MEMORANDUM FOR GENERAL MAGRUDER: FROM ALFRED MCCORMACK

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 17, 2002
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: January 8, 1946
• Content Type: MF

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MORANDUM FOR GENERAL MAGRUDER:
January 8, 1946
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For your information 1 enclose a copy of a memorandum
sent to the President yesterday by the Secretaries of State,
War and Navy, enclosing a proposed order establishing a Central
Intelligence Agency.
As you will note, the plan proposes a general structure
and contains a statement of functions, but leaves undecided
most of the questions that have been under discussion between the
service departments and the State Department.
Encl. (1)
State Dept. review completed
Alfred McCormack
Special Assistant
to the Secretary
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VMS ageriallit of the serevarnasnb 'bevies' functions re
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11444 to the netienaI security mead recommend to the
National Intelligence Authority the **titbits:bunt oranch
overall policies and objectives as rill assure the nowt
effective aceemplishment of the natianal inisaanganae,
mission*
(a)
Performs for the-benefit of departnental. intellivneo Asti
cies* such serving"' of common concern es the Nottftsa itt.*
telliganee Ailtharitr detendise nee be more effie'vanbly
aocommpliabed by a conmeon. ago' , including the divest e-c-
curament et' intelligence.
Perrone such other functions and deities related t
genes as the President md the lat.ional. - Intelligence A*thc
ity may from tine to ties otiretoto, ' -
.6 The Central Tatelligeuen
enforcement :mations.
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7. Subject to coordination tr,thi-Sational Inteiligeame? tter
the existing intelligeooe species o5 the. governeent shell coltitate
to collect. *valuate, synthesise and disseninate depertaantal eperat.
ing intelligence herein defined as that Jatelligeoce rewired
;several Overtake:its and independentragonsiee for the perfoneence
their proper fUnotions. Such departmental oPerating intelligerwa
designated by the liational Intelligemee Authority shall he freely ale/
010 to tlem Central Intelligence licipp, for synthesise As apprvecd
the IatLvnal Intelligence Autharityi- the operatione' of- the departemi i.
intelligence agenoies shall be open. tie inspecrtion br the Centraa
tallow* Agency in olenetotion Tritkite plan:1124 funaticze. ',L- re ths-
interpretation of this paragraph thorlational. Intelligence Authority
? and the Centra.1 Intelligence Agenernin be responsib3e for tory prki.
tooting Intelligence sources and methods 'which, dium to ,tbefir re ere.
have a direct and bigtay ertiAterr ?,epciat-pg_e.
$e Cfunds end personnel fer Authurtt
shell Ise provided by the departments partici Natiohal
? Intelligence Authority in semen* and,propOirtaimme vett upon
the umbers of the Authority_s Within the-liniti of the table imm-det
available to ? bin the Director or the tfent.r*X letelligenna Athinc; /RV
,enp1oyluecesse27 personnel and *aka providen11*r netmestary friE
? fonilitinv and werviesn lith the appierval: of, the. National int Ili-
:gnaw?Authorit7s. he *ay call upon departints.,,And irdirivenitiont, senv c.
:to turaoh onok ePociallate eeney be required for traporvIsAftrynd
tonatiatte, positions-in the Control labielligenee Ammer, trietntr"R
at military and =MI per ;
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JOINT PROPOSAL OF THE SECRETARIES OF STATE,
WAR AND NAVY FOR A CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
AGENCY
As a result of the various criticisms the McCormack
plan was entirely eliminated. On 7 January the three
Secretaries submitted their unanimous recommendation to the
President, together with a draft directive for setting up
the National Intelligence Authority and the Central Intel-
ligence Agency. The directive differs from the proposal
put forward by the Joint Intelligence Committee almost
exactly one year earlier only in the regard that the
latter recommended an independent budget for the NIA,
Whereas the draft directive proposed that funds should be
drawn from the departments participating in the NIA. The
reason for this difference has already been pointed out.
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