the organization and operations of various arms of the executive branch of the US government and make appropriate recommendations for improvement through various task forces. On May 21, 1948, Herbert Hoover announced the creation of the Task Force on the National Security Organization, which would be chaired by Ferdinand Eberstadt and produce the Eberstadt Report. From June 1948 through January 1949, Eberstadt’s task force examined the workings of the country’s entire national security and intelligence system, including extensive research on the US Department of Defense. On January 13, 1949, the Hoover Commission submitted a 121-page document outlining criticisms and recommendations for the nation's national security and intelligence organizations. Within the first few pages the Eberstadt report states that “the National Security Organization, established by the National Security Act of 1947, is, on the whole, soundly constructed, but is not yet working well." Task force members Ferdinand Eberstadt – Chairman Dr. Raymond B. Allen Thomas Archer Hanson W. Baldwin Chester I. Barnard Dr. Charles W. Cole John Cowles James Knowlson John J. McCloy Dr. Fredrick A. Middlebush Robert P. Patterson Lewis L. Strauss J. Carlton Ward, Jr. Gen. Robert E. Wood Recommendations Cooperation in the US intelligence community The central concern of the task force was lack of cooperation within the US Intelligence Community. Specifically, it cited the poor relationship of the CIA to G-2 of the US Army, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Atomic Energy Commission, and the US State Department. According to the report, this poor relationship had caused an unsatisfactory number of “disparate intelligence estimates,” which “have often been subjective and biased.” Lastly, the report encouraged older entities in the US Intelligence Community to embrace the newly created CIA as a partner. Central Intelligence Agency Leadership in the community The report expected that the CIA would become the “central organization of the national intelligence system” through creating a community-wide intelligence review board and leading covert activities. It recommended the CIA create “within the agency at the top echelon an evaluation board or section composed of competent and experienced personnel who would have no administrative responsibilities and whose duties would be confined solely to intelligence evaluation.” Eberstadt's task force felt this was necessary because the highest administrators within the CIA had little time to evaluate intelligence. This evaluation board would answer directly to the Director of Central Intelligence but would only have advisory status. Believing responsibility for