DATA BUREAU

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Definitions

1. the Data Bureau has the cycle of attract data from all pertinent areas of all possible types, file it, assemble it, condense it, display it. If you represented it as a receiver of different types of reports from many remote observers, which the Data Bureau then got into orderly condition and then condensed them to meaning and displayed them for use by others you would have the operation of the Data Bureau and its CIC. Stats provide the clue to meaningful data. Very down and very up statistics alike cause the reports of those particular areas in that particular time to be related to those stats and displayed. This flashes all the very successful and the very dangerous areas to display attention and provides the extreme conditions packs vital to understand the why or to permit it to be investigated further. (CBO 7)

2. it has collection, condensation, evaluation and distribution (of data) as its four actions. (FBDL 12)

3. FOLO Data Bureau collects standard reports due from orgs, nudges for standard reports due from orgs, logs data on standard data checklists, debriefs and gets area observations, keeps a copy of stats, graphs it for Flag Programs Chief, and forwards all data and reports via External Comm to Flag. (CBO 192)

4. Data Bureau contains a Data Receipt Branch, Data Assembly Branch, Data Condensation Branch, and Data Library Branch. (CBO 16R)

5. the Admin Unit and CIC are now the Data Bureau. (OODs 15 Aug 70)