Direct Liaison Between Working Desks of ORE and OO/C

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00662R000100070058-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 29, 1998
• Sequence Number: 58
• Publication Date: April 24, 1950
• Content Type: MEMO

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Chief, Requirements Staff, ORE 24 April
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Chief, Contact Division
Direct Liaison Between Working Desks of ORE and 00/C
1. I would like to reaffirm and ask your concurrence with the
policy stated more than a year age concerning direeet liaison between
the analysts of ORS and the 00/0 employees who will handle their
requiremente. The occasion was a conference between you, Capt. Winecoff
and of ORE, an of 00/C. The policy stated by
Capt. Winecoff at that time eber it, was essentially this;
'Consultation and other forms of direct lisieon between the
people who want inforeetion and the people who Will get the
information for them is essential. Lnything that retards or
adulterates the achievement of this goal is a defect in the
system. ORE therefore will iepose no barriers to the freedom
of liaison between ORE analysts and 00/C requirements and
reports personnel.
*On the other hand, some coordination of the requirements
aspect of liaison is essential.
men else of the foregoing, ORE analysts will be-free to
liaison direct with QUA, if 00/C has no objection, but will
direct all their requirements for 00/0 through the Requirements
Staff unless there is insufficient time for such coordination,
or unless direct discussion with 00/C will express the need
for the information more clearly. In such oases the ORE analyst
win inform the Requirements Staff of the discussion and of all
commitments made."
2. You have been as ware as we of the penchant of some of your
divisions for direct liaison, since, as well as before, the ebove
statement of policy was enunciated. You also have been aware of the
administrative difficulties this liaison hae imposed on both our
offices. in consequence we have tried to keep yo e informed of each
of these activities as they occur, and to discourage the: when we felt
that there eould be no operational gain by direct discussion. Let me
remind you, however, that this responsibility for informing is
properly one for the OhE analyst; it has not been assigned to the
Contact Division. Nevertheless we ere quite) aware of the unquestione
able value that your Requirements Staff oporations can be to this
Division and to the benefits we accrue when you are kept fully
Informed of ell ORE operational requests on Co/C. Ae therefore have
willingly accepted this responsibility which Capt. Winecoff assigned
to ORE.
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3. In contrast to the administrative difficulties,. however, we,
are aware of the very real improvement in coordination between ORE and
000 interests that has resulted from desk?to.desk liaison. This
ipprovement is one we think should continue. We- therefore- will con?
tinue to accept responsibility for keeping you informed of the
mibetance of all direct ORE requirements approaches to. OO/C,?. so lone
as those approaches which are Justified by the above statement of
policy are not thereb7 discouraged.
LTMAN B. KIRKPATRICK
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