JOINT INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE JOINT TOPOGRAPHICAL INTELLIGENCE REQUIREMENTS AND SCHEDULES NOTE BY THE SECRETARY

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ENCLOSURE "E" Ta J/c -}T
28 October 1946
JOINT INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE
JOINT TOPOGRAPHICAL INTELLIGENCE REQUIREMENTS AND SCHEDULES
Note by the Secretary
The enclosure, a report by the Joint Topographical Sub-
committee on its own initiative, was referred to the Joint
Intelligence Staff for comment and recommendation.
The JIS has reviewed the subject report and recommends
that the Joint Intelligence Committee accept the recommendations
of the Joint Topographical Subcommittee in paragraph 9 of the
enclosure.
The report is submitted herewith for consideration of
the Joint Intelligence Committee.
R. U. HYDE,
Secretary
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E N C L O S U R E
JOINT TOPOGRAPHICAL INTELLIGENCE REQUIREMENTS AND SCHEDULES
Report by the Joint Topographical Subcommittee
(On its own initiative
THE PROBLEM
1. To establish new publishing schedules and priorities for
Joint Army Navy Intelligence Studies (JANIS) in the light of
present capabilities and limitations of contributing agencies.
FACTS BEARING ON THE PROBLEM
2. (See Appendix "B") .
DISCUSSION
(See Appendix "
CONCLUSIONS
4. Problems arising from latest budgetary restrictions
and personnel ceilings placed upon agencies contributing to
JANIS make some modification of the present production schedule
necessary. Formulation and implementation of any long range
JANIS program must be a decision of highest authority prepared
to back up the program with the budgetary allowance and the
personnel ceilings required..
5. The priority that work on JANIS is to receive in each
contributing agency should be established by highest authority
to insure meeting any new schedule.
6. The Intelligence Division, WDGS, at present :j, capable
of producing only three (3) JANIS per year d.ue to a shortage
of personnel-authorized its Topographic Branch.
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7. The Joint Topographical Subcommittee should be authorized:
a. To make modifications in the schedule, subject to the
concurrence of the Joint War Plans Committee, as may from
time to time be necessary for publishing efficiency or
to meet the requirements of joint planning.
b. To make changes in the outline guide and general com-
position of JANIS, as published heretofore, as may be war-
ranted by the experience of the Joint War Plans Committee,
the Joint Logistics Plans Committee, and other users of
JANIS.
.8. The Basic Directive of the Joint Intelligence Study
Publishing Board (JISPB) should be implemented'by establishing
the proportioned complement of professionally qualified person-
nel to enable the JISPB to process the number of studies
schedules.
RECOMMENDATIONS
9. That the Joint Intelligence Committee:
a. Approve the publishing schedule and priorities in the
Annex to Appendix "A" as a guide to the production of JANIS
and similar jo'.nt topographical studies.
b. Take steps to correct the production capacity of
those contributors whose port.:..ons of the production schedule
.delay complet.-on of the schedule and where implementation
of this decision requires, recommend appropriate action
by JCS.
c. Authorize the Joint Topographical Subcommittee to make
such modifications in this schedule, subject to the concur-
rence of the Joint War Plans Committee, as may from time to
time be necessitated by publishing efficiency or the require-
ments of joint planning.
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d. Authorize the Joint Topographical Subcommittee to
make such changes in the outline guide and. general composi-
tion of JANIS, as published heretofore, as may be consistent
with postwar emphasis in joint planning and as may be war-
ranted by the experience of the Joint War Plans Committee,
the Joint Logistics Plans Committee, and other users of
JANIS.
e. Contingent upon all agencies meeting the schedule
set forth in the Annex to Appendix "A" implement paragraph 6
of the Basic Directive of the Joint Intelligence Study
Publishing Board by establishing the proportioned complement
of Professionally qualified personnel to comprise the
working organization of JISPB as shown in Appendix "E".
f. Note that in order to maintain the schedules in the
Annex to Appendix "A", (1) the priority that work on
JANIS is to receive in the contributing agencies must be
established by highest authority, and (2) in some instances,
an increase in personnel authorized and augmentation of
depleted. staffs will be required.
g. Note that in order to accomplish any firm JANIS pro-
gram it will be necessary to approach the problem on a long
term basis reconciled with the realities of peacetime
budgetary considerations affecting the ability of each
contributor to produce JANIS. The present commitment of six
JANIS per year can only be accomp;ished by assurance to each
contributor that the organization required will be made
available to each contributor now and maintained as a long
range program.
h. Forward the memorandum in Appendix "A- to the Joint
Staff Planners.
