MINUTES OF THE FIFTY-FIRST MEETING OF SUBCOMMITTEE ON EXPLOITATION OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE PUBLICATIONS

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MINUTES OF THE FIFTY-FIRST DNG OF SUBCO111ITT ; ON
EEPLOITA.TION OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE PUBLICATIONS
10 June 1955
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Members? John Lacey, State
Richard Bauer' Army
LTJG Richard W. Hanson, Navy
LTJG William Co Nyces Navy
1. The 51st meeting convened at 11400 hours, and the minutes of the
50th meeting were approved.
20 The Chairman delivered to the interested members lists of the
major English-language newspapers of India and Pakistan.
3? Westgn cont'd
The members' comments on the Chairman's proposal (50th meeting)
of review of the Web-tern Europe program in the light of over-all Agency
priorities were as follows:
State: Mr, Lacey stated that he would Me to reaffirm
State concurrence in FDD's proposals in the Western E ope program,:
He continued that it was hoped that another provisional period of
FDD reporting would be undertaken to see if the potential can be
realized through closer liaison and more specific statements of
of State's needs* Mr0 Lacey presented a specific statement of
needs which is attached to the Committee record.
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State: Nro Lacey stated that State found the report
useful and would like to see it continued. Biographic report-
ing was particularly helpful. the coverage was
almost too detailed and reached too low a level. They would
like to see biographic coverage of government officials below
"Bureau Chief" in the Foreign t1inistry only when they were con-
cerned with diplomatic matters. For other ministries they are
not interested in personnel below bureau chief.
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The Chairman stated that he had had a request by State and
Army to bring before the Committee the subject of coverage of Civil.
Defense, Western Europe* Mre Lacey and Hr. Bauer stated that this
had been mentioned to them in somewhat vague terms and it was better
to leave the matter for treatment under specific or ad hoc requests
Arrays MMr. Bauer stated that while the FDD reports were
not useful for current information they were useful in the
background information reported. Army would like to see
coverage of reaction to U. S. military developments and policy.
As to the question of FDD's transfer of Western European effort
to more urgent areas, Army's Western European people felt that
they would lose a good deal of value but would make the sacri-
fice and go along with such a transfer in light of over-all
priorities.
Navys Lt. Nyce concurred generally with Army's state-
ment but would like to see Finland covered, as FDD's reports
provided unique information on the arena
NSA: stated that NSA was willing to see the
Western European effort transferred to other areas of higher
priority.
The Chairman stated that the consensus of opinion was that FDD
should transfer as much manpower as possible to more critical areas
and devote the effort of the remainder to very specific needs. FDD
wil_1. draw up an amended program in the light of the preceding comments
and distribute to the members.
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Army: 11r. Bauer stated that Array' had no requirements
except on North Korea, and while he knew that P1)1) like would report
military information when it appeared, Army dislike
this category added as a heading in the program
The Chairman stated that this would be done.
Navy: Lt. Nyce stated that the program is very satis-
factory to Navy and should be continued. Navy miwould like ouldry person-
alities an increase in the biographic coverage a
alities of North Korea.
CIA: stated that the reporting of FDD is
useful but CIA would like to see a further breakdown under
North Korea to include Foreign Aid, Banking, 1M3ning, Heavy
and Light Industry, Agriculture, Commodity Price Changes$
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NSA: 0 stated that the coverage is good.
North Korean "government changes" are good but tthe Teccoonomic"
coverage is more extensive than is needed by SA. no interest in economic reporting on South Korea but the
coverage of "government" and "biographic" is useful. Inter-
national issues are thoroughly covered by other sources and
FDD should not take the time to cover this subject.
The C:haairman summed up that the current report is useful and
should be continued with a further breakdown under "Economic/North
Korea" as stated, and a section headed "Military." FDD should avoid
reporting on international issues.
5a Latin America
State: Mr. Lacey had found that the semimonthly report
is useful but its current usefulness was impaired by the time
lag between reporting and the date of publication of the source
material. The Bolivian reporting is especially useful, that on
the Dominican Republic is excessive, Colombia and Chile are
duplicative except for electric power in Chile, and the reporting
on Argentina is of little or no valued State concurs in the
proposed changes, Detailed statement was presented by Mr. Lacey
and is a part of the Committee record.
Army: th?. Bauer stated that the reporting is .useful to
Army and they would like it continued until such time as coverage
by attaches is established.
