(C) CURRENT INTELLIGENCE REPORTING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP72-00450R000100100029-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 14, 2000
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: January 13, 1957
• Content Type: MEMO

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(C) Current intelligence Reporting
This category of publications consists of
highly classified material which for the most part
is puilished by the Special Printing Plant of TSD
located on the seventh floor. Twenty-four persons
are assigned to this plant providing highly classi-
fied printing support twenty-four hours a day,
seven days a week.
The primary function of the Special Print-
ing plant is support to OCI, and publications
include the Central Intelligence Bulletin which
appears in three versions six days a week; the Weekly
Summary and Weekly Review with supporting special
reports; the weekly Watch Report; the President's
Daily Brief; the daily Overnight Journal; daily
Area Highlights; and numerous ad hoc intelligence
reports, memoranda, and handbooks. Reports of
frequent periodicity reflecting crisis situations
throughout the world are also printed in this plant.
In addition, the plant prints the 5-day a week
Surveyor, the weekly Surveyor, and the monthly
Scientific Intelligence Digest for OSI; minutes of
USIB meetings; monthly COMOR Status maps for the
DD/S&T; Missile and Space Event Reports for FMSAC;
and memoranda and reports for OER and OSR.
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costliest items were the Current Intelligence
Digest and the Central Intelligence Bulletin, both
printed six days a week in a volume of 980 and 500
copies respectively. In April 1968, a new "three-
tiered" Central Intelligence Bulletin superseded
the Current Intelligence Digest and the Central
Intelligence Digest. This new publication is
issued six days a week and appears in three versions--
white (980 copies), red (500 copies) and black (100
copies). The cost of printing the new bulletin is
estimated at $120,000 and it requires the services
of eight persons--one third of the manpower of the
Special Printing Plant.
(D) NIS Production
The National Intelligence Survey (NIS) is
the single costliest item of production by PSD,
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bound volumes in the plain Plant on special equipment
at a frequency of 193 volumes per year and is dis-
tributed in 500 copies. Total graphic support to
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NIS production averages 6,000 graphics per year
printed in an average of two colors.
In FY 1967, PSD initiated a program of
computerized phototypesetting called EPIC (elec-
tronic processing of intelligence composition).
The NIS was selected as the first publication to'be
typeset under the new system. When EPIC is fully
implemented, savings in composition throughput
time and manpower are envisaged; however, program-
ming and debugging problems, acquisition of auxiliary
equipment and the training of contributors in the
keyboarding of punchedpaper tapes have caused delays.
During the period 1 January through 29 April 1968,
36% of NIS textual material received by PSD was
scheduled for production through the EPIC system.*
Throughput time for NIS material in PSD has
been high; in September 1967 it amounted to 125 days.
Since September, there has been a steady reduction .
of throughput time and in April 1968 it was 59 days.
When EPIC is fully operational, it is expected to
reach OBGI's requested time--between 30 and 45 days.
No increase in NIS production is forecast
through FY 1970, the number of volumes of NIS material
printed remaining at 193 per year.
*A description of the EPIC system is included in the
section on automation and in Appendix
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II. DD/P
In FY 67, the DD/P counted for some 15?,0 of total
total number of impressions (17 million).
The two largest recurring printing requirements
are the CS Information Reports series and the Press
Comments. Both are printed in the General Printing
Plant of PSD located on the ground floor of headquarters.
The CS series are printed on multilith and totaled
some 4.7 million impressions at an estimated cost of
This excludes the Intelligence Information
Cables (TDCS series) which are also printed on multilith
by the Cable Secretariat on its own equipment.
Press Digests are printed on multilith and offset
presses four times a week and totaled almost 512 million
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No increase in either of the above categories of
DD/P printing is forecast for FY 70 or in any other typos
of recurring printing requirements. Non-recurring
photographic requirements--prints, viewgraphs, slides
and the processing and reproducing of still and movie
film both black and white and color--are expected to
remain constant as well. The largest single item in
this category is prints which totaled 379,000 in FY 68
and is expected to drop to 350,000 in FY 70.