DAILY OUTPUT OF ABSTRACT TYPISTS USING SPECIAL TYPEWRITERS AND 3-INCH MULTIGRAPH MATS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP51-00036A000100010008-3
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 26, 2004
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: December 9, 1949
• Content Type: MF

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9 December 19
A iOrRANDOM FOltt CHI.J1, COAPS
PEOMs Assistant Director, OCD
SU1iJCTI Daily output of abstract typists using
special typewriters and 3-inch multigraph
Mats
1. ass asked that I look into the statements
on page 28 of my recent report concerning daily output of typists
preparing abstracts on 3-inch masters,, using electric typewriters.
2. My estimate of 30 per duy was arrived at as followst 3,000
abstracts in October, divided by 5 typists, equals 600 per typist.
600 divided by 21 working days equals 28.6 per typist per day.
In publishing an estimate of 30 I recognised that it was
an ureter-estimate, but this seemed desirable since I was going on
to discuss production by 081. With 8 special typewriters, and
prestnably 8 special typists, OSI might reasonably be expected to
turn out not less than 240 abstracts per day, or 5,0?10 per month.
Smaller production than this would indicate ineffective operation.
This is something which we will want to look into after OS1 gets
its typing job on a firm footing, and I did not think it wise to
publish an estimate which might cause us to stet our eights too high
3. who runs our classification and abstract-
typing operation, makes an off-the-cuff estimate of 50 per day by
a typist who does nothing also, In Octobers he tells me,
(a) One of our five typists was off-duty, sick,
for most of the time.
(b) The remainin four, in addition to their
actual typing, also (1) proofread each other's work,
as of course is necessary$ and (2) handled the
batching and transmissions of their work.
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cot Deputy Executive /
Management Officer
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