MAP PROCUREMENT REQUIREMENTS

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 12, 2001
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• Publication Date: August 6, 1970
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR:
THROUGH
FROM
Procurement Requirements
AUG 1970
Assistant Deputy Director for Intelligence
Director of Basic and Geographic intelligence
Chief, Map Library Division, OBGI
1. During FY--1969 the Interagency Map Procurement Program
acquired 79,743 map sheets from the various countries around
the woVld. This represents procurement activity by Geographic
Attaches, receipts from exchange arrangements?(Att. I), and
procurement by special request to Embassies and other posts.
This total reflects the requirements of the participating
agencies. These requirements are revised every six months.
The latest revision, April 1970, is enclosed as Attachment II
to this memo.
2. In response to the Summary of Requirements prepared by
the Interagency Map and Publications Acquisitions Committee
(IMPAC), approximately 53% (42,510 sheets) of the sheets acquired
were transmitted to the U. S. Topographic Command, the Geography
and Map Division of the Library of Congress, the Aeronautical
Chart and Information Service, the Oceanographic Office, the
National Security Agency, the. U. S. Geological Survey, and others.
The remaining 47% (37,233 sheets) of total map acquisitions were
retained in the Map Library Division of CIA.
3. Of the 37,233 sheets retained in the Map Library Division,
CIA, approximately 10,000 sheets are multiple copies of several
score titles ordered from Great Britain, France, U.S.S.R.,
Germany, and a few other countries. Theme sheets are specifically
ordered, by Procurement Request, at the direction of the Reference
Branch, in order t a? they may meet requests for those sheets.
This means that approximately 27,000 sheets were obtained in
FY-1969, for inclusion in the collections of the Map Library.
See Attachment 11.1, for samples of specific Procurement Requests.
4. The total of 27,000 sheets should be modified by one
other factor, and that in the placing of new titles in the
Repository Collection. In FY-1969, a total of 1,064 sheets
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were placed In that collection, and this amount would thus
decrease the total input to the Map Library Collections to
25,93
5. During the past four years the Map Library has
destroyed an average of 19,124 map sheets per year. These
are older maps, out-dated soaps, earlier editions, and other
maps no longer of intelligence interest. Modified by this
destruction figure, the net intake to the Map Library Collec-
tion in the past year was 6,812.
6. A review of the Statistical Ree .art Fiscal year 1969
and Statistical Summary of Maps an ca onss cqu re.
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qu s 'on, country by country, around a world,
a conducted on a logical basis, from the point of
of quantity. A total of 142 countries provide the maps
the various participating agencies. The countries of
western Europe provide greater quantities than many other
countries of the world, as would be expected. They not only
provide copies which we use for distribution purposes, but
they provide maps which they have made of other parts of the
world. Other receipts, ranging from a few maps to a few
hundred, seem to reflect the productive capacity of the coun-
tries involved. See Attachment IV.
For example, in FY-1969, the Map Library received 482 maps
from Sweden. Of this total 103 new special subject map titles
were included (in 2 copies each for a total of 206 sheets) and
145 new series titles were received (in 2 copies each for a
total of 290 sheets). Theoretically, we should have received
490 sheets; actually we received 462. Obviously, some sheets
were received in only one copy. Attachment V includes a sample
Swedish 1:50,000 topographic map. This in an excellent map
series, which includes a considerable amount of physical and
cultural information. There are 696 sheets in this series.
The Map Library does and should hold this entire series. It
receives new sheets on exchange, as they are issued, and new
editions as they are prepared. This example is typical of
ny countries around the world.
7. With respect to quality and use of maps, the Map Library
Division has in preparation a Map Library Procurement Policy
Guide which formalizes existing policy. Contributions have
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been made to this by all key officers in the Division. Analys
of map use shows the following:
d map
Topography, city plans, politics
Physical, roads.
Agriculture, air, general, industry,
inland waterways, land use, military,
minerals, ocean waterways, oil, peoples,
ethnology, linguistics, power, rail-
roads, resources, fishing, telecommuni-
cations, transportation, vegetation,
water supply.
Least use: Base, climate, health, history,
religion, trade.
Awareness of these use patterns facilitates the direction o
procurement policy, statement of priorities, and concentration
of procurement man-hours.
Every effort is made to maintain the quality element in procured
maps. The new Guide contains a section on Map Rejection, and
details Information on maps which should be rejected. These
include simple orientation maps, pictorial maps, cartograams:
simple outline maps on which statistical information in portrayed
by charts, graphs, etc.), and raps presenting subject matter o
no Intelligence-interest, ephemeral maps.
The Map Library Division believes that the interagency
Map Procurement Program ban functioned in a highly satisfactory
manner for some 23 years. It has the full support of al
military, Intelligence and civilian map producing or consuming
agencies in the U. S. government. Contributions of money,
materials, man-hours and moral support are made by all agencies.
Each agency up-dates its requirements for maps and related
materials every six months. The total quantities of maps
received (79,742 in YY-1969) are in accord with the requirements
of the consumer agencies. The absence of complaints sees to
indicate that each aenc is receiving useful materials, s, of good
quality. All participating agencies, and their Directors, at the
gbest levels, have risen to support the program many times in
the past, when economy measures have threatened funds or Geographic
Attache positions, In brief, the Program seems to be satisfying
its customers
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