JOINT PROJECTS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-01154A000200060001-2
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
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• Publication Date: September 17, 1971
• Content Type: MEMO

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17 September 1971
MEMORANDUM FOR: Assistant Deputy Director for Intelligence
SUBJECT Joint Projects
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Memorandum from 0/DDI, 25X1 A9a
9 September 1971, same subject
1. OBGI participated rather extensively over the past year in
joint projects with other agencies. The National Intelligence Survey
Program (NIS), the Intelligence Map Program (IMP), and the Inter-
agency Map Procurement Program (IMP?) result in jointly published
or procured products. Most of the other interagency participation
consists of consultation and coordination initiated and carried out at
the working level. Products published by other agencies following
such consultation and coordination generally do not indicate concurrence
by CIA.
2. OBGI activity can be divided into four categories: (A) Joint
interagency programs; (B) Long-standing relationships with other
agencies that involve more or less continual consultation and coordina-
tion; (C) Representation on interagency committees; and (D) Participation
with other agencies on specific projects or groups of projects.
A. JOINT INTERAGENCY PROGRAMS
(1) National Intelligence Survey Pregram (NIS)
As Chairman of the NIS Committee, the Director of OBGI
is responsible for administering this coordinated Interagency
program. Production allocations are shared by CIA and DoD,
supported by the Bureaus of the Census and Domestic Commerce.
DoD contributions to the NIS Program represent 50% of the total
effort, with DIA providing the major share; 5% comes from the
Department of Commerce. The Department of State, formerly
a major contributor to the program, has since 1962 limited its
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NIS participation to advisory support, including field review
of sociological, political, and economic coverage. Final
editorial review of NIS manuscripts is accomplished in OB01.
Where inconsistencies in data occur between the DIA and CIA
contributions to a single study, as in the General Survey,
effort is made to resolve the problem directly. Scientific
intelligence contributions to General Surveys are processed
through the Scientific Intelligence Committee prior to sub-
mission to OBGI. Edited General Survey manuscripts are
distributed to the members of the NIS Committee for approval
from their respective agencies.
(2) Interagency Map Procurement Program (IMPP)
OBGI is responsible for the management, substantive
direction and interagency coordination of this program.
Coordination began in 1947 and operates on a continuing
basis, to insure full coverage of all military, political,
Intelligence and other map needs of the U.S. Government.
The program is implemented through the Bureau of Intelli-
gence and Research in the Department of State; its objectives
are to insure the collection of all foreign-produced maps and
related data needed by the mapping and intelligence agencies.
Participating agencies are DIA, U. S. Army Topographic
Command, Navy Oceanographic Office, Aeronautical Chart
and Information Center, National Security Agency, Library of
Congress, U. S. Geological Survey, and National Oceanographic
Survey. Coordination of their requirements for maps and related
data is accomplished by OBGI map procurement officers with
representatives of the member agencies.
(3) Intelligence Map Program (IMP)
The Special Intelligence Graphic (SIG), a series of medium-
scale intelligence maps of Communist countries, has been
published jointly with DoD since 1960. OB01 is responsible
for developing the intelligence information, while DoD provides
basic compilation, printing, and dissemination. Approximately
70% of the USSR, 40% of China, and 20% of Poland have now
been covered by this map series.
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LONG-STANDING INTZRAQENCY RELATIONSHIPS
(1) Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA)
OBGI support to ACDA began with advice on the concept
of inspections in the Antarctic Treaty (1959) and has continued
at the working level with continual support to U.S. inspection
teams -- including Joint assessment of need for and timing of
inspections, periodic consultations on developments related
to inspection probleme, briefing of Inspection teams and
written reports on Soviet activities in the Antarctic.
(2) Defense luteiligenceAgaricy, Mapping and Charting (DIA C)
(a) A primary area of coordination with DIAlvIC occurs
through the COMM= MC&G Working Group where OBGI
provides expressions of Agency interest in planning and pro-
gramming in the MC&G field and in obtaining assurances that
DoD MC&G plans and demands on collection facilities are
Justifiable and reasonable.
(b) Another ea of cooperation and coordinationhas
developed over the years in the asitistance provided by OBG1
in the assessment of Soviet and Chinese MC&G capabilities.
Coordination has ranged from joint authorship of intelligence
studies to interchange of views on various policy-support
questions involving the propriety a granting or denying Soviet
access to U.S. geodetic and gravisrtetric data, instrumentation
(export control actions), and access by Communist geodesists
to U.S. research organizations and to ICBM complexes.
(3) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Relationship with NASA, initiated by NASA in. 1968, involves
frequent intelligence assessments of Soviet developments in
satellite geodesy and earth satellite resource surveying. These
are used in developing policy for the expanding U.S.-USSR space
research cooperation. OBGI support is provided in the form of
written and oral comments on various NASA actions and proposals,
informal consultations with NASA officials at their request, and
papers prepared for other purposes but believed to be pertinent
to NASA interests.
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(4) National Science Foundation (NSF)
OBGI support to NSF. Office of Polar Programs has
continued at the working and Office Director level since the
beginning of Soviet Antarctic activity in 1954. It is used by
NSF primarily to help devise cooperative and exchange pro-
grams with the USSR and includes reports on Soviet plans and
programs and periodic consultations on new developments.
(5) Department of State
Regular support is provided at the working level to the
Bureau of International Scientific and Technological Affairs
(SCI) in connection with Antarctic Treaty affairs. It includes
written reports on Soviet programs and performance related
to the treaty, with emphasis on identification of problems on
which State can take corrective action, and comments on U.S.
policy proposals. Continuing informal consultation at the work-
ing level on Law of the Sea matters has been in progress over
the past year with State's Office of the Geographer.
REPRESENTATION ON COMMITTEES
(1) Law of the Sea Task Force
An OBGI officer has served since April 1971 as the senior
CIA representative to the interagency Law of the Sea Task Force.
This activity has involved tasking various Agency components
for intelligence support to the Task Force, preparation and
coordination of Agency position papers or comments on substan-
tive matters, and participation at Task Force conferences.
(2) Interaftency Task Force on Weather Modification
An OBOI officer has served as the CIA representative on
the Interagency Task Force on Weather Modification and partici-
pated in the preparation of a report by its Military Uses Working
Group.
(3) NSC Ad-Hoc Committee on U.S. Arctic Policy
An OBGI geographic officer represented CIA on the NSC
Ad-Hoc Committee on U.S. Arctic Policy and participated in
the preparation of its report.
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fl SPECIFIC PROJECTS OR GROUPS OF OJECTS
Narcotics
Current interest in the narcotics problem has resulted
in continuing consultation and coordination with the Bureau
of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD). Three OBOI
reports issued during the past year were coordinated with
both BNDD and the Bureau of Customs. An OBGI report on
cocaine was used by the Director of BNDD in preparing for
a UN meeting; a revision of the same report was distributed
at a meeting of the UN Committee on Challenges for a Modern
Society; and a large section of it is used verbatim In a recently
completed BNDD compilation of information on cocaine.
Aswan Dam
In connection with the production of a study on the Aswan
Dam. OBGI officers had extensive discussions with repre-
sentatives of the Department of the Interior, the Army Engineers,
TOPOCOM, and the Office of Naval Research.
Director
Basic and Geographic Intelligence
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