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II. Current Intelligence Reporting
A. Daily Surveyor
Philosophy
The *Daily Surveyor*, first published on 15 June 1964, was established with the primary purpose of serving as a vehicle for current reporting of important scientific and technical intelligence. Three principal subgoals were (1) to furnish the DDS&T, the D/OSI and other high-level readers a resume of the most important and "newsworthy" material received in OSI in the previous 24 hours, (2) to create an awareness among OSI analysts of the importance of current intelligence and of reporting scientific and technical intelligence on a current basis, and (3) to stimulate greater OSI production in the current intelligence publications of the community and the Agency.
A review of the Surveyor operation in January 1965, as requested by the IG, indicated that from its very beginning the Surveyor has been eminently successful in providing high-level Agency readers with current scientific intelligence. Further, the value of the *Daily Surveyor* to CIA working level analysts is indicated by the following comment from OCI in January 1965:
> "The Surveyor also is providing much previously unpublished intelligence analysis in
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