PREPARATION OF OCR HISTORY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 29, 1999
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: October 10, 1966
• Content Type: MF

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10 October 1966
MEMORANDUM FOR OCR Division and Staff Chiefs
SUBJECT i Preparation of OCR History
The Board suggests as a third possible alternative that personnel who
can write and who are scheduled to retire within six months could be
relieved of other duties and assigned to the writing prior to their
retirement,
1. This Memorandum outlines the requirements for preparing
a history of OCR and its components. Paragraph 7 requires action
by the recipients of this Memorandum by 21 October 1966.
2. The CIA Executive Director has determined that each of the
Agency components should prepare a history of its activities and that
these should be updated periodically. In furtherance of this require-
ment, the DDI has established a DDI Historical Board under the
chairmanship of
The undersigned is the OCR
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member. In addition, has been called back from
retirement to serve as secretary of the DDI Historical Board and, in
effect, to oversee the preparation of the histories in the DDI area.
3. The concept is that each major component of the Agency
should prepare a basic chronological narrative history. Special
operations or activities which are too detailed for the narrative history
would be covered in separate monographs or historical studies.
4. It I. obvious that these histories must be written by those
intimately acquainted with the activities of their components. The DDI
Historical Board suggests that they be written either by on-duty person-
nel who possibly could be separated from normal activities for the period
necessary to do the writing or by annuitants brought back under contract.
must be reviewed for sufficiency at this time and updated to the present,
5. It is my preliminary view that an overall OCR office chrono-
logical history should be prepared by the Director's office. Such an
overall history has already' been written for the period 1946-1952 but
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In addition, chronological narrative histories should be prepared by
each of the OCR divisions and staffs. It will also be necessary to
ascertain whether, in addition to the chronological narrative historieso
there will be a requirement within OCR for monographs of special
activities. It may well be that - will fall into this latter category,
as well as certain committee work such as PROCIB, CODIB, etc. In 25X1 C
fact, the entire effort for automating and retrieving material and pub-
lications procurement might well be the subject of special monographs.
6. In connection with FDD, the Division should prepare its own
chronological narrative history. However, both the Director of 00
and the Director of OCR will include in their respective overall
histories such chronological narrative as applies to their respective
offices when FDD was assigned to them.
7. The Executive Secretary of the DDI Historical Board requires
that there be submitted to him by 31 October a list of all historical
papers to be prepared within OCR. Where possible, the names of those
who will write them and an estimated date of completion should be
included. These submissions should include the title of the paper, its
scope and an outline of the topics to be covered. It has not yet been
determined whether the cut-off date should be 31 December 1966 or
30 June 1967. In any event. I will require this information from the
various OCR components by close of business on 21 October 1966
to that I may have the remaining time to discuss them with the Director/
OCR and the various components.
Walter Pforiheimer
OCR Member
DDI Historical Board
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