MILITARY SECURITY CAPTURED ENEMY DOCUMENTS

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 12, 2000
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: July 6, 1951
• Content Type: REGULATION

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SPECIAL REGULATIONS DEPARTMENTS OF THE ARMY, THE NAVY,
380 350-2 AND THE AIR FORCE
NAVY WASHINGTON 25, D. C., 6 July 1951
OPNAV INSTRUCTION 0386.3
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CAPTURED ENEMY DOCUMENTS
SECTION I. GENERAL.
Paragraph Pago
Authority and scope-------------------------------
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Captured enemy documents defined-----------------
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Information obtained------------------------------
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Military exploitation of documents------------------
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Documents captured with equipment----------------
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Requirements------------------------------------
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II. ARMED SERVICES DOCUMENT INTELLI-
GENCE CENTER.
Authority-------------------------------------- -
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Mission------------------------------------------
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Functions----------------------------------------
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Command and operational policies-------------------
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Dissemination------------------------------------
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Translation--------------------------------------
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Storage, cataloguing, reproduction, disposition- - - - - _ - -
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III. FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATION.
Introduction -----------------------------------_---
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Operations involved in processing of documents--------
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Recording and cataloguing-------------------------
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Screeningandclassification -------------------------
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Reading panel------------------------------------
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Translation-------------------------------- -----
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1. Authority and scope.--a. Authority.
(1) This directive is prepared pursuant to the directive by the
Joint Chiefs of Staff to the Chief of Staff, U. S. Army, which
reads ".ASDIC will operate under joint policies and pro-
cedures specified in a manual prepared by the Joint Intelli-
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gence Committee entitled: `Armed Services Joint Intelligence
Directive: Captured Enemy Documents'."
(2) Additions to or changes in this directive will be approved by
the Joint Intelligence Committee.
b. Scope.-This directive sets forth basic policies on ASDIC's com-
mand and administrative relations and its operating functions. Other
aspects of document intelligence are considered only as they bear
on these concepts and are included only for information.
2. Captured enemy documents defined.-"Captured enemy docu-
ments" as used in this directive consists of every piece of written,
stamped, or printed matter, regardless of content or origin,, held by
the enemy and coming under control of United States military forces.
Under certain circumstances the retention of nameplates, operating
manuals or blueprints with the associated captured equipment may be
necessary in order to facilitate technical exploitation.
3. Information obtained.-a.. Captured enemy documents often
provide accurate and timely information regarding actual conditions
within the enemy's armed forces, the area of operations, or the enemy
nation itself. They are a source of creditable data on his activities,
methods, and techniques. In addition, they offer a minimum of deceit
compared with the information given by prisoners of war and inform-
ants. The objectives of systematic exploitation of captured docu-
ments by competent personnel are to obtain valuable information
on many subjects such as-
(1) Strategic plans and intentions.
(2) Tactical plans, dispositions, and doctrines.
(3) The development, operation, and use of enemy material.
(4) Enemy's war economy, such as industrial development,
civilian control and morale, and strategic targets in vital
industries.
(5) Operation of espionage and counterespionage groups, in-
cluding enemy knowledge of United States and Allied plans,
dissident groups in the enemy nation, and movements
inimical to the enemy government.
(6) Enemy diplomacy, including relations with other countries,
and management of occupied territories.
(7) Technical characteristics of weapons, transportation, and
combat equipment.
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b. Recognizing the value of intelligence which can be derived from
captured enemy documents the Joint Intelligence Committee of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff has approved this directive for the operation of
the Armed Services Document Intelligence Center.
4. Military exploitation of documents.-All echelons in the mili-
tary structure are concerned with the exploitation of intelligence from
captured enemy documents. Field teams exploit intelligence of im-
mediate operational significance; theater joint intelligence centers
coordinate theater activities in the exploitation of enemy documents;
ASDIC functions at the department level and provides a coordinating
point for interdepartmental requirements.
5. Documents captured with equipment.-Operating instructions,
nameplates, and blueprints which pertain to the construction and
operation of captured enemy equipment., and which are obtained at
the point of capture of such material normally will be tagged and
attached to the appropriate item of equipment. At the earliest op-
portunity, such documents will be reproduced, appropriate notations
made respecting the item upon which the original is attached, includ-
ing disposition of the item if known, and the reproduction forwarded
to the nearest agency concerned with the exploitation of documents.
