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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62-01094R000100060007-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 18, 2000
• Sequence Number: 7
• Content Type: MISC

Approved For Release 2000/08/03: CIA-RDP62-01094R& 0100060007-5
11. From the time I took over as DD/I I have concerned myself with developing
as nearly as possible an ideal weekly publication. In 1953 we were
producing a Current Intelligence Review, a Situation Suhmary and these
were shortly joined by such semi-regulars as the Critical ituations.,
Indochina Wee , and a host of other occasional starters.
A careful survey of our principal readership convinced me that a single
publication (in two classifications, Codeword and Secret) would fill
all legitimate needs of our consumers as well as the-necessity of pro-
viding within the Agency an authoritative roundup of the critical events
of the week and likely developments in the near future. It would also
obviate the need for most of the special memoranda which invariably
involve unnecessary high level time in determining dissemination and
also are apt not to reach the most important customers as surely as
does a regular publication.
The present Weekly is tailored to meet the needs of people who can devote
varying times to reading it:
(a) The 5 -minute senior official need concern himself only
with Part I normally limited to about 5 pages.
(b) If a person can spare 20 minutes, he can select from
brief summaries in the Table of Contents such articles
in Section II as particularly concern him.
(c) The intelligence generalist or policy-maker who can afford
an hour a week can find reasonably complete coverage on
all significant events and trends in the world as well as,
in Section III, intensive treatment of selected topics of
underlying or long-range significance.
The publication in its present form has been issued for only about six
months. At the end of the year I intend to conduct an intensive study
of its recipients end use and will eliminate or alter portions of it
in accordance with the findings of the survey.
Approved For Release 2000/08/03 : CIA-RDP62-01094R000100060007-5