NATIONAL FOREIGN ASSESSMENT CENTER: ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS

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• Publication Date: December 1, 1977
• Content Type: REPORT

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National
Foreign
Assessment
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National Foreign Assessment Center:
Organizational Structure and Functions
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Confidential
NFAC Plans and
Programs Staff
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NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION
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NATIONAL FOREIGN ASSESSMENT CENTER
DIRECTOR, NATIONAL FOREIGN ASSESSMENT CENTER
Deputy Director
Associate Director-Management
Associate Director-Substantive Support
CIA Operations
Center
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Current Reporting
Group
Office of
Central Reference
Office of
Economic Research
Office of
Imagery Analysis
Office of
Geographic &
Cartographic
Research
Publications &
Presentations Group
Office of
Scientific
Intelligence
National
Intelligence
Officers
Office of
Weapons
Intelligence
Office of
Regional &
Political Analysis
Office of
Strategic Research
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Office of Central Reference (OCR) ...........................
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Office of Economic Research (OER) .........................
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Office of Geographic and Cartographic Research (OGCR) ........
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Office of Imagery Analysis (OIA) ............................
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Office of Regional and Political Analysis (ORPA) ................
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Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI) ......................... 13
Office of Strategic Research (OSR) .......................... 15
Office of Weapons Intelligence (OWI) ......................... 17
CIA Operations Center (OPSC) .............................. 19
Current Reporting Group (CRG) ............................. 21
Publications and Presentations Group (PPG) ................... 23
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OFFICE OF CENTRAL REFERENCE
National Foreign
Assessment Center
USSR
Division
Far East/
Pacific
Division
Information
Services
Group
Europe
Division
Near East/
Africa
Division
Western
Hemisphere
Division
Systems
Analysis Staff
Acquisition &
Dissemination
Division
Document
Services
Group
Central
Libraries
Division
Support
Services
Division
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Office of the Director,
National Foreign Assessment
Center (NFAC)
Provides executive management, direction,
and coordination for the Center.
Researches, analyzes, and produces all-
source foreign economic, political, geographic,
strategic-military, weapons, scientific, and bio-
graphic intelligence.
Analyzes imagery in direct response to special
requirements of the production offices and other
-components of CIA.
Produces regular current intelligence publica-
tions-including the President's Daily Brief, the
National Intelligence Daily, and various geo-
graphical and topical weekly and biweekly
Areviews-as well as intelligence reports and
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Provides central library and reference ser-
vices; publications, film, and map procurement;
document dissemination and cartographic serv-
ices.
National Intelligence Officers
Maintain continuing contact with policy-level
consumers of national intelligence to ensure that
their intelligence support needs are known and
met. In addition they help develop and maintain
contacts with fellow experts in the academic and
business communities; coordinate and supervise
Community-wide national intelligence production
programs; participate in the development and
monitoring of selected interoffice or interdisci-
plinary production programs; and serve as senior
staff officers to the DCI and D/NFAC in such
capacities as they may direct.
the Office of the Director, NFAC; develops and
implements specific policies with respect to per-
sonnel planning, training, logistics, travel, se-
curity, and equal employment opportunity.
Plans and Programs Staff
Prepares all resource management submis-
sions and other support to the Office of the
Comptroller; conducts ad hoc management
studies and provides special staff support to the
Office of the Director, NFAC; provides central
records management control and automated
data processing and contract support.
Provides substantive review of National Intelli-
gence Estimates and other major finished in-
telligence publications; advises D/NFAC on
substantive matters pertaining to finished in-
telligence.
Develops and implements administrative poli-
cies and procedures; provides staff support to
25X1 C
Serves as the focal point on all matters relating
Prepares daily over-
seas substantive support cables; arranges do-
mestic visitor briefings. Advises the Office of the
Director, NFAC on control and use of sensitive
compartmented intelligence.
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National Foreign
Assessment Center
DIRECTOR, ECONOMIC RESEARCH
Development
and
Analysis Center
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Analytical
Applications
Group
Systems
Development
Group
Administrative
Staff
Special
Assistants
Production
Staff
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Developing
Nations
Division
Industrial
Nations
Division
International
Trade and
Services Division
USSR/
Eastern Europe
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OFFICE OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
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Office of Central Reference (OCR)
Designs, develops, and operates central refer-
ence facilities.
