AGENDA FOR THE MEETING ON MARCH 22ND OF THE IAC STANDING COMMITTEE

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
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• Publication Date: March 15, 1948
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Chief Reference Center
Agenda for the meeting on March 22n1 of the IAC standing Committee
gin iNtagem Reference Center has no comment to offer
concerning Scientific Attaches except that, if the
lemented, Reference Center will provide such machine
be requested for the indexing and listing of the Attaches'
n put. It is aloo auggeeted that Scientific Attaches, if
the la in consequence of this proposal, should receive care-
trination by Biographical Intelligence Register and Foreign
ustrial Register in CIA before setting forth.
2. Oipgrgnhic Datil 9 ientificeTsonaMti9p. The proposal that
CIA assume primary respox$bt1itj for this category of biographic intel-
ligence originated in Reference Center after coneiderable discussion with
biographic analysts in the other IAC agencies. The following points
deserve mentiont
There is now gr
a In comp
Department analy
proportion of their t
ication of effort among the IAC
?reign scientific pereonaliti
eir clerical help spend u very
in abstracting such data from
and War Department forms. The we're is true in both the
and War Departments, where analysts must deal with the
tion received on Navy Department forms. Files and
dossiers maintained in the several departments overlap.
b. Overlap, and duplication of effort, sre far Iea ex-
ANe in those categorise of biographic intelligence where
ry responsibility elis been ascumed by specifIc agenciee.
w turn to State for data on political personalities, to
data on ev.)-itary pereonalities, and to Ravy for data
on naval personalities. If primary responsibility for scien-
tific persona/itis is concentrated in CIA, (1) enelysts of
other agencies need no longer devote extensive attention to
such data when received from sources external to their own
agency, (2) they will be able to devote more concentrated
attention and deal more thoroughly with such data when
received through their own agencies' sources, and (3) they
vill be aaeured of a single complete file in CIA of all such
data received from all IAC agencies.
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a- between CIA and other IC agencies now
(I) te Department files are currently being exploIt
for index larposes0 by CIA personnel '.efrkiag in :tate De
sent. This project is proving of mutual advantage to both
office r the machine index reveals duplications within
State L!partrnent files which would not otherwise come to
light.
(2) Na
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that coopers
currently traas
atific personallt
on on the working level is ruonabj
great value
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ffective.
3) The 8cientiftc Branch, ONI? 16 cooperative but has
transmitted fe date ave on specific request. It is believed
to be too short of personnel to exploit fully the data 011
scientific personaUties which it receives. On the working
level this office has expressed the belief that its afficioneY
will be improved if it is tuthorised by ONI to cease abstract?
ing data from rar Department and State Department forme, and
to concentrate its abstracting work on data from Navy sources.
Such authorisation by OE would depend, presumably, upon the
effectivenese of CIA in providing a central service for all
IAC agencies.
(4) The Air Forces,. T-2 pro
at real value. rright Field through
believed to have come into possession
information which should be centrally
dad some piece?meal data
foreign scientists, ie
onsiderable biographic
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