CIA • 1999

INTRODUCTORY NOTES FOR BOB PRESENTATION

Approved For Release 2007/10/23: CIA-RDP88B00553R000100140025-6 i Introductory Notes for BOB Presentation The mission of the Office of Research and Development is to support and enhance the intelligence capability of the Agency by the prosecution of all appropriate basic and applied research and development, and in that connection let me state that the great majority of such R&D is applied; that is, it is problem oriented. So-called basic or fundamental research occurs only when long-range planning indicates a deficiency of knowledge in a particularly significant area which must be solved. L v-7?6 KF_-T S +kA The programs you will see and -4 g~otx ire d ~ reading on are responsive in general to a variety of requirements...