Receives and disseminates incoming intelli-
gence reports and publications.
Provides remote terminal access to classified
and unclassified information systems within the
Intelligence Community, US Government, and
private industry.
Operates libraries of open-source, classified,
and graphic materials.
Coordinates Intelligence Community programs
for the procurement of foreign publications.
Acquires foreign and domestic books, periodi-
cals, newspapers, and other published material
for all components of the Agency.
Acquires motion picture films, photographs,
and videotapes in support of the Agency's mis-
sion and functions.
25X1 B
Provides support for personnel, security, lo-
gistics, travel, training, finance, and other ad hoc
administrative functions.
Systems Analysis Staff
Develops improved methods and systems of
operation for OCR activities, manages task team
efforts, and administers the Office's management
information program.
Represents the interests of NFAC production
offices in the design and implementation of
Project SAFE and advises the Chairman of SAFE
Steering Committee.
Information Services Group
Maintains files on foreign organizations and
foreign nonmilitary personalities; operates com-
puterized retrieval systems for raw and finished
intelligence documents; provides comprehensive
information and reference services; produces
or US Government offi-
cials and in support of Intelligence Community
operations and research.
Document Services Group
Provides centralized support in microform pro-
cessing; central library services, including all-
source classified and unclassified reference
materials; open literature, film, and videotape
acquisitions; document and photo dissemination;
storage and retrieval of such materials; and some
computer programming.
Maintains a Historical Intelligence Collection of
open literature on the subject of intelligence and
provides both reference service and lending fa-
cilities for its materials.
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National Foreign
Assessment Center
OFFICE OF
GEOGRAPHIC AND CARTOGRAPHIC RESEARCH
Environment
and Resource
Analysis Center
? USSR/China
Agriculture Team
? Population/Food
Team
? Water Resources
Team
? New Programs
Development Team
Administrative
Staff
Cartography
Division
? Research Branch
? Technical Branch
? Visual Information
and Design Branch
.Information
Systems
Staff
Geography
Division
Map Library
Division
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? Middle East /Africa/
Western Hemisphere
Branch
? Processing Branch
? Procurement Branch
? Reference Branch
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Office of Economic
Research (OER)
Produces all-source worldwide economic in-
telligence including preparation of reports and
memoranda in support of policymakers in the
White House, Executive Office of the President,
and in other federal departments and agencies.
Provides economic intelligence support to
other CIA offices, NFIB, and various intragovern-
ment committees and groups.
Contributes to National Intelligence Estimates
and current intelligence publications.
Provides representatives and support to inter-
agency committees:
Chairman, DCI's Economic Intelligence
Committee (EIC);
CIA representative on Economic Defense
Advisory Committee, and Advisory Committee
on Export Policy.
Directs the work of the Administrative Staff,
which provides support for personnel, registry,
security, logistics, travel, training, and other ad
hoc administrative functions.
Directs the work of the Special Assistants who
are responsible for collection, requirements,
planning, and liaison activities.
Directs the work of the Production Staff, which
assists in technical preparation of the products of
the Office for publication.
Coordinates recruiting activities and formula-
tion of special personnel development programs.
Development and Analysis Center
Develops and applies advanced analytical
methodologies to economic intelligence prob-
lems, and trains OER analysts in their use in
automated data processing applications.
Divisions
China
Developing Nations
Industrial Nations
International Trade
and Services
Produce all-source economic intelligence on
assigned areas of the world and on international
developments in trade, finance, energy, re-
sources, and aid.
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Economic
Resources
Division
? Basic Industries
Branch
? Chemical Industries
Branch
? Regional Studies
Branch
Production
Support
Staff
Missile
Systems
Division
Technical
Systems
Division
? Special Activities
Branch
? China Systems
Branch
? Deployed Systems
Branch
? Production and
Test Branch
? Air Branch
? Naval Branch
? Nuclear and
Scientific Branch
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Office of Geographic and
Cartographic Research (OGCR)
Produces all-source worldwide geographic in-
telligence in support of policy and operating
officials.
