PARTICULAR INTELLIGENCE QUESTIONS REQUIRING COORDINATION OR ATTENTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP57-00384R000100050019-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 5, 2000
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: December 2, 1949
• Content Type: MEMO

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CIA-36011
2 December 1949
CIRCULAR MEMORANDUM TO: Director (information copy)
Executive
General Counsels/
Chief, I&SS
Assistant Director, ORE
Assistant Director, OSI
Assistant Director, OCD
Assistant Director, OSO
Assistant Director, OPC
Assistant Director, 00
Kindly inform COAPS within a week if you
have any additions Zr deletions for this
DRAFT of a Report to the National Security Council
SUBJECT:
Particular Intelligence Questions Requiring
Coordination or Attention
REIERINCE:
(a)
(b)
Section 4 c(2) of NSC 50
Memorandum to Director, 8 July 1949 from
Executive Secretary, National Security
Council
Section 4 of NSC 50 lists particular intelligence questions requiring
coordination or attention, and requests the Director of Central Intelli-
gence to submit to the Council within six months a report of progress in
these matters.
1. Scientific Intelligence, On January 1, 1949 an Office of
Scientific Intelligence was established as one of the major offices in the
Central Intelligence Agency. (Before that, it was a section of ORE).
This office is being well staffed and is now devoting its time to
matters of scientific intelligence in conjunction with other offices of
the Government interested in this subject, DCI Directive 3/3, based on
NSCID 3 was issued with IAC concurrence on October 28, 1949, establishing
an interdepartmental Scientific Intelligence Committee to plan, support,
and coordinate production of scientific intelligence as it affects the
National Security,
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2. Domestic Intelligence. The Federal Bureau of Investigation
is now on the Intelligence Advisory Committee so that domestic intelli-
gence and related matters will be coordinated with foreign intelligence
matters. The Office of Special Operations in the Central Intelligence
Agency is working closely with the Federal Bureau of Investigation on
matters where their respective interests are related.
3. Crisis Situations. On February 2, 1919, at a regular meeting
of the Intelligence Advisory Committee, it was agreed to expedite the
handling of intelligence matters when there were crisis situations. To
confirm this agreement in writing, a proposed Director of Central
Intelligence Directive on this subject was circulated to the members
of the Standing Committee of the Intelligence Advisory Committee on
10 November 199 and discussed subsequently. It is hoped that a
directive on this subject will be issued this month, after agreement
has been received from the interested agencies.
L. Political Summaries. As in war time, all intelligence has
military implications, so in peace time all intelligence is of a political
nature.. The Director of Central Intelligence has the responsibility for
producing national intelligence, which especially nowadays has political
connotations. The Central Intelligence Agency is constantly striving
to coordinate such production with the Department of State which has
primary responsibilities therein and with the other members of the
Intelligence Advisory Committee, all of whom are interested in varying
degrees in intelligence of a political nature.
~. Exploitation of Foreign Nationality Groups and Individuals.
(Memo to come from 00).
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7. Defectors. This subject has been under consideration, and a
proposed NSCID thereon in preparation, for about a year by the interested
agencies. After much discussion, a proposed NSCID was compi ed on
"Exploitation of Defectors and Other Aliens Within the United States"
on 10 November 194-9 and circulated to the Intelligence Advisory Committee
on 14. November 1949 for the usual approval before submitting it to the
National Security Council. A corollary proposal on the "Exploitation
of Soviet and Satellite Defectors Outside the United States" was sub-
mitted to the Standing Committee of the Intelligence Advisory Committee
on 8 November 1949. As a result of inter-agency discussions, a revised
version was circulated to the Standing Committee on November 29th. It
is hoped that both will soon be approved by the IAC so that they may
be submitted to the NSC as proposed NSCIDs for early issuance.
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Until these over-all policy directives are established and
put in operation, there is functioning a Pro Tem Interdepartmental
Working Committee to handle problems on the important cases of
defectors which arise and which have accumulated to date.. It is
hoped that before long the over-all directives will be approved and
issued, so that the Pro Tem work of this nature may be discontinued
and this work placed on a firmer and more regular basis. The chief
difficulty with regard to this problem is the ultimate disposal of
defectors and the costs entailed therein.
8. Counter-espionage Activities Abroad, and Closer Liaison with
the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Central Intelligence Agencyts
Office of Special Operations has placed increased stress on its counter-
espionage functions and on counter-espionage activity abroad on a
continuing basis. As pointed out in Section 6 above, it would be helpful
to have in an amended NSCID 5 greater clarity for coordination in the
counter-espionage field to help the Central Intelligence Agency more
effectively,fulfill its counter-espionage mission.
The Office of Special Operations' liaison and cooperation attendant
thereon with the Federal Bureau of Investigation have increased effectively
over a considerable period of time, Obviously, the closest possible
working relationship is not only highly desirable but also necessary to
developing the closest possible counter-espionage liaison with the
Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Central Intelligence Agency feels
that this liaison relationship at the present time is close, effective,
and mutually advantageous.
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