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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68B00969R000100040057-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2006
• Sequence Number: 57
• Publication Date: February 14, 1966
• Content Type: MF

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i1 February 1966
MEMORANDUM FOR: Executive Director-Comptroller
SUBJECT: ONE Publications
REFEFENCE: Your Memo, dated 7 February 1966
1. The major publication. of the Office of National Estimates
is, as you know, the National Intelligence Estimate. In our 15 plus
years we have produced an average of 57 estimates annually -- the
number has ranged from below 50 in our earliest years to a, high of
84+ in calendar 1961. In calendar 1965 we produced 72 estimates.
There is no duplication of this effort anywhere in the United
States Government.
2. Additionally, ONE produces estimative memoranda in four
forms as follows:
Memoranda for the USIB
Memoranda for the DCI
Special Memoranda
Staff Memoranda
Our publication figures reveal that we produce from 100 to
150 of these memoranda annually. To the best of our knowledge,
there is no actual duplication of this effort either, although
other parts of the intelligence community certainly produce
working and special memoranda on similar subjects for their own
use.
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3. The National Intelligence Estimate is disseminated as
follows
The President
The White House Staff
National Security Council
Department of State
Department of Defense
Atomic En.ercr Commission
Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Departments of the Army, Navy,
and Air Force
Appropriate US Embassies and Military
Commands
The number of copies varies with the classification, the
sources used, and the sensitivity of the subject. The staple
product -- the regular NIE at the secret level -- is printed
in 650-700 copies and disseminated in about 550 copies. The
all-source NIEs -- notably those on Soviet or Chinese military
subjects -- have had, since the Kennedy years, a distribution,
restricted to about l00 copies. Some of the more sensitive
SNIEs -- those dealing with possible reactions to postulated
US courses of action -- have much more limited circulation.
!I. Memoranda for the USIB usually have the same dissemina-
tion as National Intelligence Estimates. No more than two or three
of these memoranda are produced annually.
5. Memoranda for the DCI are personal communications from the
Board to the DCI. They have a. very limited dissemination within CIA.
They are disseminated outside the Agency only at the direction of the
DCI.
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6. Special Memoranda are memoranda which represent the
official views of the Board of National Estimates on a given.
subject. They are disseminated to the White House, some 20-30
key officials in the Departments of State and Defense, the
members of the intelligence community, and to appropriate CIA
components.
7. Staff Memoranda are disseminated only within CIA.
They are essentially working papers on a given subject. After
review by the Board of National Estimates, they may or may not be
converted into an official memorandum, such as a Special Memorandum.
v. Almost all of our publications are prepared in response
to the needs and demands of the DCI and policy-makers at the NSC
level.
9. The exception -- our Staff Memoranda. are largely self-
generated and self-consumed. Their subject matter is usually
well below the level of NSC cognizance, but the writing of them
is a highly educational experience for the author -- and a morale
builder; so is the reading of them. They constitute an almost
ideal communication link between the writer and his fellow analysts
wherever, and between the writer and members of the Board.
SHEBMAN KENT
Director
National Estimates
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