Post Audit of Finished Intelligence

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78Z02997A000100230005-9
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• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 10, 1999
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: November 5, 1974
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Executive Assistant, D/DCI/NIO
SUBJECT:
REFERENCE :
25X1A
Post Audit of Finished Intelligence
Memorandum to NIOs from-
dated 7 October 1974,
Same Subject
I. Comments on Selected Periodic Publications.
(NOTE: None of the individuals cited reads the
Missile and Space Summary or The Surveyor.)
A. Mr. Harry Shlaudeman, Deputy Assistant Secretary
of State for Inter-American Affairs.
He finds the Weekly Review very useful. and would
like to continue to receive it. he also finds the Weekly
Summaries useful as well, although not many appear on the
Latin area. He reads the Economic Intelligence Weekly only
occasionally. It does not contain material which is of
routine or consistent interest to him, but he sometimes
finds articles which are useful. He volunteered that he
found the Oil Week] extremely good.
B. Mr. Stephen Low, Senior Staff Member, NSC.
Mr. Low does not read the Economic Intelligence
Weekly. He reads only the Latin American section of the
OCI Weekly. He has found few things in it which have not
already been covered in daily publications or in the OCI
publication, Latin American Trends. Thus, he no longer
reads the Weekly very carefully. He thinks there is a
certain risk in repeating articles in this fashion -- the
reader may get too blase.
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C. Mr. J. Foster Collins, Deputy for USIB and
Special Support, Office of National Security,
Department of Treasury.
Treasury finds the Weekly Review useful for
reference and not much more. Most of the articles have
a political slant and are not of the kind which would be
of prime interest to Treasury. Collins volunteered that
everyone was most happy about the Oil Weekly and he said
that he and his people hoped that it would continue to
be as full and as comprehensive as it is now. He said
there was less interest in the Economic Intelligence
Weekly, partly because some of the material in it has
l.ready appeared in daily publications and partly because
briefing material is prepared from the raw traffic which
underlies the items in the EIW. There are, however, occa-
sional items of interest in -it. As part of its service to
other agencies, Treasury has just begun to supply the
Weekly Review to Greenspan and Fellner of the Council of
Economic Advisors and they seem interested in it. The
Secretary of Commerce looks at it from time to time and
there is some interest in the Department of Commerce.
D. Col. Charles Corbett, Acting Chief, Western
Hemisphere Division, J-5, JCS.
Corbett, who occupies a two-star billet, said
that he found the Weekly Review very useful because in
his present job he no longer has time to read incoming
messages on a daily basis. He stated that the Weekly would
be more useful if the items in it were keyed to papers pend-
ing in interagency forums and could provide a common :intelli-
gence background. He no longer sees the Economic Intelli-
gence Weekly but he considers it useful and he intends to
get back on distribution for it.
E. Col. Jack C. Gardner, Atlantic/South and Central
America/Alaska/Readiness Command Division,
J-3 Operations, JCS.
J-3 finds the Weekly Review redundant because they
monitor messages on a daily basis. They would like to see
more estimative items in the Weekly Review.. They would
also like to see more regional e s because the regional
aspects of problems are lost when one is reading daily
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traffic dealing with specific countries. J-3 does not
receive the Economic Intelligence Weekly.
I I . Comments on IMs/IRs/IBs.
A. The comments here are much of a kind.
1. For Shlaudeman, no reports stood out in his
mind; he has seen a number and cannot say that they
have made a strong impression.
2. Low's impression of these publications is
that they are well done but none stand out in his
mind either.
3. Collins did not get much feedback on these
publications. They are sent by Collins' office
directly to all Treasury offices except the Office
of International Security Affairs; they go to the
desk level and do not usually engage people at the
policy level. In the case of the Office of Inter-
national Security Affairs, Collins' office gives it
lists of publications and asks which the office would
like to see. The result is occasional requests for
publications. Subject publications are also some-
times used as inputs to briefings.
4. Corbett found these publications useful but
could not recall any stars or clunkers.
5. Gardner and J-3 do not normally find these
publications directly useful, but read them with
interest. (Note: J-3 stated that its major unful-
filled intelligence requirement is the one for basic
intelligence. A recent JCS exercise involving Trini-
dad and Tobago revealed a deficiency in the basic
intelligence available to operational elements. J-3
particularly misses the NIS and is thinking about
identifying a requirement for such a document through
the Chairman of the JCS.)
Note: We have requested and expect to receive comments
from Dr. Luigi Einaudi of the Policy Planning Staff,
Department of State, and General Wallace, of the
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Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for
International Security Affairs and will forward
them when and if received.
National n e ige.nce icer
for Latin America
Distribution:
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