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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00951R000200060015-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 10, 2000
• Sequence Number: 15
• Content Type: REPORT

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An additional form of processing wk~ic7~+~rot+i~ehas?reYt"`
u:nde.r-._.#e :Irtte f"lofaxy.s~ttt;` s itifa`"l< bcau:se,t,.i, ftion
that trarescended the.:Intellofax Sytstem,, was dissemination of material received from both
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The volume involved( close to 6,000,000 pieces per year
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aspect of GCD processing grew to 04west==4: i4e.vable pr.,oportions, ask was concerned with
getting the right document to the might customer at the right timer
Chap,t r-ear ?Y F i% for FY 1955 coupled with
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requester on,the reading requirements list yeas authorized to receive
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interested in' a document. also had to be raw-We copy of a document
a particular document,
2) whether the document filled a reading requirement, 3) which priority to establish for
routing a single or insufficient numberof copies,,and 4) what other 'office might be
I receive =full indexing treatment and be placed inl the Intellofax System.
n+ One of the more vexing problems the disseminatv 'faced was the development
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of a method wWw=UY, the seer volume of materiel #y~;+ more effectively by greater
the fact that most of the stems were received
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selection. I"k~i.n 1953 an eppefiment a+-- conducted in OCD ztt an especially
capable disseminator V remove from one mo,p`th' s flow of documer ,ts'all report which
seemed of little urreant or pptential v4lue. This amounted o only about 5% of the
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total takeg he 5 'ias in turn reviewedby_the research offides and their conclusion
was that nearly all of th~ documents should have\been disseminated",in the first place.
Ergo, disseminate every,X?hing you receive/.
/CIA
In;6 CODIB paper of 11 July 196'1 , Chief, Automatic Data
?rocessing Staff in reporting on some of the eaknesses reqognized by CODIB as existing
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in the multi-agen ,y approach to the processing of, printed information, ' d '%ime-
consuming, laborious, many-tep dissemination mechagisms." This staxement certainly
held true for OCR; sever 'l attempts, in addition tQ"continuing changes In procedures,
were riade to alleviatg the problem. In January ,V961, the dissemination of non-CIA cables
was transferred from the Document Division toy the Cable Secretariat. The document
dissemination functions of ORR and the special :.intelligence funct}n of OCI were transferred
to the Document Division in June, 1963.9 This action,-'though it increased the number of
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dissemination points fr,m resulted in reading 4okte reports onn(""y ~~nce for all
points, thereby exditing their distributionnvith a4'& some savfKigs in personnel. In
March 1964 the d.ssemination of the Defense Departfm-`nt reports was `t'aken over by DIA.
Other attempts were made tQ direct OCR to further centjalize its dissemintion, to cut
down the volume of items disseminated or to secure further customer guidince, without
perceptible results. Perhap1~ tb&-aid automati dissemination by thuse of aa ppropriate
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mechanical devices, being talked about in t e intelligence community, was the
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