Manages interdisciplinary analysis and report-
ing on key environment and resource issues.
Coordinates and produces the National Basic
Intelligence Factbook.
Provides CIA representation on the interde-
partmental US Board of Geographic Names.
Produces maps, charts, and graphics for CIA
and the Department of State.
Provides specialized map reference services
and coordinates interagency foreign map pro-
curement program.
Provides Support for personnel, security, lo-
gistics, travel, training, and other ad hoc adminis-
trative functions.
Information Systems Staff
Maintains a specialized collection of maps,
books, and imagery and provides reference as-
sistance to OGCR employees. Serves OGCR's
need for technical support, methodological de-
velopment, and systems application. Produces
the National Basic Intelligence Factbook.
Environment and Resource
Analysis Center
Provides interdisciplinary analysis in the fields
of agriculture, food, population, water, energy,
and minerals. Produces reports that incorporate
the political, economic, and social implications of
resource and environmental issues. Develops
and applies innovative research methodologies.
Cartography Division
Provides cartographic and graphic services
for all intelligence production offices, the DCI,
DDO, various other Agency components,
COMIREX, and the Department of State.
Geography Division
Regionally oriented branches produce all-
source geographic intelligence on issues of pri-
ority policy and strategic significance including
analysis of ethnic conflicts, territorial disputes
and boundary problems, military geography, and
the resource base. Provides operational support
to and participates in agency and interagency
working groups and task forces.
Map Library Division,
Maintains an extensive foreign map collection
and provides map reference services for Agency
components and the Department of State. Chairs
the interagency foreign map procurement
program.
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Assessment Center
OFFICE OF REGIONAL AND POLITICAL ANALYSIS
DIRECTOR, REGIONAL AND POLITICAL ANALYSIS
Senior Review
Panel
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Staff
Administrative
Staff
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Eastern
Europe
estern Europe/
Canada
Middle
East
South
Asia
East Asia/
Pacific
Latin
America
International
Issues
Methods and
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Office of Imagery Analysis (OIA)
Produces intelligence reports based primarily
on the analysis of imagery in support of Agency
components.
Produces imagery-derived intelligence reports
on nonmilitary industries in answer to the Na-
tional Tasking Plan requirements of the Intelli-
gence Community.
Develops new methodologies and techniques
for extracting more intelligence from imagery.
Provides support for personnel, security, lo-
gistics, travel, training, and other ad hoc adminis-
trative functions.
Production Support Staff
Coordinates substantive requirements, main-
tains management information data, and pro-
vides editorial and graphic support for OIA
publications and briefings. Provides information
control functions, registry, film storage and refer-
ence service, equipment maintenance, photo-
graphic reproduction, and automated data
processing support.
Analyzes imagery of and reports on foreign
nonmilitary industries, rail and port develop-
ments, and regional subjects, such as Soviet civil
defense.
Analyzes imagery of and reports on military
ground forces in the Communist and Third World
areas and provides imagery analysis support to
Agency operational and collection programs.
Missile Systems Division
Analyzes imagery of and reports on all foreign
land-based offensive and defensive missile sys-
tems and associated electronics and space
systems and programs.
Technical Systems Division
Analyzes imagery of and reports on foreign air
and naval forces (including related missile sys-
tems), and on nuclear programs and advanced
weapons developments.
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Assessment Center 1.
DIRECTOR, SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE
Center for the Analysis
of Personality and
Political Behavior
Intelligence Production
Staff
? Editorial Branch
? Publications Branch
Physical Sciences
and Technology
Division
? Science and
Applications Branch
? Technological
Resources and
Transfer Branch
Military Technology
Division
? Advanced Technology
Branch
? Future Military
Systems Branch
Life Sciences
Division
? Biomedical Sciences
Branch
? Behavioral Sciences
Branch
? Agricultural, Biological,
and Chemical Branch
Nuclear Energy
Division
? Nuclear Weapons
Branch
? Nuclear Programs
Branch
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Office of Regional and
Political Analysis (ORPA)
Conducts analyses on individual countries, on
related groups of states, and on issues that
transcend boundaries.
Produces current, midterm and in-depth re-
ports on present and emerging foreign affairs
problems of importance to policymakers and to
the Intelligence Community.
