OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND REPORTS INVENTORY OF ECONOMIC STATUS OF THE USSR.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP60-00213A000200030006-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 11, 2003
• Sequence Number: 6
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM TO: Assistant Director for Research and Reports
SUBJECT: Office of Research and Reports' Inventory of Economic
Status of the USSR.
1. Before the Advisor for Management can assist ORR in achieving its
mission, ORR must formulate its substantive program, based on end products
required by ORR's principal consumers, indicating commodities and services
to be followed, the extent to which basic research will be conducted in each,
and schedule of work projects. These are substantive decisions in which
Management cannot and should not participate.
2._ After the ORR program is defined the Advisor for Management can
render the following assistance:
a. Delineation of function and elimination of functional overlap
with other Offices, principally Office of Scientific Intelligence.
b. Design of organization and staffing patterns beet suited to
achieve stated objectives.
c. Design of procedures to program work effort toward changing
objectives, to establish uniform method in producing and products,
and to effect required support from other Agency components.
d. Reconciliation of ORR needs with work programs of collection
and reference services of the Agency to effect support needed by
a. Facilitate the procurement of required support from the
Administrative Offices of the Agency.
3. Tentative Management recommendations for resolution of ORR's
probigms viz-a-viz other Agency segments include.
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omplete and careful analysis of ORR survey reports by
ORB management to reconcile substantive conflicts,'to isolate
problems, and to aw marize and consolidate information bearing on
ther Agency segments in a form which will permit positive assistance
by such segments.
b. Practical consideration of administrative limitations such as
as availability of budget, personnel, and space.
c. Consideration of responsibilities of other Agency segments for
assistance to other CIA and IAC activities.
d. Consideration of cut-backs possible in other CIA and govern
mental activities by initiation of the ORR program.
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Advisor for anagnt
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