MEMORANDUM FOR ALLEN DULLES FROM LAWRENCE R. HOUSTON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M01009A000300420033-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 9, 2013
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: June 30, 1964
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. Dulles
30 June 1964
1. In connection with your historical item on the origins of
CIA, I have a few suggestions for you? consideration. Incidentally,
I agree with the points which Jimmy Lay has mentioned to you and
which I understand you have incorporated.
2. In the paragraph in theiddle of page 4, which ends with
xi
the sentence, "These latter were plit together in an organization
known as the Strategic Services UAit (SSU)," you may want to add
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something along the following lines: ,
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SSU was not piat-tintlerap-Z.but was put under the
Rthroughout the ensuing truggle for control and until
.,...ksti Under Secretary of War, and it is only fair to say that
SSU was taken over byLekci it was left largely autono-
mous in its operations and received complete adminis-
trative support from the Army."
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3. On page 5, after the first two sentences and before your
statement on President Truman's directive of January 21 1946, I
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suggest something along the following lines:
Of the many studies and proposals probably the most
c-influential was that of the so-called Lovett Committee,
headed by Mr. Robert A. Lovett, Assistant Secretary of
War for Air. This proposed a Central Intelligence
Agency supported by an independent budget which would
be responsible only to a National Intelligence Authority
composed of the Secretaries of State, War and Navy
and a representative of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
4. It may be a nitpick but you might want to have your last
two sentences on page 6 read as follows:
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Under the Act the Central Intelligence Agency was
placed dizeet+y under the direction of the National
Security Council, which is composed of the President,
the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, and
other primary Presidential advisers in the field of
foreign affairs. Interestingly enough,- CIA is the sole
Agency of Government which as a matter of law is ntcrsicaart
di.x..eetautader the National Security Council,
advisory otrtiito the President, thus perpetuatt-ityg the
general principle of control at the White House'level
which President Truman had developed in cr ating the
National Intelligence Authority.
cc: Mr. James Lay
Lawrence R. Houston
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