PROCEDURE FOR EVALUATION OF CIG REPORTS OF INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04718A000400110017-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 28, 2000
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: July 31, 1947
• Content Type: MEMO

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31 July 1947
NEORANDIIL FOR THE DIRECTOR, CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
Subjects Procedure for Evaluation of CIG Reports
of Intelligence Information
1. Office of Special Operations non-concurs in the proposed
procedure.
2. This non-concurrence is based upon a completely realistic
concept of the responsibility of CIG (CIA) in the field of special
operations. Because of this particular responsibility, it is the
firm conviction of this office that 060 information reports should
not pass through ORE for evaluation prior to dissemination to the
member agencies.
3. CIG (CIA) has assumed responsibility for performing, for
the benefit of the intelligence agencies of the State, War and Navy
Departments, a service of common concern -- i.e., the conduct of
all espionage and counter-espionage for the collection of foreign
intelligence information. The Director, Central Intelligence, has
assigned this mission to the Office of Special Operations. Since
State, War and Navy Departments have discontinued all activities in
the field of espionage and counter-espionage, GIG (CIA), through
CJ60, has the obligation of delivering as rapidly as possible to the
intelligence agency of each department for its own evaluation and to
meet its own operating needs, the information product collected
through espionage and counter-espionage.
4. The 0.50 product is information graded by the collector as
to source and content and is not evaluated intelligence bearing the
stamp of coordination and collation. This product is also delivered
to ORE, the principal customer, where it is analyzed in relation to
other information and intelligence collected and produced by other
departments and agencies. The result of collation by ORE is evaluated,
,coordinated National Intelligence, a finished product which is
disseminated to the agencies concerned.
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5. The responsibilities of collection and coordinated
evaluation should not be combined. To do so adversely affects the
objective comparison of information previously evaluated by the
coordinator with contradictory information subsequently received
from another collector. This fact has recently been emphasized
in testimony before Congress by those opposing the desirability
of CIG (CIA) activities in both the collection and evaluation
fields, where the coordinating agency evaluates its own collection
product. The distinction between the graded information reports
of 080 and the evaluated, coordinated intelligence reports of ORE
is very real and should never be obscured.
6. This office also considers that the proposed procedure
would result in unnecessary delay in the delivery of reports to all
other intelligence users. Every effort is now being made to shorten
the time between the date of collection and the day of distribution.
?. In addition to the above, the very complicated procedure
proposed is considered most impractical.
8. The proposed CIG (CIA) Administrative Order, Enclosure A,
is in conflict with the charter and functions assigned the Office
of Special Operations by the Director, Central Intelligence, in
memorandum dated 25 October 1946.
9. This office welcomes and appreciates the ORE periodic
internal evaluation of OSO reports as to timeliness, value, etc.
Such evaluations are of the greatest assistance in improving the
quality of information collected by 0S0 and it is requested that this
service be continued. However, such evaluation should not be made
prior to distribution of 030 reports to other customers.
Assistant Director
Special Operations
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