YOUR MEMORANDUM OF 12 AUGUST RE WEEKLY REPORTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M01133A001200110009-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 18, 2004
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: August 18, 1975
• Content Type: MF

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18 August 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR: Executive Officer, IC Staff
SUBJECT: Your Memorandum of 12 August re
Weekly Reports
The comments of the IHC Staff are as follows:
a. The Weekly Report is useful as an interal
communications device. It is circulated to all
members of our component.
b. We feel that a bi-weekly report would be
an appropriate alternative. This would not
only save time and effort but would to some
extent eliminate largely repetitive items that
are reported to record some small change in
an action. If a biweekly report should be
adopted it is recommended that the items be
expanded to be more self-explanatory, which
would increase its usefulness as a communi-
cations device. The current report is com-
posed largely of one liners that often mean
little or nothing to the reader who is not
otherwise involved. It might be argued that
a bi-weekly report would result in an un-
acceptable delay in the dissemination of
the information but this misspeaks the purpose
of the report. There are other procedures
for informing those having action or collateral
action reponsibilities for particular items.
c. The Weekly Report is a useful historical
document but in our opinion the bi-weekly
report described above would be even more
useful for this purpose.
d. Para b above describes our preference.
However, if the Weekly Report should be
retained we believe some greater detail in the
items would be an improvement, as mentioned
above.
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