TRANSFERRING THE FBIS MEDIA ANALYSIS GROUP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01495R000700020002-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 24, 2005
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: December 4, 1974
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
FROM : Deputy Director for Intelligence
SUBJECT : Transferring the FBIS Media
Analysis Group
REFERENCE : DCI Memo of 23 August 1974 on
Financial Guidance for 1975 and 1976
1. In the reference memorandum you asked that I con-
sider various opportunities for possible savings and that I
submit recommendations to you on these items. This memo-
randum reports on the results of my consideration of one of
your specific suggestions:
"Transferring the Media Analysis Group
from FBIS to OCI with the aim of achieving
the gradual conversion of this analytic
activity from a separate function into an
integral part of the production of political
intelligence. "
In my 5 September memorandum to you, I suggested that we
expand the study to also consider OPR as a potential new home
for the Analysis Group.
2. The attached report presents the results of the DDI
Management Staff' s examination of this expanded proposal. The
report finds that the removal of the Analysis Group from FBIS
is neither desirable nor feasible for the following reasons:
Both OCI and OPR believe that the quality
of the unique product and service of the
Analysis Group would not thrive in an all-
source environment.
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There is unanimous agreement among the
parties concerned that the independence of
the Analysis Group is key to its ability to
provide--Agency and non-Agency consumers--
this unique form of intelligence support.
All parties reaffirm the survey finding by the
Human Sources Committee that removal of the
Analysis Group would seriously impair FBIS'
ability to guide and monitor propaganda collec-
tion and deprive the Community of a "highly
valued" product.
Space considerations alone--the need for
square feet currently occupied by the Analysis
Group--make such a move impossible in the
foreseeable future.
3. Given the unique nature of the Analysis Group's function
and the broad Community and public demand for its product,
transfer of the group into either OPR or OCI would actually not
result in any resource savings. I presume this was one of your
objectives in asking us to study the problem.
4. A positive result of the survey has been the development
of a number of suggestions for increasing the interaction between
the Analysis Group and the political intelligence production offices.
Our survey also points to the possibility of some future resource
savings when FBIS has completed the installation of its automated
information handling systems.
5. On the basis of the Management Staff's study, as well
as the unanimously negative reactions from FBIS, OCI, and OPR,
I recommend that FBIS retain the media Analysis Group. In re-
porting this recommendation to the Director of FBIS, however, I
have requested that he pursue vigorously the suggestions for
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improvements and savings contained in the Management Staff
report. I have also asked that he propose additional measures
to ensure that the methods and manning levels of the Analysis
Group are in keeping with the current resource constraints
under which FBIS must operate. The Director, FBIS, has been
instructed to report to me on these matters by 31 March 1975.
Deputy Director for Intelligence
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