INTELLIGENCE ON COMMUNIST CHINA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73B00148A000200130006-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 13, 2006
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: November 4, 1965
• Content Type: MF

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SECRET Eo>-~~~v
4 NOV 1965
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Intelligence
SUBJECT ; Intelligence on Communist China
1. As a result of study aimed at determining how we can improve both
our data base as well as our intelligence competency on Communist China,
several areas which will require additional attention have emerged. Among
these are the following.
a. The problem of obtaining personnel academical
trained in fields applicable to our intelligence interest on
China and in the Chinese language.
b. The desirability of exploiting to the maximum
practicable degree the extensive stock of photography of
China which is on hand in order to advance our level of
knowledge of the Chinese economic /industrial complex.
c. The need for identification of those olements of
the economic/ industrial complex which warrant priority
targeting by COMOR for high-resolution photography to
permit more nearly accurate assessment of individual
targets.
2. It is requested that you take the following actions aimed at resolution
or alleviation of some of the problems involved in these areas.
a. Undertake the monitoring of the scale and scope of training
being given in colleges in those China related academic fields
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which are applicable to the intelligence coma-.: unity' a field of
interest. 1 would also like you to initiate action as feasible to
stimulate the scale of enrollment in such studies. In so doin,
yon should bear in mind the overall needs of the intelligence
a xi r- unity for various types of expertise on China, as well as
nuur fibers of personnel re ,hired. I would expect you c ' or
closely with the Director of Personnel and the Director of
Tra .nin , of the , Fency in this activity, as well as with
other components of the intelli ence community and of other
branches of the Government as appropriate.
b. In the field of photographic exploitation, undertake
within your ?LL)irectorate a significantly increased study in
depth of the already available photo jraphy orlon- with collateral
scarce material for the purpose of improving our intelli;ence
data base on the Chinese economic industrial complex.
I rec o,niae that there will be problems attached to such an
rt, I should nevertheless like you to proceed as rapidly as
pra: ticah x and apprise nee of prob e as which you encounter
or anticipate in which action on n y part may be rewired.
c. Identify those target areas in tlx:; Chinese econw ic;
industrial coma*_ple which merit bein. targeted for high-resolution
ullotc,.,raphic coverage, and levy re uirements upon CCMOR for
covc>ra ;e Of these areas, includin y the establishment of a
priority sufficiently hi: h to provide for this coverage within a
reasonable period of time.
i. I siho z d appreciate being advised from, tits-, to time ref progress
de in i srplemerxtiyr the above actions.
jai Richard Helms
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Deputy Director of Central Intellience