PLACEMENT OF THE IHSA WITHIN THE AGENCY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86B00689R000300130063-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 26, 2007
• Sequence Number: 63
• Publication Date: June 12, 1981
• Content Type: MEMO

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IHSA 81-009
12 June 1981
NOTE FOR: Harry Fitzwater, DDA
FROM: IIISA/DDA
SUBJECT: Placement. of the IHSA Within the Agency
1. In response to your question, I think that there is
no "ideal" answer to the placement of the IHSA. The two
alternatives that I see are: continuation with the DDA or
placement with the DCI.
2. I think the reasons favoring placement with the
DDA are:
?More facile management mechanism for resolving
issues concerning the biggest IHS components,
ODP and OC.
?Involvement in the daily, affairs of the Agency
via participation in the DDA as a staff member.
This is a significant advantage to the IUSA
in dealing with problems as they arise, Vice
strugcling to change a course of action already
begun.
*Day-to-day operations management support.
3. I think the reasons favoring placement with the
DCI are:
?Perception.by other, Directorates of an
unbiased posture: isolation from subtle
preferential influence of DDA Office Directors,
deriving simply from regular office contacts.
?Facilitation of interfaces required with the
Comptroller re budgeting and the IG re auditing
of IIISs.
?Facilitation of tasking of Agency components
concerning special studies and evaluations
needed for IHS planning.
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SUBJECT: Placement of the IHSA Within the Agency
4. The dominent concern in my mind is that if the IHSA
were placed in the DCI area, it might-be placed under the
Comptroller. I believe that this would have the following
serious negative effects with respect to the functions of
the office:
?The IHSA is performing a management function,
as opposed to a financial function. To be
jointly effective, these functions should
be separate and distinct. Subsuming the
management role under the financial one
seriously erodes the management function.
?The IHSA would be essentially isolated from
the daily affairs of the Agency,-and would
tend to be brought into IHSs developments
only after they had been pretty thoroughly
worked out by operational organizations. I
believe that mode of operation would make the
job of the IHSA much more difficult; I-put a
great emphasis on informal day-to-day contacts
to work out problems as being the most effective
mechanism in performing the IHSA mission.
5. In short, although the IHSA is a staff office, its
relationship is with operational management. Placing it in
a staff context will force it into a reactive, judgemental
mode, seriously hindering its ability to do its job.
Distribution: ?
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1 - IHSA Subject
DDA/IHSA I(12 June 1981)
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