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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62-01094R000100060006-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 18, 2000
• Sequence Number: 6
• Content Type: MISC

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that the piece to be published will convey facts and meaning
in a manner clear to a reader who is not a functional or
regional specialist.
In short, the office is keenly aware of the occupational
hazards and pitfalls in current intelligence reporting.
c. With reference to countering any tendency to "flashy" and
"alarmist" reporting: The safeguard against such reporting,
over and above the normal checks within the office, lies in
a right appreciation of the analysts themselves. Most ex-
perienced analysts are very cautious and are loath to commit
themselves to a new interpretation which is out of line with
past patterns and prevailing estimates. This predisposition
is understandable when stubborn new facts are few and hard to
come by, but it. can be a liability in an office with the
Watch responsibility for the Agency. It is this liability
which is of greatest concern. As for analysts who are prone
to leap too quickly to unusual or ill-timed conclusions, they
are quickly spotted and hedged about by their more cautious
colleagues.
d. With reference to the distribution of the Bulletin: A reduc-
tion in the distribution of the Bulletin would not alter the
Bulletin's present capability for handling sensitive items.
For the present distribution of the CIB, see attached list.
e. With reference to "refraining from adding estimates to current
intelligence items or articles": Every effort is made to ob-
serve the distinction between current intelligence and estimates.
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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
Distribution as of 20 July 1955
Recipient
Copies
White House:
3
Executive Secretary,
National Security Council
1
Dept. of State:
4
Dept. of Defense:
11
Dept of ATP,y:
8
Dept. of Air Force
8
Dept. of Navy:
3
National Indications Center
1
39
Other CIA Offices
55
TOTAL 94
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9. Non-concur on discontinuance of Digest. It is a natural by-product
of the scanning and evaluating inherent in the current intelligence
process. It is a helpful tool for the working levels within the
Agency and in the intelligence community as well, representing a
service of common use in the current field at a cost of $18,000 per
annum for reproduction and printing as estimated by the I.G. Also,
non-concur with respect to the Special Intelligence Supplement for
the same reason.
There is the question as to whether the Digest should be circulated
outside the Agency with its present kind of interpretative comment.
We are undertaking a staff study to determine whether it would be in
the Agency's interest to eliminate such comment from the Digest for
external distribution.
For distribution list of the Digest, see Tab D.
10. The Watchpot is a summary of the more important raw information
received, a tool. and a reminder in hand. The only test of its worth
should be the opinion of its few recipients. The "Dawn" edition is
a by-product of the off-duty Watch. For distribution list, see Tab
E. Personally ]: find the Watchpot invaluable as a ready check list
at the end of a busy day of all items that I should note and/or take
action on. If other recipients do not find it so I shall merely
direct that a single typewritten equivalent be furnished me.
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Distribution as of 20 July 1955
Recipient
Copies
White House:
3
Executive Secretary,
National Security Council
2
Dept of State::
37
Dept of Defence:
21
Dept. of Army:
20
Dept of Air Force:
7
Dept of Navy:
20
National Indications Center
1
Operation Coordinating Board
1
Dept of Treasury:
1
U. S. Information Agency
18
Federel Bureau of Investigation
1
Internation. Coop. Admin
2
Atomic Energy Commission
1
Oversease Distribution
87
3
503
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Distribution as of 20 July 1955
Recipient
No. of Copies
National Indications
1
(At personal request of and )
(for personal use of Director, NIC)
LJSCIB Secretariat
1
(At personal request of and for )
(personal use of Exec. Secy )
CIA Office (Ext. OCI)
DCI
2
DD/I
SA/DCI
Insp. Gen.
2
I
O/NE
DD/P
FI/STD
1
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