DISSEMINATION OF NIS TO THE ACADEMIC WORLD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-01153A000100050026-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 13, 1999
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: August 18, 1966
• Content Type: MEMO

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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Memorandum
TO Director of Basic Intelligence
FROM Chief, Editorial Division
SUBJECT: Dissemination of NIS to the academic world
18 August 1966
1. Unless a workable arrangement can be developed for
producing unclassified versions of certain elements of the NIS,
routine dissemination to academic institutions appears infeasible.
Currently only Section 23, Weather and Climate, is being
seriously examined in this regard, and DIA. reports little progress.
2. The NIS Gazetteer, on the other hand, is quite broadly
disseminated to the academic world. Sufficient copies of the
"public edition" (devoid of NIS attribution) are printed and
distributed by the Government Printing Office to %--p? e ~QG.
depository libraries (university and state) throughout the
country. An additional 350 copies are distributed through Board
on Geographic Names channels to geography and cartography
departments of various colleges and universities. Finally, BGN
sends a few copies of the "public edition" to commercial publishers
of maps and atlases, such as Rand-McNally, for use in textbooks
and other instructional materials.
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