6. Requirements.-a. ASDIC is a joint intelligence exploitation
agency and as such has no responsibility for the production of finished
intelligence.
b. The Service intelligence agencies will determine the document
intelligence requirements and priorities for their respective Services.
Likewise the CIA will determine similar requirements and priorities
for the agencies which it represents.
c. The Director of ASDIC will fill the foregoing requirements in
the order of their priority to the limit of available facilities and per-
sonnel. Where requirements exceed available resources, the Director
will consult with the requesting agencies for readjustment.
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ARMED SERVICES DOCUMENT INTELLIGENCE CENTER
7. Authority.-The Armed Services Document Intelligence Center
,(ASDIC) is a joint intelligence exploitation agency approved by
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the Secretary of Defense and operated by the Chief of Staff,* U. S.
Army, as executive agent for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Chief
of Staff, U. S.- Army, will be responsible for the construction and
administrative maintenance of ASDIC and will budget for its opera-
tion. ASDIC will become operational at a time to be determined
by the Joint Intelligence Committee.
8. Mission.-The mission of ASDIC is to-
a. Provide within the Zone of Interior it joint operational agency
to exploit or otherwise process captured enemy documents which come
under U. S. military jurisdiction. -
b. Furnish the results of such exploitation to appropriate agencies.
c. Maintain liaison in the various theaters of operations and with
captured document organizations of Allied Nations.
9. Functions.-In accomplishing the above mission, ASDIC Will-
a. Establish at an appropriate location in the Zone of Interior
suitable facilities for the exploitation of captured enemy documents.
b. Maintain continuous liaison and coordination with the Service
intelligence agencies and other agencies of the Intelligence Advisory
Committee in order to insure-
(1) Fulfillment of pertinent intelligence requirements of such
agencies from available captured documents, and
(2) Pertinent and coordinated exploitation of such documents.
c. Screen all incoming documents to determine their potential value.
d. Process captured documents in order to provide to such agencies
potential intelligence information contained therein.
e. Assure that such intelligence agencies are advised of the existence
of these documents.
/.Supervise the cataloguing, duplicating, and maintaining of
records of all captured documents.
g. Furnish to such agencies copies or reproductions of captured
documents for further exploitation, when needed by them.
10. Command and operational policies.-a. Command.-The Di-
rector of ASDIC will be an Army officer designated by the Assistant
Chief of Staff, G-2, U. S. Army. The Director will exercise Diilita,ry
command over all personnel from any Service assigned to ASDIC.
b. Personnel.
*The Chief of Staff, U. S. Army has delegated this responsibility to the Assistant Chief of
Staff, G-2, U. S. Army.
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(1) There will be a Deputy Director who will be an Army Officer
designated by the Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2, U. S. Army,
upon the recommendation of the Director. The Deputy Di-
rector will assume command of ASDIC in the absence of
the Director.
(2) There will be three Assistant Directors, one each from the
Navy, Air Force, and CIA. In order to aid the Director in
carrying out the mission of ASDIC, the Assistant Directors
are assigned the following principal responsibilities:
(a) Provide the liaison between ASDIC and the Assistant Di-
rector's Service or agency.
(b) Advise their Service or agency as to.ASDIC's procedures
and workload to the end that requirements and priorities
may be consistent with ASDIC's capabilities.
(c) Exercise general supervision of the processing of the re-
quirements in which their Service or agency has primary
interest, and of the dissemination of such processed infor-
mation to their Service or agency and to other Services and
agencies as appropriate.
(3) The permanent military intelligence staff will be composed
of approximately equal Army, Navy, and Air Force repre-.
sentation.
(4) CIA will furnish competent trained personnel adequate to
perform the workload imposed upon ASDIC by the require.
ments of the nonmilitary agencies represented by the CIA.
(5) Each Service and the CIA will be responsible for the pay
and allowances of its own personnel.
(6) The administrative and/or Service staff, including mainte-
nance and guard personnel, will be furnished by the Depart-
ment of the Army.
(7) The Chief of Staff, U. S. Air Force, and the Chief of Naval
Operations will, so far as practicable, make available to
ASDIC the physical facilities of the Central Air Documents
Office or similar organization for cataloguing, duplicating,
storing, and maintaining records of captured enemy docu-
ments.
(8) ASDIC requirements for documents within theaters of oper-
ation will be expressed by-
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(a) Requirements submitted through appropriate channels.
