OCD PAPER ON CENTRAL REFERENCE FACILITIES, STATUS AND OBJECTIVES,

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP51-00036A000100010009-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 26, 2004
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: December 7, 1949
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO :Executive
FROM Management Officer
DATE:7 December 199
SUBJECT: OCD Paper on "Central Reference Facilities, Status and Objectives".
1. While the Assistant Director for Collection and Dissemination
has not found it desirable to indicate his reasons for preparing this
subject paper, it can be assumed that this is his method of replying
to the Management Staff proposal on abstracting and indexing.
2. Therefore, it appears that the best approach is a comparison
between ideas implied in the 0CD paper and the Management Staff pro-
posal. Such a comparison is attached as Tab A.
3? Certain contradictions and omissions become apparent upon
analysis of this paper. These are set forth in Tab B.
la.. An analysis of the comparison, particularly of points of
difference, leads into recommendations for resolving this issue.
Suggested Management Staff recommendations are attached as Tab C.
5. It is interesting to note that subject paper was given wide
internal CIA dissemination despite its lack of status as an official
CIA publication.
6. The Management Office does not attempt to control operational
matters, hoyrever, under the provisions of General Order No. 23 one of
the prime functions of the Management Staff is to bring to the attention
of CORPS operational problems for their study and recommended solution.
This has been accomplished in the submittal of the Management Staff pro-
posal "Agency Activities Relating to Abstracting and Coding of Intelli-
gence Information" together with a comparison of OCD paper "Central
Reference Facilities, Status and Objectives" and the Management Staff
original paper.
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