STATEMENT FOR DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE REPORT TO THE NIA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67-00059A000200120050-1
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 18, 2000
• Sequence Number: 50
• Publication Date: June 17, 1947
• Content Type: MEMO

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17 June 1947
114ORANDUM TO: Chief, Planning Staff, ORE
SUBJECT: Statements for Director of Central Intelligence
Deport to the NIA
The Reference Branch which was activated in November 1946 has
during the first six months of 1947, put into operation its major com-
ponents, namely, Contact Control Register, Biographical Intelligence
Register, Foreign Industrial Register, Central I?ir~ 41,A Intelligence
Documents and Graphic Materials. There are now clerical and pro-
fessional personnel on duty and since the 1 o 1 building on 12
June 1947, additional space which is avail will allow this Branch
to meet its personnel schedule calling for by 1 October'
1947. It is anticipated that personnel recruitments will be stepped
up as soon as Civil Service Coutission designations have been granted
for the professional grades in the Reference Branch; so far only the
professional Library positions have been approved and established.
Since February, reports from the Office of Naval Intelligence,
the 'Military Intelligence Division and the Office of Operations, CIG,
regarding domestic sources of foreign intelligence information have begun
to flow to the Contact Control Register for indexing. A complete pooling
of such information is thus being effected by means of which each IAB
agency will have available to it the results of the efforts of all other
agencies and the need for multiple files capable of locating needed
sources of foreign intelligence is being eliminated.
The Biographical Intelligence Register has concentrated its
efforts in carrying out CIG Directive No. 16. &iajor emphasis have been
made with Biographical Information Division State Department, and officers
in charge of biographic material (Who's shot in the Geographic Branches
of the 's-ar Department, ID. Both of these Aggencies have been most co-
operative. The Liar Department has contributed some spotty information
to date from military attaches in the field. I.ore extensive material
has been,forthcoming from State Department representatives abroad. Steps
are being taken to absorb the State Department's category files, at their
request. This Register is in the process of completing procedures, codes
and systems and it is anticipated it will be able to service all material
within the next sixty days, providing personnel is available.
The Foreign Industrial Register was activated this month and has
been participating in numerous meetings with CIG offices and TAB agency
representatives on an operational level in working out various problems
relative to processing and recording foreign industrial data particularly
from. the Eastern Europe area. Major emphasis have been placed in arranging
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for the absorption of the Industrial Card Files from SDS in Baltimore.
Tentative arrangements call for the transferral of SDS's functions to
the Office of Operations, CIG, where the final translation responsibilities
relative to the Industrial Card Files will continue to be carried out.
Arrangements are under way to transfer to ORE on or before 1 October 1947
the analytical, evaluative, recording and cross-indexing functions pertain-
ing to the Industrial Card Files.
To date basic procedures and codes have been established for the
operation of the Central Index in regard to intelligence documents
deposited in the Reference Branch Library, documentary material in out-
side libraries and graphic materials both in CIG and available elsewhere.
Through the records of the Central Index, all such materials can be
readily located and made available to CIG and the IAB agencies. In
establishing the basic procedures and ccs, meetings with representatives
of CIG and IAB representatives were held to benefit from their experience
in regard to coding and indexing problems. Numerous studies and in-
vestigations have also been made to determine the best mechanical,
electrical, and/or electronic equipment available to enable the Central
Index to provide the desired results in the most efficient and economical
manner.
The Intelligence Documents personnel have commenced operations
for the establishment of a library in the Reference Branch, Key de-
activated service libraries have been investigated and arrangements made
for the acquisition of pertinent reference materials. To further satisfy
TAB requirements through Central Index, a system was evolved whereby
will be classified daily, by the Library, for items of
intelligence interest. A possible revision of the Basic Intelligence
Directive to embrace a wider field of subject classification for CIG
has been under discussion with responsible officials in the War Depart-
ment. It is, in addition, being keyed to Navy and State Department re-
quirements.
Acting Chief
Reference Branch, ORE
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