SOPHISTICATION OF NIE'S

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00937A000400020025-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: August 26, 1955
• Content Type: MEMO

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE A4ENCY
flP~'lCE 0~? N~ITIONAL ESTIl~IATES
2b August 1955
STAi+`p' RAI~f]M N4~, 5`j~55
St1BJECT t Sag~hfatiaat~..oaa o~ YALE e s
1? While ahax?t tenuare in ?~lE a>~ i>~$+aZligea~e (as ~ae?1 ash
~averz~ent) daes not perhl~ps warrant this >~ of ~s I haeo~ presd
to I~et dawn ~ few thoughts regarding the substaxati~e topia:a aansidered
in I~E~ a, Z ata~ p~raptad bjr the death a~' Thaw MaAn,~ wha~, although
he little eatac~erned hi1f has Marquis Childl~ has remia~ded ~, with
the outward m~ifestatiat~s of this centu~- of war and reeal.ution~ was
prof ourad7,y atwa~ of tY~e da~epe~r aua~erits ly3rag the aurfaae of
dn~I~tic and in#~rr>~tia>~al. 8ffaix~o
2q It sl3BIPl~ fa me that while di8e'+~sian of palitiaal.' eea~aamic~
mil~.t:3rry amd foram policy m~attet~s 3s basics atad 3.s we12 handled in
NJ[E~s~ eatis~ates mould gain in depth of I~unalyaia+t if thl~y li.E~ise
inasluded cansidl~ratian of s~all,sd "iunderable" factors which are
essential. to a za~ture urstl~auiirag of tI~ wax~ld in which we ]:~..~,
Cultural, and ghalagical, is~f].~~ess although lease a t a~
a
as ~inpartlnat as the x+e a~aus topics now cansides~ed in es~~ia~ates,~
Contemporary Face c~a~traraat tae unstaad unlesa~ i~ ~.s
end iffi texw~ of pex~ as~d sacl. ir~sp~i'b >P the fdetaltagic~al.
ezleas as frc~ the wench R,ev?lut3.eaap the c~is:~traus shy
of two World W9 ~d awbticar~al. ps~facreia bid upon her th~e~t Fv?a~~
tradition, Cierm?. dea~acra~ taday~ as ~t the Twenti~ea$ a?ad ear$y
Thia~ sta>~a i>n Pates ~aat o whew Ade>aa'u~r gcses ar a dep3,art
occua~~ or if z~sunif3dcati.an ie ~aong dela~geel~ but is also thr,3atened
by a >~aral. wscu~ a saci~ dislctia>~ h