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Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
CIA-RDP81S00991R000200050008-9
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RIPPUB
Original Classification:
S
Document Page Count:
2
Document Creation Date:
December 12, 2016
Document Release Date:
January 7, 2002
Sequence Number:
8
Case Number:
Publication Date:
September 21, 1966
Content Type:
MF
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21 September 1966
MEMORANDUM FOR: The Director of Intelligence and Research
Department of State
The Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
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SUBJECT:
1. The Central Intelligence Agency is undertaking a new program
aimed at improving and,increasing collection of
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It is our understanding that a project' of similar nature
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between his representatives and officers of this Agency's
We ask your cooperation and support in_broadening the base.of this endeavor.
2. Background.' We have become increasingly concerned by evident
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information' called for by officials responsible for assessing the consequences
for US foreign policy. We have often been "caught short", in meeting this
need of the high-level consumer. Moreover, the Central Intelligence Agency 25X1 C
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activities as well) has 'a vital need for ' such data
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we ask for the following support:
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b. that the Bureau of Intelligence and Research and the DIA Pro-
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duction Center, in conjunction with the
certain commentaries concerning
graph 3-b of the attachment);
once published (see para-
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