OFFICE OF NATIONAL ESTIMATES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00022R000400190025-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 18, 2001
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: December 9, 1955
• Content Type: REGULATION

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OFFICE OF NATIONAL ESTIMATES
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
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ESTIMATES
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5. MISSION
The Assistant Director for Research and Reports is charged with producing
economic intelligence on the Sino-Soviet Bloc and geographic intelligence on
all areas outside the United States, and with coordinating intelligence in these
fields among the Federal departments and agencies. The term Sino-Soviet Bloc
as used in this regulation covers the USSR, the Eastern European Satellites, Com-
munist China, North Korea, and any other areas under Soviet domination.
6. FUNCTIONS
The Assistant Director for Research and Reports shall:
a. Formulate and implement the Agency intelligence research program relating
to economic capabilities, vulnerabilities, and intentions of the Sino-Soviet Bloc
(DCID 3/1).
b. Provide the economic contributions to national estimates on the Sino-Soviet
Bloc.
c. Support the Office of Current Intelligence by providing all-source current
economic intelligence.
d. Prepare the necessary collection and collation requirements for his Office and
provide appropriate assistance, assessment, evaluation, and guidance in support
of collection and collation activities.
e. Study and develop techniques and methods relating to the economic intelligence
process and recommend employment where appropriate.
f. Provide the chairman and secretariat for the Economic Intelligence Committee
and in accordance with the approved terms of reference for this Committee
(DCID 3/1) coordinate the economic intelligence activities of the Federal de-
partments and agencies.
g. Provide the organization and centralized facilities for selecting, recording, col-
lating, and disseminating related information on Sino-
Soviet Bloc manufactures, intelligence based on
such information (DCID 3/2).
h. Provide for the production and coordination of foreign geographic and map
intelligence, for geographic research in support of CIA operations and intelli-
gence production, for the preparation of intelligence maps for CIA and other
USIB agencies, and for maintaining specialized map-reference service and
inter-agency coordination of collection requirements for maps on foreign areas.
I. Perform such other functions related to intelligence research or reporting as
may be directed.
7. ORGANIZATION
See organization chart, figure 3.
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