O/RR SURVEY OF CAPABILITIES IN OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-01157A000100080011-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 13, 1999
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: June 19, 1951
• Content Type: MEMO

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OFFEECi REBEARGU AND RXTMIS
19 Arne 1951 Office Notice 115:4
SUBJECT: OAR Survey of Capabilities in other Ceveimete. eeencies
L CIA Regulation 70 provides that the Aesistent Director for
Research and Reports shall....."Coordinate the reeearch and reporting
activities of governmental and other agencies in specified fielde of
common cone= and in other intelligence fields as lireched"..?.?:
N3CID-15 approved 13 June 1951 cherges CIA with ceekain coordinating
flinctions with respect to economic intelligence and it is expected
that this CZA responsibility will devolve larvae, on )/Rh. It is
obvioes that 0/RR coordinating activities 'with respect to other agemcies
rust he based on accurate knowledge of the capabilities and activities
of these other agencies. This knowledge should inclede at least the
names ot individuals Who have proven valuable contacts, ehe organiza.
tional setup of the agenciene and their stores of information and
facilities for productione The knowledge required be. 0/RR cannot, of
couree? be gained overnight; that a beginning meet be made, howeeer, the
reseonsibilitiee listed in paragraphs 2. 4, below are assiened,
2. All division chiefs will cause individuals under thom having
intelligence contacts -with other agencies to set up, If they have not
already done so, and to keep curra their liste of oontacts. Mese
lista +should be in such form as to be serviceabae to the immediete
auperior, immediate subordinates? and coworkers, and sheuld ahor name,
official positions telephone number, degree of clearance, and brief
oammaat an to special usefulness.
30 Chief, D/C, will obtain and disseminate organization charts
and eimilar material of the IAC agencies as available, and of other
agencies whose charts division Chiefs consider important.
he Chiefs of the four economic divisions will mese to be set up,
and to be developed as circumstances permit? files e by brunch or by
other unit considered appropriate, of the specific iaforeation-capabilie
ties, interests, and facilities, pertineat to the unit, of other govern-
ment agencies And also of wen-government organizations. 'or initial
use in this connection there are forwarded rith this memo two background
studies carried out in connection 'with the 0/RR response no efeC Action
282: Appendix "C" Part I, The Primare Foreign Econemic I:Sae:union
Interests or Certain Covernment:kaates, iErnfaili-reiriTia In The
ioriorTeiioitre7TEM"Fm-aTtji-ffaivities of Certain Goveavent?
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informa.tion recently compiled by I)/G, a which a copy is ava.ilablo for
information in Room 2110, WI Building. For the immediate present, it
is desired that tiformation as to the capabilities of' other agencies be
sought only incidentally to normal contacts, and that no specific direct
queries? be made. It is hoped that in the near future, 'frith the support
Of a directive from the 'Alonomic Intelligence Commit'7.ea, a imore thorongh
going survey may be initiated. ?
5. It is desired that initial steps in this program be talsen
irenediately and that develoixtent be pushed as may be possible. Detailed
questions as to the intent of paragraph h . above may be taken ipwith
Dalivet; generai questions as to the scope, direction, and empliasie
of the wh.ole program should be offered for discussion in 0 staff
meetings as they arise.
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