OCD AS OF 1954

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00951R000400050009-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 9, 1998
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: January 1, 1954
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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OCD AS OF 1954
At the beginning of 1954 OCD was two-thirds of the way
Gemplatt
through the Jamie Andrews era. It had thro its
running-in phase and was functioning well in carrying out its
mission of providing a central reference service to CIA and to
the Intelligence Community. Organizationally,
SIPW /t consisted of seven divisions--the CIA Library
the Biograph
iiii 40 ic Industrial, Graphics and Special Registers; and
internally oriented
the Liaison and Machine Divisions--and tmo/staffs--Administrative
and Operations.
The divisions can best be understood as a series of AdvaA,
Liaison. Division,
concentric rings. On the outer ring was the which arranged
for the receipt and dissemination of the ineoming7~ In
the center were grouped the CIA Library, which filed and cataloged
documents providing access by subject, area, source, date or
security classification, and 6
tkx also responsible for all
overt CIA publications procurement; and the four Registers, which
concei ated on specialized segments of the total input. At the
CCL
center lm. the Machine Division'a provid
,the mechanization needed
to tie all this together.
Because researchers required references quickly and because
the quafii:tity of intelligence documentation was staggering even in
those early days, OCD developed the Intellofax System--the facsimile
reproduction of citations to and abstracts from intelligence
documents.
Tn su wary, OCD had promoted a system for assembling a
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Following is a brief description of each of the seven
OCD divisions as they were in 195!-, giving their basic
Or9Qn 0' 2A 4100's
missions -'A tie services provided, resources and
information handling systems.
Biogr4hic Register (BR)
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Graphics Register (GR)
The Graphics Register was responsible for providing a
central reference collection, index and loan service of motion
picture films and photographs on foreign areas, subjects and
personalities for use by CIA and other IAC agencies,GR had
25X1A9a 00 employees. At the beginning of 1954 it was located in
25X1A9a Building 14. It was still under its original chief, M
25X1A9a There were two branches--Photograph Branch, under
25X1A9a
and Film Branch, under
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