CRS PROGRESS REPORT ON RECEIPT OF SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE DOCUMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01495R000600100022-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Document Release Date: July 11, 2005
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: February 20, 1974
• Content Type: MF

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Attached is CRS' quarterly progress report
to the Management Committee on programs for in-
clusion of sensitive intelligence materials in
the Agency's central reference system.
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20 February 1974
MEMORANDUM FOR: CIA Management Committee
SUBJECT CRS Progress Report on Receipt
of Sensitive Intelligence Documents
1. I am attaching herewith the progress report by the
Director, Central Reference Service on the implementation of
the decision made by the Management Committee on 6 August
1973 (MCA-38) that procedures be implemented to get sensitive
documents into the CRS reference system.
2. The progress report shows that the implementation of
this decision has been quite uneven. In regard to those short-
comings which pertain to the DDI, I have issued instructions to
the heads of all my components to be sure that all of their ad hoc
typescript memoranda are forwarded to CRS for storage. I have
also taken the necessary steps to see that processing of the large
volume of sensitive reporting on Vietnam and Southeast Asia be
expedited so that this backlog will be eliminated before the next
quarterly report.
3. The Director, Central Reference Service points out in
his progress report that compliance with the Management Committee
decision is largely dependent upon the initiative of the Directorates.
and production offices. In view of the importance of this program,
I wish to endorse his report, particularly his suggestion in paragraph
3 that the producers of intelligence be directed to provide a report
an what has been produced and the degree of their compliance with
MCA-38.
Deputy Director for Intelligence
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MEMORANDUM FOR: CIA Management Committee
THROUGH Deputy Director for Intelligence
SUBJECT CRS Receipt of CIA-Produced Sensitive
Intelligence Documents - Progress Report
1. On 6 August 1973 the DCI approved an IG Report to
the Management Committee on Sensitive Document Storage and
Retrieval (MCA-3 $). The IG recommended that:
a. CIA offices engaged in the production
of finished intelligence, or in substantive
intelligence support to policy levels in the
government, be required to consult with CRS to
develop a standard approach to eventual inclu-
sion of that material in the CRS reference
system.
b. The DDO continue its work with CRS for
eventual inclusion of sensitive intelligence
into. the CRS reference system and that it take
steps to clarify the status of its past sensitive
intelligence reporting .for eventual incorporation
into the CRS reference system.
c. CRS provide quarterly reports to the
CIA Management Committee on programs for inclusion
of sensitive intelligence materials into the
Agency's central reference system.
This memorandum responds to the last recommendation; it
covers the fourth quarter of calendar year 1973.
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SUBJECT: CRS Receipt of CIA-Produced Sensitive Intelligence
Documents - Progress Report
2. No appreciable improvement has occurred since
the last quarterly report. By directorate the status
is: ,
OCI continues to cooperate by regularly
transmitting its formal finished intelligence reports
and ad hoc memoranda for indexing, The other DDI offices
apparently provide all their finished intelligence reports
and memoranda. None of the DDI offices (with the excep-
tion of OCI), however, has forwarded their fourth quarter
1973 ad hoc typescript memoranda to CRS.
of older DDI sensitive reporting on VietnamRandrSoutheast
Asia began in the third quarter 1973 but no reports were
received in the fourth quarter.
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Official finished intelligence reparts produced
by OSI and OWI are regularly received. If ad hoc finished.
memoranda are produced in these offices, they are not
being sent to CRS for indexing and filing.
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SUBJECT: CRS Receipt of CIA-Produced Sensitive Intelligence
Documents - Progress Report
DCI/SALT Support Staff
Current negotiations with the Staff should provide
us with reports dating back to 1969 and ensure receipt of
all future reports.
DCI/NIO Support Staff
Meetings have been held with the NIO Support
Staff to ensure receipts of NIEs and SNIEs for the data
index. Arrangements also have been made to obtain back
issues of NIO ad hoc memoranda for indexing.
3. In a watchdog role CRS can, at best, observe
and report. Distribution of sensitive intelligence reports
to CRS must result from the initiative of the directorates
and production offices. It is my opinion that little
additional progress will be made in this area until the
producers of such intelligence are directed to provide
a report on what has been produced and on the degree
of their compliance with MCA-38.
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