SUBCOMMITTEE ACTIVITIES FOR FY 1960

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00283R000200090001-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 1, 1960
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBCOMMITTEE ACTIVITIES FOR FY 1960
All Subcommittees have been requested to stress the following
activities during the following year, insofar as they are applicable:
1. Review and Revision of Priority Deficiencies of Research.
Almost all Priority Deficiency statements are a year or so old, and
some are quite old. Except for the last ones approved these statements
are not geared to the PNEIOts. In the meantime, research has continued,
old priorities have been fulfilled or lost their urgency, and new problems
arisen. All Subcommittees have, therefore, been ased to review and
revise their approved Priority Research Deficiencies and up-date these
statements, relating same to the proper PNEIOs and submit the new
statements to the EIC for approval.
2. Priority 0 to Deficiencies. Only a few SCs have
completed and had approved statements of Priority Collection Deficiencies.
As appropriate, theEIC/S has been forwarding to the subcommittees,
ORR/GIs for subcommittee consideration and guidance in the preparation
of community-agreed statements of priority r-eaeareh deficiencies for
EIC review and approval. Each subcommittee should be actively engaged
in this work during the coming year.
3. Review of Economic Intelligence Research Programs.
Several of the subcommittees last year undertook a program of presentation
of current agency research programs in their fields as a matter of
community information and of coordination of research programs generally.
These discussions have proved very helpful in the SCs where the program is
under way. All subcommittees are urged to establish similar presentations
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in their fields as a means of furthering the community knowledge of
work under way and of preventing duplication of effort in the intelligence
community.
4. Substantive Review of Agency Research. Each subcommittee
has been asked to promote subcommittee review of agency substantive
research in its field. Agencies should be urged to present for subcommittee
review appropriate substantive research of community interest. It has
been stressed that this does not mean the subcommittee should concur
in the papers or do a detailed review page-by-page, but the subcommittee
should be given an opportunity to consider major conclusions and/or take
exception, as the case may be. It is also desirable, if such coordination
can be effected prior to publication, that in the Foreword such inter-
agency agreement on conclusions be indicated, e.g., as inthe ORR report
on Soviet Agriculture.
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