NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AUTHORITY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00610R000100130019-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 17, 2002
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: December 15, 1945
• Content Type: MF

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7)eceshor IS, 1945
montAntur rat Tin =REMY 0? WAR
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SUBJECT, National Intelligence Authority.
After the meeting of the Secretaries of State. War and Navy cos
Tuesday, tee questions were left for discussions
a. Whether the Executive Secretary of the Authority
shoula be, as proposed. a State Deportment official;
12. What should be the role and composition of the
MAviaory Groups or 3oards -oho are to assist the Executive
Secretary in diaehargins his functions.
.:43efore leaving for Now:taws
to sake ever," effort to resolve
'Ner and Navy at an early date.
times of the State Department's
navy Departments.
It is propose&
the Secretary of State insteadted ue
these issues with the secretaries
This menorandum suggests 'iodine*.
plan to wet the views of the war And
a. To provide spesifinalY that the Executive Secretary
will Tepreseut the Authority as a whole, and not ow os. Deport..
cent. and to cake the provision eutorceshle by giving a najorite
of the Authority (e.g. the Secretaries of Ter and Navy) the
paver to remove the Essiontive Secretary; and
b.. To and the proviidons with respect to the Attrisorr
Group; or bards as that (1) the War and Navy Departments, ti
they wish, may appoint their Intelligence Chiefs as the basalt
combers and (2) the bat:stirs Secretary will he retired to slab.
mit to the proper Advisory Board, for concurrence or cascent,
all recomendations for the intelligence progress or far any
operating plan designed to carry it out.
State Dept. review completed
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?2.
The proposed modifications of the Plan are listed, in teB
hereto. The oonsideratiens on ehi ch they are based are discussed
below.
Status of the Fmoutive Secretary
If there is to be an interdepartmental crganization, =Um theft
a separate entity outside the Lemrteents, all personnel in the elintral
agency, including the Executive Secretary, at bold office in one of
the interested Departments. The State Department strongly believes,
and it emesed to be the oonsermus at the meeting of the three Sears. ---
taries. that an Independent tmdget for the centrel agency should be
mreided for security rowels. Since passage of the Independent aril cm
Appropriation Acts 1945 (Public law 354 78th Compass), a.moo.
departmental agency without an independent budget appears to be is.
possible. A copy of the relevant provision of the statute is attaceed
as TO B.
If the interdepartmental trpe of organization is approved, and
the Executive Secretary must hold office in one of the Department*,
it is suggested that the State Department is the logical one because
of the responsibility of the Secretary of State in foreign affairs.
In existing interdepartmental coordinating mechanisms for matter /mole
ig foreign policy it appears to be customary for the Dirsotor or EZOCUgg
ti?. Secretary* as well as the Chairmen', to be a State ampartment off/.
car. That is an in each of the following camel
Interdepartmental Committee an Cultural and Scientific
Cooperation
Liberated Areas Comeittee
Exeoutive Committee on Econcede Foreign Policy
Petroleum Facilities Coordinating, Comadttee
Interdepartmental Committee on gabber
Committee on Trade Agreements
Interdepartmental Committee on itemaptias of Comemicatione
with Liberated Areas
Special Committee on Communications.
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Concern. has beam expressed byr the War and Navy Departments that
the WAsoutive Secretary mould regard himself as responeible to the
State Department rather than to the Authority. The suegostion for
meeting that point is to insert the following provision in the plane
*The :ecative Jecretarys in his capacity as such, will
be responsible to the Authority as a whole and may be re-
moved by a majurity tette of the Authority.*
Advisory Groups or Boards
The state Department has proposed two *Advisor,' Groups**
*intelligence,* composed of full-time repres.entatives of the G-2, the
DNI and the AC/A3-2, and the other for 'Security," cospoeed of Atli-
Mime repreeentatives of the Chief Coordinator, Treasury Emfermeent
Agencies, the AC of 3, 0-2, the rex and the Director of the 711. flee
-7.4r Department has expressed the view that these arrangements do not
insure that the 0-22 Dall and Apixs4idai be brought in as webers at
the teem.
It was not the State Deportment's intention topaz:Isis. the role
of the Service intelligence Chlefe. It was thought that, mine* they
would be represented in the centrolcovnisation at everyleeel2 they
would participate folly in the developmeat of the national intelli-
gence program and of all operating plans designed to carry it out.
