BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ON FOREIGN SCIENTIFIC PERSONALITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67-00059A000100100062-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2000
• Sequence Number: 62
• Publication Date: January 23, 1948
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO : Chief, I.C.A.P.S.
FROM : Chief, Reference Center, A & M
DATE: 23 January 191+8
SUBJECT: Biographic Information on Foreign Scientific Personalities
1. Current corking arrangements between the several I.I.C. agencies
provide for the following division of primary responsibility in the handling of
biographic information on foreign personalities:
2. These arrangements have proved advantageous to all concerned. Much
duplication of effort has been avoided, and it is believed that the current flow
of information on personalities of these categories is being srti sfactorily handled.
3. It seems desirable that the principle should now be carried. a step
further, in order to cut down the overlap in responsibility which still embraces
all categories of personalities save those mentioned in paragraph (1) above.
took longer than it should have becv+.use it required personnel of this office-to-do
much of their work in the offices of other agencies. In the course of their work
they discovered., as might have been anticipated, that there is extensive duplica-
tion of effort and file-keeping. Jackets and dossiers concerning the same indi-
vidual scientists often were found in several different offices.
5. It is proposed .at the kiograph~ Intelligence Register, Reference
Center, A & M, C.I.A., henceforth be assigned primary responsibility-for the main-
ten?ance of biographic data on foreign scientific personalities. Contemplated pro-
a. The analysts of each agency would henceforth be
absolved of responsibility for biographic data on foreign
scientific personalities received by them from other agencies.
(O.N.I. analysts would cease analyzing such data. when received
by them on War Department or State Department forms.)
b. The analysts of each agency would continue, as they are
now doing, to abstract biographic da.t?,. on foreign scientific
personalities when received by them from their own agency's
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is believed that a.ppropriate instructions should be issued within each agency to
the analyst personnel concerned.
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c. Copies of all abstracts would be transmitted to the
Biographical Intelligence R.egi;ster, Reference Center, C.I.L.
d. The Register would codify and index, by machine methods,
all such data received; and would incorporate the actual abstracts
6. It is requested. that the foregoing proposal be placed before the
7. Accepta=nce and implementation of this proposal will not altogether
eliminate overlaps and duplication of effort in the field of biographic intelli-
gence. Economists and industrialists immediately spring to mind as categories
of personalities still being analyzed, to greater or less degree, by all agencies.
In the not too di.-5tant future we may be able to work out a system for dealing with
them but, for the moment, it is believed we will do well to concentrate our atten-
tion on the scientific personalities and get them cleared up and. systematized.
Chief, Reference Center
Distribution by
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9 Exec-Dir., A & M
10 B.I.F., Ref. Ctr.
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