PANEL OF CONSULTANTS FOR COVERT ACTIVITIES OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-00374R000100020006-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 26, 1999
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: July 21, 1954
• Content Type: MF

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)1EMJRANDUM FOR : General Doolittle
Z 1 July 1954
RE: Panel of Consultants for Covert Activities of the Central
Intelligence Agency.
A Task Force is being constituted under the legislation
providing for the establishment of a Commission on Government
Operations, generally known as the Hoover Commission on Organ-
ization of the Executive Branch of the Government. This Task Force
under this legislation will study the present organization and methods
of operation of the CIA. Under the law this includes studies:
(1), recommending methods and procedures for reducing
expenditures to the lowest amount consistsnt with the efficient
performance of essential services, activities, and functions;
. (2) eliminating duplication and overlapping of services,
activities, and functions;
(3) consolidating services, activities, and functions
of a similar nature;
(4) abolishing services, activities, and functions not
necessary to the efficient conduct of government;
(5) eliminating nonessential services, functions, and
activities which are competitive with private enterprise;
(6) defining responsibilities of officials; and
(7) relocating agencies now responsible directl t th
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In addition to the study covering the organization of CIA, I
desire that you should make a comprehensive study of the covert
activities of the CIA, in particular those carried out under NSC 5412
dated 15 March 1954. It is my desire to avoid as far as possible
unnecessary duplication between the work of the Hoover Task Force
and the work that I wish you to do. The former will be concerned
largely with organization; you will be concerned primarily with the
conduct of the clandestine operations carried on by CIA both in the
field of intelligence and operations. You will consider the personnel
factor, the security, the efficacy, and the cost of such operations,
and equate we far ae possible the overall effort and the cost of the
results achieved. You will make any recommendations calculated
to=improve the conduct of these operations and for protecting their
security. To the extent that agencies of government, other than CIA,
are engaged in covert operations which parallel, duplicate, or supple-
ment the operations of CIA, you may investigate such other operations
conducted by any other department or agency of the government in
order to insure insofar as practicable that the field of clandestine
operations is adequately covered and that there is no unnecessary
duplication of effort and expense. You may, of course, look into
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any part of the CIA whose activities are related to the conduct of
these clandestine operations and in general you should consider the
overall adequacy of our initial program in the field of covert oper-
ations and the manner of its implementation.
In the event that the work of the Hoover Task Force, referred
to above, gets under way while your work is still in progress, I would
suggest that you and General Clark confer in order to avoid unnecessary
duplication of work as between you. It is understood, however, that
your report will be made to me alone, while the report of General
Clark** Task Force, which will deal largely with organisation rather
than with the details of operations, will be made to the Congress.
The purpose of these studies, both that by the Hoover Task
Force and by your group, is to provide both a most effective mechanism
for carrying out our overall intelligence responsibilities, and insuring
that the actual conduct of operations is efficiently and economically
carried out.
ALLEN W. DULLES
Director
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