LETTER TO DEAN GRISWOLD FROM EDWARD W. PROCTOR

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• Publication Date: April 21, 1975
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505
21 April 1975
Dean Erwin Griswold
1100 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D. C. 20036
This is in response to your question about the Soviet monthly
journal U. S. A.
We translate and publish all articles in the journal except
translations of American books (omitted) and factual data on U. S.
industrial technical processes (summarized). Since the beginning
of 1972 we have been able to publish our translations for delivery
to U. S. Government recipients within an average of -ten days after
the end of the month of Soviet publication. Included in this delivery
are 72 copies for the National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
to take care of 65 NTIS subscribers and a few extras for ad hoc
purchases.
We have tried to find out why your request for an issue of
the journal. was handled so poorly. It appears that the NTIS process
involves entering the titles of publications received into a computer;
incredibly, this process can take up to six months. Once this entry
is made, however, orders can be satisfied within a couple of days
unless the publication is not in stock. Any order received before
the title is entered in the computer is usually returned to the sender
with instructions to resubmit at some later date. Because NTIS is
part of the Department of Commerce, we were not aware of either
your order or the poor service you received. Nevertheless, we plan
to discuss this problem with NTIS to improve service generally.
In the meantime, I have assembled copies of the translations
of the 35 issues of the journal for May 1972 to March 1975. We have
only file copies of translations for the period January 1970 to April.
1972. We could send you xerox copies of the tables of contents of
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these earlier issues so that you could select those articles in
which you may be interested; these articles could be , eroxed
and sent to you.
Please let me know the address to which you would like
the 35 issues sent. My telephone number is
Sincerely,
Edward W. Proctor- " .
Deputy Director for Intelligence
EW Proctor:fbr
Distribution:
Original - Addressee
1 - D/FBIS
1 - Mr. Knoche
1 - DDI Chrono
BIS File
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18 April 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Intelligence
1. The box with this memo contains copies of the JPRS
translation of the journal U.S.A. covering 3V! editions from J."e
1972 to March 1975. The publication first came on the market in
January 1970. For the reports covering the period January 1970
through May 1972, we can obtain 17 from NTIS, if you wish. The
remaining 11 reports are out of stock and can only be obtained by
xeroxing archival copies. I can do this if you wish. This would
be about 1,500 xerox pages.
2. I have attached a report from Chief, JPRS which describes
how we handle the translations: We get the journal 20 days after
it is published. Within four weeks of receipt our translation
is available to our consumers; simultaneously copies are sent to
NTIS for sale.
3. It appears that Griswold has some basis for his frustration.
NTIS searched its incoming letters by name, by the publication
requested, and by a hand search covering individual requests over
the past three months. They can find no letter from Dean Griswold.
They think they might find it if he sent it under a letterhead,
since they file by organization too.
4. When NTIS gets a new publication from JPRS or any other
source, it lists the title in its computer. Incredibly, this can
take as long as six months. A letter received in the interim
requesting a publication would be returned to the requester with
instructions for him to resubmit it later. Unless he does so,
NTIS takes no action.
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5. When a publication sent to NTIS is listed in the
computer, NTIS can meet a request within two days, unless the
publication is not in stock. Then it may take from two days to
four weeks to reprint a copy for the requester.
6. To cool off the Dean, we could send him a subscription
to the JPRS U.S.A. directly and gratis, if you approve. This
won't meet his general charge of bureaucratic lassitude in one
aspect of the NTIS program. But FBIS/JPRS cannot change the
NTIS system.
D puty Dir ctor
Foreign dcast Information Service
Attachments:
As stated
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18 April 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director/FBIS
SUBJECT Soviet Journal: U.S.A.
1. Herewith data you requested regarding subject journal.
2. This monthly journal has been published by the Soviets since
February 1970. JPRS has translated, published and disseminated all
63 issues to date, including the March 1975 issue (see attached list).
The April issue was received for processing today.
3. USSR Division, PG, receives the journal approximately the
20th of each month, selects items to be omitted, texted or summarized
and forwards the journal to JPRS for processing. Items omitted are
installment translations of American books. Summarized articles are
those containing factual data on U.S. industrial technical processes.
4. Turnaround time from receipt of the journal in USSR Division
to publication is a maximum of 4 weeks. Monthly issues run an average
50,000 words.
5. Seventy-two copies of the JPRS report are sent to NTIS the
day the report is printed. NTIS has 65 regular subscribers to this STAT
report. NTIS charges $2.25 per issue.
CHIEF, JPRS
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USA: ECONOMICS, POLITICS, IDEOLOGY
(first JPRS printing 26 February 1970)
49934
Vol. 1,
No.
1, Jan
1970
26
Feb 1970
50218
Vol. 1,
No.
2, Feb
1970
2
Apr 1970
50391
Vol. 1,
No.
3. Mar
1970
24
Apr 1970
50637
Vol. 1,
No.
4, Apr
1970
2
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June 1970
50864
Vol. 1,
No.
5, May
1970
2
July 1970
51051
Vol. 1,
No.
6, Jun
1970
29
July 1970
51317
Vol. 1,
No.
7, Jul
1970
4
Sep
1970
51554
Vol. 1,
No.
8, Aug
1970
12
Oct
1970
51667
Vol. 1,
No.
9, Sep
1970
29
Oct
1970
51895
Vol. 1,
No.
10,Oct
1970
1
Dec
1970
52063
Vol. 1,
No.
11,Nov
1970
28
Dec
1970
52243
Vol. 1,
No.
12,Dec
1970
26
Jan
1971
52553
Vol. 2,
No.
1, Jan
1971
8
Mar
19717-
52687
No.
2, Feb
1971
23
Mar
1971
52770
No.
3, Mar
1971
31
Mar
1971
52997
No.
4, Apr
1971
28
Apr
1971 -2
53268
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5, May
1971
2
Jun
1971
53586
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1971
13
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1971
53827
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54458
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1971
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54676
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54971
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55202
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55416
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55699
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1973 2;v
591351
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25 May
1973
59539.
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1973 ICJ
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60668
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60933
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12,Dec 1973
8 Jan 1974
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61167 Vol. 5, No. 1, Jan 1974 7 Feb
1974
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61346 No. 2, Feb 1974 28 Feb
1974
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61821 No. 3, Mar 1974 23 Apr
1974
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61962 No. 4, Apr 1974 10 May
1974
62191 No. 5, May 1974 6 Jun
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62492 No. 6, Jun 1974 17 July 1974
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62702 No. 7, Jul 1974 12 Aug 1974
62874 No. 8, Aug 1974 3 Sep
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63209 No. 9, Sep 1974 16 Oct
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63376
No. 10,Oct 1974 6 Nov
1974
63625
No. 11,Nov 1974 10 Dec
1974
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63835
No. 12,Dec 1974 8 Jan
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64129
Vol. 6, No. 1, Jan 1975 20 Feb
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64262
No. 2, Feb 1975 6 Mar
1975
64564
No. 3, Mar 1975 16 Apr
1975
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DATE: 21 April 197
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TO:
Mr. P~c
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SUBJECT: JPRS Translations
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1 ::1 says there have been 63 issues
of the USA journal. We have already received 34.
Don will bring an additional 20 tomorrow. He will
also xerox and bring contents pages of the re-
maining 9.
NTIS=National Technical Information Service, Dept.
of Commerce
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Remarks:
The attached was brought over by
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box which goes with this memo is in
the vault.
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