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APPENDIX "A"
D R A F T
Joint Staff Planners
1. The Joint Intelligence Committee approved a schedule
for production of Joint Army-Navy Intelligence Studies (JANIS)
which was an abstraction and modification of the production
and priority schedule for joint topographic intelligence studies
and basic research submitted by the Joint War Plans Committee
in Its memorandum of 28 December 1945, the JWPC recommendation
hav.i..ng the approval of the Joint Staff Planners.
2. The Joint Staff Planners accepted as satisfactory the
schedule, but made two modifications and added a. request that
partial JANIS studies be completed simultaneously with the
schedule approved by the Joint Intelligence Committee.
3. The Joint Topographic Subcommittee, a subcommittee of the
Joint Intelligence Committee which assists the JIG in matters
regarding topographical and other static intelligence studies,
made a survey of agencies contributing to JANIS to determine,
in the light of latest budgetary restrictions and personnel
ceilings, the present maximum capabilities of these agencies 'to
more nearly meet the request of the Joint War Plans Committee
for JANIS studies.
4. Based on this survey, the Joint Intelligence Committee,
with its present capabilities, can provide only the schedule of
JANIS and partial JANIS listed in the annex hereto. Any change
in the present capabilities of any contributing agency will be
reflected in the schedule.
5. The Joint Intelligence Committee requests the Joint
Staff Planners to ascertain whether the JANIS production
schedule in the Annex will meet their minimum requirements for
joint planning.
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Bsed upon the existing work loads and available funds and
personnel-in certain of the contributing agencies, and considering
the necessary division into specialized desks, as well as the
capacity of the Joint Intelligence Study Publishing Board to edit
and process the manuscripts for printing, the following schedule
is considered the present capacity of the Joint Intelligence Com-
mittee to produce the Joint Army-Navy Intelligence Studies (JANIS)
requested by the Joint War Plans Committee:
JANIS
Number
Subject
All Chapters
except
II
Chap. II
40
European USSR
31 Dec 46
1 Jul 47
41
Caucasus Region*
20 Feb 47
1 Nov 47
5l
Turkey
15 Apr 47
1 Apr 48
4
1 Jun
7
1 Jul 48
57
Trans-Ural USSR*
1 Aug 47
1 Nov 48
1 Oct 47
1 Apr 49
58
Soviet Central Asia***
1 Dec 47
1 Jul 49
67
Northeastern Siberia***
1 Mar 48
1 Nov 49
1
Iceland
15 Jan 48
1 Apr 50
211
Egypt
15 Apr 48
1 Jul 50
209
Libya
1 Jun 48
1 Nov 50
50
Cyprus
15 Jul 48
1 Apr 51
4oo
Greenland
1 Sep 48
1 Jul 51
45
Bear & Jan Mayen Isis.
1 Oct 48
1 Nov 51
46
Spitzbergen Arch.
1 Nov 48
1 Apr 52
201
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
1Jan49
1 Jul 52
56
Iran
1 Feb 49
1 Nov 52
52
Syria
15 Mar 49
1 Apr 53
1
4
May
9
1 Jul 53
Iraq
1 Jun 49
1 Nov 53
27
Greece
1 Aug 49
1 Apr 54
316
Chile
1 Oct 49
1 Jul 54
308
Paraguay
1 Dec 49
1 Nov 54
313
Uruguay
1 Feb 50
1 Apr 55
311
Southern Brazil
1 Apr 50
1 Jul 55
302
Northeastern Brazil
1 Jun 50
1 Nov -55
305
Central Brazil
1 Jul 50
1 Apr 56
ANNEX TO APPENDIX "A"
JOINT-INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE
JOINT TOPOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE REQUIREMENTS AND SCHEDULES
aucasus Reion and Trans-Ural USSR requested as "Siberia
west of 130 East".
