REMARKS ON OCR REORGANIZATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01495R000600060003-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Document Release Date: July 11, 2005
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: April 17, 1967
• Content Type: FORM

OPTIONAL FORM NO: 'i0
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Memorandum
FROM
DATE: 17 April 1967
SUBJECT: Remarks on OCR Reorganization
I think the D/OCR is on the right track and should receive the DDI's
encouragement. For your convenience, I summarize my own comments below:
1. Further dialogue with the DDP will hopefully bring savings in
the processing of biographic intelligence.
2. Implementation of OCR's reorganization need not await development
of single index vocabularies or other major overhaul of OCR's present
file subsystems. Above all, the demonstrated advantages of present manual
methods of dossier filing should be retained.
3. The analyst referral service is very well worth trying.
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If the projected reliance under the CHIVE design, on OCS for
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computer services does not materialize, the DDI will nurture in his own
house a service group that should grow at the exponential rate of a
booming growth industry. He can hold on to this service group only if
he revises his present thinking about the proportion of his budget which
should go to information processing.
5. A monitoring group to validate or review requests for OCR
service will do more than curb demands from eccentric requesters. It
will have information to determine which are the active and inactive
dossiers and subject codes in OCR's files and thus be in a position
make recommendations on depth of indexing and extent of file coverage.
6. The reorganization should provide for reduction in the number
of CHIVE systems analysts.
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