LONG-RANGE BUDGET ESTIMATE FOR THE GEOGRAPHIC RESEARCH AREA, FY 1966-1968

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-01155A000100010030-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 28, 2002
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: April 5, 1963
• Content Type: MEMO

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Chief, Adninistrative Staff, ORR
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Budget stinte
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ic Research Area,
es in personnel strength would depend. upon a realignment
or prozrans, either currently assigned to other compo-
Office or not done at all. If, for example, we have to
equirements coordination function in GRA, I will need
sonnet to accomplish this. Hopefully, one additional
e care of all of the work which might be involved.
on
Beyond the ositioris requested for PI 1965, it
ditiona ositions maybe required between 4 1
establis a capability to carry on mapping under t
oject for China and possibly other Par East areas,.
onemould be at the 08-12 level.
COntraetual Services
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1. for continuation of external research on Africa.
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This project has barely tapped the store of sociological infornation
needed =Africa south of the Sahara. The 11111111 permite a return
to the level of production originally intended, now that the initial
taffing-up prOblem appears to be eliminated.
25X1A1A 2. Mifor initiation of external researchon the USSR
involving search and collation of fral4entary Soviet information on
Soviet Central Asia related to Collation Project needs and. chemica) -
biclical-radiological (CBR) locational revirememats. The funds
rObably be obligated through the existing OST contract with
The endemic overtime situation in USSR Branch
in Special Research Trench makes it impossible
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fy the requireeient on an in-house basis. Disallowance of
proposed research would, make it almost imposafble to achieve
ion and ad.euate understanding of the more elusive features
military geography.
25X1A1A for initiation of external research on Latin
Aaarica This project envisions a program of supported research on
ethad and social groups and cultural landscapes in critical countries
of Win America. It has been budgeted for previously but vas not
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implemented-because manpower was not available in Geography Division
25X1X4 to 40 the detailed
and deve ant needed.
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There are no ex et ? g programs satis
e of the program will hamper essential intelligence
and reduce ORR's already insufficient capabilities on the
4, IIIIIIIIfor anticipated ad449., support of acadenic foreign
earch. It is desired to rescue ',rejects of interest to
g.oihtc intelligence that do not get adequate funds from normal
acm44mi ourees or support. The project recognizes the great value
to intelligence of the informational input represented by academic
h. The research involved would. be that for which in-house
ties do not exist. Its disallowance would eliminate a very
ixe tool for assuring completion of significant research.
5. for expense associated with anticipated establishment
of substantive consultant group. The consultants will provide an
evert 'source of data, analysis and opinion for which government
sources prove inadequate. The concept recognizes the paralleling
events of increased academic research production on foreign areas
and. a decrease in intelligence analyst time available for general
research and intelligence maintenance. With one or more consultants
to call en, D/CG'z overburdened branches are more likely to have the
eapdbility and responsiveness that increasingly urgent damn& on
them require.
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967 end 1968 it is highly unrealistic to estimate per-
utrients since Cartography Division workload and. size of
related directly to the support demanded of the Division.
reasonable way of Tostking an intelligent estimate for an
personnel beyond that requested in n 1965 and. 1966.
liquAment
sion is investigating an *uttion systen
t in Pnglsknd that viii be of tremendous use
rk. Generally, it is a machine which will
properly generalized to the scale of presentation from
rototype of the machine will be demonstrated at the
earto&raphic Association meetings in August 1964. The
being developed by a swell cartographic outfit tit Oxford
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use in the
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vision is bi2r practical. A
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1967.
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PareOnnel
of service and support to be gtven by the Nap Library
1966 - 1968 is so remote that it is pctica.11y
0 estimate additional personnel requirements, with the
on of several desk officers for the Proeurement Branch to
requirement for several additional personnel may develop
out of imentation now being conducted to determine the feasibility
of piacin the File Copy Collection of maps on film. The problem of
Ppe.e required by the Pile Copy Collection has plagued the Map Library
for the last two years or more. if the experimentation shows better
aip coverage can be made available at the State and Headquarters Branch
Libraries, as well as at the Depository, it is conceivable that one or
two a.it1ona1 personnel maybe required to provide processing until
the conversion project is completeC
Contractual Services
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Btport may be required in the PY 1966-1968 period for a Map
Library project involving the review of geographical source materials
and conversion of the information into a form which can be used by a
number of components in the Agency. This will r? uire the use of 25X1A5A1
time be Las a possible contract
. It is
project.
Distribution:
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1 - Ch/D/GL
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Imated that no more than
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