ASSUMPTION BY DEPARTMENT OF STATE OF FULL REPONSIBILITY FOR BIOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE ON PERSONALITIES IN THE POLITICAL, SOCIAL, AND CULTURAL FIELDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00951R000100020007-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 3, 2005
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: July 16, 1953
• Content Type: MF

Approved For Release 200510111r i~ a - R000 00020007-4
m'! en;~:i,b for funs}z .a biogm hi.c,
i nttelli? ence on personalities in the politic 1, social, and evatural fie:i..e,.,s to
all o f-ces of CIA. This completes ?- x area by-area trensfe-x' of re poa,s .bil:i.ty'
which began on 15 March 1953 under the term of an -agree ont between CIA and the
Department of State :reached in November 19524
2. The Biographic Register, CCD, is trap }foa:rr?3 xg its file;-, on pol.3. rioO.
oe., al, and cry .tt'ral personalities to State/DI on a con'i min : bas, s, aa.. - a now
responsible for biographic intelligence only in the scientific, techniea3., indus-~-
tr:" al, and ec ,ncuaic fields.
3. During this transitional peri acts and 'until a word, tng 21aison has been
effected between individual CIA offices and the various area ~, ecic 3 . ?ts ~.
State/X'.., that Division has F sked that 13. requests for biog.1111?:phic zt ;~ cax ..tics}:~
emanating from CIA be routed through Mrs. Barbara Fin3`e, I.s:} Y4..~nt fi-ri.s.on C:~iei'a
fcc'rm 301, State i' mex ~L, Telephone : cede 191,, extension 3266 o:r 502-14. personal
visits for consultation with DI analysts are encouraged. However, in those i,n-
strances where an individual is not already knouri as a nisei bsr of CI :j , cr:,.t one at
State/B):, the requester should, prior to e.tndertald.ng such a visit, arrange g ith
the re uiremen la, staff of his own office, or 'ri.th the I ;.eieon Wvision of OCD
to have Mrs. .eke, advised of his c:Lea.ranice beforehand,
This procedure is not neceNss y in the cases of telephone,, or rtcxno request which
my be handled directly at the discretion of the veriens office c:a. 25X1
4Ut.fe ~. ~'~r. : e1'YEst
Assistant Director
Collection a: D ;s emina**Uon
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