NIS ANNUALS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79S01057A000100020011-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 13, 2006
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: June 5, 1958
• Content Type: MEMO

Approved For Release 2006/;1-0~13J;,,.CIA~
5 Suss 1958
MEM?ktANI~UI+d FC-R: Assistant t3irector for Current ~te2ligenc~
REFEIi&NC~: My menc~o to I)I~-/I, subject. )~Iaadbook Program,
dated ~4 :Iepteml-er 198?
1. The PiIS Committee has tou~i it necessary to modify the planned
features of the MS Anneals, ss set fiorrth in paragraph 3 of reference memo,
is view of the severely litnitad MIS production capabilities esfsting at this
time. instead of issuing Annuals an all published Chapters I on a yearly
basis, it is navr plaaxied to review aaxtually all published Chapters I and to
issue, in accflrdance with agencies' capabilities, NIS Ax-nuals on a yearly
beater for those Chapters I is which xaajor changes have occurred, for which
iafarn~atican hs~s became available to fill major getps, ?r both.
Z. Ir~npiem:eatatiortx of this modif#ed concept will result is limited
revision of Chapters I where reviriaa is ~anost necessary, preservation
of user confidence in Chapters I, ate! maximum ~-tiliaation of basic intel-
ligeace research facilities for which the NI8 staffs in the producing agencies
are best adapted. t3nlike Lhe regivshal. staffing patters in C~CI, the N3S staf#s
is the Defense Agencies are functiomal iu nature so that aaalpsts are un-
prepared for cowatry-by-country a,ne-lyses without undertaking thorough
research of all sourc+a materials.
3. I have reluctantly concl~uled, therefore, that t~ present NIS
Annual program will Aot replace the E3Cl Handbooks is their "primary
emphasis on material of a changing nature. such as cab~at composition,
economic statistics, etc." ]EsIowever, the present NISI A~ual program
will be adequate to reflect all frindarnental changes 3a eo~mtries for which
Chapters I are published.
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4. T'heres is a contisuting faattliigaoce a+eed for a sort of i' Wox~~td
~+,.lmau~a.c" type of ref+sx~eace handhoo?k. g~rixns.riiy crt a s#atistical xlatttr~l,
~ta reflect cuxreat changes is farai~ ct~-tries of the vrorid. If the
present t}CI 1~Ian+dbooks coald be phased into tb~is briefer type of current
refereACe geriodicals ou foreign areas covered by NIS Cl+~ipters I, it
would eiixninate dt~plic:ticm. of the bsa~tic is~teliigsace properly handled
by the NIS program aad fill the cttrreut iatelligencr gap w~tish would
e~cist were the publicatiiut ref G3C.I ~bc~ke suspeacled.
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