PROJECT: INTELLIGENCE PRODUCTION REVIEW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M01133A000900070015-7
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 17, 2003
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: May 23, 1973
• Content Type: REPORT

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Project: Intelligence Production Review
1. This project was approved by General Graham on
25 April 1973 (see memorandum attached).
2. To date finished intelligence production reviews have
been completed for Latin America and Southeast Asia. We are in
receipt of printouts for China, the Soviet Union, and the Middle
East, and these reviews are in progress.
3. Interim recommendations based on the two completed
reviews are:
a. The DCI, probably through the USIB vehicle,
should address the matter of appropriate agency pro-
duction. Completed and pending analyses should provide
a good basis for this.
b. Some means must be devised to keep produc-
tion duplication and overlap in check. To this end, an
on-line registry file for finished intelligence production
would appear to be a feasible solution. The file would
consist of the proposed title for a product, a brief
content description, and the estimated production date.
Each agency contributing to the file would be responsible
for inputing the file and consulting it before initiating
production. Within directive bounds, an agency would
have the option to declare its intention to produce on a
subject already identified, but the file would immediately
alert production managers to carefully scrutinize the
duplicative products. IC/PRG access to file on a con-
tinuing basis would allow us to take corrective action
in cases of unwarranted duplication. (Initial contacts
have been made with COINS project personnel and an
intelligence production registry file proposal is being
developed. )
c. Additional research may also be required on
the subject of intradepartmental/intra-agency production
duplication.
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25 April 1973
MEMORANDUM FOR: General Graham
SUBJECT: Production Resources
1. As you are aware, a great deal of "inappropriate" agency
production goes on within the intelligence community. While some
production duplication may be desirable, generally speaking the
appropriate agency should produce the intelligence for which it is
best qualified. The numerous State Department studies on military
subjects are a classic example of production outside a department's
area of primary interest. There are valid and not so valid reasons
why the current patterns of production have come about, but good
management practices dictate that something be done to improve
the situation.
2. As a first step, a factual basis on which to base recom-
mendations must be developed. To this end, I have asked the
Central Reference Service to prepare a printout of community
production over the last year for Latin America. This printout
will be by title/keyword and producing agency. Other areas of
the world will be examined in a like manner based on a review
of findings in the Latin American case. (There is some question
that we are exercising the retrieval system most efficiently. )
3. When the above evaluations are completed, or when
reportable headway has been made, the results will be forwarded
along with recommendations.
Signed
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