CONSOLIDATION PROGRAMS, 1953-1957

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00951R000200030001-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 17
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 1, 1957
• Content Type: REPORT

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Chapter III
Consolidation 1. rograms, 1953-1957
The Office of Collection and Dissemination was established for the
;purpose of providing central collection, dissemination, and reference
facilities. As late as 1953, however, this concept of OCD was not
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fully accepted. Lip service was paid to the value of the idea, but[only
,rfer - efGce aErq-emav,fi ntl i Kahcta i Sv~o~,~ t were dikerevt-t'
t thnse--things- done-which were unacceptable to others either
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hhhesause they had no money for them, or the tasks were too menial.
CD had to prove itself (-laerisb . It had to participate in the perennial
skirmishes between those favoring centralization and those opposed to
it. Factors beyond OCD's control sometimes mitigated against
centralization; as an instance, security prevented amalgamation of
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CD files (with Special Intelligence). Some research offices did their
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libraries (over and above analysts' files) such as Map Library in ORR,
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F DD in OO,~NLICdtCI 1 t.CD set about to improve and consolidate
its position as the Agency's central memory and reference service
system.
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nc ontrol of the earlier inherited files had been achieved by
L=CD. The pressure was on to master the handling of more current
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to the i.)CI on 14 June 195E that the IG survey "has shown that the Agency's
central reference system is being efficiently and effectively administered
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o CIJY_ conducted a thorough survey ci -1-F in 135?. The DDI reported
-convened a Working Group on Information Handling consist-
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>'vorking Group recommended to the DDI that a) system analysis be
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and methodologies as they affect inforrhation-handling systems; b) (t, Q~vc 4-
ystem analysis be formalized on the comprehensiveness of the Agency
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information system and the AD /CD administer this; c) systen) analysis
ovt_ - in the field of precision of indexing and recall with
the AD/CD assum.ing responsibility; and d) the Management Staff be
requested to inak+ a spot checK of some portion of the research area.
for efficiency in routingdcc- vvnevtis.
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