CURRENT OBJECTIVES; BIOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67-00059A000100100039-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2000
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: April 23, 1948
• Content Type: MEMO

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TANDARD FORM NO. 64 F,f
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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO . 'exec. for Adm. and an.
FROM : Chief, Reference Center
SUBJECT: Current Objectives; Biographic Intelligence
DATE: 23 April 194.8
1. NSCID No. S, probably to be issued in the near future, will assign
to CIA primary responsibility among thy; IAC Agencies for biographic intelli-
gence concerning foreign scientists. Biographic Register does rot now have
available a sufficient number.of cleared personnel to maintain all current
operations while, in addition, making a concentrated effort to meet its new
responsibility. It therefore bedmmes necessary to reorient current operations
and to schedule the most efficient possible deployment of available manpower.
The following plan will be put into effect upon the issuance of the Directive:
25X1A 2. Current services to CIA analysts, and to outside agencies through
OCD, must be continued. (Chief of the Intelligence Section in
the Biographic Intelligence Register), and three of his five analysts will
remain on deck in the M-Building to service all requests.
3. The State Department Indexing Service will be discontinued, for
the time being, unless State is willing that it be continued by provision-
ally cleared personnel. All cleared personnel must be employed upon
classified work in the areas of primary responsibility.
4. Navy Department files will be dealt with first. Two of the five
25X1A intelligence analysts, probably will be
directed to report daily to Room 1 2-, avy Department ey will take
with them the analyst reports already prepared by CIA for foreign scien-
tists, together with an alphabetic index to them.They will then check
the analyst reports and index against Navy Department filed, adding new
information to the analyst reports as necessary and making up new reports
for scientists not in the CIA index.. They will stick to this job until
the Navy Department files on foreign scientists are completely exploited.
If the Davy Department offers, as it did a year ago, to lend segments of
its files to CIA then the two analysts will perform the same duties but
in the M-Building.
Air Force Files, now being developed, will be dealt with by
as may be necessary, and will extend all possible assistance to Air
Forces in the planning of their operation. Insofar as possible he will
ensure that tabulation and coding systems used at Wright Field are
identical with those used by CIA. He will also attempt to arrange
exchange of biographic data between CIA and Wright riihld in the form of
punched cards and abstracts.
6. War Department files will be approached only after the Navy files
have been exploited, as it is likel3 that Army cooperation will be less
(Acting Chief of the Register). He will maintain close
contact with the Air Force project, making such trips to Wright Field
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reluctant when CIA has more to offer from its own files.
7. State Department files will be dealt with last, as it is unlikely
that they contain records on foreign scientists who are not also recorded
in files of the other agencies. .
8. Reference Center will make every effort to obtain additional
cleared personnel for Biographic Intelligence Register.
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