ED/BGI ACTIVITY REPORT FOR SEPTEMBER 1967

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: October 4, 1967
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Basic and Geographic Intelligence
FROM: Chief, Editorial Division
SUBJECT: ED/BGI Activity Report for September 1967
A. Processing and Support Activity
1. ED received 32 manuscript submissions from USIB and
non-USIB contributors during the month. Detailed breakdown by
contributing agency is shown in the Appendix.
2. General Surveys on Iraq, Congo (Kinshasa), and
Hong Kong and Macao were processed for publication in September.
Areal coverage of the supplementary topical sections processed
included nine on Latin America, five on the Far East, four on
western Europe, three on eastern Europe, and two each on the Middle
East and Africa.
3. Highlighting the supplementary NIS processed were initial
coverage and revisions of the following topics and areas shown with
dates of previous coverage:
Northeast China
Coasts and Landing Beaches
March 1951
Communist China
Ports and Naval Facilities
June 1958
Nigeria
Manpower
January 1958
North Korea
Electric Power
April 1965
4. ED personnel held 33 conferences with NIS contributors
to resolve substantive queries which arose during editorial
processing.
25X1A9a 5. lectured to the attaches at the Defense
Intelligence School 13 September on the production of National
Intelligence Surveys.
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B. Planning and Development
1. To increase the utility of the NIS, the NIS Committee
has approved procedures whereby classification/control designations
will be applied individually to specific subsections within
each element of the NIS. The new procedures will serve to
indicate the level of protection required for each major internal
component and to identify those portions that are unclassified.
2. The treatment of sub-Saharan tribal names to be used 25X1A9a
in NIS was discussed at a meeting at the Ragazine Building on
7 September. Present for the discussion were Mr. William Berry, 25X1A9a
Department of State; Mr. Robert Parkinson Bureau of the Census;
25X1A9a
and the following member
GD, and
of ED. 25X1A9a
CD,
3. Responsibility for processing Section 45 (Health and
Sanitation), has been transferred from the Socioeconomic Branch
to Military Branch. Health and Sanitation sections are to be
produced entirely by DIA henceforth.
C. Problems
The three General Surveys forwarded in September were all
quite late, two because of greatly delayed submissions, the
third because of field delay in commenting. The later was Hong
Kong and Macao, on which the consulate in Hong Kong asked for an
additional 2 month's time to determine the background to and
results of the violence in the colony. A very late Section 5
held up Iraq for several months, but in so doing it permitted the
insertion of preliminary reporting on the effects of the
Arab-Israeli war in June. Congo (Kinshasa) had problems that
the
involved late submission, a delay on the Summary map proof
printer because of his move to Langley, and the need to update
some of the material because of events that had taken place in
the country.
D. Miscellaneous
was detached during the month
ED/S
25X1A9
,
a 1.
to assume his new duties as Special Assistant to the Director/OBGI.
had been serving as General Survey coordinator for
Europe and the Soviet Bloc and alternate branch chief.
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2. The debriefing of the U.S. Ambassador from Kenya was
participated in by
25X1A9a also attended the meetings of t e
Middle East Institute at Georgetown University, September 29
and 30; he reported them to be of particular interest. An
African Luncheon Group meeting, attended by a large number of
parliamentary delegates from the newly independent African
countries to hear an address from representatives of the African
American Institute, was attended by 25X1A9a
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E. Appendix
1. The submission of 32 manuscripts during the month brought
to 94 total submissions for FY 68. This represents an increase
in production for the first-quarter of the fiscal year over
previous years during the same period. Included in the 94 total
were 64 contributions to the General Survey.
The fulfillment of numerical production requirements
for September 1967, by agency, is as follows:
September Production
FY 68 to date
Units Units
Scheduled Delivered
Units Units I
Scheduled Delivered
DIA
Navy
Agriculture
0
0
0
1
( 1)
Census-Combs
1
0
1
0
Census-Parkinson
3
0
3
3
( 2)
BDSA
0
0
1
1
BIC
1
0
1
0
Interior
0
1
0
1
( 1)
Labor
0
0
0
1
( 1)
OER
3
3
8
9
( 1)
DD/P
1
0
1
0
OSI-Sc
0
1
2
2
( 1)
OSI-45
0
1
1
2
( 1)
OCI
9
7
24
300
((3)
Total
34
32
87
94
(11)*
Figures in parens represent FY 67 cumulative carryover.
Not included in the preceding production tabulation, but
received for review and processing by ED during September were four
classified supplements on the meteorological organization and facilitieE
portion of weather and climate data produced by DIA. Population
and manpower inputs to Section 4 of General Survey continue to be
received from the Bureau of the Census and the Department of
Labor on a timely basis.
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2. NIS processed during September 1967 and forwarded to
PD/BGI:
NIS
No. Area
14 Poland
18 Czechoslovakia
21 Yugoslavia
39A-II Northeast China
39A Communist China
39C Hong Kong and Macao
41A North Korea
42 Thailand
7 Denmark
8 PorAugal
16 Austria
16 Austria
30 Iraq
36 Pakistan
53 U.A.R.
50B Nigeria
60A Congo (Kinshasa)
60A Congo (Kinshasa) 25X1C
76 Costa Rica
77 Panama
78 Cuba
86 Venezuela
89 Chile
88 Peru
90 Argentina
92 Paraguay
93 Bolivia
100 Indonesia
3. Inventory, by branch, of all units in ED processing:
ED/ S
Inventory
29 Sep 67 69
Inventory
29 Sep 66 59
Topical Coverage
Telecommunications
Population
Minerals and Metals
Coasts and Landing Beaches
Ports and Naval Facilities
General Survey
Electric Power
Minerals and Metals
Ports and Naval Facilities
Telecommunications
Population
General Survey
Civil Air
Railroads
Manpower
General Survey
Electric Power
Health and Sanitation
Population
erc an Marine
Subversion and Insurgency
Trade and Finance
Health and Sanitation
Health and Sanitation
Highways
Fuels
ED/M TOTAL
28 134
6 96
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