Input for Post-Audit of Finished CIA Intelligence *

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78Z02997A000100230008-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 10, 1999
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: October 31, 1974
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECRET 1 October 1974
Input for Post-Audit of Finished CIA Intelligence
From: NIO/USSR-EE
CIWR: Although high-level consumers are said periodically to rediscover"
the Weekly, it seems to serve them as a rapid scan.. mental
checklist rather than an analytic stimulus. Working level
consumers rarely really read the Weekly; `occasionally they
may scan the piece on an active area they haven't had a chance.
to follow during the week.
OCI Staff Notes/ Soviet East European Developments: This is widely.
considered the most useful regular pub by working level experts:
around the community, and we have heard that on occasion its
pieces are gisted or serve as background for higher level policy
consumers.
However, we have also heard that consumers are disapparinte`d
at the widely varied quality of daily books. In part this is the
natural function of NKI. there being more to analyze on
some days than others. In part, however, it seems to reflect
lack of time,after quick-response reportorial writing demands,
for the minimal research and considerable thought and analysis
required for the "chewy" pieces consumers prefer.
AP-eriodic Publications January -June 1974:
A highly sensitive, limited distribution OPR paper (long and highly analytic'.
got rave reviews all the way up its limited readership, including
Kissinger.
The NSC Staff was very complimentary about tailored remarks on Ponomarev
done by OCI for a May 1974 meeting of'Ponomarev with President Nixon.
(OCI/IM 2 May 1974 "Significance of the Ponomarev Delegation Visit"`)
An OER series of questions and answers on Technology Transfer to the USSR,
tailored to the requirements of Armitage and Kovner at State, was
'very useful to EUR/SOV there and well received by policy users also
at Treasury and elsewhere. (OER/IM 13 May 1974, "The Impact of
Technology 1rans#er on the USSR.")
Note: No special survey of consumers was undertaken for specific purposes of
this post-eyidit. We collect and ask for response as we go along.. In
general, consumers feel that increased telephone and face to face dialogue
would improve the focus of CIA publications for policy users.
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