COMMUNITY FUTURES GROUP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M01082A000700250004-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 15, 2004
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: August 29, 1974
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR:
SUBJECT : Community Futgres Group
a. The paper is silent as to the resource implications in
external contracting dollars and in on-staff manpower to make
such a proposal viable. What are these implications? Are they
doable in the light of the very constricted resources available?
b. The production of such substantive outputs as are indicated
in your paper raises the question of who should be in charge of this
effort. Is this a task for IC Staff, or alternatively would the IC
Staff be seen as seeking to muscle into the business of the analysts
and estimators? In other words, the paper does not wrestle with
the alternatives and explain why the function would be performed
better by IC Staff than by a long-range, high-level analytic group
that has deeper roots in the analyst community.
c. Using the Kahn study done for DIA cited in your paper as
an example, if this is worth doing on a continuing basis why not
do it that way? What additional can IC Staff contribute to an organ-
ization like Kahn's?
AC IHC
DCI/IC 74-1137
29 August 1974
1. Thank you for sending me your memorandum of 26 August 1974 on
this subject. I think my response should be limited because in a substan-
tive sense it does not directly concern the information science and telecom-
munications activities that are within my area.
2. Consequently, I do not deal here with the balance of factors, pro
and con, that relate to the merits of this proposal. Rather, I merely
offer a number of questions that someone should ask and that I think you
should be prepared to answer.
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