USSR
Eastern Europe
Western Europe
Africa
Regional Divisions
iviiddie East
South Asia
East Asia/Pacific
Latin America
Produce political intelligence based on aii-
source information from assigned regions. Re-
spond to requests from the policy community for
analyses and briefings on priority intelligence
subjects.
Contribute to National Intelligence Estimates
and provide a wide range of political intelligence
support to the other components of NFAC, the
Agency, the Intelligence Community, and US
policymakers concerned with foreign affairs.
Performs the same functions as the regional
divisions on issues that transcend international
boundaries.
Acts as the focal point for Office-wide analysis
of key international issues through a system of
referent analysts in the regional divisions.
Methods and Forecasting Division
Conducts experiments in a variety of analytical
methods to enhance the Agency's ability to pro-
duce high-quality political intelligence.
Produces speculative scenarios of possible
future events, especially developments that could
have a dramatic impact on US interests.
Senior Review Panel 25X6
Assures substantive quality control of the Of-
fice's production.
Serves as a sounding board for proposed new
analytical projects.
Provides detached judgments on working
drafts submitted by the divisions.
Assures technical quality control of the prod-
ucts of ORPA. Provides editorial assistance to
analysts in the preparation of drafts of reports.
Facilitates the publication of reports through
coordination with the Publications and Presenta-
tions Group.
Strategic Warning Staff
Represents the Agency on the Intelligence
Community's Strategic Warning Staff located in
the Department of Defense.
Assists in a continuing analysis of information
and intelligence from all sources which might
provide strategic warning.
Assists in issuing strategic warning notices
and reports as appropriate.
Provides support for personnel, security, lo-
gistics, travel and training activities, and performs
special administrative functions as required.
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OFFICE OF STRATEGIC RESEARCH
Resources,
Requirements
and Review
Staff
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Soviet
Strategic
Forces
Division
Theater
Forces
Division
Eastern
Forces
Division
Military-Economic
Analysis
Center
Regional
Analysis
Division
Strategic
Evaluation
Center
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Office of Scientific
,n eiiigence 13S/i
Produces scientific and technical intelligence
on foreign countries pertaining to nuclear energy,
developments in the physical and life sciences,
military and civil technologies, future military
systems, biological and chemical warfare, phys-
ical and psychiatric health of key foreign leaders,
and personality influences on political behavior.
Recommends collection priorities and im-
proved collection techniques, initiates collection
requirements, and provides evaluations and
other guidance in support of collection activities.
Provides administrative and substantive sup-
port to the Joint Atomic Energy Intelligence
Committee (JAEIC), the Scientific and Technical
Intelligence Committee (STIC), and other NFIB
organizations as required.
Provides support services to office personnel
in matters concerning personnel, training,
finance, travel, logistics, security, document con-
trol, and records management; provides staff
support to D/Sl on actions concerning collection
requirements and evaluations, external contract-
ing, and other matters concerning S&T
intelligence.
Intelligence Production Staff
Monitors the OSI production program;
reviews, edits, integrates, and disseminates
Office intelligence production; arranges for intel-
ligence support to other offices and agencies;
coordinates intelligence research and production
with other offices and agencies; and prepares
intelligence reports for publication.
Nuclear Energy Division
Conducts all-source research, analysis, and fin-
ished intelligence production on nuclear energy
activities in foreign countries, including warhead
characterization, materials production, peaceful
applications, proliferation capabilities, and test-
ing and treaty monitoring, but not including cost-
ing and nuclear warhead order of battle; provides
the chairman, secretariat, and Agency represen-
tative for the JAEIC.
Physical Sciences and Technology
Division
Conducts all-source research, analysis, and
finished intelligence production on foreign devel-
opments in the physical sciences and their appli-
cations, technological resources and technology
transfer activities, advanced civil technologies,
and the qualitative effects of the introduction of
technological advances on selected foreign in-
dustrial processes and products; provides the
chairman and secretariat for the STIC.