Includes requested
separately as a partial JANIS.
Northeastern Siberia and Soviet Central Asia requested as
"Siberia east of 1300 East".
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APPENDIX "B"
FACTS BEARING ON THE PROBLEM
1. The Joint Intelligence Committee established publishing
schedules and priorit:.es for Joint Army-Navy Intelligence Studies
(JANIS) through the fiscal year of 1947 in response to recommen-
dations of the Joint War Plans Committee. This schedule calls
for the production of six (6) JANIS per year.
2. The Joint Topographical Subcommittee on 26 July 1946 com-
pleted a survey of JAN-IS contributors* to determine, in the
light of latest personnel ceilings and budgets, the capacity of
each contributor to meet the schedule of studies established by
the Joint Intelligence Committee and the modifications re-
quested by the Joint War Plans Committee (See Appendix "D").
3. The staff of the Joint Intelligence Study Publishing
Board (JISPB) which processes JANIS has been reduced through
military release and civilian resignation from 44 to 20.
47 -Memo for Contributors to JANIS, dated 10 July 1946.
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APPENDIX "C"
1. The Joint Intelligence Committee approved an adjusted
list of three (3) JANIS studies to be prepared by 1 July 1546.
However, the following chapters had not been completed by,
1 August 1946:
a. JANIS 40, European U.S. S.R. -- *
b. JANIS 312, Argentina -- Chapter I, Brief**: Chapter
II, Military Geography; Chapter III, Oceanography; Chapter
VII, Transportation and Telecommunications; Chapter VIII,
Cities and Towns; Chapter IX, Resources and Trade, and
Chapter XIII, Gazeteer and Map Appraisal.
c. JANIS 71, Central China -- Chapter I, Brief**;
Chapter II, Military Geography; Chapter V, Climate and
Weather; Chapter. VII, Transportation and Telecommunications;
Chapter VIII, Cities and Towns; Chapter IX, Resources and
Trade, and Chapter XIII, Gazeteer and Map Appraisal.
Delay in completing the chapters listed above is caused by a
shortage of technically qualified personnel and, in some in-
stances, by the necessity of devoting available time and
personnel to higher priority work within the agencies. Manu-
scripts for these chapters, excepting Chapter II***, are promised
by 15 October 1946. The delayed completion of these three (3)
studies will in turn delay the schedule established by JIC.
This delay is estLmated at four (4) months.
:C revised the schedule to authorize an extension of
six (6) months for JANIS 40. All contributors except
the Intelligence Division, WDGS, have indicated they
can meet the new deadline of 31 December 1946.
Va -I,./,- l y, AJ.L.L'IJ., L0 P-L'UJJQt'UU Uy Lilt' .JO.LfIL lnLe,tligence
Study Publishing Board (JISPB) and cannot be completed
until all other chapters of a study have been received.
Topographic Branch, ID, indicated the following target
dates for Cha ter II: JANIS 40, 1 July 1947; JANIS 312,
1 November 1916; JANIS 71, 1 April 1947.
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2. All contributors, excepting the Topographic Branch of the
Intelligence Division, WDGS, and the Joint Meteorological Com-
mittee indicate they can meet the schedule in column headed
"All Chapters Except II and V" in the Annex to Appendix "A".
(Topographic Branch, ID,, reports its maximum capacity to pro-
duce Chapter II as three (3) studies per year, and the Joint
Meteorological Committee reports its maximum capacity to produce
Chapter V, Climate and Weather, as four (4) studies per year.)
This schedule calls for a minimum of six (6) studies per year,
and will provide for the full and partial JANIS requested by the
Joint War Plans Committee with the exception of a JANIS on the
continental United States.
3. The Joint Topographical Subcommittee in its 90th meeting
approved in principle the desirability of a JANIS on Continental
United States, but reported that facilities do not exist within
the present contributing agencies to prepare this study.
4. One of the obstacles to formulating and implementing a
-firm JANIS program and production schedule lies in the inability
of contributing agencies to provide for this program in their
budgetary requirements. Contributors that can produce JANIS
with a minimum addition to their internal work load have been
able to meet a requirement of six or more JANIS per year,
whereas those contributors which require additional personnel
beyond the internal requirements of. the agency concerned in
order to produce JANIS have been unable to carry a proportional
JANIS production load due to budgetary cuts.
