REQUESTED MANPOWER ESTIMATES ON NIS SECTIONS (102 PER YEAR)

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
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• Publication Date: November 5, 1968
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Reqneeted manpewer? estimate on NIS sectigns 102 per year
-Best aVailabIo estimates have not changed Significantly over
tha past -year. Wa carry them as follows.
2. Three professionals and Gne clerical in the SA/R/OCI office and
five special assistants for research in the four Areas devote most (though
nut all) their time to the NIS--mainly in a reviewing and scheduling.
capacity?and are thus carried as 9 man years of I:research overhead."
3. Production of NIS drafts by profesaionals in the Areas is
figured on the following rule-of-thuMb basis, the figures including sub-
sequent conference and revision time as well as the initial vritin8:
3J General Surveys (Sea 44 es 5) at 200 man-days each 6000
12 Sec 57 (Subversion & Insurpncy) at 120 man-days each 1440 -
7440
At 212 man-'days to a man-year this givea a little over 35 man-years.
4. Based on a. very rough estimate of the total typing load, non-
professional manpower cost (except as covered in Para 1 above) has been
calculated at 12A) man-days, or 5.?,i man-years; this assumes typing of Ni
drafts in the Areas..-Where most drtlfts during the past year have in fact
been typed. Handling the main typing load in PUblications Support, when
this becomes possible, would cut a little over one man-year from these
estimates.
5. Entirely, excluded trim these estimates are various kinds of
overhead necessary for research but common to all OCI activity, such as
information control, file maintenance, maintenance of analysts' exj-iertise
on their aretvand general administration of analysts and typists. (Also
excluded is time devoted to the NIS Fectbook (Which is handled nainly
througla the regular OCI line of command), OCI Country Handbooks and OCI
research papers?Which all told probably amount to leas than two man-yecrs.)
The estimates thus4provide no accurate reflection of.the manpower it voula
cost to produce t4ese 102 NIS sections outside of OCI.
6. Recapitulation on the above baste:
Cost in Man-Years
Professional dlerical
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Production eab418 See .,35
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Research Overhead 8 1 ExClucind tram autnalic '
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHING-CON 25. D. C.
OFFICE OF DEPUTY DIRECTOR Of CENTRAL 1NnaUGENCE
.1.0 NOV
NEMORANDUM FOR: Chairman, United States Intelligence Board
SUBJECT: National Intelligence Surveys (NIS)
1. The Central Intelligence Agency has iecantly conducted
an informal internal review of the NIS program tp determine
whether the large work load and budgetary eXpenditures now
entailed are essential and whether chronic deficiencies in
? coverage and timeliness can be remedied. Pn,aiminary -findings
indicate that:
? .. a. The NIS program at present includes detailed
treatment of comparatively transient subjects, such
as political, .which cannot be kept up-to-date in a
ormal publication program of this type. This effort
to cover subjects Which are of no value as intelligence',
unless maintained in a quite current status; has brought
about a persistent problem of Obsolescence..
b. The NIS program should be more concentrated
on subjects of a fundamental and more or less permanent
.nature, as stated in NSCID No. 3, with a substantial
red-G:tion in the coverage now prescribed; for example,
for the 'political chapter, the scientific chapter, the
chapter dealing with the armed forces, and the economic
and sociological chapters.
c. The intelligence community has assets and
facilities- which can produce intelligence on political,
sociological, scientific, military and economic develop-
ments in all countries of strategic interest and can
:e'eedule such production in accoi-dance wit 17 actual
requirements, rather than subject such .production to the
coordination and publication procedure required for an
encyclopedic compilation.
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d, It is clear from the proliferation of other forms
of basic intelligence production. that the NIS program does
not at present all of t,he more or less permanent
type information that might be required by, or be most
useful to, planners and operators.
2. In the light of these conclusions, I '':,elieve it would be
appropriate for the Board to review the overall concept of the
NIS, with a view to revising the. Program, taking into account
the canes in needs for basic intelligence which have occurred
since 1947, and the facilities for meeting these needs which
have come into being since the conception of the NIS.
3. it is recommended that the Board request the Coordination
Staff of the Director of Central. Intelligence to exsmine this matter
and submit recommendations for revision of the NIS program to the
Board for its consideration.
MARSHALL S. CARTER
Lieutenant Seneral, USA
'Deputy D'Irector
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OCI NOTICE ORGANIZATION
NO. 1-25 18 June 1969
OFFICE OF CURRENT INTELLIGENCE
REALIGNMENT OF THE OCI ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
1. An extensive restructuring of OCI's organi-
zation will take effect as of this date. The re-
structuring applies equally to staffs, area analytical
units, and support components as indicated in the at-
tached schematic chart.
2. The staff structure is changed as follows:
a. The post of Special Assistant to the D/OCI
for Management is created. This officer will
head the Management Staff, which will include
the Plans and Technology Officer, the ca-
reer Development Officer, and the Adminis-
trative Staff. In addition, he will perform
certain substantive duties for the D/OCI.
b. A Research Staff, whose Chief will report
to the D/OCI, is created. The former Spe-
cial Assistant for Research will become the
Deputy Chief for NIS. The Office Historical
Project will be associated with the Research
Staff, This Staff will be the subject of
a separate notice.
c. The Special, Presentations, and Intelligence
Information Staffs are dissolved.
d. The Special Assistant to the D/OCI for Pro-
duction will become Chief of a Production
Staff. This staff will include the Special
Assistant for the CIB, the personnel and
functions of the former Presentations and
Intelligence Information Staffs, and the
Indications and News Analysis officers from
the Special Staff.
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e. The President's Daily Brief group, desig-
nated the Special Projects Staff, will
report directly to the D/OCI.
3. The Area structure is changed as follows:
a. All four Areas are redesignated as Divi-
sions.
b. Full-time Deputy Division Chief positions are
established. Positions are also established
for Deputy Branch Chiefs, not necessarily
full-time; many of these positions will not
be filled immediately.
c. All present divisions are dissolved. In or-
der, however, to coordinate office reporting
on major targets, positions are established
for a Senior Analyst for Soviet Affairs and
a Senior Analyst for Chinese Affairs on the
staffs of their respective division chiefs.
d. In the Far East Division, the former Indo-
China Division, less the Thailand-Laos-Cam-
bodia Branch, is reconstituted as a Vietnam
Task Force. The TLC Branch is merged with
Southeast Asia Branch. Responsibility for
Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao is transferred
to China Foreign Policy Branch.
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The North and Central Europe Branch is re-
designated Northern Europe Branch. The two
branches of the former East European Division
are merged as the Eastern European Branch.
f. In the Middle East-Africa Division there will
be two Deputy chiefs, one for Middle East
and one for Africa. While this will make
the elimination of these two divisions less
meaningful, it is necessary to handle the
interdepartmental Group and NIS load.
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g. The Western Hemisphere Division will have
three branches: a Northern Branch responsible
for Mexico, Central America, Venezuela and
Colombia; a Caribbean Branch responsible for
the Caribbean Islands plus the Guianas; a
Southern Branch responsible for the rest of
South America
E. DREXEL GODFREY, JR.
Director of Current Intelligence
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