THE OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND REPORTS ( ORR ) SUMMARY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-01157A000200030003-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 31, 2001
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: November 29, 1961
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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and marts was organized to meet, specific needs
the survey in the field of economic intelligence
by CIA in 1 O on NSC direction, In June 1951 the NSC$ on recom-
economic intelligence activity vital to the national security
UCT with concurrence of the IA; gave CIA the responsibility
cing certain economic intelligence as a service of coon concern.
The Office of Research and Reports was directed to assume CIA responsibilities
ULU field, to give first priority to the oconor of the Soviet orbit
as rapidly as possible the revealed gaps in U. S. knowledge of the
ectono'j.
scale C
support for otb
for the Age y.
coordination responsibility primarily through the Economic
coordinating the National Intelligence survey program
e terms of reface were established by the IAC.
functions inherited from the former Office of Reports
aphis and map intelligence -- and furnishes,
o monitors certain external research projects
anal~rtical research.. an opposed to the screening
current phenomena,, requires the application of tecbnices
kd in U. S. intelli.genc e. Application of these
techniques necessitates stye thaning and in some cases reordering past govern-.
practices in the collecting and processing of raw intelligence and
expanding the search for da: a, especially on the Soviet orbits among old and
government as well as within. SEGRE"i"
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necessity for basic Iacammic research became
of such studies of operate ouel euao
rather by studies of its ati.lity
by drawing an adequate,
and th
h the dynmics o
equir,
Vcrld
. Attacks on the bearing target-a t ,
of the eneral i rt ce of bearin
,ed,f economio-inter.. c e
COT
requi
of .fa
t to sSC Action 282, pointed up
for basic economic rase
ions
Pr .oxr to October 1950 the now-..bandoncd Office of Reportc
took cognizance of e+ is Intelligence in providing a consultant
brandh to fo3 - current
ad wt of ORR, haver, vas
a purely ecomoeic
bit, Only with the
Lou of a maw sub-division of an intelUgence
aasterrn gapes dii
c activity in
ti one with respect to f creizft ego is intelligence
curity were assi d to CIL by 3C 3 in J
ether Cff oe (oct) of the prinu7 reepo ibilit for
pe tt to shift its focus of attention from the an ;
irecd'1~0'fCl3( teai
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?ent or old, in tap-secret files or
probl+. The ,
on fundamental economic intal -
a tha
anal t, largl` freed
of processing the current flan, be able to address hia a f" to true research,
utilizing research techniques, methods., and discipliines# and that QRR
ecamtrate its
for the national s e
solutions to a few problms critical
te1li.eanc+e
foreign economic inteeUi Bence produced in vari o
parts of the gent should serve at least the forming five PurPos
rxupport of national-se cuAty p*licies: (1) to estimate the etude
threats to ourselves and our allies by evaluating
tha total economic resources on which rdlitary potea ti.al for any but the briefest
cpeth; (2) to
he character and location of pass
a nizt a +1'h,e afocation of such resources as the
e! possesses;
(b) to
(3) to assist in ea ti hratiz the intentions of the
;i to three. 1>7 se
assist An eeti ti-
cy.4J .ker in deciding what can be done to
Ti or creating economic vclnerabilitics;
Bible d+loent of the Best
perms of years under the assumption that I pr does not occur during
hould concentrate first on the economies of
the Soviet Union and its satellites, since M Ate responsibilities with respect
to "torei economic into
toe relating to the national security" dictated
prima y attention to that area posing the ovatest, potential threat to the
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Aro a
faailitatod two s
't 4ntelli eocx Problem through economic research is
of the Soviet plwmed ecorxqy, in its
on to to
ecotoxic evidence reflective of the political
ti~on
nomic approach to soviet into?w-
able for ORW s longer-t
basic unity of
the world provides a taxis for filling in Saps in
-z' for c t ing that series be :d
l nt, The she
ted the one In 13, S, toc
cas that offer peculiar dvan
conpetcut
Procscs and the other
esea h tool, sold f1 it easier to build on th.:c .,,*r&pcntA27
suety information availa' : than mould their counterpart.- in the
s 'OR
o dictated a limited-objective techrt
great obstacles not
on and the lack of basic earlier investigations
SUP; preclude the ef'f'o n
by exhaustive rovearch. Therefore the Wall p o c?am
authoritatively to recover the basic data of
ent, l3oth the frag tary nature and once hated
Q= t deand on OJR: for intellig
nary lmmediatolT, to r=XWT the aims of QMUi
tentative a nclusi based on Infor=
xactneas as to the outer limits of
Let capabilit O t constantly repo" a cyole
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l ci .n orr Lion that is av ilabic colect{ cr.. of
Weer..r t?on of production on these
tellip
derab
to t ctex c wt*ther amplwsis should he shifted..
