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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-01147A000100070026-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 20, 2001
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: June 30, 1946
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. To establish a pros
done by the Board on Geographical
Intelligence Studies (J IS).
2.
the name editing
Discue an nc . 1+ e
3. individual contributing agencies to J I co= ld not achieve the
same quality of place name c
at a caarable over-?al., cost.
4. Place name checking by individual a enclO we uLd not achieve the
singleness of reference obtained by the centea :..iz tion of reeponsibl .ty in
one office such as BON*
5. The gazetteer should be compiled by the ge y responsible for
that JISP.8 continue to u
BGN for place asses
7. That the cost of this service be borne, on a pro rata basis by the five
agencies represented on the SISP'B
IN GLASS.
T5 a C
REWIEVIER.
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8.
g flo ardt
;cited the final manuscript
place names
work
accuracy of place naa;
JAN1:
pared a gazetteer lied rag all, glace names inc
in the JAMS together with variant name and ,eo ;rsphic
coordinates for each place.
9. This service to the JAII3 pro ran has been financed by the Office
of WUeeera out of map reauerch ends of Army- Map Service.
10, The cost of this work, since the beginning- of the JA S program
A
per JANIS study,
a informed the JISPB on 17 January 1947
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that no provision was lade in t: e,,A' budget for BOX service to JAM.
12. The question of financial support for BON service to JA IS was
submitted informally to the Central Intelligence Group (010) to ascertain
whether CIG could assume the financial cost of this service. On 26 June
19470 CIO replied that it did not believe this a proper function for
but that an interim aarra ;ent might be worked out to keep the
function operative until a permanent arrangement could be worked out.
13. The Director of JIS has informally requested each member of J IS PB
his agency to ascertain whether a prQL ratae basis of
e for this BON function could be established within the agencies
represented an J
on the Parob .e
be
telligence
-ng
erlay for the JANE blue
Performed place-name research for contributors to JAM}
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"A" continued) ZA,
,. On basis of six (6) JANIS per year the coot of D
JISP3 for the fiscal year l94 wo 1d be x,000 or $9,
of the followings State, I.D. W$ 4WI, AC/As-2, 0.C.9.
15. The BON carries on a highly specialised operation wi
scientific and clerical personnel
tplicated elsewhere in or out of the i'ede
,kee mandatory the deposition of responsiblity
possible. Inique geographic
,d over a period of years in one technical field make low coats
cal. n
soh
is not
rent. Mass methods
a, library and systems
just such purposes as emmplified by JAS editing,
agency to eat its own names It would in effect need a duplicate
of the organization of the BON.
16, : The groat variety of source materials used in joint intelligence
compilation su
in a single agency which can make certain the consistency of usage so
vital in the work. Xamea used by one a >ency for a feature or place would
in many uses not be recognizable so the same name applied by another
Not only is there inner c nsistency within a study but there 3s
06, map? and other editing
by the G or according to its procedures and policies.
1?.. The present system of editing makes c,
e identification
and inclusion in the gazetteer of every feature named in the study
. No other method wad achieve this result,
checking dove
ea useful to an agencies of the unite! States
benefits from work done by 8iN for other
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