THE NEW OCB REPORTING PROCEDURE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86T00268R000900010028-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 22, 2013
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: April 28, 1959
• Content Type: MEMO

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28 April 1059
MEMORANDUM FOR: Assistant Director. Current Intelligence
SUBJECT: The New GCB Reporting Procedure
1. Mild procedural chaos still reigns within the OCU,
and working groups apparently retain a degree of choice between
the old and the new format. Several drafts and redrafts of
the new procedure have been circulated 'within the GCB staff,
and a copy of the most definitive of these is attached. The
final version is supposed to appear seen.
2. As you know, the Director committed us to one page
annexes in most cases, and the logic of the new reporting
format requires that these be attached to the operations plans
rather than to the reports. Therefore we will be producing
more of the abbreviated annexes. In a few days I will submit
for your approval a draft revision of the CCI notice dealing
with annex production.
3. We will be Producing annexes for about 30 countries
or areas instead of the 21 formerly covered. This will mean
a maximum annual turnover of 60 annexes, since each operations
plan is to be appraised semi-annually by the working group.
The proposed coverage has been discussed with Tom Parrott and
tentatively submitted to the Board Assistants. It breaks
down as follows: (Asterisks indicate our former coverage)
I. plans to have AD Annex: (21)
* France
* Iceland
* Latin America
* Finland
* Italy
* Yugoslavia
* Greece
* TUrkey
* Iran
* Tunisia, Morocco. Algeria
* Libya
* Born of Africa (Formerly Ethiopia)
* Near East and Saudi Arabia
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II. bps Plans grouped under one_area-one or more apexes:
* Africa South of the Sahara ((hana, Liberia,
Nigeria, U. of South Africa)
* South Asia (Afghanistan, Pakistan* ceylon,
India-Nepal)
* Mainland Southeast Asia (Burma, Thailand,
Catbodia, Laos, Vietnam, Singapore-Malaya)
III. Plans with no Annex:
* Korea (NO plan exists)
* Song Meng (No plan exist
* Philippines
taiwan
Spain
Poland
Austria
Eastern Europe
Outer Space, (may be done by OSI)
Antarctica (already done by OUR- oral briefing)
? 4. We can move plans back and forth from I to III at our
discretion as we feel the situation warrants. We retail: the
same flexibility in determining the number of annexes to be
produced for the grouped plans in category two. I anticipate
Do increase in the overall commiteent of CCI resources to the
job. Although the annexes have !multiplied, their brevity will
considerably simplify agency coordination which has always
been fifty percent of the job.
DON AVERY
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