OPC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 9, 2005
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: January 8, 1951
• Content Type: MF

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N:711.03AN3UH FOR% ADIC
ST3D3ECT: OPC Research and Development Proem=
tjot t).11,e =bleat The problem treated by this pre.
liminary pepor is two.folds
1. Tb give a brier and preliminary appraisal of the
adequncy of the current OPC research and developmant
pro:Tam as support for current and anticipated OPO
tios,
2. To indicate _briefly the organisational possibilities
uhich nust be considered as a temis for comprehensive action
to strengthen the research and development program,
Vollusimmt The present R&D program is not adequate for
or CIA and cannot to made entirely adequate in current argent.
zational circumstanoest
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1, ConcerninoI>&sans
a. Current R&D project activity in OPC is
neither comprehensive nor intensive enough to pro.
vide the support necessary for present OPC activity,
for an expanded CPC peacetime programp or for ear.
time covert operations.
b. ora AD and OSC/OAD aro the only organi.
aations available to give any kind of general R&D
service to the overall agoncy.wido needs of CIA.
Tho no work conducted by the Coo Division of cap
is -c,37.7.a specialised nature it that field alone. No
general facility oxists 'within CIA at the present
time to conduct toohnical research and development
for all elements or CIA.
Appr
Regardless of organizational location of
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E&D responsibility in CIA, tho prozram now leeks
sufficient technioal personnel and the opecific
facilities for ,laboratory devolopmnnt and product
teatine which are necessary to support an adequate
R&D program either for CIA as a whole or ror any
or its components..
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a. All CIA technical research and development
3cald be under one office located at tho CIA level,
with laboratory and tostinz faollities equivalent to
those provided by Division 29 of NDRO during World War II.
b. Individual offices such as OPC and OW should
retain small technieal TM staffs to develop tho opera?
tional requirements on itoms requiring extensive corvice
from CIAMOt end to provide the reverse flow or in?
formation to operational elomonts coneerning teohniques
and devioes available.
0. Concerning tho organisational location or an
R&D clement at the CIA level, throe possibilities
require detailed comIxtrative considerations
(1) As a now and separate assistant to
the Deputy Director for Administration.
(2) As a division within the Office of
SCiontific Intelligence.
(,) 'As an R&D office under the assistant
to the Deputy for Administration coordinate
with the present Procurement office.
Close clooperation between the CIA/R&D end the
CIA Procurement orrice will be necensary to allow do?,
volopment and procurement of spocial matoriala as
needed for CIA. This might Infer that Research and
Development should be located within the CIA Procure.
norat
Office, se a separate Division, However, in view
of recommondatione made by Government Re and Procure.
ment personnel' Stnff II does not r000nnond ouch an
O3.
C. Disouspion:
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present time the eesential steps in the proeessing of an
OPG R&D project are as follows:
a. General develeviont, by the operating
divisions, of the definition of the operetiog
needs to be ser1ied.
b. revelorennt by OPC ITAX of the deocripe.
tion of the operational eharacteristics of the
equipment to meet the opereting need?
0, Conoideration or the problem by the OPC
nran and, if approved, developeent and initiation
of a specific project for the itmn involved. This
may involve approvel by the Project IteviewBoarde
d, Doveloment by OPC 1-01) or the demorip.
tion of engineering characteristics required to
provide the operating characteristics.
0. Conclusion of a contract with an appropriate
U. S. Governmental agency or a private contractor
to develop the tentative enamoring epecificationet
and to manufacture the prototype.
f. Teetinz of the pototypo.:
g. Determination of requiremento and action to
procure in quantity,
h. Conduct veer trial and acceptance toots of r
nenufactured item,
altme .ctf ktmg. prabl.syl implyr& nfaa, 11Pa
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0..?_Mn CIA: A/though a rojority of the requirements for the
above.monttoned services omanate from OSO- and Om, there are
other requente that have AFenay.04161 application., Under the
prosont arrangment$, it is. difficult for ono office of CIA
to obtain services from a research and development voup
chnrced to another office in the Agency. Perconnel aloes.
tione, =ley, ond facilities are in moat oases- rot adequate
to carry the load placed upon such groups by their own.
