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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79R00904A000100030028-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 18, 2006
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: September 2, 1952
• Content Type: MEMO

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blest Shall national estimates (NIE'e, St's and.
time to be issued with Tabs annexo
on the Problems
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NAND FOR T . DtRETON OF C
to igence Research, Department of State, favor the issu e
of national estimates with Tabs attache d$ whenever in their
opinion a Tab adds to the usefulness of the paper. They
The Board of National Estimates and the Office of In-
pate similar objections on forthcoming eatimal
1, The four Service intelligence organizations (including
the +flG) have in the past often objected - with varying
degrees of force - to issuing national estimates with Tabs
or appendixes attached,
2, The four Service intelligence organizations are presently
unanimously objecting to the issuance of N--69 (Probable
Developrnents in North African) with an Lppe , I antict-
favor a Tab for NIE-69 and for other key estimates now in
process
III. Discussions
2. The Senior Staff of the NSC has expressed a keen desire
for a fuller array of the facts upon which the conclusions
of national estimates are based,
he Board concurs in this view,
trongly supported by facts and by reasoning from facts*
advised the Board of National Estimates that in their opinion
the conclusions of some national estimates should be more
In the past the MCI (Mr. Jackson) and the WI have
Other con ers have expressed theselves si
(Policy Planning Staff, Department of State, the InteeUt
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4, The Board has endeavored to most V -,e criticism of the
the requests of consumers by including as
terial in Tabs as in its judgment is appr
suing the estimate in question with the Tab
5, The Service intelligence organizations -have
their attitude towards Tabs.
not as a general r
or wh!e s were table of estisrsated
or which were tables of military
ch were rough inventories of the stra-
ources of another state.
b. In only a few instances? however, have the Service
representatives insisted upon the inclusion
, as a rule, been e i t h e r lakewarn
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opposed to Tabs which were of a general political, social,
econoi-i e t `r
6, The question of a Tab on 9 (Probable f lops!erte
nth Africa) will comae up in the IAC on Thursday. The Tab
affixed to this estimate is a brief round-up of basic
pol ti.cal, social,, economic facts on each of the North
African ar+ disused,
7. The issue presented by this particular est
to open the larger question of Tabs in general
omr. end that you take a firm stand in fa
.tb the Tab afffixed.
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