent agencies pursue separate
Maj. Gen. John M. Reynolds of objectives, a considerable
the' Air Force, who has served amount of overlapping and
since 1961 as vice director of duplication in field assignment
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and is inevitable. Much of it, it is
John A. Bross, deputy to the felt here, can be eliminated.
director of the Central Intelli- Although under a Presidential
gence Agency. directive the Ambassador is the,
The task force is functioning senior United States official inl
as a part of the immediate staff each foreign country, in prat-,
,of John A. McCone, who, In tee there frequently occurs any
his capacity of director of cen- overlapping of political report-1
teal. intelligence, is responsible ing by C.I.A. representatives,
for coordinating the work of State Department officials and,
the nation's' Intelligence corn- the military attaches.
munity as a whole. On occasion, the degree of co
The intelligence community ordination is'determined by the
United States Government: the grn p representatives and . although o final evaula-
Cental Cental Intelligence Agen..y, the do
Bureau of Intelligence and Re- place in Washington.
search of the State Department, Evaluationbisagree
and the Defense Intelligence
Agency plus the intelligence In other instances, coordina-
sections of each of the three tion in the field is virtually int-
mrilitary services. possible because of the special,
secret assignments involved.
Coordinates All Agencies There have been deep I'
Mr. McCone holds the post of disagreements at times among
director of the Central intelli- State Department, C.I.A. and.
gence Agency, but the law as military agents as to the signi-
well as specific directives of the ficance of developments and the HI S T O I G'?. _. l
National Sec city Council and policies necessary to deal with
the President have vested in him them. r '
the simultaneous function 'of di This was notably true during e $ t r oy Cr ' ~ I
rector of the intelligence tom- the crisis hi South Vietnam pre- of Ii v' 1 i' %J
munity. ceding the ouster of the regime
His responsibility is to coordi- headed by the Ngo family.
-1 Hate the activities of all the For months there was a run- Name
elements in the_ intelligence ning dispute involving the State Date:
-''-( commpnity. Department, the C.I.A. and the
I The current study has thus military as to the viability of
been ordered to, provide Presi- the regime and the success or
dent Johnson and Mr. McCone failure of the war against the
reeommt'tEdati t Coi~g guerrillas.
The Wnite House was flooded
contradictory information
rec-amn enaations on what
a =a e eov- - s happening and what to do.
rartI to tei
ssa- w ether policies proposed by the
o n tsre re Y-itlie departments were intended to
e epar lent, General Rey- confirm intelligence from the
Holds the Defense Department field or whether the information
and Mr. Bross the Central In- was used to justify the recom-
telligence Agency. mended policies.
The. group expects to draw Though officials insisted that
up recommendations within four the study of the intelligence
or five months. It is not _ in- community was based on a gen-
tended as a permanent body. eral need to streamline over-all
The, nation's over-all intelli- operations, some sources ac-
gence effort is under continuous knowledged that the Vietnam
review by the Foreign Intelli- situation might well have in-
fence Advisory Board, which spired President Kennedy's deci-
was established by President lion to order the review.
Kennedy in May, 1961, follow- It is also known that there
ing the failure of the rebel In- are frequent differences in eval-
vaslon of Cuba at the Bay of uation of various aspects of the
'Pigs. The, board is now headed Cuban situation among the
[by. 'Clark M. Clifford, who last three main elements of the in-
yye_ar succeeded Dr. James R. telligence community.
killiaa Jr. b ftIe chairman. There Is no desire in the Ad-
Ard ' ministration to Impose. uniform-
x >4anity of views on the intelligence
The ngw tasfarce was called groups, but the hope is that
for, by President Kenned short- some overlappin of functions
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