EXPLOITATION OF ENEMY DOCUMENT REPOSITORIES

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
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• Publication Date: April 10, 1947
• Content Type: MEMO

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C.I.G. 21/1
10 April 1947
COPY NO. 21
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
EXPLOITATION OF ENEMY DOCUMFNT REPOSITORIES
References: a. ? C.I.G. 21
b. Minutes of 11th I.A.B. Meeting
Memorandum by the Secretary
1. There is enclosed herewith the report of the Committee
appointed by the Director of Central Intelligence and the Intelli-
gencc Advisory Board at that Board's 11th meeting to consider the
document situation.
2. The Director of Central Intclligence will make his .
comments on the recommendations of the above-mentioned Committee
to the Intelligence Advisory Board at its next meeting.
J. S. EARMAN
Acting Secretary, N.I.A.
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References: a. C.I.G. 21
E. Minutes of the 11th I.A.B. Meeting
Memorandum by the Committee Appointed
To Consider the Document Situation
1. Investigation has revealed that the following re-
positories of captured enemy documents in the U. S. contain
materials which relate to political-social-psychological warfars::
a. Washington Document Center
About 125,000 documents comprising 11,250 cq. ft.
have not as yet been processed by cataloging and ab-
stracting on accession lists. Available information
indicates approximately 70% of these documents are on
political-social-psychological subjects, broken down
into 35% economic, 25% political and 10% social and
psychological. At present practically all effort is
being devoted to translation of previously cataloged
documents, and, therefore, little or no processing is
being accomplished. All material at this Center
emanates from Japan.
b. Department of State
About 35 rolls of microfilm received from Berlin
relating to subjects under exploitation. This 'con-
stitutes approximately 88% of over 17,000 frames (1
frame is equivalent to one page) microfilmed, broken
down into 75% political, 10% economic and 3% cultural.
About 350 frames are microfilmed per week.
Probably the most valuable source of this material
is to be found in the files of the Kulturabteilung of
the German Foreign Office which, however, has not yet
been microfilmed. It is related to social, political
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and cultural matters within the USSR and
territories controlled by it, and deals chiefly
with the following subjects:
(1) General Domestic Political Situation
a Nationalism in Russia
b State and Party
c Strength of the military clique
d Personal data on state and party men
e Party life
f Party Congresses
Et Elections
h The Commissariats
Leading personalities in Government
hierarchy Molotov, Zdhanov, Andryen,
Veroshilov
(2) The Red Army
(a) Political organization of the Red Army
(b) Morale of Soviet troops
(3) Trade and Communications in the Soviet Union
(4) Conditions prevailing in Soviet-occupied
territories
a Liquidation of owners of estates and of
officers
b Compulsory resettlement of populations
o Religious problems
d General economic conditions
e Russian police activities
(5) The Secret Services in the USSR
a Description, numbers, training of counter-
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espionage agents of the NICVD
b Organization, number and duties of the
Commissars of the Special Division of the
NKVD attached to the Red Army
Religious life and church matters within
the USSR
Culture and nationalities within the USSR
Soviet propaganda activities directed
against the Caucasus and the Ukraine
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(9) The National Ukrainian Movement
(10) Intrigues of various anti-Bolshevist
elements, organizations and individuals,
especially their relationship to Germany
and National Socialism
c. Library of Congress
Although the Library has on hand or expects immediately
some one million pieces of library materials of German
origin, it is estimated that 75% of this material is dup-
licate or obsolete. It is not believed that more than 1%
is related to the subjects under exploitation, or about
2500 pieces which should be processed.
Almost 100% of the materials received from the Deutsche
alationklbibliographie are listed, but very little of this
is related to the project.
The Library has offered to provide a team of two un-
packers, three examiners and two repackers to isolate
materials of interest in approximately three months.
Some financial support for this team for a three months'
period would facilitate the operation.
d German Military Document Section, War Department
All documents have received preliminary screening
and are divided into four major collections. It is
estimated that of the entire collection about seven
tons of documents contain material on the subjects
under exploitation. It is not expected that further
processing of related materials may be expected until
after Tuly 1947, due to current priorities to examine
other intelligence materials.
Preliminary screening indicates available materials
on the following subjects:
(1) Reports of the German Field Armies
(2) Records of the administration of occupied
countries, including reports of agents
German Army Propaganda Section, constituting
the largest source available
(3)
(4) Records of the Russian Cossack SS Division
(5) A small collection of Russian and German
leaflets
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Microfilm of propaganda indoctrination,
"News for the Troops"
Haishofer's private reference library on
Geopolitics
Individual books on Russia, Communism,
Sociology, Politics, etc.
Large numbers of documents containing
agents' reports and SS documents of
propagandist materials
e Office of Naval Intelligence
Only two to three weeks' backlog at current rate of
processing remain. Cataloging is practically completed
on documents related to subjects under exploitation.
2. Detailed information was not available with respect to
repositories outside the continental limits of the U. S. which
contain materials related to the subjects under exploitation..
This is due principally to the fact that materials are still
being collected, and for the reason that materials also are
being constantly shipped back to the U. S. Investigation has
revealed that the two centers which should be exploited are:
a. The Tempelhof Collection Center, Berlin, which
is under the joint custody of the U. S. and U. K. This
center contains the files of the Kulturabteilung of the
German Foreign Office.
b. The Halstead Document Center (13105), located
near London, under British control but available for
exploitation by the U. S.
3. It was agreed by the Committee that two teams, one
to operate in the U. S. and the other in Europe, should be able
to complete the extracting, cataloging and abstracting of all
materials related to political-social-psychological warefare in
a period of two years. It was further agreed that if this pro-
ject could not be completed at the end of this period this phase
should then be discontinued, pending further instructions.
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4. The two teams should be constituted as follows:
U. S. Team
Translators
Translator
Translator
2
analysts
- German
1
analyst -
Russian
1
analyst -
Japanese
European Teak
3 analysts-- 2 German
Translators, 1 in
Germany,the other in
England
1 Russian Translator
to cover both Germany
and Ehgland
5. Since no I.A.B. agency is able to provide any analyst
for this project the Committee recommends that in the event that
the I.A.B. approves the Committee's suggestions for two teams,
the seven required analysts be employed on a temporary basis by
the Central Intelligence Group, and that the operations of these
two teams be placed under the administration of the appropriate
office in C.I.G., which will supervise and guide the work of the
teams in accordance with the recommendations of the I.A.B.
agencies. It is further recommend-ed that upon completion of
their project these two teams be instructed to prepare accession
lists on the subjects under exploitation for circulation among
all interested Government agencies with the request that C.I.G.
be notified of the specific items desired for complete translation.
Based upon these requests a priority list should thep te)prepnrtd
for the second phase of trtnlations.
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Mr. F. G. Kilgour, State
Lt. Col. H. B. St. Cle'r, ID, WDGS
Col. R. Taylor, AC/AS-2
Capt. C. H. Murphy, ONI
Capt. E. Watts, USN, CIG
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21 November 1946
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
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EXPLOITATION OF ENEMY ,DOCUMENT REPOSITORIES
Memorandum by the Secretary
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At the request of the Chief of Naval Intelligence, the
enclosed memorandum has been submitted to the Interdepart-
mental Coordinating and Planning Staff for study and recom-
mendation, and is circulated herewith for dismIssion at the
next meeting of the Intelligence Advisory Board.
TAMES S. LAY, TR.
Secretary, N.I.A.
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