PROPOSAL FOR A SURVEY OF NIE USE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00549R000100250008-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 14, 2012
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: February 15, 1955
• Content Type: MF

Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/11/14: CIA-RDP61-00549R000100250008-0
IAC-D-94
15 February 1955
COPY
14 February 1955
MEMORANDUM FOR THE INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
SUBJECT: Proposal for a Survey of ME Use
1. In view of the fact that we have now had more than four
years experience with the production of national intelligence estimates,
I believe that it would be worthwhile to conduct an informal survey of
the use which our consumers, the planners or policymakers, make of
our NIE's. Such a survey would ascertain the extent to which and
manner in which NIE's are used by the consumer as part of our
continuing effort to make national intelligence estimates responsive
to the consumer's needs.
2. I believe that such a survey would facilitate a review of
the key questions of: (1) whether our NIE's are being circulated either
on too restricted a basis or more widely than desirable; (2) who
besides the NSC are the real ultimate consumers; (3) how extensively
NIE's are actually used by these consumers; and, (4) the extent to which,
as presently written, they meet these consumers' needs.
3. I propose to ask the Board of National Estimates to
conduct an informal survey along the above lines, and to report its
findings to the IAC, and would appreciate your comments on this
approach.
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ALLEN W. DULLES
Director of Central Intelligence
IAC-D-94
15 February 1955
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Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/11/14: CIA-RDP61-00549R000100250008-0