COLLECTION AND CONTROL OF BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ON POTENTIAL LEADERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00951R000400010056-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 11, 2000
• Sequence Number: 56
• Publication Date: May 26, 1966
• Content Type: MEMO

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84-00951 R000400010056-8
LL 26 May 1966
Participants: Olin Robison, State, G/Y
Geraldine Sheehan, State, G/Y
Col. David Hughes, DIA/ISA
IA/DDP/CA Staff
25X1A I Id., CIA/OCR/BR
CIA/OCR/BR
SUBJECT: Collection and Control of Biographic Information
on Potential Leaders
On 25 May 1966 a meeting convened in the office of Mr. Olin Robison,
Special Assistant for Youth (G/Y) on the staff of the Deputy Under Secre-
tary for Political Affairs, U. Alexis Johnson. The purpose of the meeting
was to discuss what is being done by the U. S. Government to identify, col-
lect and control information on potential leaders in underdeveloped areas.
Mr. Johnson and Mr. Allan Evans, Deputy Director for Research,
INR, had been in correspondence on this subject in March (see attached)
but Mr. Johnson felt that there was need for further clarification of the
activities of various Departments and Agencies in connection with youth
activities. He therefore asked Mr. Robison to explore in depth what is
being done in this field and to determine whether or not it is adequate to
meet the long-range goals of the Inter-Agency Youth Committee.
It was apparent from the beginning that the Youth Committee was think-
ing in terms of systems development and considerable discussion ensued
as to the present state of the art and what could be expected in years to
come. The consensus was that no organization at present is in a position
to guarantee machine control of the types of information which are of
interest to the Youth Committee, but that computer support of the nature
envisaged is under active study and should be operable within the next three
to five years. (Mr. Robison estimated that it would be 10 to 20).
In the meantime it was agreed that the Foreign Affairs Manual, Volume
11, Chapter 500, would be revised to include the Youth Committee's require-
ments and also that its requirements, after further study, would be spelled
out to this Agency.
Further meetings on this subject will take place, the first on 1 June
1966 when Mr. Robison, Miss Sheehan, Col. Hughes and
will visit BR fo1,an intensive briefing.
OCR/BR:B~
26 May 1966
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