BUDGET FOR EXTERNAL RESEARCH PROJECT IN THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE IN FY 52.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04913A000100010088-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 15, 2001
• Sequence Number: 88
• Publication Date: June 5, 1951
• Content Type: MEMO

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FROM Agronomy Branch, B/0SI
VIA: : Miss - OSI
SUBJECT: Budget for External Research Project in the U.S. Department of
Agriculture in FY 52.
1. Although $25,000 was allotted for this project in FY 51, probably
only about two-thirds of this sum will be utilized by July 1, 1951. There
were two reasons why the total sum was not utilized: (1) the employment
of personnel from the CIA pool of non-cleared persons and (2) non-avail-
ability of a qualified person to exploit European libraries in search of
missing scientific literature. Approximately four to six persons have
been utilized constantly during the year from the CIA pool in support of
typing, filing, microfilming, and photostating operations. It is
anticipated that a similar procedure will be followed for FY 52. With
regard to European operations, however, in FY 52 it is anticipated that
a large share of the $10,000 allotted for this purpose will be needed
for conducting this work.
2. For the reasons given above, it is requested that the FY 52 budget
be maintained at the level of $25,000 for this external research project.
The largest portion of the amount will be expended for two bibliographers
and two trealplators, plus two temporary translators during the summer
months.
3. During the past year, good progress has been achieved in cataloging,
abstracting, translating, and analyzing the basic scientific literature of
Soviet agriculture. Approximately 75,000 cards have been produced and
cataloged, along with 7,500 abstracts of research articles. Over 200
separate articles and portions of books have been translated during the
year, although we have only recently had two translators employed on the
work. Two intelligence reports based upon the translated material are
nearing completion. One of these reports is concerned with diseases of
potatoes in the USSR and the other with the organization and operation of
plant protection and quarantine in this area. Basic material is available
in the translations for the initiation of other project reports, although
the utilization of this information must await the enlargement of our
senior analyst staff.
The exploitation of Knizbnia letopis is well underway with the
microfilming of over 60,000 pages of book listings. Our temporary summer
translators will use photostat clippings from this material to commence
a catalog of Soviet publications in agricultural science.
During FY 51, our bibliographic operation has been extended back to
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about 1940. During the next year, it is expected to cover the 1930-40
interval in order to have a complete summary from 1930 to the present
date. It is considered important to cover this period in the project
on the basis of the conviction that some of the best scientific work
performed in the USSR was done during the 1930's in a period when the
scientific workers were not under the restrictions that hampered them
in the decade of the 40's and later.
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