BIOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP57-00042A000100050007-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 15, 2000
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: September 21, 1951
• Content Type: MF

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! ORANDUM FOR: Assistant Director, Research & Reports ._
Assistant Director, Scientific Intelligence
Assistant Director, Current Intelligence
Assistant Director, Special Operations
Assistant Director, Policy Coordination
Assistant Director, Operations
SUBJECT: Biographic Intelligence
1. The Offices addressed are those which make the greatest d
upon the Biographic Register for positive biographic intelligence.
2. The Biographic Register is unable to meet all the demands
are placed upon it and is unlikely ever to be in a position to do
This is because (a) it is impossible to select from the flow of in
reports the names of those individuals who will subsequently be th
of inquiries, and (b) it is impossible, even if the staff of the
were vastly greater than it is, to process the names of all indivi
mentioned in incoming reports.
3. There is a limit to the amount of budgetary support which the
Agency is justified in providing for positive biographic intelligence. It
follows that there will always be limits which the Register cannot exceed-
both in quantity and in quality of output.
4. It is essential that the Register's effort be focussed with pre-
cision upon those aspects of its output which are of greatest importance
to the consumer Offices, and that it cease to service, any types of requests
.which the consumer Offices themselves consider unimportant. The relative
importance of various types of service cannot be determined save by direct
consultation and agreement between representatives of the Offices concerned.
5. It is requested that each addressee designate a representative
from his Office who may be called upon by OCD for consultation on this
problem, and that the name and telephone extension of this individual be
phoned in to Mr. Extension 777. 25X1 A9a
cc: Special Assistant to.,. DC1
Deputy Director, Ad 'LLMstration
/t/ James
-`Assistan
Collection &
Assistant Director, Intelligence Coordination
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