PRESENTATION AND GRAPHICS BRANCH, ORE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00274A000200110019-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2001
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: May 20, 1948
• Content Type: REGULATION

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OFFICE OF REPORTS AND ESTIMATES
OPERATING INSTRUCTION NO.
25X1A
SUBJECT : Presentation and Graphics Branch, ORE
REFERENCES: CIA Administrative Instruction, 0 may 1948
CIA Administrative Instruction, 17 December 1948
Letter Directive, Deputy Director, , ovember 1948
CIA Administrative Instruction, No.
CIA Administrative Instruction, No.
ORE-Op. Order, No.
As the ORE component having staff responsibilities for the oral and
visual presentation of intelligence, the Presentation and Graphics
Branch will perform the following duties:
1. Office of the Chief
a. Ascertain, through established channels, the availability
for exploitation of selected United States government officials
returning from overseas duty.
b. Determine, after appropriate consultation, whether such
exploitation shall be conducted as a formal presentation or
informal interrogation.
o. Makes all necessary arrangements for such exploitation,
including:
(1)
Date, time and place of meeting.
(2) Notification of meeting to all components of CIA
and the IAC agencies possessing an interest in the official
to be exploited.
(3) The designation, after appropriate consultation,
of the presiding officer.
(4) Compilation of attendance lists in regard to size
and security clearance.
(5) Notification to the division or office of primary
interest of persons to attend.
(6) Escort and security briefing for the individual to
be exploited.
(7) The secretarial or machine recording and transcrip-
tion of such meetings within the limits of personnel and
equipment available.
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(8) The custody of such transcriptions,
d. Ascertain, through established channels, the availability
for the briefing, by CIA components, of selected United States
government officials departing for overseas duty. Such services
as described in paragraph o, above, will be provided when deemed
applicable.
e. Provide a conference reporter for use by the components
of ORE at the discretion of the Chief, Presentation and Graphics
Branch.
f. Be responsible for the control of the ORE conference rooms
and scheduling of the car assigned to the Assistant Director, ORE.
2. Operations Section.
a. Operates and maintains the Situation Room of CIA, provid-
ing an integrated national intelligence portrayal of selected areas
of the world of particular interest as indicated by the Office of
the Director. Such portrayal will be shown through the media of
cartographic displays, graphic studies and charts, pictorial
presentations and audio-visual programs*
be Arrange for the procurement, processing and exchange of
graphic and cartographic intelligence necessary for the maintenance
and operation of the Situation Room through established channels.
c. Coordinate with Graphics Register, GCD, in the pictorial
presentation of intelligence and assist in the audio-visual projec-
tion of films, film strips, slides and other intelligence of a
similar nature.
d. Maintain qualified personnel in the CIA Situation Room
to brief authorized visitors on the intelligence posted,
e. When significant trends in the posted data are noted to
confer with the producing component for evaluation.
3. Graphics Section,
a. Provide the components of CIA, graphic analysis in the
production of national intelligence, design and execution of
cartographic and graphic materials (exclusive of NIS studies and
the Operations Analysis Handbook for the Director of CIA) for
research, oonferenoes, presentations or inclusion in finished
intelligence productions.
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b. Provide the components of CIA assistance in the design,
lay-out, and execution of all forms of art and illustration to
be reproduced or used in research, conferences, presentations,
displays or inclusion in finished intelligence productions.
e, Design, develop and produce large cartographic displays
for conferences and presentations and small cartographic aids
for use within CIA components for research and analysis when
required.
4. The components of ORE will provide the following specific
assistance in the accomplishment of these functions:
a. Competent presiding officers for all interrogations in
which the ORE component has primary interest.
b. Editorial assistance to the conference reporter*
c. Recommend periodically, in conjunction with the Assistant
Director, ORE, the EPB and the Chief, Presentation and Graphic
Branch, the scope to be covered by the Situation Room in accordance
with par. 2a above*
d. Appoint a qualified, person within each ORE component to
be responsible that the portion of the Situation Room pertaining
to that area or function reflects the current views of the ORE
component in accordance with par. 2a above. Furnish, on request,
such assistance necessary to accomplish the mission of the
Situation Room (maps, publications, reports, cables, etc.).
e. Be prepared to brief the Director or his representatives
in the Situation Room in the current situation in the coi,onent's
area of responsibility.
f. Utilize to the maximum, the facilities of the Graphic
Section (as expressed in par. 3) in the preparation and production
of finished intelligence productions.
5. The Chief, Presentation and Graphic Branch, will implement
pars. 1-3 inclusive and render all assistance possible in implementing
par. 4 above.
THEODORE BABBITT
Assistant Director
Reports and Estimates
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