Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
CIA-RDP54-00177A000200070192-3
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'T""Om?FORA pproved For Release.2001/08 A000200070192-3
ce Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Executive for Administration.
FROM : Chief, Administration and Services.
SUBJECT: Integration of TSD/OSO into CIA.
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l.. In accordance with verbal instructions received at a meeting on
21 September 1948, the undersigned has prepared a Tentative Procedural Guide
for the functioning of the Two copies of this were
forwarded "Top Secret" through the Acting Assistant Director for Special
Operations on 1 October 1948. After some deliberation the Top Secret
classification was given, inasmuch as the entire "modus operandi" for-
as presently conducted is revealed "in toto". ';chile individual items
of information are seemingly harmless scraps of procedure, the whole is a key
.o the pattern of present and future operations from the Services standpoint.
c. the integra-tea r'/U, together with the list of names-against-slots
which have been proposed for transfer, was turned over to Mr. In 25X1A9a
25*1A8 general, agreement is complete except for the physical location of the divisions
25X1 6a Deputy for and the Special Procurement Section be separated
25X1,8 past personal experience it is maintained by the undersigned that it is i
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3. The following reasons backed by my personal experience, on the
.,,,,ne hand being adjacent to the activities served and on the other hand
separated, are offered as evidence that to divide between
several physical locations, some of which are not adjacent to Operations,-
is to hobble effective and timely support.
a. Constant personal contact on supply, procurement, and
travel problems at the working level with Operations is essential to
rapid and efficient functioning. (An actual count of the number of
daily personal contacts is being made. It is estimated that this
should run to several hundred per week.)
b. The psychologically beneficial effect of having one's
administrative support contiguous to Operations, whether under its
control or not, is a factor not 'to be-overlooked. It has recently
been learned by other services of the government, namely the
I. S. Army, that a basic principle of efficient cooperation is
actual physical contact by personnel rather than by telephone or
paper work. The classification of the matters discussed between
Operations and Administration prohibits the use of the telephone.
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c. The undesirable security in coordinating operation
administrative cables and pouches out from under the control of
operations is a further consideration.
d. The immediate access to current and past operational
files located within the foreign branches and within the OSO
Registry is essential to smooth supporting operations.
e. The necessity for concerted services action during
off-duty hours on a priority problem embracing procurement, supply
and transportation collectively or separately, or in any combination,
is an ever present actuality which would be placed in jeopardy by
the physical separation of these activities.
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