FOIA
Employee Suggestion No. 2468
Document Type:
Collection:
Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
CIA-RDP78-05597A000200050047-9
Release Decision:
RIPPUB
Original Classification:
S
Document Page Count:
1
Document Creation Date:
November 9, 2016
Document Release Date:
August 3, 1998
Sequence Number:
47
Case Number:
Publication Date:
September 19, 1956
Content Type:
MF
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Body:
Approved For Release 1999/09/20: 8-05597A000200050047-9
19 September 1956
MEMORANDUM FOR: Assistant to DD/i (Admin)
FROM: Deputy Assistant Director for Basic Intelligence
SUBJECT: Employee Suggestion No. 2468
1. OBI agrees that some means should be provided for users of
intelligence documents to locate with a minimum of effort the places and
features discussed in these documents.
2. In the NIS Program an NIS Gazetteer is issued as a standard
component of the National Intelligence Survey on each NIS area. These
gazetteers list official standard names approved by the United States
Board on Geographic Names (BGN), and the geographic coordinates
are given for each place or feature listed. All variants of official
standard names are also listed for reference purposes. These gazetteers
are distributed to all users of the NIS, which provides a ready means for
locating the places and features treated in the text and graphics of the NIS.
3. However, when the location of a place or feature is of special
significance the geographic coordinates are included in the text and
graphics of the NIS elements as well. This is common practice in
Section 24 (Topography), and Section 25 (Urban Areas). In the latter
the geographic coordinates are included for each Urban Area discussed
in this section. In NIS Chapter I (Brief) place names and their geographic
coordinates are listed on the apron of the map for the area.
4. It is felt, therefore, that subject suggestion is, essentially,
now being practiced in the NIS Program.
Distribution:
Orig. and 1 - Addressee
1 - OBI (Improvement Prog.)
1 - chrono
25X1A9a
Approved For Release 1999/09/20 : CIA-RDP78-05597A000200050047-9
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