EXTRAORDINARY RECOGNITION FOR SYSTEMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100100118-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 27, 2000
• Sequence Number: 118
• Publication Date: July 1, 1965
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

SYSTEMS
Approved For Release 2000/08/03.: CIA-RDP75-00001 R000
The Magazine of Paperwork Control
JULY 1965
mayor of tomorrow may well be a person whose value lies
in his ability to effectively marshall the resources of the
The science of Systems received extraordinary recognition,
recently when one of its most spectacular practitioners was
named to the vital job of Director of the United States Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency.
William F. Raborn, CIA's new chief, is the administra-
tive genius credited with developing the Polaris missile
three years ahead of schedule through use of the then ob-
scure Program Evaluation Review Technique. With PERT::,`
as his guide, - Raborn set precise timetables for each phase
of the enormously complicated program, assuring that
everything would mesh without time-wasting gaps or over-
laps in the schedule. He literally papered the walls of his'
office with flow charts indicating the progress of every
;major phase of the Polaris program.
'Romantics like to think of the CIA in terms of James
Bond-type characters, when in reality, its most serious con-::
tern is the processing of data. The agency receives an aver-
age of 2,000 reports a day from all over the world. These
must be, distilled into an accurate five-page estimate of
enemy capabilities and intentions for daily review by Presi-
dent Johnson. In addition, the CIA maintains a card-file in
dex of over 50 million documents.. So the importance of
data processing know-how to its operations is evident.
Municipal as well as federal government activities are
fertile fields for data processing. The explosive growth of
American cities has presented their administrators with ex-
traordinarily complex paperwork problems that can only be
met by either straining the public payrolls to the hr'eaking
point, or by turning to modern data processing procedures.
Data processing has already demonstrated its ability to
handle traffic control, short and long-range economic plan-
ning and the information problems of land use and public.
health.
Just as the new chief of the CIA is a Systems man, the
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