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94. Memorandum From the Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Administration (Peurifoy) to the Under Secretary of State (Acheson) and Secretary of State Marshall0

Washington, January 31, 1947.

At my request, Colonel Eddy prepared the attached plan1 for the reorganization of the intelligence activities in the Department. I assigned a man from my staff to work with Colonel Eddy.

I recommend the approval of this plan by you and the Secretary. If this is approved, it might be desirable to call the members of the Staff Committee to meet in your office and inform them of the Secretary’s decision as you did on the budget situation.2

JEP
  1. Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Records of the Department of State, Records of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of State for Administration, Subject Files 1944–1947: Lot 53 D 28, Box 11. Secret. A handwritten note on the source text by Acheson reads: “I strongly recommend approval of the attached proposal. D.A.” At the bottom of the source text Marshall wrote: “O.K. G.C.M.”↩
  2. Not found, but presumably the same as or similar to Document 93 or the implementing memorandum cited in footnote 2 below.↩
  3. See the February 5 memorandum from Marshall to Peurifoy on Organization for Research and Intelligence in the Supplement. (National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Records of the Department of State, Records of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research: Lot 58 D 776, Birth of the Intelligence Organization in the Department of State)↩