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Dadi teen saci se ea 3. The Agency should establish a procedure under which the Board of National Estimates or other body similarly divorced from clandestine operations would be required to evaluate all plans for such major covert operations, drawing on @ll available intelligence and estimating the chances of success from an intelligence point of view. 4, The Agency should establish a high-level board of senior officers from its operational and support components, plus officers detailed from the Pentagon and the Department of State, to make cold, hard appraisals at recurring intervals of the chances of success of major covert projects from an operational point of view. 5. A mechanism should be established for communicating these intelligence and operational appraisals to the makers of national policy. 6. In return, a mechanism should be established to communicate to the Agency the national policy bearing on such projects, and the Agency should not undertake action until clearly defined policy has been received. 7. The Agency should improve its system for the guided collection of information essential to the planning and carrying out of such projects. 8. The Agency should take immediate steps to eliminate the deficiencies in its clandestine air and maritime operations. - 149 -