REQUIREMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61S00750A000700070003-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 16, 1998
• Sequence Number: 3
• Content Type: REQ

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REQUIREMENTS
1. The DCI assigned responsibility for coordinating collection
guidance to this Office on 4 June 1951 and, in addition, to deal with
problems arising from OCD's handling of ad hoc requirements.
2. Status:
a. The Interagency Priorities Committee, a subcommittee of
the IAC and chaired by FI, is providing the type of guidance which
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appears to be reasonably satisfactory to the IAC agencies Z
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b. Foreign Service Reporting ^~'""' (1) In the economic field ORR and EIC are charged with and
are working on the problem of coordinated guide requirements.
The State Department has requested the EIC to review the
periodic Economic Reporting Guides as they are developed for
the various areas. (This is in effect the implementation of
Executive Order 102.9 giving authority to the Department to
decide priority requirements between civilian departments
needs and national security needs.)
(2) Scientific reportin on the part of the State
Department has recently been gone into in an exchange of
correspondence between Park Armstrong and DD/I. There should
be further developments at the working level on this as a
result of this interchange.
(3) The State Department is now consulting with OCI with
respect to area guide-type requirements and peripheral guides
issued by the Department to the Foreign Service in the political
field of the Department's responsibility. OCI is free to comment
and add requirements. This has developed on an informal basis
and will be watched closely to see whether something more formal
is required.
(4) On DD/I's request 00 has prepared a paper on the problem
of the adequacy of collection from overt sources abroad. DD/I
has appointed OIC to head an intra-Agency committee to examine
into the adequacy of collection from overt sources abroad and
report and to consult with the other IAC agencies as necessary.
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c. Requirements for _
are in pretty good shape, such guid-
ance for the most part arising from OCI and the State Department,
although there is some guidance also on economic and scientific
matters proportionate to the resources available to this particular
medium.
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I~w d. For requirements OCI has developed N &. OP (2
25X1A8a quarterly guides which while too new for complete appraisal are
believed to be ver useful and will be improved by OCI as
25X1A8a revisions occur. is collaborating in this. (Copies of
this same material have been made available to the State Department
FOIAb3b1FI, - Army, Navy, and Air Force for their information and use.)
25X1A8a ORR and OSI relations with _ are very satisfactory and the two
production offices are planning guides similar to that of Pa '407. 1
e. Requirements problems in respect of FDD are currently 95X1A8a
approached lAC-wide through consideration of anti NSCID for FDD.
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Sovmat. Excellent relations with JMIA and with Military
Departments participating in JMIA have resulted in agreements whereby
the Sovmat Staff is informed of all acquisitions of material objects
and all plans for testing them and whereby requirements of the
Department of State, AEC, and CIA are accepted for incorporation
in all such plans. Continuing efforts to locate sources for required
Soviet products are showing results. Help has been received from
all intelligence-producing agencies, and especially from the
Foreign Service and FI. Within recent months a representative of
Sovmat has completed a European field trip undertaken to develop
these sources and stimulate collection.
h. OIC is currently examining with OCD, ORR, OCI, and OSI
proposals for making more effective the handling of ad hoc require-
ments through OCD.
i. Statements of intelligence deficiencies in SE-27 (Director's
letter to the agencies) ORR, through the EIC, and OIC, in cooperation
with all interested parties are preparing requirements with regard
to what can be done to improve collection and more effectively
utilize intelligence information on Communist China. (There exists
a standing procedure for OIC to pick up the results of the ONE post-
mortems and to design action to correct the intelligence deficiencies
revealed.
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j. Special Intelligence. USCIB Intelligence Committee prepares
requirements for special intelligence, representing the interests of
all using agencies. OCI is the CIA representative on this committee.
Guide requirements are reviewed on a monthly basis under a system
which has become well established and is in general satisfactory.
OCI believes that the requirements should be supplemented by greater
detail. This has recently been accomplished in one area of agency
interests. Current efforts of CIA are being directed along the
following lines:
.(l) To provide more specific requirements where necessary;
(2) To ascertain the collector's recommendations regarding
the effectiveness of current requirements media;
(3) To increase the understanding and use of special
material within CIA.
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