WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT NO. 36 5 - 11 OCTOBER 1960

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 18, 2001
• Sequence Number: 80
• Publication Date: October 11, 1960
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DATE: 11 October 1960
I. SIGNIFICANT ITEM
visited the Air Force's Project White Stork ?.
(PWS) at Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio, last
PWS has assumed increasing importance to OSI ana- '
Tuesday
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~I lysts because it is able to provide considerably more assist-
0 ance for marry scientific and technical intelligence research
001" projects than any other repository in the Intelligence Commun-
25X1 A9,gity.? accompanied one of the students in IRTC No.
25X1 A9/,~,~Q,~ " 10, rho was go ng to PWS for the first time on a project deal-
ing with Soviet research in hypervelocity. By "looking over
his shoulder" was able to go through all the ste~X1A9A
in the use of tort', including the search for mater-
a1s, so that the repository could be viewed from the stand-
point of the OSI analyst.
The unique feature of this repository is that information
specialists (individuals with degrees in science) mark docu-
ments for inclusion in the files, act as reference librarians
in advising users of the files, and maintain the files. Thus
the system combines the advantages of files of individual
specialized. analysts with the advantages of a library system
which approaches all knowledge on a uniform basis. All the
information is extracted on 5x8 cards, for ease of filing and
use. A copy of each card. is filed under each "clue term" which
has been underlined in the text by the information specialist.
The "clue terms" include not only scientific and. technical sub-
jects, but also personalities, institutes, and place names. This
permits the analyst to obtain information on his subject by using
a variety of approaches.
OSI is considering providing funds to PWS so that it wil]_
continue its work in the basic sciences and possibly in medicine
(at present PWS concentrates on subjects of interest to the
Air Force's Aerospace Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-
Patterson Field., Dayton).
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This particular method of filing information is superior
to that of CIA Library's Intellofax system in that, as soon
as a new technical term appears in publications, material will
be filed under that term. The Intelligence Subject Code would
normally force the new term to be filed under an established
code number. In addition, PWS files both classified and.un-
classified information. By far the largest category of informa-
tion filed is abstracts of Bloc scientific literature, which
is not included in the Intellofax system, and. is filed only
by IR (by Institute name), and by BR (by name of author).
One disadvantage of this system is that it requires a
large amount of space, since any one card might be filed under
many clue words. Furthermore, if the analyst is working on a
subject which is not specifically mentioned (such as hyperveloc-
ity) he will. have to go through large masses of information in
distantly related fields, just as he does in using the Intello-
fax system.
II. OTHER ACTIVITIES
The fifteen students who completed Basic Writing Workshop
No. 6 last week had the familiar reaction to the course: they
thought it was too short. Some of the more mature students
suggested extending the duration of the course and. increasing
the frequency of the class sessions without increasing the
actual number of hours of instruction. These changes would
permit them more time to absorb, practice, and review the in-
struction.
Although they conscientiously did a lot of homework on
their own time, most of the students would, indeed have profited
considerably from more time to review principles of usage and
composition which they were learning for the first time in their
lives. Most of the students were from DDIS offices, and most of
them indicated that writing or supervising the writing of others
was a daily activity in their work. Fortunately for this rathe:~?
large class, the level of ability and writing needs of the stu-
dents were similar enough that there were no major problems in
choosing instructional materials.
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