TESTIMONY AT MERGER BILL HEARINGS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85S01212R000300030012-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 8, 2013
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: March 26, 1947
• Content Type: MEMO

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?I.EC2itOR.NDill' TO:
DECLASSIFIED AND APPROVED FOR RELEASE
BY THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
DATE: 2001
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Assistant Executive Director
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SUBJECT: Testimony at ergerBillBeariflgs
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REL.LPZIXE: ? Paragraph 3 of Eemorandum, same subject as above from
Assistant Executive Director to Assistant Directors - ? ? _
for Operations, Collection and Dissemination, _Reports ? - and Estimates and Chief, ICAPS, dated 2l .Larch l9L7..
missi cm of CIG, as directed ? in ?narag,raph 1 ?of the.1''residerrtt s
Letter of January 22, 1946, that all Federal foreign ir...telligence
--ties be planned, developed and coordinated so as to assure the most 2.. ??-?
? effective accomplishment of the intelligence mission related to the T ?
-national security, precludes a monetary saving insofar as the activities..
related to this office are concerned. Such a saving would be Possible -- ?
if the various intelligence agencleS subject to the above Directive had..
independent intelligence facilities adequate for their awn needs... Then. ?
a coordinated effort could produce substantial monetary.and perecraiel- ? ? ..
savings. ? The existing situation, however; not only. does not provide for-
savings but may well result man intreaSed ovdrall cost if .the 'mission
of CIG is to be accomplished..., . .
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--? ? 2.? On the assumption that adequate intelligence -facilities to - - .
insiree the national security are to be provided the present- and planned. ... --
. ORE program does include many phases which should result in econozor of. ... -.....
. both money and personnel. Specific meamples of the above include: .- .: I '?: ???? .. -- - : ._
. ' a. ? Production of Intelligence Reference Yan.uals.- The .., '. .? -:, ? .-.. -.;-
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i ???.????? prep7.rat1on of an outline for, coordination of. the. production-...''.-
and maintenance maintenance of, and the editing, publication ?and ; dissee*-- ? ?
?? ina.t.ion of Intelligence Reference Manuals. should result-in,-a ? - .? '? ? '
? - material saving in both money and personnel as compared to -_-- -- - ? ??
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.. ? separate production by the various .agencies of the Government.:
. Under the assumption. that the four Goverment agencies, State, . ?
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. ? Tier, Navy, and Air Forces, produce manuale independently it -,- ...-.. .,...
is estimated that at least a'fiftrper cent net saving could . ....'- --'''-::----
be effected through a?centralized procedure. The end product' - ?-? :---"---
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b. Present 3:Lachine Record Program. Reference Branch '
is PFesent meintaining receene records regarding all
domestic sources of foreign intelligence. These records
are available to State, War, Navy, Air Forces and other .
eligible Government agencies and preclude the necessity of
each such agency duplicating or maintaining like records.
Although no accurate estimate can be made of the economy
effected by this Central Registers, the savings achieved
by eliminatiaa of duplicate records in each intelligence
agency, or various offices in any one agency, are readily'
? apparent. .-
c. Planned Uachine Rec_o_2112.EasEnI In addition to -
mainEainfig-FgrTaTagigEgi-aing domestic sources of foreign
intelligence, the Reference Branch will establieh similar
machine records regarding important foreignpersonalities,
foreign industries, and all recorded foreign intelligence
in the form of reports, documents, research studies, or '
graphic naterial. These records will also be available to
all eligible Government agencies. The advaatage of having
all this information accessible at one source will obviate
many current duplications in the fields of collection and
- research and will also rake available to each agenoy ramy
times the information which4, acting iiadependently,
could hope to obtain.
3. Potential savings in both manpoerer aad money could be derived
from the coordinated conduct of intelligence activities and services
of common concern which can be accomplished more efficiently ley '
centralized operation, such as, photographic interpretation, biegraphic
intelligence, scientificiatellience, intelligence reports, reproductioe
and publication, and all intelligenze services which can be performed
by machine records.
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J.."ra,mra Rum-Li
Assi6tant Director
Reports and Estimates
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