ound eocnonic basis under polities.. a military
so respects leaB than idwas wM can
by
Of sucelssive epro tit. T
s about Soviet economic c apabili,fries.
e,} vh
or file of ar L%!5 L in fra, entary forms, ea met en4ght
:or the first tip in an orderly ftashi .. Signal
ie petroleuu ieldl on nore praciacly arc tirl for
various econoS.c ci
c .#~,, of v ng de4
ecficieency of information in t vital field
of constraction (biggest since cot u r of steel and labor in the U. s. e
information concernin ; the c ani
quirv?ronts for pets
:9>j. were spent 13%
z3,ble of what CIA knees about the Soviet
on expoolng that was not known
In the electrccnica field, the aso
ativel,'Y owZirmd the rev ous intelligence
des relative weakness on this score.
tions production. A clear priority
rot ;het catabliah eda, but by z g an atts
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road front
possible vithiu the next year to
" oononic Thte
oon unction vit t tho vort a
2* Coordination. of this report
n and nark in
amble r both of du
O R also hay a roapo ibility for ccorthating rege rch dots
novernmnt or
WUX't Laz
rat 7 et t:,oc ti= to cvci p extensive prograza for a ,-st tip tap a
".able in universities and priira' eah ti-
r da Liam / it zbov3d be
I intelligence
already a very useful ins ueont in se g
ty an agreed approach on apeci.fic intell ee
d. of rcqaire=wta for information,
at to the intelligence amity.
Zupi tprojectat;th
by acho1uv
of Zoyjo t soa:ietr acquired
of operati.nt; oitI 3 s for guidance In
he cold-war v xier iIitica or the Soviets. new tech iquca for
focusing acad is =ders
established by ?1 CID 3 in early
rn its predecc mor of lice as an already
acti.v tyy involves b th the c:oordi.naatint, function, in pla sing and
operat.in, problem are being decal ,
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directi a coWUx inter
.ties, and in general i rov nt in the effectiveness
e, and also the exercise of a ct iv CI.
ties. Process has been made in the estaablie
aataarfa In to contributing agmcies, in the aau ntation
It has not as yet beft passi
ox or the A nnc
by 5tal
of units in Defense &Moles,, such is now premed
of the reaan war
schedule. It is possible that the solu
contarmit
to provide stability of capabilities
ty of balanced His production in
a weld.-rev;
in l947.
or office from th
production, and
Li;
ive
on a t rrcnt basis and to produce Cea ra.
. 5%wort aactivitia,
that needed
of vu arab
reference service
> needed for reBearth, planning,, Vg
tiona * intelligences such ass
to is foreign installations.
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of moNings aerial pbo
It?rY I$FURM4 wt4
pl.c Sivisi
and with the coordination of require-
of mps and mspp
both forte and dovwtic wr, went additions
upport of CIA operational p tthg and, field at
at variety of operations - such as export ntrol under lute rdepar t
auspices
of '
the activities of the Offi of Current
1,, and National tina.# +s Prm vi initial begin
for the office of Nation Estimates, cari, has ow* to
a bulk of the sort for alt all the
In addition,, OIL has provided basic data and assumed
on economic matters in internationa intelIi ence
I super
ant the ends
at the expense of time
would otherwise have been d
basic research,
practical lint of hiring person of for an specia .zcd
field and the mat need for draeing on the full U. 3. rosovrcea for the
eat in an extensive program of utilising
an foreign areas from
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including both bu i ss L i=,dustrial
have been most wi
future be ableI to
The obl. t
Arc
"V$ 7) *
cc motel igence, such co ult +
icipated that Of V ill
of their 9eneroua helps
Cidexa of sufficient aunt to present in an
of this nature arc detailed In the propriate section and part
:Onci ..
authori,tie
both for its
d that of
Ae z ultt panel an 'craft, 12:
herefore here =rely listed., to co late the picture cf
ORR in the proca s j of intc1ligenms First in aeriouaxa is probably that
of the orniiaatio, of e ting but scatter 3. infor tion in auch fora that it c&n
b
e Areaela and "ed by the Intel ,il ence anaalyats, second i3 placed the
of need for ac
operaticga2 knowledge., which PI Was other rjs of the
bl also is not peculiar OR, thou
reasonable
:force oma t .s office ..... that Of the aced for shier
t r a istrativie action on in
,mel
etix
unc .c , ~a tndi~. ,1s; thy; fib problem in
C aazalyst>j and the field
economic irate li, ccs
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