GEOGRAPHIC ATTACHE PROGRAM (Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-01154A000100050009-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: January 27, 1971
• Content Type: MEMO

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JAN 271971
MEMORANDUM
To : Col. Lloyd L. Ball, Assistant Deputy Director, DIA,
for Mapping, Charting, and Geodesy
From : Arthur L. Burt, Coordinator for Maps and Publications,
4 Department of State
Subject: Geographic Attache Program (Map Procurement)
As you are well aware, the Inter-Agency Map Procurement Program has been
serving the governmental mapping and intelligence agencies since the end of
World War TI. This cooperative venture has been highly successful for all
concerned, and all participating agencies have s pu
ported the program with
materials for exchange, some funds, and assistance of personnel.
At the present time the Geographic Attache/Map Procurement Program, conducted
and financed by the Department of State, is staffed by eight officers. Four
of these men are based overseas (Bonn, Tehran, New Delhi, and Tokyo) and
four are based in Washington and cover four overseas areas (Latin America,
Western, Northern, and Eastern Europe).
The Office of Organization and Management, Department of State, is variously
reported as (a) planning to reduce the Departmental support to *100,000 and
one Geographic Attach$ (GA) position and three local positions (with costs
of these four positions to be defrayed by approximately $30,000 of the above
mentioned sum; the remainder, ca $70,000, could be used in the program as
required), and (b) planning to eliminate six GA positions at the end of
FY-1971, and the remaining two at the end of FY-1972, unless position and
financial support is provided by the agencies benefitting from the program.
On August 7, 1970, Mr. R. J. Smith, Deputy Director for Intelligence, CIA,
requested the National Intelligence Resources Board (1iIRE), to make an
evaluation of the Map Procurement Progrs. An Ad-Hoc Committee, established
by the HIRE, submitted the requested report to the MIRE on October 7, 1970.
In brief, that report pronounced the requirements valid, and recommended the
continuance of the program at its current strength. The report did not cover
the matter of position and financial support by other agencies since it was
not asked to report on that matter.
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Mir. Pay S. Cline, Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, is
convinced of the value of the program and is willing to try to maintain it
at its current strength. He faces, however, a determined effort on the part
of Mr. Thomas Stern, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Organization and Manage-
ment, to reduce Departmental support unless assistance is provided by end-
user agencies.
In order to support Mr. Cline's efforts to insure program maintenance, two
actions are proposed:
1. recommending of a slight re-arrangement of the overseas
and domestically based GA positions, and
2. undertaking of a preliminary investigation of position
and dollar support possibilities among end-user agencies.
The re-arrangement would be proposed as follows:
Overseas
Positions based
in Washington
1.
New Delhi
1.
Latin America.
2.
Nairobi
2.
Northern Europe
3.
Tehran
3.
Western Europe
b .
Tokyo
4.
Eastern Europe
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The re-arrangement has only two changes from the current structure: (a) the
establishment of the African position in Nairobi (Africa is currently covered
from Washington), and (b) the return of the Bonn position to initiate procure-
ment in Eastern Europe from a Washington base.
This plan places GAs overseas in posts covering four regions which are distant,
important to end users, and difficult to work through other than personal-
professional contacts as implemented by GAs. They are also the most expansive
to cover from Washington.
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While it is recognized that the DOD, as other organizations, has suffered
deep cuts in funds and positions, it is requested that you seek to determine
if two or three positions might be sponsored by the DOD.
Unless the participating agencies are able to assist the Department of State
in the near future, with respect to the Geographic Attache" program, it would
appear that we will receive severe cutbacks in our acquisition efforts, which
will have detrimental effects on mapping and intelligence programs throughout
the government.
It would be appreciated if you might give your attention to this problem on
a priority basis, for unless some solutions are found, the Department may be
"implementing cutbacks at the end of this Fiscal Year.
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