Military Technology Division
Conducts 0-source research, analysi? and
finished intelligence production on foreign devel-
opments in advanced military technologies, elec-
tronics, the altered performance achievable in
selected significant foreign weapon systems
through the introduction of state-of-the-art tech-
nology, and projected future military systems of
foreign countries based on scientific and engi-
neering advances; provides the Agency repre-
sentative for the STIC.
Conducts all-source research, analysis, and
finished intelligence production on foreign devel-
opments in the life sciences, including the
biomedical aspects of spaceflight systems, bio-
logical and chemical warfare, the behavioral
sciences, food and nutrition, and physical health
assessments of key foreign personalities.
Center for the Analysis of Personality
and Political Behavior
Conducts all-source research, analysis, and
finished intelligence production on the personal-
ity and political behavior of foreign VIPs and the
effects of individual and group behavior on for-
eign governmental decisions.
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National Foreign
Assessment Center
OFFICE OF WEAPONS INTELLIGENCE
Defensive
Systems
Division
? Air Defense
? Aircraft Systems
? Antiballistic
Missiles
? Special Weapons
Naval
Systems
Division
? Technology &
Strategic
Systems
? Cruise Missile
? Antisubmarine
Warfare
Offensive and
Space Systems
Division
? Ballistic Missiles
? Space Systems
Programs
Analysis
Division
? Soviet Test
Ranges
? Non-Soviet
Test Ranges
? Current
Intelligence
Aerospace Vehicle
Analysis
Division
? Defensive & Aerodynamic
Vehicle
? Ballistic Launch
Vehicles
? Spacecraft
? Computer Applications
? Reentry Vehicle
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Office of Strategic Research (OSR)
Produces strategic military and military-eco-
nomic intelligence in support of national policy
demands.
Drafts, reviews, and coordinates national esti-
mates on military and military-related subjects.
Provides intelligence analysis on and support
to SALT and MBFR negotiations.
Provides intelligence support to the President
and NSC principals on significant foreign military
developments.
Provides support to the DCI for briefings on
foreign military subjects to the NSC, Congres-
sional committees, and other appropriate
officials.
Provides special support to the Office of the
Secretary of Defense.
Provides support for personnel, security, bud-
get, logistics, travel, training, and other ad hoc
administrative functions.
Resources, Requirements, and
Review Staff
Develops and maintains an overall planning
system for OSR, monitors Office programs, and
evaluates the effectiveness with which resources
are used in meeting substantive requirements. In
conjunction with divisions, formulates collection
plans and strategies and serves as the channel
for levying substantive requirements on collec-
tion facilities. Performs substantive editing of
OSR intelligence products.
Soviet Strategic Forces Division
Produces all-source military intelligence on
Soviet strategic missile, naval, and air forces, and
civil defense.
Produces all-source military intelligence on
ground and tactical air forces of the USSR,
Mongolia, and East European countries, and of
all military forces of the West European
countries.
Produces all-source intelligence on the size,
capabilities, deployments, and costs of the
armed forces of the Asiatic countries, with par-
ticular emphasis on the national security policies
of the People's Republic of China, the Koreas,
Japan, and Taiwan. Investigates the capabilities
and posture of military forces in potential crisis
areas, such as the Middle East, the Persian Gulf
area, and South Asia.
Military-Economic Analysis Center
Produces all-source military-economic intelli-
gence on Soviet defense programs, including
cost analysis, expenditure implications, and mili-
tary-economic planning studies.
Regional Analysis Division
Provides short-term and midterm intelligence
analyses on the armed forces of all countries
whose military activities and capabilities are of
significant interest to US policy planners.
Strategic Evaluation Center
Provides integrated analyses in the areas of
foreign national security policy, force effective-
ness, and command and control. 25X1 B
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Assessment Center
CIA OPERATIONS CENTER
Support
Staff
CHIEF OF OPERATIONS
(SDO IN OFF-DUTY HOURS)
Technical
Resources
Division
Alert and
Intelligence
Support
Division
Human
Resources
Division
? Imagery Watch
Headquarters Team
Remote Site Team
? DOD Units
JCS/DIA Liaison Office
NMCC Watch Team
? White House Situation Room
Watch Officers
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Office of Weapons Intelligence
(0 WI)
Manages and integrates all-source analysis
and evaluation of the technical characteristics,
capabilities, and vulnerabilities of foreign weapon
and space systems.
