DEVELOPMENT OF INTELLIGENCE ON USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP64-00658A000100380027-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 27
• Content Type: MEMO

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MT ENT Of IBT LLIGENCE ON USSR
by the Director of Central Intelligence with the Unani o
Concurrence of the Intelligence Advisory Board
urgent need to develop the highest possible quality
of intelligence on the USSR in the shortest po3aible time, By informal
agreement, a Planning Committee with representatives from ONI, ORI? A-2
and G-2 and a coordinator from C, I.0. has been formed,, and has drawn
up a plan to coordinate and improve the production of intelligence on
plan has been approved informally by all members of the
.B. and is now in operation.
The purpose of this directive is to formalize the temporary
agreement and permanently establish it as a project under the coordinaa
order to insure the production of the highest possible quality
ropriate resources of all agencies of the United States Govern-
of the C.I.G, The mission of the project is to develop and pool
of intelligence on the USSR and its peripheral areas in the minimum
A Planning Committee is established to devise ways and means
for carrying out the mission. This Committee will consist 0
ordinator, furnieshed by C.I.G., and of representatives of MIS, ONTj ORI,
and A-2. The coordinator will. act in a supervisory capacity. The
Planning Committee will select a chairman and a secretary from among
esentatives. The chairman of the Committee will consult the
coordinator whenever necessary to secure assistance of the Central
Intelligence Group on problems confronting the Committee.
the coordinator will most with the Committee.
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A Working Committee is established to carry out the
policies and plans prepared by the Planning Comittee. It will be
composed of one member from G..I. G.,, who will act as coordinator,
and necessary personnel from ONI, ORI,, MIS,, and A-2. The secretary
of the Planning Committee will be the chairman of the Workin
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The coordinator will act in a supervisory capacity.
chairman of the Commi
consult the coordinator whenever
necessary to secure assistance of the Central Intelligence Group on
problems confronting the Committee. When appropriate, the coordinator
will meet with the Committee.
b. The Working Committee will establish and coordinate a
system to compile a digest of all types of factual strategic intelli-
genes on the-USSR. This digest shall be known as Strategic Intelli-
gence Digest (SID). Facilities of the member agencies will be
utilized to the maximum extent, The Committee will establish its
own methods of operation.
Copies of SID will be distributed to member agencies
egic Intelligence Estimates (SIB), based on the SID#
will be prepared by member agencies individually and furnished to
the C.I.G. when requested. Estimates prepared by C.I.G. will be
based on the M.
d. will provide office space and other necessary
as for the Worki.ng Committee in the Pentagon Building,
sh member of the Intelligence Advisory Board will furnish
his representative on the Planning Committee to the
Director of C.I.0. These representatives will be responsible for
furnishing the lists of personnel authorized to work in or help the
Working Committee.
6. ,.. The classitiOation of this project shall be TOP SECS.
The greatest care will be taken to maintain the security of the
eidatence of the operation.
b. Access to Goverment agencies other than those partici-
pating in the project will. be arranged by C.I.G. Representation on
the Working Committee from additional Government agencies will be
approved first by the Planning Committee.
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