DEAR MR. BRAMMELL:

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-01153A000100070008-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 24, 2000
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: July 2, 1968
• Content Type: LETTER

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UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF MINES
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20240
July 2, 1968
*DOI Waiver Letter In ERU File*
Mr. James A. Bramwell
Director, Basic and Geographic
Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
We have accomplished an accelerated program for producing the con-
siderable backlog of manuscripts remaining in our NIS effort over
the past fiscal year. This was done by scheduling the effort of
the entire Division from November 1, 1967, through February 1968
on the program for a total of about 10,000 man hours. This, added
to the approximately 25,000 man hours on the program during the
rest of fiscal 196$ is substantially above the effort represented
by our budget allocation for the period. We have done this because
of our sincere desire to get the program on a current basis. Because
of equipment bottlenecks and editorial delays we have not been able
to get the finished manuscripts in your hands.
The enclosed schedule gives our estimation of the dates upon which
we expect to deliver to your editors the backlog manuscripts. For-
tunately this operation will not bear on the early phrases of our
effort to produce the scheduled manuscripts during the current fiscal
year and we can finally look forward to getting our total NIS com-
mitment on an acceptable and workable basis.
Most of the manuscripts on the enclosed list will not be done on
the tape system as we cannot possibly resolve the bottleneck of the
Dura machine and produce this number of drafts in the time allocated.
Preliminary discussions with your staff indicate that this will
cause no ma3or difficulty as your conversion to the tape system is
not complete at present.
I will be glad to discuss the details of our efforts in person at
your convenience.
Sincerely yours,
Virg~`1 L~ Barr, Chief
Division of International Activities
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