FUrther, it was the State Depaeheent vise, and it still is, that
through a board of officers assigned fUll-tise to the job of axedstime
the Executive Secretary, the 0-2, DWI and A-2 would have a tenor' ant
more effective participation in the central agency than if they sat
merely as **board of directors* holding ocoasional meetings and pea.-
ins on finished papers. Afall-tdme Advisory Group or Board would be
part of the office of the ExenAiver Secretary, mould be feeLliarmdth
the thinking of that office, would have time to study an plans and
programs in detail. and meld do mach to bring the Secretariat and the
departmental intelligerxe agenciee to a comas' point of view.
However, it is recognized that the 7 .1na and Neeytepertments
bsvi
a right to specify who their .reoresentatives on the Advisory Beards
will be, and it is therefore proposed to amend the plea so as to leave
the gar and Navy impartateats and the Army Air /Puree* free to appoint
their Intelligence Chiefs as part-tine members or to appoint eons other
representatives as either fUll-time or part-time =cohere, whichever
nay prove to. '5e best.
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It is is also proposed, in order to relieve the Ekseutive Seeretary
of this necessity of representing the State Department in discoseions
with the Advisory Boards, to add a State DeperbenArepreeentative to
each of the 33ards.
reelly? it is proposed to make the role of the Advisoryloards
explicit hyena= of the following provisions
Before submitting to the Authority any recommendation
for the intelligeace program or any operating plan
designed to carry out that program, the Executive Secre-
tary shall submit such recomaendations to the appropri-
ate Advisory Board for concurrence or comsat. If sny
member of the Advisory Board shall not concur in the
recommendations, be shall have the right to submit a
statement of his views to the Authority to be eonaidered
in commotion with the recommendations.'
Conoinsion
It is hoped that the above-auggested modificaticebe will meet the
views of the 4ar and Navy Departments, so that the modified plan caw
be onbmitted to the ?resident as the agreed recommendations of the
three Seoretaries.
For the Secretary of State,
Alfred NeCornank
Special Assistant,.
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Sweated Moditications of Plan, dated
tescal3e_li;Ezia4r:alhit5 forof
Intelligence
Aut_Estehlish,
Para Insert after the third sentence (page 21 line 3)s
"The Executive Secretary, in his capacity as such.
will be responsible to the Authority and my be
removed by a majority vote of the Authority.*
Para 6$ 3abetitate for the present paragrsph the folloubaus
"6. Advisory Boards. The Executive secretary will
be advised and assisted in the performance of his
duties by tan Advisory Boards, emulating of a repre-
sentative of .soh of the following appease
"a. Advisory Board on intelligence.
(1) Department of State
(2) Sir Department
(3) garry ilparteent
(4) Army Air Foresee
bivisory lewd for Security.
(1) Department of State
(2) Treasury Department
(3) Tar Department
(4) Navy Deixertment
()FI'
Pere Te The following modification not involved in the cur?
rent isitolms, is suggested in the interests of flexibility,
Amend the secoci sentence by aiding the underlined wordes
Each Generittee will consist of an Assistant
Secretary as Milarligno who will be detailed fall-tine
from the agency, or from one of the apnea!, having
primary responsibility or Intereut in that field*
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Para 12s Change *Advisory Groupe to "Advisory Boards* and add
the faning at the and of the paragraphs
"Before submitting to the Authority any recommendation for
the intelligence program or any operating plan designed to
carry out that program, the Etamirtive Secretary shall !nab-
mit sucks recomendations to the appropriate Advisory Board
for conourrenoe or comments If any awsaber or the Adviaos7
Board shell not concur in the recommendations, he shell
have the right to submit a statement of his view* to
Authority to be considered in connmeticas with the reeenmend2.-
tiara.*
Para 15i In view of the amendment of paragraph 12, the provisions
of paragraph 15 appear aupernnousio Strike it out.
Para 16-18s Renumber as pare 15-17.
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AMENDMENTS TO STATE DEPARTMENT PLAN
It was apparent that the Secretaries of War and Navy
had a number of objections to the McCormack plan, and in
the absence of the Secretary of State Mr. McCormack made
some revisions which he submitted on 15 December.
The paper is of particular significance because it
brings out the reason for opposing the establishment of an
independent agency which, it was felt, could not obtain
budgetary support. It makes clear why, when the Presidehtial
Directive was finally issued, financial support was to be
drawn from the departments even though the independent exis-
tence of the CIG was established. It also demonstrates why
the Central Intelligence Agency must be established by act
of Congress if itto achieve the financial independence which
experience had demonstrated that it needs.
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