RECOMMENDATIONS AND PROBLEMS MONTHLY REPORTS FOR JANUARY 1958

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Recommendatlions and Problems
Monthly reports for January 1958
CARTOGRAPHY DIVISION
As a result of the increasing amount of work being assigned to the
Chart and Graph Section, it has been necessary to temporarily assign two
additional people to this unit. It is also planned to exchange the quarters
of this Section with that of the Drafting Section to more efficiently utilize
space.
During the month, two representatives from the Management Team surveying
the utilization of reproduction facilities were thoroughly briefed into the
operation of the Division relative to the requirements it places upon the Main
Reproduction plant facilities. Every effort is being made to reduce the number
of requests sent to the reproduction plants.
Several members of the Division participated in an initial inter-agency
briefing with D/GP on the problem of urban studies. Further study will be
undertaken by an ad hoc committee proposed at that meeting.
USSR-SATELLITES COMPILATION BRANCH
25X1C10CThe Branch is vinced that increased cartographic support to the
and a serious attempt at exploitation of D/GP
resources is highly desirable. Further, despite the completion of the
EuSata town plan series, it is felt that support to DD/P operations should
be increased over what this support has been in the past. In addition,
considering the large volume of base maps distributed by D/GL, the need
for an active maintenance program of revision is increased. This mainten-
ance is nonexistent at present, except where the NIS program compels
revision.
Any one of the above programs could be increased by the current Branch,
but with two persons leaving the Branch within the next six months, none of
these programs seems possible. Depending upon replacements and the speed
of integration into the Branch, there is some possibility even of a cutback,
before any of the programs can be considered seriously.
SPECIAL SUPPORT BRANCH
The revision of the OCT Daily Bulletin actually affects us very
little. We did make hemisphere locator maps for the introductory page, and
we do, where possible, supply OCI Graphics with original plates of our maps
when they request it. We have also instituted a policy of getting separation
plates of all our new maps, plus selected maps from our back files, for OCI
Graphics use.
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CARTOGRAPHY DIVISION (CONT'D)
The number of rerun requests from the Map Library continues to be
fairly high, but even more serious from the point of view of meeting the
requests properly is the fact that the large majority of the maps require
revision in some degree. It is not wise in our opinion, to rerun a map
that we know to be deficient yet we do not have the capabilities to perform
the necessary revision and also keep abreast of our regular production
schedule. This situation is one of long-standing and not one which has
developed in the past month or so. Our base maps, which are used widely
throughout the IAC are particularly affected by this situation. Rerun
requests are screened by the Branch in order to suggest a suitable substi-
tute or to determine whether or not it would be best to drop a map entirely
and we do not take on any such requests that are not legitimate reruns.
It has been a matter of concern to this Branch that some of the maps
put out by the "aid shop" have seemed to depart from the general appearance
of our products in some minor ways. A single line title box on the map of
Laos for Admiral Layton is an example. This may have been an expedient, but
it is a map which should represent our "best foot forward" if possible.
This same map also has no tone on the areas outside of Laos and as on
Chapter I maps it would improve the appearance here. A recent GM on Sweden
has some things of this nature on it. The point here is that we should not
get too slack in this particular part of our Division in the way of moving
things out fast and there should be some standards set and held to in which
the Division concurs. The sketch map appearance should be avoided unless it
really is a sketch map.
The Coordination Staff reports that the possibility of completing the
Chapters IX and Sections 19 on the FY 58 schedule with the present staff of two
coordinators is increasingly remote. Also if the proposed Chapter I Annual
schedule is adopted, some provision will have to be made for an adjustment in
the Chapter IX and Section 19 schedules for FY 58.
