CIA • 1971

LETTER TO (Sanitized) FROM (Sanitized)

Approved For Release 2004/01/29 : CIA-RDP85B00803R000200010002-0 STAT 7 May 1971 the critique of my first draft of DD/S&T history STAT I lof the Historical Staff raised the following question which ope you can give me some language to answer: The point that most Agency RD&E is focused on the development of operational systems instead of on broad based exploration looking toward scientific breakthroughs is quite appropriate. This is a major problem, but some basic research sponsored by the Agency is so general and so abstract that it is not only costly but duplicates activities that have very broad non-intelligence applications. A number of ORD projects have been in this category, such as non-structured retrieval systems...