PRODUCTION PROGRAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00022R000200040040-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: March 11, 1947
• Content Type: MEMO

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11 March 1947
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR REPORTS AND ESTIMATES
Subject: Production Program
Reference: Memorandum from the Executive to the Director, C.I.G.,
to the Assistant Directors and Chief, ICAPS, subject:
"Functions of the Office of Reports and Estimates,"
19 December 1946
1. In carrying out the functions prescribed in the Reference,
the Office of Reports and Estimates will produce intelligence reports
in accordance with the following program.
CURRENT INTELLIGENCE
2. C.T.G. Daily Summary: a daily summary of significant
intelligence and operational information for the President, the
members of the N.I.A., and the additional distribution prescribed
in N.I.A. Directive No. 2.
3. C.I.G. Weekly Summary: a weekly compendium of concise
analyses of significant emergent and current trends, presented in
perspective and with consideration of their probable consequences,
as a necessary supplement to the Daily and for the same recipients.
4. C.I.G. Special Evaluations: concise evaluations, primarily
for the recipients of the Daily Summary, of current reports which
require treatment at greater length than is possible in the Daily
and with greater urgency than is possible in the Weekly, or which
otherwise deserve special presentation as current intelligence rather
than as Special Reports (see paragraph 7). Each item in the series
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shall be restricted to a single topic, and shall include such
anajysis and interpretation as its urgency permits.
5. The form and content of these current intelligence reports
shall be subject to continuing study and improvement, particularly
in conformity with the desires of the principal recipients, who
will be frequently consulted by the Office of Collection and
Dissemination to ensure that these publications are actually useful
STAFF INTELLIGENCE
6. Situation Reports: analyses of the strategic and national
policy aspects of the situation in each significant country or
other appropriate geographical area or with respect to significant
functional subjects of continuing interest. The items in this
series, in their complete form, shall be designed for the use of
staff officers below the I.A.B. level, but succinct summaries of
their essential contents shall be provided for use at the I.A.B.
level and above. Each item will be kept up to date bynnnthly
review and revision as required. With reference to this possibly
monthly revision it must be stressed that the series is not intended
to become yet another form of current intelligence reporting, but
rather to consist of up-to-date analyses of the basic factors in the
situations reported on.
7. Special. Reports: analyses prepared by specific direction
(e.g., ORE 1), or in response to a specific authorized request, or
on the initiative of ORE as it perceives the occasion in its
continuin review of the world situation (e.g., ORE 15). The initiative
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of ORE must be limited to those subjects which clearly warrant
presentation to the President and the members of the N.I.A.
BASIC INTELLIGENCE
8. Upon the adoption of an interdepartmental program for the
production and maintenance of National Strategic Intelligence Digests
ORE will be charged with responsibility for the coordination of
their production and maintenance and for their final editing. In
anticipation of this development, ORE will prepare for a prompt
assumption of this responsibility.
9. The foregoing paragraphs cover all the forms of intelligence
production required of ORE. The volume and rate of production
which is feasible will depend upon the personnel, material, and
facilities currently available to ORE for the purpose. The require-
ments of paragraphs 2 and 3 constitute a current and continuing
commitment; those of paragraphs 4 and 7 are unpredictable, but by
definition matters of priority. It is evident, therefore, that the
rate of production of Situation Reports cannot be fixed, but must
be adjustable to conform to the means available in any given period.
ORE is enjoined, however, to press the initial production and
maintenance of Situation Reports as vigorously as circumstances
permit. A currently valid production schedule will be prepared
monthly for incorporation in each ORE Progress Report.
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