NIS Committee Meeting No. 8

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-05597A000400020095-7
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 26, 1998
• Sequence Number: 95
• Publication Date: September 13, 1948
• Content Type: MIN

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l,, Members present were as follows:
NIS Committee Meeting No. 8
13 September 194
Dr. Dunn
Dr. Appleton
Col. Van Wyk
Lt. Col. DeHority
Cdr. Howell
Lt. Cal. Gould
i Ma . Gamber
State
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Army
Navy
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. It was announced that there would be at a
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orientation meeting of the coordinating staffs of the IAC Agencies. It
was explained that the orientation would not be a repetition of the Nis
Instructions but would be a supplementation thereof.
3. The present status of the CIA Demographic Unit to be established
in the Bureau of Census was explained.
4. The official copies of the JCS priority list were distributed one
to an Agency.
5. Col. Van Wyk passed out copies of a revised production schedule
for Chapters II, III, VII, and VIII. He pointed out that the dates were
those on which the various sections were to be turned over to BIG and the
dates for chapters requiring base maps were valid provided that the base
maps had been received sixty (60) days previously. He also stated that
Supplements No. III would be available at the same time as Sections 38
and that summaries for Chapter I would be available at the same time as
introductory sections. He pointed out that no work was planned on
Supplements No. 4 at this time.
6. The State Department members were requested to recast their schedule
so as to make it somewhat more definite than it now stands. It was pointed
out that, although they could perhaps not be so specific at this time as
the members from other Agencies, it should be possible, if only for planning
purposes, to schedule specific chapters for different areas. This would
accomplish three purposes:
a. Would give State blueprint of projected activities.
b. Would give the other Agencies an idea of how to gear
their activities for the preparation of their contributions
to State.
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e. Would give a more nearly firm idea about requirements for
base maps.
State undertook to revise its schedule along these lines.
7. State asked the opinion of the Committee about working on the low
priority NIS #101 at this time. The reason for wanting to work on #101 is
that there is a specialist competent on the area_now who will have to be
discharged if he is not employed on this work. It was the consensus that..
Chile the question is generally one for the Department of State to decide,
it would be improper to spend NIS money at this time for the production
of an NIS which now has little or no priority.
S. The possibility of shaping this yearts production schedule so as
to turn out complete NIS was discussed. It was brought out. that such
Agencies as Army and Navy were pretty well committed on the areas now shown
on the schedule; that the areas had been aligned by chapter; that a
harmonizing of the schedule with base map capabilities might tend toward
complete, or nearly complete, NIS; and that the NIS concept did not require
complete NIS as the unit of production. It was the consensus that, for
FY 1949, work ought to proceed as now scheduled, after the schedule has
been harmonized with base map capabilities; and that about 1 January 1949
a schedule for FY 1950 which would fill in NIS gaps for 1949 and could be
more firmly shaped toward complete NIS should be drawn up.
9. Col. Van Wyk stated that Army could give BIG in advance an estimate
of the number of pages to compose each section. 25X1A9a
10. In reply to a question of Lt. Col. Gould, explained
the CIA substantive review and the general functioning of the BIG Editorial
Staff,
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would be studied in connection with the Map Branch capabilities to produce
base maps; that such harmonization as necessary would be accomplished; that
this would be done as speedily as possible; and that another Committee
meeting before the end of the current week,,if possible, would then be called,,
tp adopt a finally approved tentative schedule X1A9a
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