DD/I'S INTERPRETATION OF THE 'BECKER' S & T COMMITTEE REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00022R000300120016-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 1, 2000
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: August 22, 1952
• Content Type: MEMO

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SUFJi;:T: DD/I's interpretation of the "Becker S, f; 7 C,ovnitteo Report."
1. on 18 August,. DD/1 held the following conversttior wi n
kD/SI. UUMC took longhand votes on the eonvernatione with Dt/I's
approval. The following is sttransariptioa of these ^otass
2. attar reviewing all of the provious surveys made on
aciautifit and technical intelligenoe conditions, and the reaoa-
henlations included in those surveys, DD/1 had come to the conclu-
sion that enoouragssent should be given to 0/SI to carry out the
protrraa which is now underway. within C/5I. 10/I's poelticm, there-
fore, is the exact opposite to a repudiation of 0/~.;'a position.
3. For interagency relationships, bows or, the D! /-, dcsiree
that we erry on with Defense in a different faahion thft:; flint which
we have used in certain instances in the part; tlu+t we nhould chanl;etl:e explana
tion for the "what and why" we are doing some of the thin,~;s, er.phaai:sing in
the future our need to know and to have a program ,,=aceuse f our
reer.,onei!4lities in reporting current intsllisence iteim,.
L. people feel that we have beam over-sellirl, the t Tn.
recporf:i?iility in the coordination fidi.
;i TY:e intslligence ran basic science is at one: end of the
speotruu, and the real aaibility for it is on CIA to carry out to a
crater of coromen concern. Sir:ilarly, techrl.:a1, ix, ;l U..1!rncti on
the other and .if the epectrwr with a correapon:i+ resr i .lity
on the Departarant of Defense to carry or. as a rant' c
concarr.. tacit or;;A,::ixatidr. bar a .tract inter c+, w. field,
arc es, ih or;;a 2la.aticm will have its UU.tore3t ~x!
extrer.c:,;.
id- ;;: the ^is'-^nca setsura.ting the two
6. /.:,: reS;znsibilltea, internally, wive,
includes eupport 1.:f current intelligence ant net i.t
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agency 'rill take the initiative to review at
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9. Finally, the vhols..subJeo't is to bs reviewed in six months.,,
This period of ties S. believed b
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