STAFF STUDY ON ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE INITIATION AND CONTROL THROUGHOUT ORR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00274A000200100016-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 13, 2000
• Sequence Number: 16
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memornaum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNM
TO Asst. Director, Research and Reports DATE:
FROM : Chief, Organization and Methods Service
SUBJECT: Staff Study on Economic Intelligence Initiation and Control
Throughout ORR
1. Attached for your approval is a staff study on the above
subject undertaken with your concurrence by this office.
2. One of the primaxy considerations on which the recommenda-
tions were based was the confusion in the minds of your analytical
personnel resulting from multiplicity of direction. These conflict-
ing orders and resultant priority complications have been extremely
detrimental to efficient productivity.
3. Implementation of the attached recommendations would im-
prove economic intelligence production because:
A. A Coordination Staff as an am of the AD would be es-
tablished with substantive competence to plan, control, and
evaluate all ORR activities in the field of foreign economic
intelligence.
Be A Production Support Staff to the Chief, Economic
Research would be established to assign, coordinate, and
consolidate the productivity of the various Economic Research
Divisions to ensure substantive fulfillment of economic intel-
ligence responsibilities levied on Economic Research 7py the
Coordination Staff.
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