COMMITTEE ON DOCUMENTATION REPORT ON ITS REVIEW OF THE STUDY BY TASK V (BIOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE)

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• Publication Date: January 29, 1968
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29 January 1968
UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOAR D
MEMORANDUM FOR THE UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD
SUBJECT
Committee on Documentation Report on its Review
of the Study by Task Team V (Biographic Intelligence)
REFERENCES :
a.
b.
USIB-D-39.7/6, 6 May 1964
USIB-M-322, 29 April 1965, Item 5
c.
USIB-D-39.7/5, 16 March 1964
V's report and a CODIB Support Staff report, the CODIB members recommen
against their being forwarded to USIB and instead agreed to have them
maintained in the CODIB file with copies to be made available on request.
CODIB will continue to give priority attention to biographic intelligence
and reports on this subject will be submitted to USIB as warranted.
3. Since Task Team V has been dissolved and all other CODIB task
teams have completed their tasks and reports have been forwarded to USIB,
CODIB will submit no further task team reports in direct response to the
recommendations of the Staff for the Community Information Processing
Study (SCIPS) report, reference a.
4. It is not planned to schedule this report on the USIB agenda for
discussion unless specifically requested by a Board member to do so prior
to close of business 5 February 1968. In the absence of such a request it
will be considered for record purposes, that USIB "noted" the subject
1. The enclosed report by the Chairman, Committee on Documentation
(CODIB) summarizing the results of the Committee's review of the study
undertaken by CODIB's Task Team V (Biographic Intelligence) in response
to USIB directives in reference a. , is submitted for USIB consideration.
2. This memorandum states that, following a review of both Task Team ,/1?
A
report on that date.
25X1A
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29 January 1968
U N I T E D S T A. T E S I N T E L L I G E N C E B O A R D
COMMITTEE ON DOCUMENTATION
MEMORANDUM FOR: United States Intelligence Board
SUBJECT: Biographic Intelligence
REFERENCES: (a) USIB-D-39.7/5, 16 March 1964
(b) USIB-D-39.7/6, 6 May 1964
1. On 29 November 1967 the Chairman of CODIB submitted to the
CODIB members a CODIB Support Staff report on biographies. This
report was undertaken as a follow-up to a Report on Biographies sub-
mitted to CODIB on 11 February 1966 by Task Team V which had been
organized in response to USIB direction in Reference (b).
2. CODIB, after careful consideration, recommended that the
earlier report by Task Team V not be forwarded to USIB. Similarly,
the CODIB members have reviewed the Support Staff report and do not
recommend that it be forwarded to USIB. These reports provide a
valuable inventory of biographic files and other information but do
not define biographic intelligence problems and possible solutions
with sufficient strength and precision to warrant USIB consideration.
These reports will be kept on file in CODIB and copies will be
available on request*.
3. Task Team V, Biographies, was dissolved after it submitted
its report in February 1966. All other CODIB task teams which were
organized pursuant to the recommendations in Reference (a), as ap-
proved in Reference (b), have completed their tasks and reports have
been submitted to USIB. CODIB, therefore, will submit no further task
team reports in direct response to the recommendations of the SCIPS
report (Reference a).
4. CODIB will continue to give priority attention to biographic
intelligence. The Soviet Biographic Panel of COINS is now exploring
biographic matters in some depth and subsequent reports on this
subject will be submitted to USIB as warranted.
25X1A
Chairman
Committee on Documentation
* Copies of both were sent to the USIB Secretariat.
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