HELMS' PLAN FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF HIS ROLE IN INTELLIGENCE REORGANIZATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-19-2-24-2
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: February 26, 2010
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: December 14, 1971
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM ~ -
SEGRET ~ INFORMATION ~^Y
MEMORANDUM FOR DR. KISSI
FROM: ~j~Phi1 Odeen . W. Marshall C~
5UB,7ECT:
Helms' Plan for Implementation of
His Rale in. Intelligence Reorganization
Helms has responded to the request that within 30 days he submit
to the President a plan for
-- delegation of day-to-day xnanagernent of CIA,
__ staffing of his new xole.
(See Tab A for his memorandum. )
The general direction Helms ~ plan takes appears adequate and
appropriate. Andy Marshall will continue to monitor the staffing
for Helms' new role. All appears to be going well so far..
No response is needed or expected to Helms' memorandtr.x7a.
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THE DIRECTC7R 4~ CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
WASHINGTON, A. G. x0'305
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
SUBJECT: Organization and Management of the
U. 5. Foreign Intelligence Community
REFERENCE: The President's Mexnoxandum of 5 November 1971
In referent memorandum you requested that I submit to you
within thirty days plans for the appropriate delegation of my current
authority for the management of the Central intelligence Agency and
fax increased staff support in my new role as outlined in that
memorandum.
I attach hereto a copy of the kind of delegation of authority
to the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence which would seem to
be in keeping with your directive. When General Cushman's
replacement is sufficiently indoctrinated, i will sign such a paper
fox him. Yau are of course familiar with the concerns Senator Stennis
has about this delegation. The action vests in the Deputy Director
of Central Intelligence all of the authorities necessary for managing
and directing the plans, programs, and day-to-day operations of the
Central Intelligence Agency, including certification of the expenditure
. of confidential funds. in fact, the only significant authority not
delegated is the extraordinary authority, as set forth in Section 1 ~2c
of the National Security Act of 1947, as amended, to terminate the
services of employees in the national interest, which my General
Gounsel advises I may not delegate. The Deputy Director of Central
Intelligence may, of course, exercise this unique authority when he
is Acting Director of Central Intelligence.
I am also submitting he xewith a tentative organization chart,
setting forth our thoughts about haw to organize for the new role you
have given me. i will plan to build on the small staff which heretofore
has been helping xne with various intelligence community rosponsibilitias
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and which will #arrn the nucleus fax the expanded structure. As
you will see from the chant, I am planning to set up a staff the
elements of which will be focused an the several objectives and
tasks outlined in referent memorandum, along the following lines.
A community comptroller's office will be established, supported
by a staff which will maintain year-round contact with the manage-
ment of the various programs which comprise the U. S. intelligence
effort. This office will assist me in drawing up the consolidated
intelligence program budget and will provide the essential staff
support for the Intelligence Resources Advisory Gommittee. This
office will perform all the usual functions of planning, programming
and budgeting far the over-all program. Another section, which
will work very closely with the camptrnller's office, will be
concerned with planning and program evaluation to assist in reaching
decisions on the optimum makeup of our foreign intelligence program
and in looking ahead to future needs. This will include an element
which will monitor and evaluate the community's research and
development program to insure that it is properly focused and in
support of the objectives of the total intelligence effort. In this
section I would expect to have performed the detailed analysis and
evaluation of programs from which to make decisions on the mast
effective combinations to produce the intelligence required. The
third component of the staff will serve the dual function of acting as
the contact point for the evaluations of the community product
sterx~:ming from the National Security Council Intelligence Committee
and the Net Assessment Group, and examining ways and means to
improve the community's production capability. Through this
component I would expect not only to monitor community performance
with respect to individual intelligence tasks, but also to examine
the various intelligence organizat?ans to see where their procedures
'and methods might be improved. In all this, the essential Baal will
be to improve the. quality, scope and timeliness of the community's
product. These, together with the expanded United States Intelligence
Board and its important subcommittees, should provide the structure
needed to discharge my broadened community responsibilities.
The present estimate is that this increased staff will be an
the order of $U professional and clerical personnel. They will be
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drawn from the Central Intelligence Agency, from various elements
in the community and, in a few cases, from the outside.
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THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
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MEMORANDCTM FOR: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
Si7BJECT: Delegation of Autharity
I hexeby delegate to the Deputy Dixectox of Central
Intelligence all authorities vested its. me by law ax by virtue of
xny position as Dixectar v# Cex~.txal Intelligence and head o# the
Central Intelligence Agency, except fox any autl~.oritie s the
delegation of which is prohibited by law.. These authorities
include, but axe not limited to, the certification authority for
confidential expenditures as set faith in Section 8(b} of the
Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949, as amended.
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Organization of the lnte[Iigence ~ornmunity Staff .
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United States
Intelligence Board
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Ceti#ral In#e l lige n to
Deputy Director of
Central Intelligence
Deputy to the Director of
Central Intelligence for the
Intelligence Community
Assistant Deputy #a the Director of
Central I~ltelligence tot the
In#elligente Community
COI~PTROII~R
a Prepares aruEUa1 community fiscaE guidance
? Prepares consolidated intelligence program budget
~ Supports DCI in resource Presentations to Congress
? Identifies resource issues and options
~ Monitors resource alloearions and expenditures
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? Plans for allovtlorrs of irrtelTigence activities
and resources
? Conducts resou-ce issue studies for 1riAC
? Raoonciles requirements to fiscar constraitrta
? Relates resource changes to irrtefllgenv
production
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? Ret~mmeruls production concepts and fo-ms
? flsviaws production procedures acid requirements
? MairKains National Intefligenca Objectives and
Priorities
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