FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL SERVICE REPORTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67-00896R000100110036-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 24, 2000
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: August 11, 1961
• Content Type: MEMO

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1. Agricultural attaches at all foreign posts are required to
assign code numbers to all reports submitted to the Department. The
code mists of a numeral to atenote the commodity or subject of the
report. These numerals are followed by the capital letters A, B, C,
or D which merely denote the type of form used for the report. is
letter is so etimes felled by another numeral indicating the
periodicity of the report. Voluntary reports are coded with a capital
V and replies to a single-time request are indicated by a capital ST.
The coding is given on the reference line of the form and is easily
recognizable.
2. A review of the Agricultural Reporting Reference Code shows
that ORR interest in agricultural reporting from the Free World areas
is confined to codes 1, 24 and. 26 with two exceptions noted below.
Interest in agriculture in Welt Germany and Y oslavia is confined to
the following code numbers
nt Division, OCR
41 5o 6, 11, 15t 22, 214, 26,
3. It would be appreciated if in the future Foreign Agricultural
Service Reports from the Free World areas disseminated to be
confined to those code nw ers as shove above and to the v and.
type reports.
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