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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00022R000200030052-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 12, 2000
• Sequence Number: 52
• Content Type: MISC

Approved For Release 2001/07/27 : CIA-RDP84-00022R000200030052-3
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Tie function of production olannin;_; not SeParaiule- from
substant've sss.pervisjon of production.
Whet r?ally needs is a second Deputy Assistant Oir,c o.r. crze
tax ,a . 4z ri8to of a
u st nt3 Tre affairs.
t unda ri9tand that four of the majority intended to ;sake this
r:oco-vtendeatior?n, but that the fifth, whose vote was necessary, *'e~:red that
it would prove totally unacceptable to the Assistant :..rector, the result
b;ein . this watered down version.
But I know fro personal experience that the job which iniperetivcly
needs to t e, done in ORE can be done only by a I putt' Assist,, nt Dire -tor.
This aroposed Planner any be able to aacco,sip1ish sc;me good, 'ut not
much without the authority implicit in the title of ~fatty.
What is done here is not unlike what Mr. (.zddledld to sae...
Controversy or no controversy, the basic failure of ORE revealed
in the Re1tzel :Report needs to be faced rather than evaded if ME ad
we knew It is to be saved from deserved. damnation. ;Much precious tifne
has already been lost in short ai hted and foolish attempts to Justify and
perpetuate the status quo. It may already be too late.
The function of Assistant Director is threefold: external, relation
internal administration, and substantive supfervis:ion. :
?.e first of these functions requires the full attentions of the
Assistant I:i"?i.rector, as an individual. It is the one function that he
Cannot dele: ate.
It stands to reasorn, and has been proved by experience, that one
raa- : cannot Vii*re full attent:lore to both external relations and substonti.ve
supervision.
Substantive supervision is de! finitely required--read the itzel
t eport--and is a 'tall time job.
Only a Deputy Assistant D.re:!tor can do it.
S/P.' cannot do it. The proper role or S/PP is that of
personal
eta ":P to the Assistant Director in the conduct of external relations.
B enrr=.f t do it, ? is properly a consultative and deliberative
body. It can, advise and recon end, but It cannot perforii executive
functions.
>i.t:ac,r D/'ub nor the production r~lanrairr:> unit proposed by the