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In the fall of 1953 a goal of one item per analyst per month was set. To meet the goal each division selected a "current intelligence representative" who was to devote full time to work on current intelligence production (SID, SIM, items for OCI publications) for a period of six months. At that time selected raw information documents were routed to the [redacted] where they were scanned for items warranting publication. Subsequently they were given to divisional analysts who were responsible for alerting the divisional current intelligence representative who with the [redacted] would prepare the item and determine the category of publication. This procedure had the additional goals of improving the quality of the publication as well as saving the time of the analyst and of the Intelligence Board, the latter at that time being concerned both with the worthiness of an item as well as editorial matters. Being too cumbersome, the above procedure was discontinued shortly.
Since then the primary responsibility for originating SID items has remained with the analyst. Two other methods have also been used with some degree of success. When the Daily Surveyor was initiated and was disseminated only within the Agency, it was realized that much
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