MINUTES OF THE FIFTIETH MEETING OF SUBCOMMITTEE ON EXPLOITATION OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE PUBLICATIONS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-03130A000100030080-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 19, 1999
• Sequence Number: 80
• Publication Date: May 27, 1955
• Content Type: MIN

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MIQU W CV THE PIFT7.ETH MUNNG OF SUBCOMMITTEE On
27 Nay 1955
Members:
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Consultants:
to The 50th meeting convened at 1400 hours, and the minutes of the
49th meeting were approved with the following amendments:
a. State: Section 2, second paragraph, amend first sentence
to read, "Mr. Egbert stated that in his review of State's units
all branches except Africa had just conferred with FDD."
b. Amend second sentence as follows: "He added that FDD reports
on Africa were useful to State."
c. Amend third sentence by deleting "the" before "Reunion."
d. 1'A: Page c, last paragraph, after the words "high degree
of duplication" add "in the fields of Interest to NSA."
2? Near Jast, South Asia, and Africa
The Chairman, in summing up the discussions of the members in
the 49th meeting, stated that it appeared that the needs could be met as
follows and asked the members to review these points for comment at the
50th meeting.
John Lacey, State
Lt. Richard W. Hanson, Navy
Capt. T h o m a s H. R i v e n b a r k , Air Force (for b j . Neumann)
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or r w..r .. .w ns rr os .a`re
a, A m litary report on Arab States
b, Process official gazettes for certain countries and
produce an Afghanistan report.
c. Report on the four areas of Africa of interest to
Stateo
do Discontinue India/Pakistan and the Greece, Turkey:
Iran reports and accept specific requests on those countries.
Comments on these points were as follows:
States 1-fro Lacey stated that the Chairman's sum-up is satis-
factory to State.
Navy: Lt. Hanson concurred.
Air: Capt. Rivenbark concurred.
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great, a few were very interested and objected to the dropping of the
India/Pakistan report, Greece.. Turkey, and Iran is of considerable
interest to the Geographic, Transportation and Petroleum people and
they would hate to see this report droppeds - presented a 25X1A9a
detailed list of additional requirements of CIA, on the whole Near Eaat,
South Asia and Africa areas, which is made a part of the record.
The Chairman stated that FDD will provide with a list 25X1 A9a
of the English language press of India and Pakistan.
NSA: concurred in the four points of discussion.
The Chairman stated that there is general concurrence in the
previous sum-up but CIA has additional needs. FDD will therefore
have to-confer with them to see how we can satisfy CIA's needs.
3o Western Europe
States Mr. Lacey stated that State concurs with the FDD
proposals on the program. He added that the program to date has not
been particularly useful but the proposed amendments were drawn after
liaison between State and FDD and he felt it would result in in rovement.
Navy: Lt. Hanson stated that Navy concurs in general with the
proposals but would like to see the press effort diverted to periodical
literature as representative of a better utilization of manpower,
Airs Capt. Rivenbark stated that Air has but little interest
in the area but would like to see some coverage of escape and evasion
material.
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CIA: referred to the proposed program and
stated that CIA would like to see the following additions: ib, add
a new item of "Opinion Moulders" as detailed in memorandum attached
to the record; ld, add "Italy;" lh, add a new item covering "Position
of Public Leaders and Private Groups on European Integration Movement;"
add a new category as li, "Geographic," same as old program; and add
to 2 "Local Elections in Italy."
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NSA: stated that NSA had no requirements for
The Chairman reviewed the discussions and stated that there is
general concurrence in the proposals as made with additional needs by
CIA and a recommendation to shift manpower where possible from press
to periodicals* He continued that FDD would do its best to comply
with a minimum of manpower. The Chairman added, "I am somewhat dis-
appointed in the status of this reviews We want to make the personnel
in FDD as flexible as possible and want to use all possible power on
the USSR, China, and the East European Satellites. I had hoped we
could out work on non-bloc areas to a minimum and shift the manpower
released to more important areas. We draft these programs on the basis
of the expressed needs of the analysts and what we think we can best do
to meet theme All analysts have needs for information on their areas,
but can, this Committee consider these individual needs as indicative
of the priorities of the agencies. FDD will redraft the Western Europe
program in accord with the Committee findings but I will appreciate
the members re-examining the matter in their respective agencies with
a view toward a realistic assessment in relation to overall priorities."
Mr. Lacey stated that, as he had previously said, he was still
hoping that this Coimni.ttee can address itself to the important matter
of overall priorities and was in accord with the Chairman's statement.
Lt. Hanson agreed with the statement and felt that we must make
sacrifices with limited manpower in order to afford more effort to
more important priorities.
Capt. Rivenbark and Miss Green concurred.
doubted whether cuts could be made.
49 The agenda for the next meeting will be:
as Conclusion of Western Europe
bQ orea
co Latin America
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5a The meeting adjourned at 1530 hours. The next meeting will
be held on Friday, 10 June 1955, in Room 2125 1f Building, at 1400
hours.
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