COMMISSION DAY WEDNESDAY, 19 FEBRUARY 1975

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00704A000100070021-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 20, 2000
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: February 19, 1975
• Content Type: BIO

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Commission Day
Wednesday, 19 February 1975
A little on my professional background--
--Received an A. B. from Brown in 1942 with
highest honors in Economics (also Phi Beta
Kappa).
--After three years in Army Ordnance, I returned
to Brown in late 1945 as an Instructor in
Economics and earned an A. M.
--From 1947 to 1950 I was a Teaching Fellow at
Harvard while working on my Ph. D.
--And from 1950 to 1953 I was an Assistant
Professor of Economics and Statistics at
Penn State.
--I entered CIA in June 1953 as an analyst working
on Soviet industry and worked on Soviet military-
economics in various capacities.
--In 1966 I became a member of the Board of
National Estimates and after serving on the
Board for just less than a year, I was appointed
Assistant Deputy Director for Intelligence in
February 1966 and then Deputy Director for
Intelligence in May of 1971.
The primary role of the Directorate of Intelligence
is to provide US policymakers with authoritative
information and assessments about what's going on
abroad that they need to do their job.
--These senior policymakers include the members of
the National Security Council- -President, the
Vice President, Secretary of Defense, Secretary
of State, and Secretary of Treasury and their
staffs. These people have the primary
responsibility for formulation and implementation
of US foreign political, economic, and defense
policy.
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--We provide our intelligence to these people and
their staffs through a variety of publications and
briefings and through participation in the various
groups and panels of the NSC.
The process for producing this intelligence involves
a series of steps:
--the collection and assembly of raw information
from all sources available to the US Government, ..
ranging from the overt news dispatches to the
most secret technical devices;
--the assessment of the validity of the raw
information;
--the selection of that which is valid and pertinent
to the question under consideration;
--the analysis of the information and development
of objective -conclusions and judgments; and
--the presentation, of the findings in a clear,
succinct, and timely fashion.
We issue a wide variety of publications tailored to
the substantive needs of customers.
--We have a number of daily current intelligence
publications designed to meet the needs and
interests of particular consumers...
..A special publication called The President?s
Daily Brief, is published and discussed with the
President every day at about 8:00 a. m. When
he is not in Washington, this is provided him
by wire.
..The National Intelligence DAILY--for people
in the foreign affairs and defense field down
to the Assistant Secretary level.
--We produce several special weekly current
intelligence publications on such subjects as
International Energy Developments and on World
Economic conditions.
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--But most of our. publications are directly
responsive to requests from consumers on
specific, subjects.
? . Some /of them like National Intelligence
Estimates involve the entire foreign .
intelligence community, like DLA, State,
the military services, and NSA;:-
..-Others are unilateral products of the Agency
on specific topics--political, economic, or
military--and some times multidisciplinary
on a specific country or groups of countries.
From the point of view of organization:
The Directorate has five substantive Offices
which produce finished intelligence in
accordance with their title--Office of Current
Intelligence (OCI), . Office of Political
Research (OPR), Office of Strategic Research
(OSR), Office of Economic Research (OER),
and Office of Geographic and Cartographic
We have a number of supporting organizations:
Central Reference Service (CRS) is
responsible for the dissemination of
incoming information from all sources and
for the storage and retrieval of information.
The Directorate has an overt collection function,
the monitoring of foreign public broadcasts of news
and commentary and of foreign press.
I
We also process raw information into more useable
forms for our analysts... by translating foreign
documents and newspapers--and by interpretation
of photography.
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We provide guidance and evaluation of various
technical and clandestine collection through the
Collection Guidance and Assessments Staff (CGAS)
and with regard to satellite photography through
the Committee on Imagery Requirements and
Exploitation (COMIREX).
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