In addition to the problem of delay in Reproduction, a second problem has
arisen there -- a progressive reduction in the quality of the photographs
reproduced. Almost all the photo-reproductions in GR-163, the E and E on
Southwest European USSR, were below standard and half of them did not even
show the features specifically noted in the text. The report was returned,
and Reproduction will try rerunning to improve the photos. The Editing and
Review Staff is trying a new approach to the problem, i.e., in GR-171 all of
the illustrations have been combined in a photographic appendix at the end of
the report, on enamel stock; this prodedure should improve the quality of the
reproduction but it would not be practical in all reports.
Seven members of the Geography Division made application to use the Language
Laboratory, 1152 Q Building. Some hitches in getting the tape-listening program
started have been experienced, particularly for Eastern European languages.
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GEOGRAPHY DIVISION (Cont'd)
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A suggestion relayed to 01I concerning one of the revised NIS Memos
that was to be discussed at the 21 Janus NIS Committee meeting was
overruled by of OBI without being presented
to the Committee. This is another indication that the CIA producing ccn-
ponents do not have adequate representation on the NIS Committee.
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The recent news of the possible availability of money
for CIA use raises some interesting possibilities. Anyone attending
international scientific and professional conferences these days cannot
help being impressed at the large numbers of academic personnel who are
being financed for field work, foreign teaching assignments, or just
plain travel by Ford, Rockefeller, Fulbright, etc. This was true at the
Regional IGU meetings in Tokyo, where we were fortunate enoughto have a
representative in attendance. It was also true at the Bangkok` meetings
of the Pacific Science Congress, where geographers were much in evidence
(See Harold Wiens' article in the current Professional Geographer) even
though we were not fortunate enoug4to have an Observer there--
ere. We feel
that the current situation, whereby academic geographers -- many of them
actually subsidized by government grants fare in a more favorable position
to have opportunities for foreign field work and attendance at international
conferences than are government, career geographers, is basically unsound. We
believe that we should take ad ntage-of every opportunity to extend and expand
the professional foreign area competence of our research people. The
sabbatical is now a well-established practice in universities and even in
some private research organizations. The Ford Foundation or other ossibilit
for underwriting such a program for government career geographers and foreign
area sspecialists should be nLua explored.
is ironical to contemplate that one almost inevitable result of our
failure to exploit all possible means of getting government career geographers
into the field would show up vividly in the unhappy event of a hot war and
total mobilization; the geographers with the best background of area competence
from field experience will be in the universities, not in the government career
service.
The attention of the Branch has once again been brought to the delay
encountered in the dispatch of material from D/GL in instances where the
material is of mutual interest to D/GL and D/GG. In some cases the Branch
has received items of intelligence value long after they have cleared Info
Control. It is suggested that, if desired, the documents will be returned
to D/GL after processing or file after they have been viewed by D/GG,
thus avoiding their belated arrival in
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GEOGRAPHY DIVISION (Cont'd)
EUROPE BRANCH
There isstill considerable interest in the idea of "U.W."
schooling. Is the program still under development?
The recent security briefing detailing specific cases of
attempted penetration, etc., was a sound step forward in the develop-
ment of better security. It is suggested that this idea be followed up.
It is much more effective than reading the manual and signing names or
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Re PN 60.1595-9 (Civil Divisions of the World), since we have
complied with both the letter and spirit of the "as soon as possible"
directive that appeared in the initiation memorandum, we take a dim view
of the sluggish pace at which the work has moved after completion of the
research. There is no reason why Parts I and II should not at this
writing bein the hands of the requestor.
The approach to the final production of the various sections is
militating strongly against the explicitly expressed desires of the
requester, which are: To receive 12 ditto copies of each regional section
promptly as soon as it is complete. If Pearcy's request must be used as a
springboard for preparing an elaborate, rearranged, lithographed verEion
(which he did not request, and which will be 30 percent obsolete ere it reaches
him), let it be done after we have met his basic request.
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The problem of the lack of clerical assistance in the Cataloging and
Indexing Section has been aggravated by the resignation of In
addition to performing general clerical and typing duties (for the fifth con-
secutive month), the catalogers are now also absorbing the card sorting and
filing duties which had been performed by
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None reported.
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