QUESTIONS ON THE STATE OF ANALYSIS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP93B01478R000100030002-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 31, 2012
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: July 19, 1988
• Content Type: MISC

Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/11/01 : CIA-RDP93B01478R000100030002-4
19 July 1988
QUESTIONS ON THE STATE OF ANALYSIS
Human Resources
What is the size of the analytic community at CIA, in the IC overall? What
percentage of total employees in CIA, INR, DIA are in analytic components?
How has the size of this community varied over the years? How has it grown
in CIA during the 1980s? Has it grown likewise in INR and DIA?
What has growth done to the age/grade structure of analytic components in
the main agencies?
How do the more recent recruits compare with earlier generations in prior
academic preparation and job experience, language or other specialized
skills, testing scores?
Information Handling Environment
Can we measure what the IC has investing in ADP for analysis over recent
years, screening out investment for specialized applications like
cryptography and technical analysis?
How has the information-handling environment of the "average non-technical
analyst" changed over the past ten years, e.g., what's his work station look
like, how does he get his mail?
What can he do that he could not do before? What new problems have arisen?
Do analysts feel that CIA and the IC in general are on top of the problems?
Methodologies
Have analytic methodologies advanced in measurable or describable ways? Any
safely unclassified examples (OGI a good source).
Management
Has growth and changing age structure imposed new approaches to management
of analysis?
Products
Can we compare the gross numbers, varieties, and presentational styles of
current products with those of past decades?
NOTE: I suspect, or at least hope, that useful data on people and budgets
can be gotten from the IC Staff on the Community, and the CIA comptroller on
CIA. OIT must have a canned "geewhiz" briefing or brochure on its ADP
advances (but not problems, maybe). Management issues will have to be
explored through talking to people.
Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/11/01 : CIA-RDP93B01478R000100030002-4