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during his term as Secretary. This was the Bureau of IntelUgence and 

 Research (INR). In the U.S. Government Manual, the function of 

 this unit is described as follows: 



The Bureau of Intelligence and Research coordinates programs of intelligence, 

 research, and analysis for the Department and for other Federal agencies, and 

 produces intelligence studies and current intelligence analyses essential to foreign 

 policy determination and execution. In addition, the Bureau, through its Office of 

 External Research, maintains liaison with cultural and educational institutions 

 and with other Federal agencies on a wide range of matters relating to government 

 contractual and private foreign affairs research. '^* 



The history of INR appears to have followed a somewhat similar 

 course to that of SCI: initial growth, sharp cutback at the end of the 

 1950s, then growth again. However, during the past decade (1965-75) 

 the office has declined slightly in numbers from 370 to about 330. 



An account of INRs functions and products, in 1965, distinguished 

 between its management of information and that of the "policy" 

 bureaus of the Department. Said the article: 



. . . The authorities have ever since World War II felt the need for a specialized 

 center which should devote itself exclusively to the internal and external implica- 

 tions of the Department's enormous appetite for sound, pertinent, and absorbable 

 information. This center is the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR).*" 



It has essentially three functions: (1) to handle the "whole mass of 

 incoming information from all parts of the world, . . . S3'stematically 

 in selecting and analyzing the material which can be of use"; (2) to 

 provide a parallel source of information "conditioned by the particular 

 qualities of research work" as distinguished from information supplied 

 by bureaus "whose central focus is formulation of polic}'"; and (3) to 

 concentrate "in a coherent group of experts' hands the staff work 

 necessary to assist the Secretary of State in his relations with the 

 Government's intelligence network and ail its complex technological 

 and operational processes." In sum: 



Thus INR is the organization specially assigned within the Department to 

 supply information of particular kinds tailored for specific needs, to provide a 

 professional researcher's view of events abroad, and to insure that the Department 

 both benefits fully by and does its duty toward the intelligence community. The 

 outer limits of the Bureau's activity- are marked in one direction by the tradition 

 that it does not itself form foreign policy in the way that policy bureaus invent 

 and plan courses of action for the United States. On the other hand, it differs 

 from other components of the intelligence community in having no field force, in 

 relying for collection on Foreign Service reporting and on the work of its fellow 

 intelligence agencies. ^^* 



The staff of INR is about evenly divided between FSO's and Civil 

 Service personnel. From time to time, persons are taken onto the 

 staff with physical science, engineering, and other technical back- 

 grounds, but no systematic effort has been made to accumulate or 

 concentrate a "science and technology" capability as such. 



Around 1970, apparently, some consideration was given to the 

 creation of a science and technology office in INR, and the idea got 



"» Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administra- 

 tion. United States Government Manual (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing OflBce, July 1974), 

 p. 351. 



'" Allan Evans, " Research in Action: The Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research," 

 Department of State Bulletin, August 30, 196-3, p. 359. 



"s Ibid., pp. 360-361. 



