INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY COMMITTTEE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN LANGUAGE PUBLICATIONS FIRST ANNUAL REPORT

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 21, 1998
• Sequence Number: 62
• Publication Date: March 2, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Advisory Committee on Foreign Language Publications
First Annual Report
1. For the information of the Intelligence Advisory Committee
there is submitted herewith the First Annual Report of the Advisory
Committee on Foreign Language Publications, as approved by that
Committee.
2. This document will be placed on an IAC Agenda in the
near future, for noting.
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Secretary
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ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN LANGUAGE PUBLICATIONS
FIRST ANNUAL REPORT
1. Authority
The Advisory Committee on Foreign Language Publications
was established in pursuance of paragraph 5 of NSCID-16 (7 March 53)
to assist the Director of Central Intelligence in the implementation
of that Directive. The Committee is composed of representatives
of the IAC agencies and can invite other interested agencies to sit
with it on matters which concern them. Chairmanship is provided
by CIA.
II. Organization
Three subcommittees have been established which compre-
hend in general the responsibilities separately identified in the
Directive and which are listed below.
III. Responsibilities, Accomplishments and Objectives
A. PROCUREMENT
1. Responsibility To assist the Director of Central Intelli-
gence in insuring the coordination of the procurement of foreign
language publications for intelligence purposes, it being understood
that captured documents are excepted from this provision.
2. Projects Completed
a. Agreement for an inventory of IAC holdings of
USSR serials.
b. Agreement for the preparation of area dossiers for
the convenience of IAC field collectors, such dossiers to include
selected information from IAC sources on book trade organizations
and practices, lists of bookstores with their specialties and personnel,
libraries and librarians, prices, payment methods, accounting pro-
cedures and export restrictions.
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2. Projects Completed (continued)
c. Agencies having domestic sources have agreed to
pool information on the domestic market for procurement of foreign
publications to insure full exploitation of that market prior to field
collection.
3. Projects Planned
Review of collection guides will be undertaken as a step
in insuring maximum Washington coordination in foreign publications
procurement.
B. EXPLOITATION
1. Responsibility: To assist the Director of Central Intelli-
gence in insuring the coordination of the preparation and dissemination
of English-language excerpts, summaries, abstracts and compilations
from foreign language publications.
2. Projects Completed
Interagency Agreement regarding Exploitation of USSR
Non-Scientific Publications has been reached within a framework which
permits the maximum systematic exploitation by OIAb3bl
Division/CIA to meet the peculiar needs of the IAC agencies within
the personnel limits available. This system should insure a minimum
of duplication among the agencies.
3. Projects Planned or in Progress
a. Interagency Agreement on Requirements for Exploita-
tion of Scientific Literature.
D. Interagency Agreement on Requirements for Exploita-
tion of the Publications from the following areas, and in this order:
(1) China
(2) Poland - Czechoslovakia
(3) Hungary - Rumania - Albania - Bulgaria
(4)
(5)
(6) Yugoslavia - Finland
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C. REFERENCE
1. Responsibility: To assist the Director of Central Intelli-
gence in insuring the coordination of the development and maintenance
of indices, accession lists, and references services regarding foreign
language publications.
2. Projects Completed
a. Inventories of Lexical Materials for Chinese, Polish,
Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Byelorussian have been prepared and are
being reviewed. Inventories are almost corn lete for Hungarian,
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inventories will not be undertaken except on request. These inven-
tories, prepared in response to requests from IA.C training offices
and the NSA, will likely uncover previously unknown grammars and
dictionaries as well as expose gaps which may require the preparation
of new materials to meet intelligence needs.
b. Lists of IAC Publications have been prepared by each
department to cover most departmental intelligence publications and
some serial field publications. By agreement these have been made
generally available for reference purposes,
c. CIA has agreed to index by subject and area Air
Force documents in order to assist the Air Force to develop a library
system adaptable to machine handling.
3. Projects Planned or in Progress
a. Investigation of Intelligence Agencies' Foreign
Periodical Indexing Requirements are being undertaken to meet
common needs with the possible end in view of indexing selected
IAC-held foreign periodicals by CIA.
b. Unique Intelligence Collections, Files and Indexes are
being sought and recorded for reference purposes.
c. A Union Catalog of IAC-held USSR Monographs is
being assembled in CIA for common reference use.
d. Problems of Interlibrary Loan are being investigated
to see what improvements can be effected.
e. A Survey of Existing Bibliographic Services Available.
in Each Agency is being conducted to permit an analysis of needs and
the possible development of additional aids to research.
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