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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62-01094R000100060005-7
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 18, 2000
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8. Concur. As a matter of fact, the IG's recommendations describe
long-established office policy governing the Current Intelligence
Bulletin.
a. With reference to the number of articles published, the Board
Chairman and all members are fully aware that the Bulletin is
restricted to matters of major importance to the-policy makers.
Furthermore, it has always been office policy that a blank
issue should be forthcoming on any day on which there was no
intelligence at hand pertinent to any matter of major impor-
tance,
b. With reference to the IG's caveat against extreme brevity:
Current Intelligence reporting must be brief and at the same
time sufficiently comprehensive and detailed to avoid giving
a misleading or superficial impression. In order to achieve
the right balance in reporting, the office provides an elaborate
routine through which each article must go before coming to the
Board for substantive review and selection. In the course of
preparation the desk of primary interest, the initial drafter,
must coordinate the article with desks of parallel or secondary
interest for the obvious purpose of assuring that related facts
and interpretations are brought to bear and into focus. This
is the responsibility of the division of primary interest.
The action taken is recorded on each copy of the resulting
working draft of the article together with the name and exten-
sion of the officers involved, including the division super-
visor who finally approves the draft for submission to the
Production Staff.
Attached to a draft article, submitted to the Production Staff
for consideration by the CIB Board, are the supporting docu-
ments which form the basis of the article. Meanwhile, in so
far as time permits, the Chairman and Board members have been
alerted to the articles on the agenda, either by receipt of a
copy of the draft or by notification of subject and principal
document of information. In this way the Board and its Chairman
are briefed before convening in formal session. At the same
time copies of draft articles are passed to the office of the
Assistant Director so that, although not present at the Board,
the AD is informed of its problems for the day and can give
direction as necessary. u
As part and. parcel. of the Board's task in judging the accuracy
and significance of an article and in developing its context
and interpretation by critical discussion, it is a major pre-
occupation or the Board to read for the layman and to assure
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