OFFICE OF CURRENT INTELLIGENCE STANDARD PROCEDURE FOR POST MORTEM MEMORANDA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79B01737A001000010003-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 3, 2001
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: March 2, 1966
• Content Type: REGULATION

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N 50-77
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OCI NOTICE 2 March 1966
NO. 50-77
OFFICE OF CURRENT INTELLIGENCE
STANDARD PROCEDURE FOR POST MORTEM MEMORANDA
25X1A
1. The 0CI Area concerned should automatically and without
further instructions or delay produce a brief post mortem memorandum
whenever a coup occurs in any of its countries or whenever there
has been a sudden critical development in any of them which might
open the door to charges that CIA was caught by surprise.
2. The post mortem should begin with a short summary state-
ment making the appropriate point about OCIts reporting leading up
to the event. If ample warning has been given, as will normally be
the case, this should be forcibly indicated. The body of the post
mortem should consist of a concise chronology, with quotations from
OCI publications, driving home the point made in the summary. The
memorandum should be prepared on bond and forwarded through the
CI DDCI
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D/OCI and Memo Control Officer.
3. Attached for guidance is a sample post mortem memo, one of
three recent ones which were acclaimed by all recipients.
25X1A
Acting Director o GurrenT, ligence
Attachment:
A/S
Distribution B
GROUP 1
Excluded from automatic
downgrading and
declassification
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f the D/OCI in sufficient copies for the M-1.)
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