BRIEFING ON CIA'S OVERT COLLECTION AND INTELLIGENCE PRODUCTION ACTIVITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01083A000100170073-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 5, 2012
• Sequence Number: 73
• Content Type: BRIEF

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BRIEFING ON CIA' s OVE~tT COLLECTION AND INTEI~,IGE'NCE PRODUCTION ACTIVITIES
1. DD~I axes fulfills DCI responsibilities to evaluate
intelligence and in addition performs some services of common
concern. In some cases the two facets are combined.
2. DD~I area:
a. Drafts and coordinates National Intelligence Bstimates.
b. Schedules, edits and publishes all basic intelligence.
c. Main producer of current intelligence in U.S. Goverrmaent.
Produces current intelligence with assistance of other
members of intelligence co?nnunity.
d. Main producer of intelligence on Soviet Bloc econoamy
and science.
e. Producer of information from foreign radio broadcasts,
domestic sources, foreign documents.
f. Has massive information storage, reference, and recovery
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program which gives leadership in developing comnpatible
reference systems throughout the intelligence casmaunity.
g. Coordinator and developer of new methods in the field of
photo interpretation.
Approximately required to carry out these functions
addition to the indirect assistance from Personnel, Security,
Training, Logistics, etc.)
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4. Eight offices - (Chart)
5. OBI -~ I~eople
NIS Committee - JCS priorities
NIS (example} - Interagency effort - 9796 coanplete on Soviet
Bloc - mayor problem now keeping it up to date.
Much original work still to do on Free World.
6. Office of Operations
Holding corporation for 3 mayor services of common concern.
B11 are veteran organizations doing a sound and important fob.
foreigners.
Exchange with BBC - total of approximately 7 million words a day
available for intercept - 11 intercept stations - 200,000 words
a day transmitted to Washington - published daily i.n survey and
extract form - timely and unique intelligence - Chinese Communists'
announcement re tauemoy in hands of DCI in
(Example of FBIS publication).
people - 25-30 languages used regularly -
magazines, books, journals, pamphlets -~+~+0 Soviet scientific
technical publications - assistance to CS who obtain foreign
language reports from liaison channels - JPRS - outside
organization to use unclearable people for translation - results
of FDD translation available to LAS science and industry through
Department of Coa-~nerce, Library of Congress, etc.
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7. OCR -~~people
1500 intelligence reports a dsy - over 3,000,000 documents
on file - Biographical Register, Industrial Register, Graphic Register,
chairs interagency Committee on Documentation to achieve compatible
systems -publishes information collected from US Government officials -
large machine problem - mechanical translator now ready for Russian,
French next - Many problems of mass data handling remain to be solved,
but OCR actively at work on them.
8. OCI -~ people
21+ hours a dsy - 7 day week coverage - CIB to President,
Secretary of State, Defense, JCS, etc., produced with help of other
Gives NSC memhhrs and others everything they need to know.
agencies. ~ Ad hoc current reporting - weekly publication of trends -
supports NIC and Watch Committee - Critic System. Has its own signal
center manned by Agency Comoro personnel. Stays on top of current situations
few important things are missed.
9. ONE -Opeople
Staff to DCI for drafts and coordination of National Intelligence
Estimates - Soviet Bloc estimate geared to US Budget preparation -
"Problem" estimates such as Soviet Boanber production (example later
in detail) also area estimate such as "Lebanon" -estimates have high
record of accuracy - Post mortem procedure - Use by NSC Planning Board,
NSC, and OCB.
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10. ORR - people
I+~cona~y of Soviet Bloc including Communist China -Geographic
intelligence on entire world - uses n people to do ,job of analysis on
Soviet economy that U5 requires
people to do on its own econa~my -
figures firm enough to guide US policy -
unique Map Library
of special program maps -also produces non-terrain maps -
11. OSZ - u people
Science and technology in Soviet Bloc - AE all over world -
importance of science and technology in current era - C~++i - BW - CW-space
12. PIC - (people
Repository of aerial photography -
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