USE OF NIS SOCIOLOGICAL SECTIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-01153A000100080021-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 2000
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: June 3, 1966
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director, Office of Basic Intelligence
SUBJECT: Use of NIS Sociological Sections
1. The Intelligence Directorate, Joint Staff, acting for the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, reported in November 1960 on a comprehensive
survey of the military establishment (addresses attached) to determine
military requirements for NIS basic intelligence. The main purpose
of the survey was to establish guidelines for JSC priorities which,
at that time, governed to some extent NIS production schedules
2. The responses from this survey showed some preferences
in terms of areas in which sociological information was regarded
as essential to the accomplishment of the mission of the Command,
Agency, or office using the NIS. Section 42 was regarded as essential
in 95 areas; Section 43 in 78 areas, and Section 46 in 69 areas; i.e.,
military users felt that Section 42 was necessary in 82% of the areas
covered by the NIS, and the other sections were essential in lesser
degree.
3. Since that time, Section 42 has been prominently included
in supplemental distribution and special releases of the NIS. Of
some 3,000 extra copies requested during any three-month period, Sections
42 and 43 normally are in the upper third of such distribution.
Deputy Directorof Basic Intelligence
Attachment
A/S
Approved For Release 2000/08/29 : CIA-RDP79-01153A000100
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