RED PAPERS GO UNTRANSLATED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R001100670027-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 14, 2013
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: November 11, 1957
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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IT MAY BE hard to believe,
but lb* AdrniniaViellin has
been so complacent about
. Soviet scientific progress that
it hasn't, bothered to trans-
late the Russian technological
documents that enter this
4 country, except for a few hit-
, and-miss translations.
Truckloads of scientific pa-
? pers and reports. containing
, clues to Russia's brainwork,
are piled up. in the Library
If Congress, unsorted and
? untranslated.
Seviet.Seeretx
Our technologists are
. vindd they could learn more
' Soviet secrets by reading
these firiers than all the re-
ports 0 the costly Central
Lnteippince Agency.
It ,t?litild cost an estimated
4 $1.5 Million to translate and
catalotee 80 per cent of the
? most important reports?a
mere fraction of the CIA
budget. Yet these papers are
. known to contain vital infor-
mation on such Soviet pro-
grams as missile and satellite
research.
The Administration has had
Ow smug attitude that our
:scientists are sip superior we
. muif protect Ow technologi-
cal secrets. We needn't
bother to learn Russian
secrets.
American itientific delega-
tions that hit behind the
, Iron Curt Pare given stern
; warnings 4, to disclose tech-
nical info, ilation of a secu-
rity natut
it Govern t agents also
give m ent a careful
briefing t NOT to say
By DREW PEARSON..
before Communist delega-
tions are escorted through
American factories.
Yet the Administration has
all but ignored Russian tech-
nical information reaching
this country. If this informa-
tion were properly catalogued
by subject matter, it would
not only help our scientists
In their research but would
enable them to evaluate the
level of Soviet scientific
development.
Our technologists have
found that Russian scientists
discuss their findings with
amazing .frankness in their
technical papers. Russia pub-
lishes about 25,000 technical
JournalS.' of which len than
1,000 are considered impor-
tant. Of these,. 80 journals
contain most of ROssia's re-
search.
Yet the Library of Con-
greas translates only occa-
sional passages from these
key journals. Private univer-
sities also do some translat-
ing. But the mass of Russian
technical intelligence is never
read by American experts.
Greatest. Scandal?
In the light of Russia's
missile-satelllte achievements.
thlt-lathise--to....4udy Soviet
scientific documents may go
down as the greatest scandal
of the Eisenhower Adminis-
tration.
Note: The CIA eecretly
translates Russian military
documents, Including some
containing technical data. But
the CIA doesn't have the sci-
entists to evaluate this infor-
mation. In the technological
age, scientific secrets are now
considered more important
than military secrets.
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Declassified in Part-Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/14: CIA-RDP74-00297R001100670027-1