PRESS CLIP PROJECT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000600130007-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 6, 2003
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: May 26, 1964
• Content Type: MFR

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a. Levying additional requirements on OCR Library for
periodical and book reviews.
b. Providing asatataace to Ola his review of the wire
services, the 20 daily d 17 Sunday newspapers. and the 29
25X1 periodicals. suggests that we could use some of the
personnel as gne o e O/.DCI Security Staff to assist in this
review.
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MEMORANDUM F THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Press Clip Project
1. Continued di tcasions on Press C is Project. Talked with
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Security or CI Staff and that the present workload in Public Affairs
is such that they are now just barely able to xaaintain an indexing
and file operation on their currant product. {M pointed out that
they have a backlog of five months work on the new filing system. )
c. Office of Security felt that the logical place for this project
would be in Public Affairs, since they are presently cranked up
to process the balk of this information and that by a minimum of
additional help they could take on additional input from P'DD and the
DD/P. (Pfershei r tends to agree with this position.) DD/P. as
expected, is reluctant to take on this responsibililty. However,
they pointed out that they l have a continuing interest in the in-
formation produced from their more specialised CI objectives.
2. It is obvious that even the domestic press is not being adequately
covered at present. Current coverage could be improved by the following
methods
felt that the project should be given to the users, i e. , Office of
central files should be established and maintained.
a. Generally concluded that the primary purpose behind the
project is for security and/or CI r ses and that both the Office
of Security and CI fta"I would be the action units on
information aseemblad in this pra)sct.
b. There is considerable difference of opinion where the
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c. 9 Lirninate d uplic,tieen of reviews. For a arnpla. Office of
.tcuxrity in now reeviesin. Pk;
t _ ...~ .s i 7`/{il2Q~Qn P''ostr
the New
the lie S Arid and the *. TYork Ties,
are beueg reviev '*d by public - --..ms s '"T W orAkov. all of w h
the IUD/ F'; 4"Uiar* Butt` and possibly ors in
d. j?~svyin& al
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reevie~ev vyn Pa ' roments on pares in their alp.- for
NO in process we should
tiesstte, of course, that they do not
beep licsU the reviser presently
p*rfornawet by Public aijreedup
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3. There Arse obvious g&PS is .the review of jore4n
periodicsl,s. There is s Ch to be press and
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it into a rcentrgused s s'tom,
- to i prov* this coverage tend Crank
For example, it appears that l'DJ) taike is
being Pan*" - U ?,{w/ f (a f"Ul"Out Of
not being passed to PA,%, CI + a far type s' equirement) but
far" uelllr processed for t r field ston y is not being
as to p*ssage to ]PAS, and it appease that there is
g being donee to review _I take for *660 STAT s2eoca,id not exclude fore' pa~a>leeert. Although we
aetion in this area '' press fsferra his pr*ject. it nI-y be wise to defer
eanti3 w* have the sys ,, proce ee and capability of
properly handling the domestic pros.
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