TIME AND REPORTS

An Intelligence report can be totally correct. But if its TIME is not included it can also be totally wrong.

Example: Sample report says 'Whites are being shot down in West African ports'. So we conclude we better not enter any. Then we learn the time of the report -- 1960! Some difference.

Boy, when you make a report, always put in WHEN. And before you accept one be sure there's a WHEN attached.

Our scheduling of port visits was going all awry because a report that was really old was being accepted as current.