OFFICE OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70S00385R000100190002-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 18, 2000
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OFFICE OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
USSR/Eastern
Europe Division
International
Services Division
USSR
China/North Korea
Africa
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Eastern Europe
Industries
Near East
Trade and Aid
Industries
Resources
Western Euro
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Communications
Resources
Western Hemi
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Construction
Services
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L Agriculture and
Population
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Alternative Proposals for O
1. Ad Yttion 1 Deputies for the Dir+eatort EDP
Proposal Establish an or sore additional Depctty Directors.
Disctessii1n: Under this p sal the support formerly provided
to the Director in the plaming, ooatrol, and review of research
by the Chief of the Zeonoaic Reaeare Area would be &tetributed
among two or more Deputy Directors. ' a vo J d reds the span
of control a:' the Director and would provide for savior level
supervision : wd review of the jrodwtion of iateuligence . '1'3ee
existing div:Csion and branch struet d rein as they are at
the present 1,ime.
Pro:
1. Narrows the Director's span of
control.
2. Provides for improved GNPWVi*,
and substantive review.
3. Holds to a minima the number
of supervisory echelons and
support ; personnel.
Can:
1. Retlls to relieve the
overload on the Chief of
the Trade and Services
Division, resulting frost
heavy responsibilities for
providing intelligence
support on: the Vietnam
ear; trade eantrols;
Co - ist econcm is activities
in the less developed countries;
International shipping; co t-
municatious and construction.
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2. Perpetuates the patchwork
character of intelligence
support related to the war
In Vietn * and other crisis
dew erlc -ts in the Indo-
chia area generally.
3. Does not take account of
the Increasing need of 4
custalers for research and
at4 rt with a geographic
ortentaticm and fails to
meet %he need to integrate
sore closely geographic and
fimeticaaal components .
4. its the need to relate
OER divisional and branch
structure mom closely to
the yweral geographic
pattern of ONE, OCI, DDP,
and the department of State.
5. No side deluty would be
faulliar with time activities
of the Office across the
board -- a situation which
would, provide some difficulty
when the deputy is running the
Office to the absence of the
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2. it the Trade and Sex'v osa Division in Ti
Proposal; Two new divisions vauld be created in place of the
existing Trade si4 Services Division.
Discussi?a : Jon ,ochina Ivisicn would be estabUshed to
concentrate cc the priority cartcern with that part of V w world and
to integrate the functional. sad geographic work for that area. A
Services Division would be set vp to cover international traft and
finsnce (Inebadiag C?m mist economic activities in the less developed
countries).. international shi g, and eamm aications. This Division
would also +m me the responslbt3i ty for trade acmtrol frt. Certain
additicrua a44uetments vauld be mater involving other Divisions of the
Office. The most significant of these would be the transfer of the
Indochina Hrarnch from the Free World Division to the proposed IA=him a
Division.
1. Believes the excessive b 1. Widens the Director's span
can the thief of the Trade and
Services Division.
2. Ccnnsolid1Ltes research and import
of 4M U01.
2. Further weds direction
and reviev above the
on the V1etnran war and can the Divtalc n leve
related crisis area of orekine- 3. fila to integrate geogr* is
into one division. and fwictional convocmnts
3. > oves 1 to for trade except in the case of
control nupport, streng 4mmilag Indochina.
the own dement of other Brmehes k. Fails to relate the
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gray' in the Trade MA
Services Division.
4. zo1ds ez ervisory echeei s to
a m4niimaj.
raespoaczsib.ities for cm's
Divisiaazs and Branches awe
closely to ONE, OCI, MP,
and State.
3. StrwUM the 00 LDxMM&ttm the Lines of the NMEje!q
8fteRRE4i Regroup the four 0* Divisions and 93 branches into
etc research areas in a sattem cor:respondIn to the areadsatianal
structure in the Department or itaast.
Dis n: 2n can iderstian of the fact that the Department of
State is the largest single Coarmr of the OAS yra&wt outside the
Agency and txe fact that 0*, 9CI, and the DDP have patterned their
organizations samrAaat the lines of the ?eo hic compvrsents in
State, we coz sidered the possibility of an organization roughly
correapondiu ; to the State's five geographic lereaus s African
Affairs, Mater-American Affairs, Rest Asian and Pasific Affairs,
European Affairs, and. Now ftatezu ezdd South Asian Affairs. It
soon became apparent, ho +er,, that no standard gait: organiza-
tirmal pattern exists aazmg the Age dents d and the
Department of State. Mom eti*d ftoat, the pattern of workload and
priorities vb,ich influences the Depart of State** organization,with wall
,~ja as tkatt of the CIA o zaticns referred to, is not consistent
pith that Of 0*.
Thom&t 'as given to a man Area to be divided Into an
/oa3ysis Division with Seegrqjbic breeches, and a Resources and
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Se rvices p#vieidn which vouX ratan ele ents of the present
felseeti na1 brace in tit. A second Area was designated as the
Zest Asia/Pacific Area with a e Division, an Indochina/ rient
Division, and a Special Projects Divisian to cc pe with the Vietnam
waxy. Two aMitioa areas ex e sWed to provide for Latin, Puserica
and Africa.
Prot
1. kings ftnatims, Components
into a c]ossr r.iettoushlp
with gsoe is waits.
2. Xatches the org itsation XWO
closely tth Other c is
of CIA and with State, %bereW
facilitating a reration sat.
3. Provides more supervises and
review Wove the Division level.
4. Reduces the sever-burden tae the
Chief of the trade and 9nvices
Division and t atretinesae the
intelligence effort on the
Coal
1. tails to properly relate
the orpoisational
strva ettoo 's pattern,
of priorities.
2. moles excessive over-
head at the Area l vel.
Fails to integrate
flaeaati tane~ and geographic
COMPOVAMtS-
4. fishes no #ustse nt in
the Director' s span of
CCQtral.
Separates the intelligence
effort on the Vietne war
fro& related work on
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Lk~e the Office into ftffn~je Am" ftWMM, to
tnctie l Divisions
EE2p2s?1: Qnmp O' a a ;,refp tive fuglatiolka ad research
dents Ix to a minimal number of geographic research areas
retaining furctioa al divisicros.
uMicgs: Several vwex as of this proposal tmree considered.
'fie an presented below pry for seven research divisions organized
Into two research are". A dirt Saesearckt Ans, vwAld include a
t y/B8 Divi* ton, a Chins Division, end a to a end Services
Division which old serve the Wages cots of the areas,
but would not, be Integrated Vitt tom. An Xnteraett . Area would
include an Ac,ia,/Africa/Near Xwt Division, a W" Division, a trade
and Services Div iaiaa serving Vow two geographic t*, and
a Special Prtr jects for mdachina Diviatc which might either incor-
parate all we irk in support of the Vietnam war, 3' ctional. and
geographic., c r which might 1,n ss all of Indoahina.
1. Reduces U* Director's spat 1. Providtr* Only partial
of crar trul.. integration of f'smcticmal
2. Provides for better supervisl an and geographic elements.
and revs ? v of the Divlasims. 2. Sesu1t s in an uneven
3. Reduces A he overload c the Chief balsam In persoaael
of the T ade ad Services Divisioa. the seven divisions.
k. Brings tke functions Intalll- 3. Provides for an ursaecessartly
gence activities in clasmr Large nor of divisions
alight, with the
tents.
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geogra a;i.c or atiocal
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6. i iatain the unity of tie
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