CIA MEMORANDUM ON THE TALLINN SYSTEM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85G00105R000100100001-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 17, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 25, 1967
• Content Type: MF

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25 September 1967
MEMORANDT I FOR: Director of National Estimates
SUBJECT : CIA Memorandum on the Tallinn System
REFERENCE : Bross Memorandum of 18 September 1967
1. To recall, the credit line in the Tallinn
Memorandum was the usual one: "This memorandum was
produced by CIA. It was prepared jointly by the
Office of Scientific Intelligence and the Office of
Strategic Research and coordinated with the Office
of National Estimates."
2. Both Don Chamberlain ahd I were aware at the
time of preparing this Memorandum that the reference
to coordination with ONE might raise the problem
alluded to in paragraph 2 of the.Bross memo. We felt,
however, that we had no choice but to go ahead and use
the standard credit line.
3. As I see it, the problem here is not that the
.Agency should not publish the results of its indepen-
dent analysis, but that in'doing so AGM the Agency
should not appear to be speaking for the community.
This raises the question whether on such matters as this,
where CIA production offices believe that now evidence
and new analysis warrant the publication of an Agency
viewpoint that may be at some variance with the
community judgment contained in an NIE, the fact of
coordination with the Office of National Estimates
should be mentioned in the credit line.
4. I would not propose any change at all in our
present practice of routine coordination with ONE on
all items planned for publication where CUE has an
interest. It may be, however, that it is unnecessary
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to note tho fact of this coordination in the credit
line carried in the published document, if doing so
gives rise -- as in the Tallinn case -- to possible
misunderstanding of the role of G:N'E, with its inter-
agency estimative responsibilities, in the production
of an Agency memorandum.
5. if the mention of ONE in the credit line is
going to cause confusion over what is a CIA Memorandum
and what is a Memorandum to Holders of an NIE, we
probably should consider some change. One solution
would be to make explicit mention of coordination with
ONE optional depending on the view of the producing
office or of ONE as to the potential for misunderstand-
ing given the subject and nature of particular report.
A
nother solution' uld be routinely. to omit mention o1
1 I ' \ rr 'l
BRUCE C. CLARKE, Jr.
Director
Strategic Research
Attachment:
D/DCI/NIPS memo dated
18 September 1967
Distribution:
Orig. -- D/ONE
1 -- ADDI
1 -- D/OsI
1 -- D/DCI/NIPE
2 -- D/OSR
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