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Navy: Lt. Nyae stated that the reporting is of little
value to Navy except the Latin American item in "Selected
Briefs- from the International Press" on Communist front activities,
East West Trade and Smuggling, which are useful.
CIA: stated that CIA proposed the deletion
of 2, b,(1)"information from the Cuban newspaper and
the previously requested "References to official visits and
courtesies of Latin American governments to Dominican Republic,"
but would like to see the remainder of the reporting continued.
LISA: stated that reporting on national political
events is useful* International political events are reported
from other sourceso Local events are of no interest. More
coverage of Peru and Ecuador on national political events is
needed.
The Chairman: The consensus of opinion indicates that FDD
should continue the program, with.the deletion of 2s b,(l)and pro-
posed 1, es adding the detailed changes of State Department and
expanding the coverage of Peru and Ecuador if possible.
6 The Chairman distributed a euz eyy questionnaire" of Eastern
European press monitoring, which he requested the members to circulate
among their analysts and get as many answers as possible so FDD could
determine the extent to which these . repor-ta -?satisf~r current require.;
rc nte.
He continued that as the current review of all the reporting
programs has been coc -leted the Committee could go on a monthly
schedule for its meetings until time for the next program review.
He stated that two items have been presented which are appropriate
for the Agenda: 1) examination of the objectives of the Committee
and restatement if necessary. opies of the originl objectives are
attached to these minutes' and determination of the needs for the
augmentation of facilities for processing foreign-language publications.
hours, and the agenda as covered in Paragrapi 25X1 rove. /jn
7. The meeting adjourned at 1530 hours. The next meeting
will be held on Friday, 8 July 1955, in Room 2125 M Building, at 1100
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Statement of General Objectives of
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STATEMENT OF GENERAL OBJECTIVES OF SUBCO1,24ITTEE ON
EXPLOITATION OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE PUBLICATIONS
Under the provisions of National Security Council Intelligence Dirac-
ti ve No. 16 an Advisory Committee on Foreign Language Publications was
established to assist the Director of Central Intelligence in the implementa-
tion of that directive.
The Subcommittee on Exploitation of Foreign Language Publications was
appointed by the Advisory Committee to assist it in all matters of its mission
dealing with the exploitation of foreign language publications.
It is therefore construed that the Subcommittee will concern itself with
Paragraphs 2a and 3 of NSCID No. 16.
It shall, be the aim of this Subcommittee to:
ao Examine the requirements and priorities of the intelligence
agencies for information from foreign language publications and the
present activities (1) and methods of exploitation (2) of foreign
language publications with a view to determining and recommending
what steps need to be taken to provide the intelligence community
with a sound coordinated- program for the ectio Z of needed infor-
mation from these sources.
bo Examine present coordination of translation services and
recommend any steps necessary to improve this coordination,
co Examine thereafter periodically the exploitation program and
the coordination of translation services so as to advise on their
effectiveness) and recommend any variations or alterations in coordina-
tion, procedures or priorities due to changing needs or conditions.
(1) It is understood that present activities refer primarily to established
organizations providing service in extraction, including external contractual
arrangements, of raw information from the exploitation of foreign language
publications and whose products are disseminated or generally available to
the intelligence community.
While the research work done by the offices primarily concerned with the
production of finished intelligence is an important phase of foreign language
exploitation,, it will not be covered by the examinations of this Subcommittee.
(2) Exploitation of foreign language publications includes the preparation
in English of annotated bibliographies, abstracts of articles or publications,
extracts or summaries of specific information in publications, selective trans-
lation of key portions of publications, compilations and collations of specific
information from a variety of publications and the use of special approaches
and techniques to derive or synthesize information required and available from
foreign language publications.
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SUBCOMMITTEE ON EXPLOITATION OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE PUBLICATIONS
FDD PR( .=RAM FOR WESTERN EUROPE
The following reports will be issued in the FDD OO-W series
consisting of information in newspapers, periodicals, and monographs.
This program is outlined -~a broad terms and subject to specific refine-
ment through operational :fiaisono The reports will beified
and marked "FOR OFFICIAL 13E ONLY."
lb Weekly Index of 'La Stampa" and "La Stampa-Sera"
2a Weekly Index of "Le Monde"
34 Development of P>litical Attitudes in West Germany and
and Austria (bir_ nthly)
1 Trade Union Act: ities in Finland (bimonthly)
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5? Cooperation bet en Communist, Socialist, and t1owmand
Labor Unions in ranee and Italy (bimonthly)
Specific requiremar 3 will be handled on an ad hoe basis
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