Advises the DCI on the effectiveness of overall
collection programs directed toward foreign
weapon and space systems. Briefs appropriate
policy and planning levels of government on
significant weapon and space activities.
Provides administrative and substantive sup-
port to the Weapon and Space Systems Intelli-
gence Committee (WSSIC).
Provides focal point for contact on matters that
involve or require the participation of more than
one OWI component. Initiates, consolidates, and
coordinates all OWI inputs to national intelligence
products. Responds to requests for studies relat-
ing to Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT).
Prepares collection guidance requirements and
evaluation studies. Coordinates automated data
processing matters.
Executive Staff
Performs personnel and fiscal management
support as well as editorial services related to the
production of finished intelligence. Advises Di-
rector, OWI regarding resource allocation. Ad-
ministers the external analysis program.
Defensive Systems Division
Assesses the performance of foreign, primarily
Soviet, strategic air defenses, antiballistic missile
and nonorbital antisatellite systems, tactical air
defense and air delivery systems, and Soviet
long-range bomber systems.
Naval Systems Division
Assesses the performance of foreign naval
weapon systems, primarily in the areas of sub-
marine-launched ballistic missiles, antiship mis-
siles, and antisubmarine warfare.
Programs Analysis Division
Analyzes organizations and facilities where
development of foreign weapon and space sys-
tems is conducted to keep abreast of new and
ongoing programs; also reports on all foreign
current missile and space events.
Offensive and Space Systems Division
Provides all-source analysis and evaluation of
foreign land-based offensive ballistic missile sys-
tems and all military and manned space systems.
Aerospace Vehicle Analysis Division
Determines trajectories of foreign missiles, lu-
nar and interplanetary probes, and earth satel-
lites; provides signature analysis, weapon sys-
tems mathematical modeling and simulations,
and computer applications.
Provides all-source analysis of instrumentation
data from foreign missiles, aircraft, and space
vehicles.
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CIA Operations Center (OPSC)
Scans and evaluates all Intelligence Com-
munity incoming substantive electrical traffic
from human and technical sources.
Alerts DCI, other senior Agency officials,
and appropriate outside agencies to critical
intelligence developments.
Selects items of unusual importance for
inclusion in Agency publications or for pas-
sage to senior officials.
Publishes the Director's Cable Summary,
Operations Center Selects, VIP Movements
Report, Morning Newspaper Highlights and
Spot Reports for the White House and select-
ed Community recipients.
Responds to queries from within CIA and
from other agencies.
Supports Task Force activities in crisis
situations.
Participates in Agency and Community Cri-
sis Management planning and activities.
Monitors Agency activities during off-duty
hours.
Support Staff
Provides executive, administrative, and cleri-
cal support and manages the Communications
Center facilities in the CIA Operations Center.
Receives incoming electrical traffic and dis-
seminates to appropriate Watch Analysts. Oper-
ates the Agency WASHFAX (LDX) facility.
Senior Duty Officer
Monitors incoming intelligence and alerts ap-
propriate Agency and other US officials; acts as
the DCI's executive agent during non-duty hours;
prepares the Director's Cable Summary; selects
and prepares briefing notes on significant items
for senior officials; acts as Alert and Intelligence
Support Division chief during duty hours.
- DDS&T Duty Office/S&T Watch
Reviews, selects, briefs, or takes other ac-
tion on information from all-source cable traf-
fic, intelligence publications, and the press
that is of immediate or critical importance to
the Senior Duty Officer, O/DD/S&T, S&T sub-
stantive offices, or elements of the Intelligence
Community.
During normal times serves as commo cen-
ter between the Office of Sigint Operations and
its collection sites and NSA. During crisis
times supports the Operations Center's collec-
tion integration activities.
- Imagery Watch
Monitors status of national imagery collec-
tion and exploitation. Provides Headquarters
mechanism for after-hours collection tasking.
A detachment of this watch represents the
Agency at a domestic field site. Selects critical
and substantive items for the Senior Duty
Officer.
Alert and Intelligence Support Division
Read incoming substantive electrical traffic
by individual area expertise and take action
required under the direction of the Senior Duty
Officer.
