PROGRAM ACCOMPLISHMENTS 1969 (CALENDAR YEAR)

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1969 (Calendar Year)
PRODUCTION OF INTELLIGENCE
National Intelligence Survey Program
Geographic Research Program
Intelligence Map Program
Cartographic Activities
INTELLIGENCE PROCESSING
Information Retrieval
(Map Collection, Processing, and
Reference)
GROUP 1
Excluded from automatic
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National Intelligence Survey Program
NIS production in 1969 comprised 33 General Surveys, bringing to 123
the number of countries on which Survey-type NIS are available, plus 258
supporting sections, of which 85% were revisions. Two pilot units entitled,
"Social Characteristics" were processed during the year. This new NIS
element consolidates coverage heretofore provided in four separate volumes:
Population (Section 41), Characteristics of the People (Section 11.2),
Religion, Education, and Public Information (Section 4+3), and Manpower
(Section 1i4). With its December 1969 issue, the semiannually produced Basic
Intelligence Factbook continued selective statistical coverage on some 180
countries and dependencies.
In response to an indicated broad requirement in the Department of
Defense, the first of a planned series of upper air atlases was produced
and published. This is the first known attempt at presenting an integrated
series of charts covering the climate of the upper air over the Southern
Hemisphere for levels up to 100 millibars. To test user reaction and
requirements, a questionnaire was disseminated with each volume.
At the request of the Executive Director-Comptroller, CIA, and the
Deputy Director for Intelligence, CIA, an NIS User Survey was undertaken in
early 1969 as a means of assessing the validity and effectiveness of the
current NIS concept. The Survey, accomplished with the cooperation of the
NIS Committee, consisted of a worldwide dissemination of a user questionnaire,
25X1A5a1 personal interviews in the field, an ADP applicability evaluation by ORD/CIA
and a cost analysis of NIS printing. In general, the
re urns o more an 1,000 user questionnaires and the findings of the field
interviews reaffirmed the utility of NIS products and confirmed that the
Program is providing authoritative, reliable, and comprehensive basic
intelligence and analysis on foreign areas. Findings also pointed to the
fact that unavailability and lack of currency of certain NIS products, along
with lack of knowledge about the NIS, hamper wider and more effective consumer
use. Analysis of the survey results is continuing and specific recommendations
as to the future direction of the Program are still under review.
With a view toward making the DoD produced elements of the NIS more
generally applicable to a wider group of users, the NIS Committee approved
certain modifications in the NIS outlines on Marine Climate and Oceanography.
The level of detail on some of the more highly specialized aspects has been
reduced, and provision has been made for coverage on known and potential
mineral and petroleum resources, food from the sea, and pollution.
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Specific steps have been taken to encourage NIS producers of the
General Survey to emphasize its overview function by further streamlining of
presentation--deemphasizing perishability and concentrating on those relatively
enduring factors which are distinctive of particular country situations. In
this connection, staff personnel in OBGI are assisting in the development of
revised instructions to analysts for improving the drafting of contributions.
Progress toward full implementation of a computerized photo-composing
system (EPIC - Electronic Printing for Intelligence Composition) continued in
calendar year 1969. Over 50% of all NIS published in 1969 was printed by this
method. Continued effort was made to expand the DIA use of automated techniques
in preparation of NIS contributions.
With reference to the Agency's effort to reduce material held in the
Records Center, a new approach to NIS reserve stock planning was developed
in 1969 which resulted in a 54/ savings of supplemental dissemination storage
space requirements.
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Cartographic Activities
Cartographic and graphic activities in calendar year 1969 resulted
in the production of 6,361 maps and graphic items of all types. Although
total available man-hours decreased .65%, production by items increased
over 10%. Significant contributions were made to all components of the
Agency, intelligence production, operational support, scientific investi-
gations, and logistical requirements. In addition, map and graphic support
for the President, Vice-President, USIB, the National Security Council, the
DCI and top-level personnel was extremely heavy in 1969.
Cartographic and graphic support of current intelligence activities
increased appreciably. Requirements placed on the All-Source Branch and
the Special Projects Section reflected the greatly increased emphasis on
on current reporting in OER, OSP, OSA, OSI, SAVA, OCI, OSR, and other Special
Center components. This activity reflected the need for maps and graphics
by the New Administration, the Vietnam conflicts, the Paris
Peace Conference, the Disarmament Talks, the SALT Talks, and the briefing
requirements of the DCI and top-level people. Much effort went into pro-
viding handbooks and trip factbooks for the President and Vice-President
and in preparing special briefing aids for White House executive assistants.
Trip factbooks were prepared for the President's trip to Europe and around
the world, as well as numerous briefing boards, vu-graphs, and slides for
the DCI and top-level briefings of congressional committees, the National
Security Council, and the White House.
Production by automation showed steady increase during the year in
supporting analytical requirements in the Special Center and in production
of planimetric bases and projections for compilation components. The
Soviet Weather Project, the OER China Target File, and Azimuthal Equidistant
planning charts were illustrative of this support. Progress was made in
upgrading automation techniques in programming earth profiles, line of sight
paths, geographic projections and the World Data Bank. A contract to 25X1D3a
develop a system for using
production was initiated with and intensive efforts
were made to relocate the automation activity. 25X1A5a1
Cartographic support for the NIS Program increased to 310 items--
Summary Maps, Base Maps, and various thematic maps required by Agency and
non-Agency components. Although the number of items increased over 10%
over calendar year 1968, overall support remained at approximately 30% of
productive capability.
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Support for the Vietnam War, other Far East requirements, and Communist
China absorbed considerable production man-hours. Guerrilla activity in Laos,
tribal insurgency in the Northeast India Frontier Area, and the disputed
Sino-Soviet Border required significant map support. To fill map gaps, a
Provincial Atlas of Communist China was completed and issued, and the Pro-
vincial Atlas of South Vietnam was updated and reissued. Other significant
contributions were made to the President's Quarterly Report on Soviet
Strategic Forces, the ABM discussions, and the
Biafran conflict.
Other cartographic support was provided various non-Agency components,
chiefly the Department of State, DIA, and ACIC. A total of 212 items,
representing a 4+3% increase over the previous year, were prepared for the
Department of State. The Paris Peace Conference, the Disarmament Conference,
and other State activities required a variety of thematic maps. Continuing
support during the year was provided Department of State publications such
as the Civil Division Geographic Reports, International Boundary Studies,
and Background Notes. Manpower also went into the production of numerous
base maps for Department of State current intelligence reporting, and for
the upcoming Law of the Seas Conference with the USSR in 1970.
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Geographic Research Program
Approximately 45 special studies were prepared in response to the
needs of policy level officials for geographic data and analysis bearing
on significant world developments. Included were detailed reports on the 25X6A
insurgency-plagued North Thailand and Thai Malaysia border areas, West
Irian, Sabah, and the Persian Gulf. A series of Intelligence Memoranda
25X6A treated vital aspects of the Middle East situation:
ino-Soviet border discord along the Ussuri was evaluated in
another Intelligence Memorandum, while intelligence on Soviet corrective
labor colonies and her apparent policy of map distortion were disseminated in
two Intelligence Reports. A needed Administrative Atlas of Communist China
was widely disseminated both within and outside the Government. Other important
studies dealt with the trend of internal conditions in Haiti, Sino-Soviet
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and the geography of Indian Ocean Islands. Extensive support continued to
be given to the Interagency Working Group on Antarctica and the Interagency
Intelligence Advisory Group on Exchanges. Total work accomplished under
this subelement amounted to 24