INTELLIGENCE DATA DIGESTS

Let us understand this subject of digestion: Information is collected, digested and disseminated.

Digested means: Can somebody read it?

If you look at the number of hours that it might take you to go through an entire observation mission, we get a total and complete unreality. The reason CIA’s information unfortunately was never read, received or used by the White House for many years—it was because the American taxpayer about half the national debt every US year—only cost the Eisenhower told the whole world; he paid no attention to intelligence information. He said it in Time magazine which is the official organ of the Administration.

He said, "Well, it’s too long and lengthy and can’t be read." Naturally it got in the road of his five trillion dollars worth of playing golf. That means that Allen Dulles, for all of his reading Western stories and computers in the CIA, had never figured out how to digest the information to a point where information sheet could be read in one day.

It’s done by the news services. They put whatever the KGB is pushing these days in a succinct form for their radio yip-yip. The radio gives you the events in rapid fire. BBC’s World Service gives you the events in rapid fire—and then gives you the embroidery of the events. That first thing you hear—the captions is the actual fact digest of the information. They might have a five thousand word news story or a three thousand, or a fifteen hundred or a five hundred word news story, but it is given in a couple of sentences.