COMMENTS ON INTELLIGENCE AND POLICYMAKING IN AN INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT BY WILLIAM J. BARNDS (NOVEMBER 18, 1974)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01495R000900060001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 20, 2006
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 16, 1974
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: D/DCI/IC
SUBJECT Comments on Intelligence and Policymaking
in an Institutional Context by William J.
Barnds (November 18, 1974}
1. On the whole the paper is a very good primer on US
intelligence and its relationship to policymaking, although there
are a few parts that are out of date or wrong.
3. There are serious problems with the economic aspects
of the paper. I agree with the comments on this subject presented in
the memorandum from OER which I am sending along as a tab to this
memo.
4. Barnds could use a little education on the- so-called
information explosion as regards his discussion beginning on the
bottom of page 5. Our study of the flow of information shows that
over the past few years the amount of paper which is disseminated
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