NECESSITY OF AVOIDING ANY COMPROMISE IN INTERAGENCY NEGOTIATIONS WHICH WOULD DIMINISH THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CIA'S CENTRAL REFERENCE SYSTEM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62-01094R000100070008-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2000
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: June 1, 1956
• Content Type: MF

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1 June 1956
,,,?t L,IGRANDDiJ i FOR: Assistant Director, Central Re4I.rence
FRR.'O'I % Deputy Director/Intelligence
SUB F. ",'T . Necessity of avoiding any compromise in interagency
negotiations which would diminish the effectiveness
of CIA's central reference system
RE:FT, ;A':ANCE a Report of the Inspector General's Survey of the
C 'rice of Central Reference
1. The referenced report includes the recommendation that:
The CIA representatives on the IAC Ad Hoe Committee on
Information processing beer firmly in mind the Director's
responsibility for insuring the coordination of intelligence
activities in the best national interests and, therefore, that
they; do not accede to the adoption of some up-proven system 'of
inter-Agency informtation processing which, as part of the prig
of acceptance, compromises in any way the ene efficient proven
central reference system now operated on a community basis; by
CIA."
2. I am entirely in agreeLsent with this recommendation and. with the
reasoning behind it. From time to time you will. be tempted In the interest
of budgetary or manpower savings to accept proposals from the other agencies
which might have the effect of eroding the effectiveness of our own refer-
ognce system. For example, it might well be argued that CIA should cease
coding of Air Force reports when the Air Force Is able to perform- this
iron: 4' r_ itself. Such a division of labor woulr' be desirable from an
economic point of view; but it would be little short of disastrous if it
leant in practice that Air Force information reports. came gradually to bb
ended in a. manner incompatible with the coding of CIA. information. reports.
Bear in mind, therefore, that the first responsibility- of CIA s
central reference system is to ensure that all avail ble intelligence and
iufornation Is coded by one system to meet the needs first, of CIA it-
s if , end second, of other agenci.ersA Kindly see that these ins;-ructions
a._-e merle known to our r. enresents.tf ves on the HI?' CoLiititi ee and -to such
ds ~ ,? r officers of co,(J! as shou.d be scare of them, 25X1A9a
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