WEAPONS DIVISION O/SI

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00022R000300100039-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 30, 2012
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: June 23, 1951
• Content Type: MEMO

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/03/30: CIA-RDP84-00022R000300100039-9
MEMIu ANDUM OF CONVERSATION
23 June 1951
1.;Ye unversation between ~tnV .myself, which 25X1
t:u,_, place the 2iit.n of dune, 1951, :ea.r that. the
Neapoas Division n re abolished.
t /SI back-shop and front-shop work well.be2ause it is
virtually the same. (Almost) everyone is cleared. Ali Weapons
Division sit in the Uack-shop. All O/SI work maker use of special
ir,tgiligence, skhuugh Division Chiefs still _ do:o not really use. all
the spe,ial intelligence there is, 25X1
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Qno'1...
NIE-31: The O/SI draft is being shown Aand'46 tang
Lniia-uat.un from ;s.l over town. Draft for U/FE is m n process.
loots ui work is being done in D.C.-ICIS aegis WA FBI represen-
tatives (giving party line). Other agencies have :.ot clearei
"/CI draft. FBI .rwi,r talk at operational inf~r,aatioar.
i+. U/SI urran bulletin and supplement may be bi-weekij ?
To be shown to SIC and to offer them copies
it, they wish.
5. i'DB iuestions -,$bce sent to all services. AnjO/SI draft
letter proposes O/SI coordinate and asks that the f" name man. O/SI
cues not think SiC people will be named -- a broader scope. Some-.
urie trust ~curdiante or RI will have to. (cf. FCDA and PSB). Thigt-
.rii.~ av _c? a squabble on Weapons Division because it focuseB on
R x .
Cly.~thinks, must keep a small group of experts in
? every field so as to needle and check responsible agencies. Cites
ases of G-2, A-2 reluctantly modifying estimates in face of CIA
argument:; and evisen_e. Services work on all source, but not as
much as ,hey should.
I?`.-,/HC- /--4A
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3. Itne could be drain be--ween scientific and technical
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epfndin. on iei inition. :I definitions overlap). o/BSI must
)E' in v ' ,.en i s 2e, R~ =i.nt Deveiopmentf, tout reed not'
he in (.r_ 'finical e.---.cep',- as a ileci on fhe r i_ iar~: -- :iU'.:stan .I' Ve j'
thinks o/,~I can have a "production .program' unlike
? /Nl, because their fie],,, iS quite litcite He looks on it, as pre-
liminary analysis necessary prior to final finished reports. It .
,.ouL1 point to reports _n their several fields, requiring continu-
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