COMMENTS ON RTA MEMO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62-00680R000200070013-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 13
• Content Type: NOTES

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Comments on RTA memo
Para. 2: Please, delete rdferences to my initial source of information.
Para. 3:
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be doomed, 3) by possibly fouling up the FDD n effort, $,,,, Q
programmdd and organized that future external research projects wi1.],.,.k
2. The project could hurt uss 1) by taking over an aspect of geographic
analysis that' "`we should have been doing, 2) by being so sloppily
In other words the project could help us: IF it is done properly
and IF it becomes a part of ntinuing effort on ow part to
help 'Ao
claims there is no competency in ORR.
I take exception to the first statement. Consider the following:
1. If it is really GRA policy to for geographic research to make
contributions to NI;'a...then it is in this type of effort that
we can contribute. It would be nice for us to be able to send
up nice neat pregnant contributions of 1 or 2 paragraphs...but
by the very natute of our work and methods of analysis
we can make rea3_17 useful contributions by helping the IRA refine
its estimates.
has
This a is not a new. a. This branch/pr oposed that sort of an
effort from time to time over the past b or 5 years... The last
suggestion was zig submitted at the time NIE 13-58 was up for
consideration. And all of the suggestions were for the kind of
backstopping that now says they need and for which he
In other words, I think we have more than a friend-of-the-court interest
in this. I think it is our business and au if we go on being neutral
about matters that concern us, then we deserve to be even more it ignored
in DD/I matters than w e are now.
Para 4: Our reservations could be summarized
as tollowes
1. Are the people competent to do this particular job?
2. How are the results of the project to be verified? If
they are to be tested through internal consistency, what
degree of reliability are we to expect? Has geographic'
verification been considered? If so, mdaadc w hat is the
competency of those who are to test the material and
what are the expectations of reliability?
3. Row are the tabular results to be correlated
with susz areal data from future projects?.
!t. How are the materials in FB and FDD to b e used, both
in translated and untrans lated form? If they are not
to be,used, can it be shown that the project will not suffer?
Para 5: I suppose it will be necessary to =dm make the gesture of the
final sentence. ..but none of the outlines or, propgectuses (prospectii ?)
we have seen tsxdz up to now xmdz permit any basis on which to say
.that it will in fact make a useful contribution. In my opt ion, it does
not, for example, answer the most critical questions a for M/Ag...further,
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