AGENCY-WIDE-ALL-SOURCE OPERATIONS ROOM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81B00961R000100130034-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 17, 2001
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: January 29, 1963
• Content Type: MF

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RANDUM FOR: Deputy Director (Research)
Agency-Wide-Ali-Source Operations Room
tUEl .ENCi: Action Memorandum A-165, 18 January 1963
I. I do not think that a situation room such as the one proposed in
Use reference would he satisfactory. To present all of CIA's operations
, aphically or otherwise would require a staff of considerable size. This
staff would in turn put a burden on the operations people in the divisions
of CIA concerned to keep them knowledgeable of all details of each operation
including up to the minute changes as they occur.
2. At the present time details of the operations carried out in OSA/DDR
are forwarded through DDI to the DCI's office as they occur. I person lly
have had complaints from the DCI'a staff that such information from OS A
has been lacking or untimely in its delivery. I maintain that accurate and
timely information, particularly on OSA/DDa operations, can best be had by
contacting the operating staff actually carrying out the operations. I am
not aware of this ever having; been a problem in the past.
JACK C. LEDFORD
COLONEL USAF
Assistant Director
Office of Special Activities
INTEL/OSA/DDR
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