SUMMARY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00951R000200200035-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2000
• Sequence Number: 35
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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From the trickles of 191i.7, OCD has grown to be one of the
largest Offices in CIA. Machine techniques have enabled it to
index the tidal wave of intelligence material which swirls into
its Divisions. Changes in accepted procedures, some of them radi-
cal, have prevented the overflow of orderly channels. The Industrial
Register has begun to swziarize information on individual plants
to keep the researcher from L swamped in the floods of infor-
mation. The Biographic Register has departed from the traditional
dossier to undertake more complete coverage with its Four-Way Index.
The Graphics Register has successfully devised the only photographic
code which has not broken down in practice.
It is refreshing. that in an office which deals annually with
tons of paper emphasis is laid on streamlining service and dispensing
with as much paperwork as possible. The following paragraph, by the
Assistant Director, from the Guide to OCD illustrates this tendency:l
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0GD wishes to operate with a minimum of controls,
paperwork and protocol. But it must serve all Offices
and Staffs of CIA, as well as the IAC agencies; and it
cannot assign highest priority to all requests. Therefore
some controls -channels are neer~Tce , but there is nothing
sacrosanct about them. Division Chiefs can and do find
shortcuts when really urgent problems come up.
In this regard the influence of the Assistant Director has
been paramount. He is dead set against anything which interferes
with the operation of OCD as a service to the Agency. He tries
to give that service with the least fuss. The performance of
OCD is judgedj,by those responsible for it,, not as an end in itself,
but solely on the basis of the quality of support given the
operating Offices.
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