5. Some agencies have suffered from voluntary attrition of
skilled professionals who, with the present uncertainty as to
the peace time intelligence program, requirements, and long term
subsidy of the program, lack the security in government employ
which they are obtaining by return to private or scholastic
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employment. As a result, contributors are suffering a reduction
in the quality of their authorized strength and finding it
increasingly difficult -to recruit, qualified personnel for
vacancies as they become available or to improve the quality of
their staffs.
6. Retention by the contributors of the professional personnel
required to produce JANIS in the quality and quantity required
will be governed almost entirely by the security offered these
=professionals in government employ compared to that offered
them in other fields. In peacetime, personal considerations
of security are of primary importance to individuals, and the
patriotism and sense of duty which obtained during the war, as
well as unlimited government support, no longer are pertinent.
Once these personnel are lost to the contributors it is out of
the question to obtain their services for spot assistance or
temporary employment as consultants in meeting the present
program. In time of real emergency, lag in recruitment of these
qualified personnel to their former positions may have
disastrous results to our intelligence and war.potential.
7. In addition to personnel problems in the contributing
agencies the staff of the Joint Intelligence Study Publishing
Board (JISPB) which processes JANIS and prepares Chapter I has
been reduced through military release and civilian resignations
from k to 20, the greatest decrease being in the category of
editors and draftsmen. With its present staff of 20, JISPB can
process four (4) studies per year. To meet the schedule of
six (6) studies per year, the addition of'a minimum of six (6)
editors, two.(2) draftsmen, one (1) proofreader, and one
clerk-typist, will be required (See Appendix "E").
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APPENDIX "D"
PRESENT CAPABILITIES OF JANIS CONTRIBUTORS
CHAPTER
CONTRIBUTOR
NO. PER YR.
I
II
Brief
Military Geography
JISPB
Topo. Br. (ID)
3
III
Oceanography
ONI (Hydro.)
8
IV
Coasts & Beaches
(C) ONI
(B) OCE
16
2
V.T.
VII
Climate & Weather
Ports & Shipping
Transportation &
AAF-Navy
OCE-ONI
OCE
12
Telecommunications
Sig. Corps
6
- 9
VIII
Cities & Towns
ID (Industry)
9
OCE (Elec. Power)
12
Geo. Sur. (Raw Mat., etc.)
(
12
Fed. Res.
Finance)
X People & Government
XI Health Sanitation
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APPENDIX "E"
JISPB MINIMUM PERSONNEL REQUIREMENTS FOR PROCESSING
SIX (6) JANIS PER YEAR
AGENCY TYPE
NO.
INTELLIGENCE DIVISION, WDGS (ID)
Presen? : Administrative Office (Captain)
1
Editorial Assistant, P-2
1
Chief Draftsman, SP-7
1
Clerk, CAF-1
1
Needed: Editors, P-5
Total
6
ASSISTANT CHIEF OF AIR STAFF-2 (A-2)
Presen : EdIT-O'-rs (Major)
Production Chief, CAF-6
Clerk-Typists, CAF-3
Needed: Engineering Draftsman, SP-7
Total
OFFICE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS (?OCE)
Present:
Needed:
Map Procurement Sp., P-5
Editor, P-2
Illustrating Draftsman, CAF-5
Editors, P-5
Engineering Draftsman, SP-8
Total
6
OFFICE OF NAVAL INTELLIGENCE (ONI)
Present: .~_tor, P-5
1
Editorial Assistant, P-2
1
Editorial Chief Clerk, CAF-6
1
Needed:
Editor, P-5
1
Proofreader & Graphic Sp., CAF-6
1
Clerk-Typist, CAF-3
1
Total
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Present:
Editor-in-Chief, P-6
1
Editor, P-5
1
Chief, Graphic Reproduction
Section, P-5
1
Assistant to above, SP-'(
1
Chief Clerk, CAF-5
1
Needed:
Editor, P-5
1
Total
6
In addition, the position 'of Director of JISPB, P-7 is being
established.
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