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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00951R000400040007-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 7, 2000
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: August 23, 1966
• Content Type: MF

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DEPUTY UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE
WASHINGTON
CONFIDENTIAL
August 23, 1966
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Central Intelligence Agency.
I understand that you very kindly spent considerable time
recently with members of my staff in an exploration of possible
ways in which the biographic files might aid the Inter-Agency
Youth Committee's effort to identify and get into communication
with the rising young leaders abroad.
We are now asking that an addition be made to the biographic
reporting section of the Foreign Affairs Manual, and I am enclosing
a copy of that proposal. As you will note, we suggest three
additional items. Broadly, these items cover the leaders of youth
and student organizations, individuals identified by the post youth
committees, and U.S. Government grantees. (I believe'many of the
latter are already picked up in large part from justifications and
biodata sketches that accompany the posts' proposals to Washington.)
Your agency may wish to consider similar requests to its own
field personnel.
Of course, I realize that biographic submissions by foreign
affairs personnel constitute only a fraction of the material you
screen for inclusion in the Biographic Register. Therefore, I
would like to ask that the new guidance also serve in the screening
of material from other sources.
Further, when your analysts determine the key groups that are
to be retrievable as "categories," I hope that due emphasis will be
?laced on the groups covered in the three additional items we have
proposed for the Manual.
I wish to thank you for the time and consideration you have
already given to the Youth Committee's concerns.
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BIOG,P.APHIC INFORMATION PROGRAM
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i. Leaders and secondary leaders of youth organizations w th
political significance, of national unions of students and their
component bodies, and other university student associations, and
of the youth wing of political parties; also influential members
of groups that may be embryonic political movements.
j. Individuals identified by the post youth committee as
"comers" in the organizations or sectors judged likely to produce
the future national leaders.
q. All persons in any field, including military officers,
who receive a U.S. Government grant for travel, study or training
in the United States, if adequate biographic information was not
previously submitted in the written justifjcation for the grant.
Ideally, adequate information would include indications of the
grantee's political orientation, such as the identity of current
or historical personalities he admires; organizational affiliations
and activities; significant family' connections; previous travel or
study abroad; and extracurricular activities.
h. Leaders and influential members of political parties,
movements and groups, in the provinces as well as in the capital,
whether of a national character or composed of refugees or emigres.
i. Influential newspaper, radio, television and,motion
picture editors, owners and operators in the provinces as well as
in the capital.
m. Leading educators, including presidents and outstanding
Faculty members of universities, officers of national and regional
associations of teachers, professors, etc.
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