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Approved dy Release 2003/0 SEG REFROPsd ha dal 4c U WS fue Lf le : O50 148 | MEWORAWDOM FORi TEE NIRESTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLICENCE | at SUBJECT 1 Central Intelligence (CZ) va. Covert Operations (62) 1. Thies memorandum is responsive to your request at the As- sistant Directers staff conference 22 October 1951, that Assistant Davectors mike appropriate suggestions as to how you can prevent Clats rapidly expanding covert operations from turning CUA into a - black war department at the expense of its statutory intelligences 2. There is @ classic solution to this prebles which I sug gest to you. This is to “brigade” Central Intelidgence with Covers Jperations, rather than treat ©) as one of mung CI offices. : 3. A® you have stated to me, the President *hired® you to Spend full tine worrying for him to insure early intelligence te prevent another Pearl Harbor. This is a full tine Job for @ dig- tine worrier. hs Yeu are now becoming, to an inereasing degree, the Presis dent's Chief of taff for the Cold ter. his is another full tims job for.@ Big-tine operator. 5. The proper discharge of your dual responsibilities to the President would therefore seem to require that you designate a full ~Pime Vice or Deputy to emeh job with command autharity commensurate with the respencibility for each full time job. one would head the CI departuent and the other the ©> departees$. ‘They would each be Foupenpidle to the President through you. Yeu would be, in effest, Rg = an Asétetant to the President for sup img and directing for hin > 4 these two separable but closely related wager activities of the i oN = governzent. oe a 6. Teds raises the issue whether or sot CI4 should continue on ite present centralised eupport aymingenent.. In my opinion the contwalized suppert theery is inconéistent with the separabdle dé partagt theory, and s0 long a8 you remin on this centralised theory you will aleays run the risk thet @ tail will wag a doy. 7. Under uy proposal it weuld follow that you give each of . your deputies (i.e, for Intelligaqoe and Covert operations) authority over logistion support semmenswrate with their ongretional 25X14 Sipeaponsibilities. : STORICAr, Dochwery : Destr. —— 8. Mot only is this the logical selghhen to prevent roy only wit wp? the other, but 1t is the logtenl expe Suivence of the : torica adlenion “Bpproved For Release “SECKET CIA-RDP80R01731ROGE4 DOCUMENT NO. 37