- News Analysis Officer
Reviews incoming news services and se-
lects items for attention of the DCI and other
Agency officials.
- National Military Command Center
The CIA representative at the NMCC main-
tains liaison between CIA and the NMCC and
acts as a conduit through which information is
passed to the Agency from military channels.
The Situation Room is the 24-hour intelli-
gence watch for the President and his staff
and is under direct operational control of the
President's Assistant for National Security Af-
fairs. Watch teams are staffed by CIA Oper-
ations Center personnel who maintain close
substantive liaison with the Center and with
other operations centers in the Intelligence
Community.
- DDO Duty Office
Monitors incoming DDO traffic and selects
critical items for the use of the Senior Duty
Officer and the Directorate of Operations.
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PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS GROUP
Special Assistant/
Production Monitoring
and Coordination
Administrative
Officer
Product Design
Branch
Text Preparation
Branch
Presentational
Means
Branch
Registry and
Dissemination
Branch
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Current Reporting Group (CRG)
With the support of the NFAC production
offices-OER, OGCR, OIA, ORPA, OSI, OSR,
and OWI-produces timely all-source current
intelligence reporting and analysis on an around-
the-clock basis. Provides special current intelli-
gence support for the President, National Secu-
rity Council members and staff, and the Director
of Central Intelligence. Publishes the President's
Daily Brief, the National Intelligence Daily, the
Current Intelligence Weekly Review, and the Cur-
rent Intelligence Weekly Summary.
Performs a variety of managerial, administra-
tive, representational, briefing, and special proj-
ect-oriented tasks for the Chief and Deputy
Chief, CRG.
Reviews finished intelligence article drafts and
raw intelligence cables and uses these materials
to prepare articles for the President's Daily Brief.
Performs substantive and stylistic editing of
draft articles prepared by the various production
offices for the National Intelligence Daily. Up-
dates existing drafts and prepares new articles
for the NID and PDB as necessary after regular
duty hours. Senior editor has overnight responsi-
bility for content of PDB and NID.
External Agency Representatives
Includes officers from DIA, NSA, and the De-
partment of State, who are located in CRG to
facilitate the coordination of national-level current
intelligence items.
Writes the news section of the Current Intelli-
gence Weekly Review and Current Intelligence
Weekly Summary. Selects NID feature articles to
be reprinted in both weekly publications. Re-
sponsible for content and style of both weeklies.
Production Office Representatives
Include analysts detailed to CRG from ORPA,
OER, OSR, OSI, and OWI, who provide interface
between their respective parent functional and
geographic units and CRG, and who advise,
guide, and assist in the preparation of draft
current intelligence items for CRG publications.
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Group (PPG)
Special Assistant for Production
Monitoring and Coordination
Text Preparation Branch
Processes publications of NFAC components
located in the headquarters building.
Develops and promotes use of new presenta-
tional means for NFAC products.
Develops design standards for NFAC publica-
tions and reviews manuscripts for style and
accuracy.
Monitors and records all NFAC production
activities and disseminates Center publications.
Coordinates production and graphic require-
ments and priorities with the Printing and Photog-
raphy Division of the DDA and the Cartography
Division of OGCR.
Assists D/NFAC in selecting and locating
word-processing equipment used in Center
components.
Monitors status of NFAC production activities,
determines PPG production priorities, and acts
as the focal point for coordinating work with the
Printing and Photography Division of the DDA.
Provides support for personnel, security, lo-
gistics, travel, training, and other ad hoc adminis-
trative functions.
Product Design Branch
Establishes NFAC standards for the design of
publications, reviews manuscripts for style and
accuracy, and, in consultation with production
offices and the Cartography Division of OGCR,
plans appropriate graphics for use in individual
publications.
Prepares publications for printing, including
the composition and proofreading of type and
the preparation of page layouts prior to printing
by the Printing and Photography Division, DDA.
Investigates and develops new presentational 23
means and assists D/NFAC in selecting and
locating advanced word-processing equipment.
Registry and Dissemination Branch
Disseminates NFAC publications, maintains
official production records, provides guidance to
other components on questions of classification
and sanitization and downgrading procedures,
and serves as the Top Secret registry for NFAC.
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