MEMORANDUM OF GENERAL L. D. SCHWIEN ENTITLED 'NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE OR METHODS OF UTILIZING INFORMATION OF A POTENTIAL ENEMY OF THE UNITED STATES'

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00022R000200150061-0
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 15, 2002
• Sequence Number: 61
• Publication Date: August 3, 1955
• Content Type: MF

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3 August 1955
M!!>!C* NIM PORT the Director of Matta]. Inte111Renos
U1J C! t ' bsa rsndua of C.srrsral f. W. Bohnim SOU"
ellatieaal Inte11irence or IIstlrsds at Vtilisl.
Information of a Potential hmoV of tie
United States"
1. In this paper 4eaaral Suhuisn is principsllry osa a rMt
with two natters -- sit necessarily ralateds (1) Now idtsllt.
Rs1 as sbeWd wt try to estiAate onwq intentions but ?h.w1
stick to ?csp Tiities" l and (2) Bow a ( nttal Intsllieumes
da1109Os is bad1.y needed ant how it should go shout nskia hi#
lsrsi reaiheatee. .
to In qr view you do not have the time to read this pose's
3. Um Oedersl SOhwian uses the Mold seapab'ilitiese as in
tlda a (1) a totting ap of errw+ fcross, aM (2) a discussion
of the several possible oourtes -f military notion iAdch than
frross -die feasible. In his lard s thews possible eaersar
of action are "oapabilities" 1; they are not "istsetion e. Be
fear so to". General Schwien uses the wrd "isteaeti~aaa'
be semi a .predictive or 'e m - tly what a po teertial sns^W till
dr-." This Ownsral Sc? ien tines a dangerous purouit !ties' an
latnllisat~oe officer. Ajreed. I.ntsed I have nevat #A
intallitent+s etfiee r who wanted to do the thirZ Giu c.1 8dvIIM
finds """was.
It. The only point of differenas between the sseisvol and
most of people oo cerrred with KIPv is that the latter do
ert habitually use the word 'ca abilttis' in the premiss and
classic way he users it. They -onerally oss it to mean so mere
thee the inventory of wen wxbw area and the military 1 nftsea
at Undr dispeeition. They d-) not incline . the ootmaa of action
mblah sit pow opuses to the enway. Aocordinariea "CapabilitieW of tin a vbtild
haw .`tined to desacribe the oont.eot of these papers. Ibree
iapotbant, I feel sure that alt.hoogn '.m define the vomd Otape..
bi.litles' 4iffferrentiy from Get.erml Saltvten, we do not write
papers which violate his feeling about the vort4 ? .
5 . With respect to hii n;:?tiorn as to h runiortlaoas of a
Cesti l Ints113 asanes Dm-eat, now the Haeata should be set M h
and boat it -- -- elmuld go about making esttseatee+.
I find hie not very !helpful. The r 1a points saes beat ar r1S&
IV U A three quotations below.
a. '. . . it is a most axia^atis that this Ovehtiaal
Iatatlig ,ss Agso sy (sic) nor tz of all. intbMtl see ?atberi,
agencies suolh as silitary, Air, and level Attsadws awe
S'aersign missions axhd etq:Iona'e,. .. faku sara7 .*'mtm
esp ionwg. ae ti ens moo h as the MOO
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?mciaetioa
U. 'In very gewral ter-me the Central
Dcu' ea- sbould be subdivided into three wain s -oeetloes1,
all interrelated wider o hee4. Gensra1i spealring, the
prinoipul subdivisions but be
(1) inforuiatiaa ocalleoting seotiea
(2) valuatiou, Col atlAm# and Intwrpr tatiehc
8.cti+oa
(3) Count .irtol2.igsnos'
o. *The Chief of t1.,2 Bureau aid his aeistanta rse.1i
the e'vaal.uatmdp oollAtod, a:xd Interpreted items of iutormt1oa
sad prepare "gstisatea'. The F t.tieates paint a asrrati s
pintoes of mW gig c1tw tion and terminate with a
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She first owes in app- sits to the ftmatica of a t atral ]sttell3.?
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