REPORT ON INTELLIGENCE MATTERS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00610R000100130014-8
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• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 2, 2002
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: October 23, 1945
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: ASSISTANT CHIEF OF STAFF, OPERATIONS DIVISION
ASSISTANT CHIEF OP STAFF, G-2
? ASSISTANT CHIEF ap AIR STAFF - 2
ASSISTANT CRZRF OF STAFF, G-2, AGF
DIRECTOR OF INTELLIGENCE, ASF
DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC SERVICES UNIT
DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL PLANNING DIVISION, WD
? SPECIAL STAY?
Subject: Report on Intelligence Matters.
1. The Secretary of War has appointed the following commit e*
to advise him on certain intelligence matters, particularly those
relating to the subject of the foreign intelligence activities of
the Nation and of the War Department:
Robert A. Lovett, Assistant Secretary of War
for Air - Chairman
Major General H. A. Craig, OPD
Major General E. R. Quesada? AAF
Major General W. G. Wyman, AGF
Colonel J. M. Roamer ASP
Brigadier General John Magruder, SSU
Brigadier General C. W. Clarke, 0-2
2. The above committee has been directed to make a preliminary
report to the Secretary of War not later than 3 November 1945. It
is most anxious to have the benefit of the views and recommendations
of. the individuals to wham this memorandum is addressed at the
outset of its consideration of the various problems involved,
3* Each of the individuals to whom this memorandum is addressed
is therefore requested to furnish to the undersigned not later than
27 October 1945 a report covering the following subjects, as fully
as possible in the time available:
PART I
a. The organization of the individual's particular unit
as now constituted, together with a statement of the functions dis-
charged thereby based on current directives and practices.,
b. A description of the relations that have existed be-
tween the ntdividualla unit and other intelligence units in the
government during the period of the war.
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e. A freak appraisal of the operations of the individual's
unit during the war period, with particular reference to the fields
in which it is believed intelligence service could have been improved.
d. A. frank appraisal of the over-all operations of all
government intelligence units during the course of the warp with
particular reference to those in the War Department and the Office
of Strategic Services. This part of the report should contain the
writer's opinion as to the existence of unnecessary duplication, and
Also of lack of coordination, if any, between the various governmaat
intelligence units.
e. Such other comments as the writer regards an pertinent
on the over-tall intelligence 'organization of the United States
Government during the war period.
PART II
a. The individuals recammendations as to the most desirable
organizatial and program for the foreign intelligence activities
of the United States Government for the future. There should be
included here the writer's views with respect to the desirability
of establishing a central foreign intelligence unit, the place or
department In the Federal Government where this unit should be
located, and the broad functions, responsibilities and composttion.
of such :a central unit. If a central intelligence unit is advecatee,
the report should contain the writer's views as to whether its
functions should include those of the collection of information,
or whether it should be limited to such matters as research,
analysis and evaluation, and dissemination.
b. A statement of the field that should be covered by
the WarDeprrtment in the over.all government intelligence program.
This part of the report should indicate the relationship that should
exist between. the War Department intelligence agencies and the
central agency, if recommended, and also the relation between. the
Wer Department agencies and intelligence agencies created in other
departnents.
c. A brief statement as to the scope of the intelligence
functions That should be performed under the recommended plsr by
the Navy, the State Department and other individual government
departments.
d. A description of the recommended division within the
War Deparfgent of the intelligence functions which, .under the plan
proposed, are to be assigned to the War Department.
e. Recommendations an to the immediate disposition or
assignment?that should be made within the War Department, or else-
where, of the personnel, facilities and functions of the vartous
units of the former 053 organization, which have been recently
transferred to the War Department.
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4. The above reports are to set forth the opinions of the
individuals to whom this memorandum is addressed, and need not
represent the formal conclusions of the units to which the
individuals belong. However, each individual is requested to
consult freely with the .officers in important positions in his
unit, and if views are held by others In the unit which differ
radically from those expressed in the reports, either a state-
ment to that effect should be appended, or memoranda setting
forth the differing views should be submitted,
5. Reports are to be submitted directly to the undersigned
without formal clearasee through channels. Eight copies of each
report are desired.
By direction of the Secretary of War:
ROBERT A LOVETT
Assistant Secbetary of War for Air
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ESTABLISHMENT OF A WAR DEPARTMENT COMMITTRR
UNDER ASSISTANT SECRETARY LOVETT TO STUDY -
THE PROBLEMS OF FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
In view of the recent appointment of Mr. Lovett as
Undersecretary of State it is of particular interest to
note that he headed this committee. The instructions which
he gave to the committee members are sufficiently detailed
as to indicate on the part of the Chairman a very considerable
grasp of the problems involved.
This committee is of particular importance in that
its recommendations, as later documents will prove, had a
very marked influence on the final form of the directive
establishing the National Intelligence Authortty.
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