OFFICE OF BASIC INTELLIGENCE GOALS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-01155A000200020061-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 5, 2001
• Sequence Number: 61
• Content Type: REQ

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OFFICE OF BASIC INTELLIGENCE
GOALS
Intelligence Production
World-Wide
1. Provide guidance and direction to all production of
basic intelligence in the Community in order to achieve a more
coherent response to basic intelligence requirements and reduce
unnecessary duplication of research effort by providing a locus
of authority in fulfillment of the Agency's coordination role
in the intelligence community.
2. Improve utilization of behavioral-science knowledge
and techniques in intelligence research and analysis.
3. Strengthen existing support relationships between
organizations concerned with intelligence production and those
concerned with intelligence operations.
4+. Utilize technical advances in high-speed printing with
the use of computers, scanners, and similar equipment for
publication of the NIS and other basic intelligence in order
to expeditiously service the consumer.
5. Develop a stronger role in recommending inter-Agency
special subject and topographic map production to meet basic
intelligence needs, priority intelligence requirements, and
coverage deficiencies.
6. Foreign and domestic field collection experience for
selected personnel to enhance collection management, cover gaps
in areas and subjects left by Geographic Attaches, and to assist
and support assigned Agency collection personnel.
7. Develop a "central intelligence" map library facility
through the use of film miniaturization and ADP techniques to
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insure rapid and comprehensive service to customers of'all
map materials available throughout the Government.
8. Establish a basic information center to consolidate
holdings of maps, guides, atlases, gazetteers, and related
basic geographic and environmental intelligence, with direct
ties and service capabilities with larger and more diverse data
centers, e.g., CHIVE.
9. Develop the full potential of automation as applied to
a map storage and retrieval system as well as to the compilation,
drafting and reproduction phases of cartography.
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