EVALUATION OF U.S. MILITARY ATTACHE REPORTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61S00527A000100020077-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 17, 1998
• Sequence Number: 77
• Publication Date: October 8, 1956
• Content Type: MEMO

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ce Notice No.
8 October 1956
1. As requested in the referenced notice, the folio
is a qualitative assessment of the value of Military At
reporting to this branch's intelligence missioni
branch and has provided useful background information.
This monthly series transmits copies of Polish Ocean Lines
voyage schedules which also contain a current list of
Polish Ocean lines agents throughout the world. ?e
time-lad; in dissemination pmts the most effective
operatic use of the schedule informations (A.LUS fiA
Wars In 2l8-56 of 9 July, transmitting the July schedules
shipping
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ceived by S/ST on 2 October.)
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b. rti. from non Bloc areas related to the Pace
This category of Attache reporting haaa been'-o? most
value operational3 y, particularly Ravy's KM-2 series
which reports movnts of merchant vessels connected with
t- rest and. lntra-Bloc trade. Other Navy Attache re
three Military services have provided bac
tion useful to our intelligence mission.
of recent. illegal lute-oil ah3 nts presuma` ljr diverted to
Communist China Reports from Attaches of all
c. Re... rti. from and on non-Bloc - areas
Since this brand 's interest is centered upon strategic
trade with the Sino-Soviet Bloc, reporting in this category
has been only of marginal interest.
Attac-he Reports
1 October 1956.
s received from other military sources such as
special intelligence units have not 1--sen
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