INTELLIGENCE MATERIALS ON INDIA RE: USIA SURVEY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61S00750A000700120002-8
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 14, 1998
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• Publication Date: August 11, 1955
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director, Office of Intelligence Research
Department of State
Chief, Office of Research and Intelligence
United States Information Agency
Acting Chief, RQM/OIS
Chief, Special Projects Staff
Operations Coordinating Board
Lt. Cmdr. A. Christopher
Office of Naval Intelligence
Major Thomas B. Johnson
Department of the Air Force
Mr. Yaro Skalnik
Department of the Army, G-2
SUBJECT: Intelligence Materials on India
RE: USIA Survey
1. In April, 1954, the Director of Central Intelligence and the
Director of USIA agreed to a survey by CIA personnel of the intelligence
needs and assets of USIA and agencies with related programs. The IAC
agencies and OCB participated in the survey. The report of the survey
and its recommendations were approved (see IAC-D-82 series).
2. One of the major findings of the survey wasthat a consolidated
Statement of Need for the "types of intelligence and intelligence informa-
tion required to meet USIA's essential needs" should be approved. This
statement of need was approved by all interested agencies. It provided
that additional detail would, of course, be necessary to support CIA op-
erations and, against military pessonnel, armed forces operations. This
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a served as a base to define the specific basic Intel
Ugence requirements for NIS which in t
in the NIS Committee.
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grain an intelligence annex listing qe a tions which should be answered by
have been approved by agencies
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Based on this pro-
intelligence eras agreed to by persons p*r*ipatiag in the survey. The
of or at least concurrent with the establishment of a program in order that
programming decisions would be based on all available information. The
sscaad country. n4ia-, was chosen for various reasons and a list of intel-
seers to intelligence questions should. of course, be provided
e questions to serve as an annex to a USIA India country plan was
Time did not permit answering the India intelligence gnea-
while the survey was in progress.
4. Since the survey and at the suggestion of the undersigned, the
e assembled in one volume (copy attached) available
e in answer to the India intelligence questions. The intelligence
bled apps
to cover most of the intelligence questions asked but
"? tailoring and editing to be mare useful. Some additional inforn a-
d necessarily be required from the field and of a current
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The amount of additional intelligence required would become less and loss
in quantity as the l basic intelligence program produces more basic in-
in keeping with the revised outline referred to in para. 2 above.
5. Perhaps the first point which the India volume makes clear is
that the intelligence production program of DIR in State already provides
lligence materials which bear upon intelligence
needs for one particular USIA country program. While this wilt vary from
country to country the case is ta. general typical.
6. It Is doubted that the assembly of pertinent finished intelligence
materials in the form used in the India case I. the practical way to go
about answering the questions bearing n other country programs, a
general outline for which is attached. It is suggested instead that:
a. I personnel should be responsible for preparing from
such materials intelligence annexes to country plans ... this is a case of
tailoring to moot an agencys peculiar needs and
b. Where necessary, consulting with ?IR specialists and DCI
specialists where refinements or mass current facts and interpretations
are required.
Naturally this should not become a mechanical process and the questions
set forth in the model may mooed to be refined and indeed some of them
might well not be pertinent to the programming needs.
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7. 1* addition., modifications of the model questions for an inteili-
g.nce annex might be useful for
programs or for OCPW planning
less applicable in the latter case in view of the fact
PW is conducting no current operations and its major requirement
is for the stock-piling of information). As in the USIA case normatly- DDP
and OCPW should expect to perform the tailoring required to most Their
own needs rather than imposing this task on 01R.
S. It would be appreciated if we could have a note from you indicat-
irk your reactions to the foregoing ideas. . 4
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