(b) Attachment to a theater command of an advance echelon
of ASDIC for the purpose of expressing and interpreting
ASDIC's requirements, screening and sorting information
available, and eliminating duplicate operations. It will
not interfere with the Theater Commander's requirements
for captured documents.
(9) The Director will as practicable obtain indices, catalogues,
and accession lists indicating documents in the custody of
Allied captured documents organizations.
11. Dissemination.-a. Responsibility for the full and adequate
dissemination of document intelligence information rests with the
agency processing the document.
b. The dissemination of document information in convenient sum-
nmry form, such as in accession lists, is one of the prime responsibili-
ties of ASDIC.
c. To prevent duplication of effort and to insure uniformity of dis-
semination on routine matters, the Director will coordinate the
distribution of documents and/or document information summaries
and will issue appropriate instructions. Any directives should not
prevent any agency from disseminating document information direct
and in the most expeditious manner to any other United States mili-
tary agency or CIA when, in the judgment of the officer in charge, the
urgency of the information so requires.
12. Translation.-a. The Director has full discretion in accepting
requests from the Services for extended translation of documents in
excess of that required to accomplish ASDIC's mission.
(1) As a general guide, ASDIC is not necessarily required to
translate every document in its entirety, but only to the de-
gree necessary to reveal to document intelligence analysts a
document's general contents, reliability, significance, and re-
lation to other documents and to intelligence requirements
levied on ASDIC.
(2) Full or partial translation of a document, beyond that cov-
ered in (1) above, will be governed by the need therefor
as determined by the Reading Panel.
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b. The Director shall consult with such other agencies as may be
concerned in the preparation of translators' manuals of standard
terminology with a view to keeping the manuals abreast of field ex-
perience.
13. Storage, cataloguing, reproduction, disposition.-a. ASPIC
will maintain military control of all captured enemy documents re-
'ceived by it until such documents are fully exploited of all intelligence
-value. The documents will normally be transmitted from theaters of.
operation direct to ASDIC.
b. The Director shall make copies or reproductions of documents
and translations available to authorized agencies for further exploita-
tion as those agencies require.
c. To prevent piecemeal dispersion of the central document files,
,original documents shall be loaned to authorized agencies only when
copies are unavailable and speed of exploitation is of the essence. The.
Director or an authorized agent shall review each request for the loan;
,of an original document, and shall make such loans subject to recall at
the Director's discretion.
d. The Director shall prepare for issue through proper channels
directives on procedures for the storage, maintenance, cataloging, and, ,
reproduction of captured enemy documents. In the preparation of
such directives, the Director shall consult with other Government
agencies and, under prevailing policy, with agencies of Allied nations
that also have cognizance of captured enemy documents with a view
toward establishing standardized procedures. e. When documents under the custody of ASDIC are fully ex-
ploited of all intelligence value, those documents which are deter
mined by the Director to remain in military custody shall be trans-
ferred to an appropriate library-type repository. Any restrictions
relating to use, disposition, or restitution will be communicated to the
receiving agency. ASDIC records pertaining to the documents will
be retained, however, by ASDIC, until its dissolution, at which time
they will be transferred in toto to such agency as may be responsible
for the exploitation of foreign documents. (As of the date of this'
directive, the Foreign Documents Division, Central Intelligence
Agency is the agency responsible for such documents.)
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SECTION III
FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATION
14. Introduction.-This section presents a brief functional picture
of ASDIC's operations. Certain operational details described earlier
are repeated in order to clarify and more fully relate the various proc-
esses through which a document passes. Under his command author-
ity, the Director will have full discretion in setting up ASDIC along
such internal organizational lines as will fulfill its mission.
15. Operations involved in 'processing of documents.-The fol-
lowing paragraphs treat functionally the various operations involved
in the flow of documents to and through ASDIC. Figure 1 depicts
such operations.
16. Recording and cataloguing.-Each document received by
ASDIC from any source will be catalogued and identified in order
that it may be subject to trace whether retained by ASDIC or trans-
mitted to another agency. Restrictions upon dissemination, use, resti-
tution, etc., will be observed by ASDIC and brought to the attention
of other recipients of such documents. In the processing of a docu-
ment, the operation of recording and cataloguing will be evident at
various stages, and will include-
a. The development and application of a system for permanent,
uniform identification of captured documents for use by theater com-
mands and all other military collecting agencies from which captured
documents may flow to ASDIC.
b. Receiving, cataloguing, cross-referencing, and indexing captured
documents and translations thereof.
c. Preparation of accession lists.
d. Maintenance of catalogue files and library for the reference, stor-
age or loan of documents, and translations, including copies of either.
