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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP63-00314R000100390005-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 13, 1998
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27 June 19630
TO: Assistant Director, ORR
FROM: Chief, Geographic Research
SUBJECT: Briefing Notes on Geographic Area activities for FY 1961
Geograiiic Area/program/natura
is relat$$d to t1 three /omponeAs' mis
Tows:
A. Geography Division
1-Geographic research will continue -427 direct
support of other intelligence programs. The largest single activit JJ3
will be that in support of operational planning for clandestine collection
and field activities. Sizeable parts of the research effort will also
j(4ed to the NIS program, special overt collection programs including
studies related to major intelligence
targets, and support of analyses and estimates in the field of Soviet
science and military capabilities (3In fulfillment of our own intelligence
responsibilities, we will continue the evaluation of Soviet accomplishments
in the fields of mapping and geodesy, analysis of geographic factors
involved in situations of special concern to United States plans and
policy, and reporting on the geographic base of significant changes in
areas of intelligence concern, as well as a comprehensive study of the
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role of gevi! geographers in economic, military and political planning
in the USSR. &. the Satellites" fVZ:-.,L
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3. Although geographic production is 7
unprogrammed, it is
anticipated that more research effort will be required on Southeast Asia,
Trans-Saharan Africa, and Latin America. More production may be required
in support of Guided Missiles, nuclear energy, and Polar activities
intelligence.
1. The Soviet urban area analysis program will be sizeable and may
well increase, given the possible development of new leads and sources.
5. Throughout the year, the main thrust of activity will consist
of contributing geographic analysis to the solution of critical intelligence
problems in all fields.
B. Cartography Division
1. The program of the Cartography Division will, in larger part,be
determined by the kinds of requests received from the components of CIA
and the Department of Statesing the pattern established by our present
activities, we can project the continuation of a sizeable NIS program
involving the production and revision of standard and page-size maps,
Chapter I Summary maps, as well as ~bre~x for va ious Chapters and Set;tions
is
of the NIS. The total number of items/estimated to be between 275 and 300
for the next Fiscal Year.
3. Another program of2kyrhich in all probability will increase
in volume and importance is ''II 44 During the past
six months, requests for map assistance in this program have more than
doubled. During the coming year, the Division is already committed to
give additional assistance to -in the printing of City Plans
produced by them.
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4. The Cartography Division is also involved along with the
Geography Division in the City Plan Program to supply the DD/P
with planimetric drawings of selected cities of the USSR. Already
scheduled isa new list of twelve cities agreed upon jointly by
DD/P, the Guided Missiles Task Force, and other components in the
Agency.
5. A large block of effort will continue to -31e~b~ei to the
production of maps, charts and graphs for.the NIE's, economic intelligence
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and, scientific intelligence reports.
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6. The Department of State will receive-* 4w supportArequired for the
i- of graphics li-rr- various departmental publications and
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such separate maps as consular ,daistricts and areas closed to foreigners
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in the USSR and Satellite countries.
7. The Cartography Division will continue its subst~gftupport to
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J2 XX aaram involves the assignment of
personnel for limited periods to areas and the production of
many detailed sketch maps for field use.
8. Two external research contracts are being sponsored by the
Cartography Division. The first,Jp to be completed in September 1960,
will provide five maps of "Asia and its Fringing Islands" at the scale
of 1:5,000,000. The second contract, which is to be started in FY 1960,
17 special purpose maps
calls for the compilation of fer the-
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components of the Agency in the analysis and presentation of selected
intelligence data.
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reports, geographic reports, currents dally and weekly publications of OCI,
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C. Map Library Division
1. The major emphasis in the Map Library Division program in
the coming year will be the support of efforts to collect topographic
maps and gem data on the Sino-Soviet Bloc. Most of the basic
background and collection requirements have been completed and
disseminated to CIA, Army, and Air Force collectors. The series of
detailed target studies on the Bloc which are ur4er preparation should
be completed during the first half of FY 1961 reate attention will
be paid to the development of specific operational UD/P
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This whole effort can be characterized as a
detailed backstopping of covert collection activities in full cooperation
with theeoy~~~DD/P and other field intelligence collecting units.
3.;%L foreign procurement program utilizing the Geographic Attaches
will emphasize the collection of maps and intelligence on mapping and
map personnel in Eastern Europe. Increased efforts for map procurement
will also be made in the United Arab Republic and the newly created
countries of Africa. There will be fuller coordination of procurement
of maps and related publications on Antarctica through the issuance of
a joint acquisitions list.
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