JUSTIFICATION OF SUPPLEMENTAL ESTIMATES FOR FISCAL YEAR 1952 DEPARTMENTAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00662R000300010035-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 12, 2002
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: March 30, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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Justification of Supplemental Estimates for Fiscal Year 1952
Research and Reports
Departmental
25X1A
The designation of the Office of Reports and Estimates was changed to the Office of Research and Reports
ated 13 November 1950.
The Office of Research and Reports carries forward two functions formerly the responsibility of the
Office of Reports and Estimates. These are the coordinating and publishing responsibility for the
National Intelligence Survey series and the coordinating, producing, and servicing of geographic intelli-
gence as a service of common concern. Both of these functions require only relatively minor increases
in personnel to enable them to carry on their responsibilities. The workload of these two operations
within ORR is governed by the decisions and requirements of other CIA offices and other agencies of the
government, and has been steadily increasing.
Due to the reorganization and change in designation of the Office of Reports and Estimates many of its
former functions have been transferred to other offices within CIA and to the Department of State, namely
the following: To the Office of Current Intelligence all functions connected with the production of the
daily and weekly summary of current intelligence; the operation and maintenance of the CIA situation room
and the responsibility for the oral and visual presentation of intelligence; and the maintenance of Agency
Continuous Duty Officer watch.
To the Office of National Estimates functions of the former Global Survey Group connected with the pro-
duction, review and maintenance of appraisal of relative strategic significance of each foreign area to
the United States; preparation of world-wide Situation Reports to appraise and interpret the global
effects of specific foreign situations in their relation to the United States national security and
strategic interests.
Functions transferred to the Department of State include Political research to meet the requests of the
National Security Council, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other departments and agencies; intelligence
research for psychological warfare; intelligence research on International Organizations, particularly
the United Nations; intelligence research on World Communism; intelligence research in the political,
cultural and sociological fields for the internal needs of CIA.
30 March 1951 S E C R E T
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