OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND REPORTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00022R000400190026-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 18, 2001
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: July 23, 1959
• Content Type: REGULATION

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ORGANIZATION
Revised 23 July 1959
OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND REPORTS
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
FOR
RESEARCH AND REPORTS
DEPUTY ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
C
FACTORY
MARKINGS STAFF
(CENTER)
INTELLIGENCE
INFORMATION
STAFF
ADMINISTRATIVE
STAFF
PUBLICATIONS
STAFF
ETC
SECRETARIAT
ECONOMIC RESEARCH AREA GEOGRAPHIC RESEARCH AREA
CHIEF
ECONOMIC RESEARCH
PLANNING AND
REVIEW STAFF
CHIEF
GEOGRAPHIC RESEARCH
ANALYSIS
DIVISION
INDUSTRIAL
DIVISION
CURRENT
SUPPORT STAFF
MATERIALS
DIVISION
SERVICES
DIVISION
MAP LIBRARY
DIVISION
CARTOGRAPHY
DIVISION
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DIVISION
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2. MISSION
The Assistant Director for Central Reference is charged with providing central
reference facilities for all components of the Agency, and with providing a central
service for the coordination of intelligence requirements, the servicing of collec-
tion requests, and the dissemination of intelligence materials.
3. FUNCTIONS
The Assistant Director for Central Reference shall:
a. Design, develop, and operate such central reference facilities as will ensure that
the content of all available intelligence materials is immediately accessible to
all offices of the Agency in support of intelligence production.
b. In collaboration with the Management Staff, conduct research into, and advise
Agency components upon, the application of machine techniques and special
devices to problems of information control and bibliographic research.
c. Operate the CIA Library, which will serve all offices of the Agency in accord-
ance with their needs and other agencies of the intelligence community to the
extent possible.
d. Provide books, periodicals, documents, and other publications required for use
by all components of the Agency.
e. Develop and operate such specialized registers of biographic, industrial, and
graphic intelligence data as may be required in support of intelligence produc-
tion.
f. Maintain biographic data on foreign scientists and technicians as a service of
common concern as required by NSCID No. 8.
g. Receive and disseminate, in accordance with current requirements, all incom-
ing positive foreign intelligence information and intelligence.
h. Develop and implement dissemination policies and procedures in coordination
with other offices of CIA and of the intelligence community.
I. Provide a central service for the coordination of specific foreign intelligence
requirements.
j. Determine, in collaboration with the agencies concerned, which collection fa-
cilities are best able to satisfy specific requirements and based on this de-
termination, assign collection missions.
k. Conduct operational liaison with all components of the Agency and with other
Government agencies and departments in the execution of the above mission
and functions.
4. ORGANIZATION
See organization chart, figure 2.
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