ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN LANGUAGE PUBLICATIONS SECOND ANNUAL REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68-00069A000200010051-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 2, 1999
• Sequence Number: 51
• Publication Date: March 4, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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ADVISORY COT,01ITTEE ON FOREIGN LANGUAGE PUBLICATIONS
SECOND ANNUAL REPORT
I. 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
Intelligence in insuring tae" 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. The Domestic Collection of Foreign Publications
was reviewed. The fi dn ings ed to the conclusion that co' o T1nat
of the domestic collectors for State, G-2 and CIA was not practical.
b. The Collection Requirements of more than 20
Agencies are now coordinated in Foreign Branch/CIA Library as a
service of common concern.
cm Field Coordination has boon improved at several
posts., ge a Documen. -Procurement Committee has boon established
in Tokyo.
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d, Chapter 9.3 of the Foreign Service Manual
(Publications Procurement) was drafted y the ocurement Sub_
committee and submitted to State.
e. A Com rehonsive Report on Publications Pro-
curement in London was prepared by the former Pub ieations
Procurement o ficcr and circulated by the Committee, (This post
may be restored in FY 1956,)
f. Publications Procurement in the Far East was
examined in the fic y t e Chairman o t e Procurement Sub-
committee, The report to the Advisory Committee is now under
consideration.
3. Projects Planned
a. A union list of USSR serial publications will
be completed. Collection guides based on the list will be prepared.
b. Procurement facilities in the field will continue
to be reviewed, improvements recommended, and facilities expanded
as possible.
co The coordination of requirements in Washington
and collection in the field will continue.
B. EXPLOITATION
l. Responsibility: To assist the Director of Central
Intelligence in insuring the coordination of the preparation and
dissemination of English-language excerpts, summaries, abstracts
and compilations from foreign language publications.
2. Projects Completed
a. Systematic and detailed surveys of foreign lan-
guage publications from the following areas of the world were
completed.
1. China
2. World-wide scientific and technical
publications
3. Eastern European Satellites
4. Southeast Asia
5. Near East
6. India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Africa
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2< Projects Completed (continued)
7? Western and Northern Europe
9. Latin America
The surveys encompassed:
10, the detailed examination of the
continuing needs of the various agencies
for information in the areas;
11, existing governmental and non-governmental
facilities for exploitation of the
publications and their capacity to sat-
isfy any of the stated needs of the various
agencies; and
12, source material available including a
determination of that currently exploited
which should be dropped and that not
exploited which should be covered.
b. The work of abstracting 54 scientific and technical
periodicals has been divided among the Air Intelligence Division/USAF,
the Air Technical Intelligence Conter/USAF, and the Foreign Documents
Division/CIA.
:3e ,Projects Planned
a< One area program will be reviewed each month for
necessary adjustments in coverage, format and/or periodicity. Thus,
each report will be reviewed every six months.
b. Continual effort will be maintained to determine
gaps in coverage oP foreign language materials., and rocommendations
will be submitted for the alleviation of the identified gaps within
present capabilities or augmented facilities.
C. REFERENCE
1, Responsibility; To assist the Director of Central
Intelligence 21-In insuring the coordination of the development and
maintenance of indices, accession lists, and references services
regarding foreign language publications,.
2. Projects Completed
a< The Cyrillic Union Subject catalog in the CIA
library was established as the cents ' rotor o monographs of
SUV=y6litoraturo available to IAC Agencies. Regular contributions
are mado by all member agencies.
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2.. Projects Co,p- eted (continued)
b. The CIA Library is receiving 50-60 attache re-
ports with single copy enc osures per week for in exing an micro-
3- '~ng from G-2. State is contributing microfilm copies of
selected enclosures to the collection.
c. The Captured Document Collections were reviewed
by the members as staff study as to he des~ra lli?y of returning
the collections to their respective countries. A complete report
will be submitted to the IAC.
3. Projects Planned
The program of examination of the bibliographic
services of the member agencies-will be continued. Emphasis
will be placed on the production and use of research aids, the
coordination of reference and loan services and upon cooperative
indexing measures which will improve the recoverability of intel-
ligence source materials.
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