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This is a CIA office memorandum dated 31 July 1950 from the Assistant Director for Operations to the Management Officer, on a proposed realignment of agency functions. The Office of Operations advises against a general reorganization unless there is clearer evidence that it would benefit CIA, and comments on each recommendation. The phrase "flying saucer" appears only as a joke, describing NSC 50 as "orbiting between the Pentagon and Foggy Bottom." The memo contains no UFO content.
Approved For Release 2006/08/16: CJA-RDP60-00213A000200070032-2 time would cause inexcusable confusion. Also, COAPS comment, Reference (b), para. 3, which points out the accentuation of our covert operations, is well taken. It is recommended that no change be made in the present titles. b. Para. (b) reconmends the function of coordination of requirements and assignment of collection from OCD to ORE. From the sidelines I have never been able to tell exactly where ORE requirements end and OSI's begin. Assuming there is considerable overlap, there are always going to be jirisdictional debates and it would seem logical to have a neutral chief of the combined requirement teams. Reference (c), para. 13 has an excellent solution to this problem along with plenty of good justi- fication which is concurred in by 00. There has been some criticism of OD for not following suggestions on allocation of collection action. I see no reason why the Chiefs of the ORE and OSI intra-coordination of requirements branches couldn't work this out with the Chief of the Liaison Division if they work with him on a day-to-day basis as shown in Reference (c), para. 13. c. Paragraph (c) recommends the transfer of the collection of material from other Government agencies from OCD to 00. South Building is bursting at the seams now so, if such a transfer were made it would create a need for more personnel for OCD as pointed out in Reference (c), para. 2. All of them would have to stay uilding which I hestx1 is pretty well crowded. The result would b-Trdt the same people who are doing the job now would continue doing it in the same place but with a different hat on. I have no reason to believe there would be any improvement, but very good reason that it would be worse, as the operational impairment from physical separation is well established. d. Paragraph (d) recommends that the ORE presentation function go to 00. Reference (d) states that there are two functions of this Division: 1. Oral interrogation and Presentation 2. Providing a centralized intelligence graphics operation for CIA and maintaining a Situation Room as required to meet ORE s needs. ORE believes that it is the first of the two above functions which Management proposes to transfer to 00. Reference (d) further shows that the time of the individuals in carrying out these functions is as follows: Chief GS-13 Chief of both functions Program Officer 03-12 Full time Shorthand Reporter GS-8 About 70% of time Clerk GS-4 About 60% of time I fail to see how the above functions can be separated without the need for additional personnel. Their work is mainly for ORE and with the ORE Division Chiefs. They would have to stay in "M" Building as South is full. Approved For Release 2006/08/16: CIA-RDP60-00213A000200070032-2
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 3 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.