17. Screening and classificationIn order to permit the timely
exploitation of intelligence from the mass of captured enemy docu-
ments at ASDIC from theaters as well as other sources, it is necessary
to screen and classify such documents according to priorities estab-
lished by the using agencies. Functionally, this process will consist
of-
a. Separation of documents of lesser importance or of no immediate
significance, such as those of a purely historical interest, from those
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containing important intelligence information in order that the latter
may be processed as quickly as possible.
b. Classification of documents selected for processing according to
the general type and priority of the information they contain, and
where not previously designated, according to security.
c. Assignment of index numbers or similar control devices to the
documents transmitted for further processing.
18. Reading Panel.-a. General.-As a document flows through
ASDIC, its further progress is determined by the decision of the
Reading Panel. Although all the organizational details of ASDIC
are not specified, a Reading Panel will be established as an integral
part of the ASDIC structure.
b. Composition.
(1) Service membership on the Reading Panel will be composed
of both military and nonmilitary personnel, provided by the
agencies authorized to use or receive the products of ASDIC.
Dependent upon the amount of information available from
captured documents, the Services will provide personnel to
the Reading Panel of ASDIC. Such personnel will remain
assigned to their parent organization. Nonmilitary intelli-
gence agencies may, and are encouraged to furnish personnel
to the Reading Panel, their numbers and degree of participa-
tion dependent upon the amount of information of interest
to such agencies.
(2) ASDIC membership on the Reading Panel will be composed
of the Director, and Assistant Directors, Navy, Air Force
and CIA or their representatives.
o. Funotions.-The Reading Panel, consisting of experts familiar
with the requirements of their agencies as described above, receives
documents and transcripts, summaries or briefs thereof which have
been sorted and screened and are believed to contain information
required for further exploitation. Its functions include
(1) Review of the material submitted to it in order to determine
the need for further exploitation.
(2) Development of priorities for screening and translation and
reproduction facilities of ASDIC. Final. decision on de-
termination of priorities will be made by the ASDIC repre-
sentatives on the Reading Panel. The Director will resolve
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Reading Panel.
(3) Continuous review of requirements of the using agencies by
frequent consultations therewith.
(4) Frequent direction and assistance to the screening personnel.
-19. Translation.-a. General.-The obvious purpose of translation
is to make intelligible to using agencies the contents of captured docu-
ments. In the accomplishment of this task it is generally unnecessary
to make complete, literal word-for-word translations of all docu-
ments. The extent of the translation of any document must be
determined in each case by the contents thereof, the priority assigned
to its exploitation, and the degree of exploitation required.
b. Function: As noted in paragraph 12a and figure. 1, translations
by ASDIC will be limited to the minimum required to enable the
Services to exploit fully the captured document. The translation
function includes, in addition to the actual translation-
(1) The summarization of the translation in clear, concise form
for analysis and cataloguing.
(2) Technical interpretation or translation of technical docu-
ments.
(3) Development of dictionaries and aids to translation.
(4) Assistance as required in the screening and classification
process.
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By ORDER OF THE SECm?r J u1. OF TIIE ARMY, TIIE NAVY, AND
TIIE AIR FORCE:
OFFICIAL : J. LAWTON COLLINS
WM. E. BERGIN Chief of Staff, United States Army
Major General, USA
Acting The Adjutant General
FORREST SIIERMAN
Chief of Naval Operations
OFFICIAL : IIOYT S, VANDENBERG
K. E. TIIIEBATJD Chief of Staff, United States Air-
Colonel, USAF Force
Air Adjutant General
DiMUBUTIO;1 :
Army :
S
CofS (1) ; GSUSA (2) exc G2 (300) ; SSUSA (2) ; Tech Svc-
(25) ; AA Comd (2) ;LogComd (2) ; AFT` (15) ; A (ConUS)
(25) ; MDW (10); CI1(2 (10) ; Sch (5) ; Gen Dep (2) ; OS,
,l aj Comd (25) ; Base Comd (10).
For explanation of distribution formula, see Sr-, 310-9O-1.
Air Force:
Zone of Interior: IIq USAF, Maj Air Comds
Overseas: Mnj Air Comds; air attaches
For explanation of distribution formula, see AFR 5-4.
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