THE QUESTION OF CIA/DDI SUPPORT (Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91T01172R000400100005-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 31, 2000
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: March 3, 1955
• Content Type: MF

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MAR 3 1955
i11,IORANDUIq FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT : The Question of CTA:/DDI Support for Ambassador Lodge
1. Ambassador Lodge's requests for direct CIA support appear to rest
in part on the following misconception: That CIA possesses q ant__ties of
information Which it does not distribute to the Departments and which he
must, therefore, request directly from CIA on a personal basis. As a
matter of fact, he has full access through the Department of State, which
is solely responsible for his support, to both the finished intelligence
produced and the information collected by CIA.
2. The same is believed to be true of information -about; CIA operations,
for the State Department's liaison officer with the DDP is surely in a
better position to keep the Ambassador informed on such matters, as re-
quired, than is any CIA officer under the DDI. Reference is made here to
information about CIA operations becaus.,y it is obvious that the Ambassador
believes he needs such inforiiation. It is not, however, obvious that he
would distinguish between intelligence information and operational infor-
mation in his request for direct briefings from CIA.
25X1A 3. This is a matter of serious concern to the DDI side, which is now
asked to take over the function of briefing Ambassador Lodge after having
given an officer to last August to carry out this function under
DDP auspices. The experience of this officer clearly shows that the
exercise serves no useful purpose as an intelligence (DDI) br_efing,
).. The CIA briefing officer's first meeting with 4r. Lodge was his
last. Mr. Lodge told the officer that his principal function was to
channel "those thousands of words of intelligence" into the Armbassadorts
office for use in the 7l. The CIA officer was then introduced to Ambassador
Wadsworth and General Babcock. Since that time the CIA officer has dealt
with General Babcock only, briefing him biweekly in his private office in
New York. The following points are worth noting about these briefings:
a. The briefings consist of general roundups of current
intelligence, as per General Babcock's desire; they do not
concern themselves with UN affairs.
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b, General Babcock is quite conscious that these
briefings are out of channels; the fact that they take place at
all is not known outside the immediate office of the Ambassador.
c. General Babcock has never given requirements to the
CIA officer; requirements for intelligence go directly to
the Department or to the OCB-UN Working Group.
5. On one occasion OCI prepared a special topical briefing for Mr.
Lodge. It was on the problem of Formosa and the Offshore Islands.
Arrangements were made through General Babcock to brief the Ambassador
just before the Security Council meting of 31 January, on the assumption
that Ambassador Lodge looked to CIA for direct support. General Babcock
received the OCI analyst in the apparent belief that CIA had something
new and different to irlpart. It was quickly ascertained that this was not
the case and the OCI analyst withdrew. General Babcock had all the
essential information already before him. This incident is cited here to
illustrate the persistent misconception that CIA/DDI can give the Ambassador
something that he does not or cannot get from the Department. STATS P E C
6. The phrase, "those thousands of words of intelligence," which hr.
Lodge used in August 1954, suggests that he may have had in mind at 25X1A
the time. If so, it should be noted that the US-UN delegation receives by
daily pouch all selections from the B-wire which are pertinent to UN
affairs in the judgment of the where
the selections are made. (Mr. Lodge refused to put up or request the
$$,000 for rental of a separate wire from the Department for direct-line
SID service.) Again, however, in his letter of 18 December he wrote
"...the United States representative should have the benefit of all perti- 25X1A
nent intelligence data which your agency is able to collect throughout
the world...and which, your representative tells me, I am not now getting."
(Underscoring sups ie ; e represe-H:Eati.ve wa's ia ever
this statement referred to, it is either a misunderstanding or a matter for
action by the Department of State.
7. This memorandum does not deal with the OCB-UN Working Group,
although that Group belongs in the history of the Agency--and. the DDI's--
support of Ambassador Lodge. It is presumed that Mr. C. D. Jackson
intended it to be a kind of combined intelligence and operations group
which could draw from all quarters to supply ready ammunition for use
against Communist maneuvers in the UN. A DDI officer is a member of this
Group and.. the DDI production offices will continue to help Mr. Craig of
0CB in this work.
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8. Conclusions:
a. Regular intelligence briefings (DDI) of Ambassador Lodge
(General Babcock) are not necessary and are in prejudice of our
relations with the Department of State.
b. Ambassador Lodge labors under a misconception of CIA as
a collector and producer of intelligence and believes it withholds
information from the Departments.
c. There is a danger that lir. Lodge may confuse intelligence
information (DDI) and operational data (DDS') and may think he is
protected on the latter by a CIA/DDI commitment which covers only
the former, the very kind of briefing which experience shows to be
of little or no direct interest to him. The only kind of regular
intelligence briefing which he should need is one which the State
Department is obligated to give and can give.
9, It is recommended:
a. that Mr. Lodge be reassured that CIA's collection and
intelligence is available to him through the Department and that
CIA will continue its support of the OCB-UN Working Group; and
b. that the CIA intelligence briefin;s of General Babcock
for Ambassador Lodge be discontinued,
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HUNTING7ON D. SH]MDON
Acting Deputy Director/Intelligence
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