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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00951R000200060019-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 10, 2000
• Sequence Number: 19
• Content Type: MISC

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One of State's responsibilities in biographic processing was to
coordinate the contributions of five different agencies for the production of the
series for the National Intelligence Survey (NIS) program. This
responsibility was not transferred to BR in the merger referred to above but
remained under the control of the Office of Basic Intelligence (OBI), the producers
of the NIS. In January 1963, on the basis of recommendations by AD/CR,29 concurred
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in by the AD/BI and endorsed by USIB in April 1963,
BR was given the responsibility
computer..based information storage and retrieval system wRdeFtakeR sing-e--the
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The gantinuing increase in quick response service requests had its
impact on the processing side, as mentioned earlier. It was hoped that a modified
DARE machine would provide faster document (image) input to the files. Other equip-
ment planning to p aperL y handle the large volume input, considerable storage and
retrieval capacity requirements, included consideration of electronic data
processing equipment for BR and the rest of OCR As did other ajp.& ''
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Divisions, BR participated in many of the studies leading to the . &iAU.. tY
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this reason and to relieve the biographic analyst for research, analysis and
writing, BR created in FY1964 a new employee designation "intelligence assistant."
a program to meet this particular need.
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To replace the series, BR embarked on a new
series of Biographic Handbooks (BH), the first of which appeared in theall of 1963.
Loose-leaf, the Handbooks contained
The format of BR's regular reports was revised to enable them
to be converted to BH volumes.*Additional processing help was needed constantly; for
development, including the _ story, will be treated in Chapter XI.
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