IMPLEMENTATION OF IAC-D-50/5

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61S00750A000700060025-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 11, 1999
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: January 26, 1956
• Content Type: MF

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X=pANDUM FOR: Special Assistant to the Director for Planning
and Coordination
ATTENTION 25X1A9a
FROM : Chief, Intelligence Information Staff, ORR
SUBJECT : Implementation of IAC-D-50/5
REFERENCE : Your Memo dated 12 January 1956
1. Discussion within ORB has indicated skepticism as to the feasibility
or value of the extensive questionnaire-type survey outlined in your memorandum.
The chief areas of doubt center around the following:
a. Difficulty in determining precisely that action is or is not
"related to" DCID-4/5?
b. Uncertainty that the assembling of voluminous data on individual
requirements would lead to conclusions which would justify the expenditure
of effort.
c. Concern that emphasis on methods and machinery may overshadow
what is our chief interest, namely that results shall be effective.
2. Translation of PFNIO's into research projects is perhaps the chief
basis for developing the ORR research program. Up to this point, the basic
Directive is fairly clearly identifiable. Further spelling out into requirements
and collection, however, can be measured as "right" or "wrong" on~y in terms of
adequacy in supporting research tasks which are themselves worthy of priority
attention.
3. The general reviewing of all requirements and collection activities
would seem to lie outside the original instructions to Mr. Bissell, and would
possibly not add significantly to the solution of bona fide priority problems.
Since we do have at hand certain recognized areas of at least partial failure
on important intelligence targets, it might be of more immediate value to use
these as a starting point. I refer specifically to the NIE post-mortem state-
ments, the RIC Deficiency Surveys, and the requirements which are now routinely
developed following completion of each ORB research project.
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14. A survey plan might include the following steps:
a. Question to each agency or research office on research
programs developed in response to PNIO's.
b. Question to each committee, agency, or research office on
mechanisms to assure collection action responsive to the priority
research program.
c. Question to each committee, agency, or research office on
adequacy of efforts to fill-identified priority gaps.
d. A general questionnaire to agencies aM collection offices
on the impact of FNIO's on requirements reaching them and their reaction
thereto.
e. Specifically, are requirements better suited to your activities
if they are clearly identified with DCID-4/5 and/or an agreed statement
by an interagency committee?
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