(OBI contribution to Pres. FI Advisory board)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-05597A000300080063-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 1998
• Sequence Number: 63
• Publication Date: August 23, 1965
• Content Type: MEMO

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G. 3. National 1"elU&extc* Surveys
Authori#y. CIA respoasibility for the coordinatioa Of the MS., 1~rosram
and the production of allocated portions of the NIS are based op paragraph 1
of NSCID No. 3 sad USIB-D-51. 1/8.
ene ral Survey bseu fully a stabli shed
as the primary unit of P coverage. General Su rey FY 1965 production
S production
NIS Committee was approved b
1966 aa4 FY 1967 developed by the
sustains the increased emphasis on the %oneral Surveys and reflects
greater selectivity in the production of doted supplsmentsry units.
Further, the contents of the detailed units con dered essential for
support of the General Survey are being tailored ft
s. In this connection,
Subversion is being modified to satisfy more direc
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DeOrtrnent of
Defense counterinsurgency requirements.
In order to provide interim updating of statistical inforrnatio*. in
the General Survey, the NIS Basic Intelligence Factbook was developai
daring the year as a regular component of the Program, cot plea eating
the more analytical coverage in the General Survey. The Yactbook
provides essential basic data on about 155 countries or areas and is
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produced semi-annually by components of the tense Intelligence Age
and the Directorate of Intelligsace, CIA.
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-air pre s s the tics-is
format and
of appropriate detail,
adaptability, economy of pro*Aetfan re es, and responsiveness to
analyst*, time and effort
prodactios
MS publication*.
the
of intellijencr
awareness of Cad reliance on
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diffusion
satioa rma$t be given`" increasing
a r diverted
parallee.Is
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produced semi-annually by components of the Defense Intelligence Agency
and the Directorate of Intelligence- CIA..
With a view to streamlining and accelerating NMS production, the
MS Corrunittee has taken steps to improve the efficiency and effectiveness
of NIS procedures. Participating agencies are cooperating in all phases
of the roordiustio4 and review process in an effort to compress the time
lag between manuscript production and final publications. MS format and
outline guides are being critically *xamined in terms of appropriate detail,
adaptability. economy of production resources, and responsiveness to
user requirements.
Gaps and Deficiencies. Crisis situations with their high priority on
analysts' tere and effort understandably have an adverse effect on MIS
production and often frustrate attempts to improve the timeliness of
MS publications. However, analysts are frequently further diverted
frorn MS to departmental production that in many instances parallels
the MS. To lessen this undesirable, costly duplication and diffusion
of intelligence research efforts, attention must be given to increasing
awareness of and reliance on the MS as the established and authoritative
vehicle for national basic intelligence.
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Project EPIC, Implemented in May 1964, is designed to dove lop
a. c iputer-assisted system for the composition of the NIS text for
primxtiag. It is expected that by the end of FY 1966 the project will
be completed and full-scale printing of MIS assisted by the computer
will start. Studies indicate that a computer-assisted 1y.ters will
cut the printing costs by 1516 to ZO% and reduce composition time
by throe to five weeks.
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