DIOS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91M00696R000600100008-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 30, 2004
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: June 16, 1976
• Content Type: MF

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SECRET
16 June 1976
5X1
5X1
MEMORANDUM FOR: Richard Lehman
FROM
NIO JP
SUBJECT DIOs
1. The DIO 74 4-1, T A_= I
F _f so covers the Southeast
Asian part of the empire. He does not cover
Japan the exclusi is from the DIO system -- the
result apparently of bureaucratic politics -- could be a
problem if we were to have to deal very actively with Japanese
issues on a Community basis. But this seems unlikely.
2. My DIO is more an asset than otherwise. He is a
good guide into the Pentagon maze and more often than not
makes it possible to push one button rather than look for
sixteen. Our relationship is cooperative, not to say con-
spiratorial, rather than competitive. He is more useful,
however, for rallying the troops than for improving their input.
I am not really sure that his authority extends that far and
I am even less sure that it would be particularly helpful if it
did.
3. How much support he "provides to the Director DIA"
I don't really know. Even more than the NIOs, the DIOs occupy
a rather anomalous bureaucratic position. Much seems to go
on in DIA that my counterpart DIO should know about and doesn't.
4. Question d is also one that I do not feel able to
answer. I am not aware that, in my area, the DIO has caused
DIA to undertake projects the need for which he perceived
independently of the regular mechanism. His principal contacts
with Defense intelligence users are with ISA. But this
doesn't help me much since my contacts with that office are
closer than his.
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