MINUTES OF MEETING HELD IN ROOM 214, DEPARTMENT OF STATE BUILDING

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85S00362R000700010006-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2006
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: February 12, 1947
• Content Type: MIN

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N. I.A. 9th Meetin
NATIONAL INTEL I GITI CF AUTHORITY
Minutes of Meeting held in Room 214,
Department of StateT~3ui
on Vuedriesda 1 Februrzx 9 at 00n.
YLI NIBERS PRESETTT
Secretary of State George C. Marshall, in the Chair
:Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson
Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal
Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy,
Personal Representativc off' the I1res.tdent
General Hoyt S. Vandenberga
Director of Central IntOlligencc
ALSO PRESFTTT
Assistant Secretary of 'wa'r `Howard C, Petersen
Mr. William A. Eddy,- Special Assistant to the
Secretary of State for Research and Intelligence
111r. H. Freemen MJatthews, D artr ,ent of State
"
Captain Robert
L. DcnnlsoTj,'- USIA
Cent.r ]. ' Inte Ili ;once Group
SECRETARIAT
Acting Secretary
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COORDII~T TIOI~' OF TT TFLLI 0T1 I T T 3 16, 1, TITTG
TO FORT'S GN I TOI C 'ITT I tI TIC DT err OPT TS
ATrD YOT? 17I LITI
S3'CR`J TIjRY P.ATT 'RSO~TT gave e br c f ep z t c_ x the present
status of TT,I.I, 6. He staled that the j,tc -!if- Commission
c- contained
desired to retain three people to go ov.-a- : If Q
in the files to be transferred to the' C::r.t2 .l A tc_ ,-gcnce Group.
He said that these three- pe)ple were to : ei r.. files for
information pertaining to uranium deposits anc uc;;i L.uformation.
was to be retained by the Commission. Scc 4tc k,i_ t,rson sug-?
gested that C,.I,G, take up the matter of ti 1r risfk r of the
persannel with Mr. Lilienthal.
11ftcr some discussion,
THU NATIQTT L INT3'LLIG11CE ,XTHOB '1
xi l
,Agreed to the transfer of the. -p(,-so,
mentioned in N.?.I'. 6 and dir?cc;t d t
Director of Ccnt ?el Tntelligf.ricc t(.-) ii
out the, details -Ath Mr. Lil cri; ;al
(Transfer subseq gently ccmplc. t,,,( on
February 1947)
R?'PORT BY THE I~1 RTCTOR OF CY I `R. 1 ~ I
Lt Secretary Marsb ll's requ,st, GI '3' `f'..ND"TB3{RG
stated that his last report was rather eoi_ ;-ire nsi5 _ in
pointing out- the accomplishments of C.I.G. sa 1; e i- s inception.
However, this time he wished to report sot - tii~ lifficultics
encountered by C.I.G. He said that bcfor. tfiC ;p these
difficulties he wished to point out a few ,ic(? .1J-y1 tiirlents
recently effected by C.I.G.
G3 T1 RI, L V1 .1TD 'I'BI'Rrs said that ,^d n L ),I s t' Lrst agreed
that the C.I.G. take over tb.e Gctivityes f e .era Bureau
of Investigation in the SC;uth LIacricci, fl 10 r was some-
doubt as to vvhcthcr C.T.G. ooould ably e ,:,,c mF i:1 I s assign,
ment. He mentioned that he had received .1.` * t(.- Crom
"ambassador Paulcy which commended the smc th t ra i.si cr of these
activities accomplished by the C.?I. G, rep res .r t~-7 ui ve attached
to his staff. Genezt.1 Vo 1denberg als) me cti cI cl i L V~1 \DjTBE?G pointed out t at i '?.c the feeling
of the agencies (Inteiliger.ce lydvvisnry Boa: -d) t he current
interpretation of coordination was "'by mat. l lr(;er -~nt.
This placed the Director of Control. Into: 1 :7er wi- in the
position of an executive secretary to the - .1;, 3. , nc that he
did not believe this was what was Conte pl, r ec y General Vandenberg then pointed out that it so TC i,-zF' nnces-- it
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six to eight months to ?o
. 1,.. +. hi-s h:
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Director of he
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authority sim r "The nt Rc,5Carc7:
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within its j
sha11 operate and the e nect:5
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by the Su,0retaxiES 01
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delegG' ted by A
hereby orders al~d c
that its decisions vc: ~~11 force
Board SO Om them and
IT ended 3
July 7-946
further Y ,fT tr
to the abov
fo:c s
memb~cr,3
directives to the T,,.1.;..
suct:i a pr-` a yJ,o s of ti~r.c oI L
their offices. ROwevcs?,
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and involve a great
BT RC. statdd t;
policy iz1te~Ii
is ~:nd net
strateg t
an uncertaintY Umong
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d ,nding that
competcncc 0f 0,1, understZ.1nding that
of underst
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a
r ~ :c creation ?f
a: c
c?uvcl?l~E'd t,1t C,,, v~ 0 uld
n v~h the C r
those Parsos
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Central Tntclli, n n`,O err, t to .. This,
tn-tc~Llig `_ ~chicvec
Join lonship been
replace the
taken place , Igor had any t?.?) viz:
not
to national planr
th ."nd se
of b1 OC'?
the ~ dvancement O1
t-?rY
political-Political-
must be ob j t.ctiV?, and
devclopcd the fo11
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pp an
rove:-
T~.I..~a ? a yc.ac;e ~ i.
in that composite ir;t ..L1i
by
which is requi.,?e the Pxjc
ter, do
and ntE~ff5 to ssis; them in
c uTi ~,V
finition? In order to c1r,x1
itiC n
REGRET
It
r~lternati~~?
>C;. T.1Grd d that
hcd been hindered
t -,f ^,11- concerned
t P! ,>ducti?n of
of
s e to its de-
p.
ciC5 with 'z'es1>ect
tor.
is 1m97-?mcnting
ssuanec from
cumbersome
C,TfG? -had
auc ,ted the
ntclliger_c
t31 in ch~:rac "
Cl rt;hcr high ox f1 acts
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in or and f or
i s in thC:t
I cE._~n to more thL TNT"LLtGJITCT' .,UTI::. '
a, , grecd th-ot vvYile they beli,-v I
J.I.C. should be rbolishcd one t 1. r..0
assumed by C.I.G.., they desir(;d t
L EU a1-
decision until su(h tifnss as
cussed with the Joint Chicfs
b. Noted that ,d iire1 Laoohy
this matter vuith the Joint Ch1