office without an additional burden from others* An example
-waste at the prenott time here a reeonrch proposal has
been presorted to the DCI for acceptance* At a meting of
Oal, 000 and ONVIIAD, it wan decided that OPC/II/RD Branch
would be the lozical organizetion within CIA to monitor such
a dsvelopment. Further evaluation revealed that requiro.
for ultinate use of the it were in 0.90 and 0$1, but
not in OPC. Under the present organisation, it wan necessary
? IYAD to 'refer the proposal baok to 0$0 and OSI rar action
by. then, nine? OPO had no interest in the ital. .
nr,,ol.nl.mtional. Toce912a 2g Dm, dafg: The preceding
rxr!'.?ph presents a. sufficient ..sp:mrAzt of the conclusion in
pnragraph. D.2. above that the organization having v.,:rimer7
x.enenoibility for renearch and development should be located
at the CIA level. The further conelusion of the need for a
centinuing intermedimry strxr for R&D ratters at the OPO and
OW levels requires little further .explanation, Further
study ray be required to determine whether such staff should
be representatives of the central R&D orzenimation but
p'oFsically located within GPO or 0$0 on a Dill time basis, or
should be administratively attached. to OPO or OSO with a.
teohnical liaison channel direct to the central= crg-anisa.
ties.
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0.1.mtrn:1 athau11 the teal:mice," files
and sz../ecifications dovalopod by Division 19 or mac
axing Itorld uor II are available, the CIA MD task
nevertheless involve starting almont complotoly snow.
The Declivity rovirernerrtie under Which preeent develop.
ment and proottl.mont met be accomplished ore more
rigid tham those of World War It, The stocks of equip.
mont yi.cotzred during World -War II hove been destroyed,.
The tochnoloror of rater:Lain an production has changod
o rvpidly within the loot tow years that specifications
require extensive revision, ecnotines noceasitatinz-
redosi..p. of materials. The World War II. effort, there.
fore, does not oanstitute, a significant foundation for
the procont CIA 110 job.
acflAtiest The absence or laboratory and
tooting facilities has been remarked in the conclusions
of -poravaph B. 1. Without such facilities? no
prozxars or tteiovato stature can be tount. Security
restrictions end war productionre?;_ipiremente on both
Defense end industrial laboratories :cam it impossible
to dopend upon thou for the devolomental roneerch and
tenting necessary fez. a CIA BM precrem. Special itenz
required by CLN atot be developed and test-ed wider
epecial oporational and security conditions. The CIA ?
NAZ org-anization at be able to assure the morn or the
ond item or proper rurkCti0711713 and nafety precautions.
a, Plirr;twirolii The present personnel ccotpleme.nt
of fifteen for 0PC/11/RD is mintrantly .inadocivate nnd
more detailed analysis night show TOquironeht of SA
tz.ny an coventy.fivo persons immeilately reqiired to
oarr:.,.? on CIA MD functions, not ihaht.iihe,P -the -current
funAions of 0$0/0.* and Como. Only eight of these
positions have been filled to date, although
11zit.lens have been pending with the Personnel
CaTice since 24 july 1950. .
ci,aartarts It in believed that the
vw...v4nt bot ofc2.5 million for research and
dovalopment (excluding procurement) during FY 1951. its
a reasonable ripzre and is adequate support in the
sense that the current cr,Tanisation is not capable of
unintl a larger vim prudently. Bowever, in terns of
ideal fulfillment of OPC or C/A MD needs, assuming
capability, this amount le for short: "amount should
be
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be sharply increased for F7 1952 and determined
stops should be taken to insure capability to uae
it. As a further factor, It is believed that the
budget practice of bracketing togetbnr the R&D
development fUnds and procurement funds for developed
special items mill tntd to de-emIlhasice and to
penalise the renearch and development procram.
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s. pronmnnt; The present limited stnff of
II/RD vill soon ire heavily ?coupled with tasks vhiCh
aro strlotlyprocurunent and vhich should be hnndled-
es. ?muds possible by the prootuvrott organization .
rather than by any MD. staff,
D. Pmrrilnrentl.ont That this preliminary paper be referred to
the Deputy Director for Administration, CIA, for his consideration
and further dovolopmnnt or to conclusions or parwaph B.
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