ANTICIPATED INCREASE IN OSR'S REQUIREMENTS FOR SUPPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-01154A000100070002-1
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 26, 1998
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: May 19, 1970
• Content Type: MF

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May 1970
MEI'DRANDUM FOR: Director of Basic and Geographic
Intelligence
SUBJECT Anticipated Increase in OSR's
Requirements for Support
1. The Office of Strategic Research has been,
I am told, one of the most demanding of the com-
ponents served by the Current Intelligence Branch
of Cartography Division. Finished OSR Intelligence
Reports and Memorandums, current intelligence publi-
cations, and external briefings have all been well
illustrated with complex and rapidly changing maps,
charts, and other material. It is in the nature of
the subjects for which OSR is responsible that graphic
material makes an important contribution to the pre-
sentation of our work.
2. I have always been pleased with the quick
response, imaginative work, and high quality provided
by the Current Intelligence Branch and the other com-
ponents of Cartography Division upon which we so often
draw. We have placed heavy demands and they have been
met.
3. As I look ahead, I am keenly aware that our
needs for support will increase substantially in the
coming months if OSR is to continue to have the kind
of visual material in its publications which has made
such a contribution to the quality of the finished
product. The amount of research OSR is doing is in-
creasing. At the same time increasing demands for
ad hoc support are being levied on this office. And
OSR has new responsibilities in the preparation of
NIEs on military subjects. These NIEs will be in a new
format which will call for increased use of graphic
material.
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4. In short, we are probably going to need
more of the excellent support OBGI has provided
during the three years of OSR's existence. I
believe we should have our people come together
now to plan and thus to insure the best match
between OSR needs and OBGI resources in the future.
My special assistant, is prepared 25X1A9a
to meet with your representative at any time.
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BRUCE C. CLARKE, Jr.
Director
Strategic Research
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