BRIEFING NOTES FOR MR AMORY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-01155A000300030014-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: October 13, 1961
• Content Type: MEMO

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Briefing Notes for Mr.:ry
1. The responsibilities of the Map Library are the development
exit and cartographic reporting program on behalf of the
- hhi.cal publications, and the coordination of a world-wide map
Intenance of an Intelligence map library together with related,
les of the government.
2. The collections of the Map Library include a Reference p
n, for loan purposes; a distribution Collection, with maps
'equesters on a retention basis; a Stock Collection,
Division; an Air Targets Materials Collection, with maps and textual
materials; an atlas and gazetteer collection; and a supporting collection
of geogMhic working volumes for use in procurement and processing
activities, The Reference collection is the largest and most complete
collection of special subject maps for intelligence purposes in existence.
$i saw oy,oc.
1956
1, 814.3
JV7, 875
49,718
1957
2, 111
48,365
50,776
x,106
65,479
67,565
959
2,499
70,280
72,779
1,960
2,o561
60;534
63,035
While the numbers procured vary from year to year, depending on-
rate of map production, and other
related factors, in general it is considered that the figures represent
near-complete collection of available maps. The only problem area
is Africa, and. efforts are currently under way to
Maps procured during
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1, The
this overt
c a'ss of the Sin- Sov c are not available tI
.to existing TO, established a new` Branch, the Special 25X1 C
last three yew the Map Library has, within the
and staffed it with six persons. This was
by of the govermwent
6. ' Reference Branch, operating with
positions since 1955, has had a considerable
statistics reveal a 6% increase In x
;e in total items offered in response to
Requests
1955 15, 353
1956 16,675
1957 19,936
1954 21,969
1966
1961
deer es in the staffing patterns of the Procurement
enches. This new Branch has a coordinating responsibility
,o86
281
25,2'(3 (projected)
(last quarter)
The
155%
to_Re~uets
192,995
237,659
267,121
355,417
332,555
406, 79
492,901 (projected)
(last quarter)
7. In s iti in to the "Weekly Acquisitions let of Naps of Fore
and the " nthly Acquisitions List of Maps of Foreign Areas-, the
G11 rraryr has undertaken in 1961-the publication of a new list,
"Acquisitions List of Antarctic Cartographic aerials." Two issues
d in the last eight months .
In 1955, the VA~p Library had a total of 48 authorized positions.
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authorized posit
t-load is being carried., by the Reference Brach,
has been mod, in the elm destine s port
~t tieely involved people number only 4' o
x-955
a four-person Information Control Section I
1959, accounts for the increase. Act #:
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