(Sanitized) (EXPLOITATION OF OPEN SOURCE SLAVIC PUBLICATIONS)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01731R001200050059-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 12, 1999
• Sequence Number: 59
• Publication Date: October 12, 1948
• Content Type: MF

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OCT 12 1948
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of4 are goncL;(3 and logic
? proposed plan of 0p,,:ra610a, d$ ota34d
saficiently ;:ipeeific 40 wait either brief
quartos. 1101 Calitata attached as Tab A
cies in the project, and soac of tha
the plan were imphamentad in its prassat
duplicating [Lollar projects
es?*
t La as extersive as paraaapi.
Lf, page indicate, tht iinsmer is in the
affirastivo.. It the diultian or the pertinent inforaation to
be aatraetad is limited, as ted in paruraph Ite of the brief
to *the fields of economic arid industrial irformatian related to
strategic vulnerability, technical air Informatios aod air ara
and civil sir information, blograpticei air infatuation and air
geography, *the answer is still in the affirmative since ForeLix
Documents branch,CIA, is 1.-Taseatly entractlag Aron current
Russian nme4papers and 0,riodica1s laforanA= which falls law
these Oategories.
It it were presumed that the,
would, on the othar nand, maim we
Prom Istracta nnd th. Joint ?rasa Readlu
gaftpailon or the LoAst press, altnougino
igence control, then duplication would still exist
(PAragraph 5) that the Ar Ay Library handle sarront sad
that the Library or Gowass handle ugovernaint periodicals."
Inasmuch as all Soviet poriodleals are gerititesnt periodicals, tne
distinction Is somawhat Ulo.cai,Ueverthalesa, mince r'orsian
Doe,emats aranch Is at present abstracting all periodicals that it
is illt! 14 get flee atti gift icatia? would o,xiasuarlli
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Although the extent of air geography ir not clearly defined,
it 1.6 believed that in tho exploitation of tatic information on
this subjectthere would be come duplication -ith the work done
t)y the ATM' VeP Serviese
It is possible that proceselni: of the tacolck xicht dupliaate
some of the *or* done ;%>' the Inter..asiArLsortal Committee for tine
Acoeleitioo of Poreign Y'uolicationo ana tine FOrtfigl 1:;CO:WULIC Aimin-
titration during the wars and LL4.4rjoi moo dello b.:; toe ',,,ffic.) of
International rrad, Departot,,ht of ,',00morc 4 4041 the Intelligence
piste-ion* WDOS, eopeoially as contained La the latterla sar..timm
publication entitled '1Inforoatioo from trio luropmen ress.4 Oorwmn
material, alreedy proctemeitv CIA, also 000tains th, results of
explottatioo or z'e-'sir JT ublicatioali and captured dooum:nts
for imilatrial son *eon
finally, it is essomed that the propoerd project would be
000rdinatad wit Projoc J07-4. or the AeroncuiAoal Chart oervioe
and iit. tc extensir; abstractAr?ox roreitn air tochntoal
pOolioations as oarriod oa by PAC (riot Field), to avoid
duplication within the ivpartoent of the air Forte.
b) nal_ the Air isare be operatint iu tte field 0
interest?u
In sniper to this, isiot be et.,teO thAt 'he iexpioitwuio of
open source mAterlal -nvolvin4 tht aelogwtion and extraction of tuch
basic inforaatilx1 as axiots Initdr* )11blicntione c. tot, wit,t
certain tehniftel ex000tiono, be said to lie within any one firlid
of dominant intersats A publiaAaa itoo an t:o3 oonWx4otion of neer
etekl factory in the UWE is of Int,u'eet to :1ZA and other intell-
tenet agencies as well as to the Air eorce. Deo/omit or oeoot-
mental interest lies in the interpretation, analyst:1 and use o7-
the raw inforeatkon. AccorOlotily, It (se, Qhiy ve etateu that
its very nature, this te c. operar,lon dwt of conoorh to .11i
the LAC at,eneiebe
ri4e Sinai quebti'm as nitth 4.1h a project lead to
unhealti,y compe:Atiou for translators?ft Mt, la lad;.ftese by a state-
whet in paraitraph 3 taw; may low order, aon-technIcal tranelta,cra
are eavisloned.
In oonneotion with 't,:ho iattur, 4 queeti_o arixec. aw
technical air lator.aot.oui&p ie oi tAe trif, W. ue
tratted by non-toonnical tra;,:ilatoro. :t ie OeIieved that experience
Will show tha: tut eiploymen,:_ ol really los =dor triatore as
inerficient, time-o0:.,tum!.h4 costly. TiliJ has booh recogrired
in tht preparation or the to:tative T/0 (unex I) whit I call t4
22 144,141, lh 11-31e, etc. Transiatore oX rue, Lra4ev conslotred
by CIA andAne Civil 14rviot Cotst on of ey.r?-1,1y. high
ealiVrethle, the loosed projknt motad be
recruiting the beet-traI TL$eis it coutd find, icAot then put
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in the field another competitor for exporiencod and qualiflod
lingsdats sod Warielators, fsperisect has shotin that for cIPAT
lov grade tromslator (1.4., CAF-5), one atelified and orporiencol
translator is noodod to check and correct the mark, and in ipe 1;nd
less tine would be spent ifsiodium grad, translators were hired.
Ito manor is therefore mainly affirmatives in that oco.::..pt,tion
for translaterel mould melt' thethor oc not this ow:petition
mould be levabealthr scroll ne>ond on stetter a coordinated recrait
meat plan :mold be worked out wi.th other rgentleem
It is believed that the compotition for translators :dint be
loss serious than tho competition tor somicee an coerce ma?orialas
In stow of the difficUty of ?Ottani% even 4a* copy of many current
Una public:41.4as La MOectoor.
h4 The opportunity to conmont on tee pravosed project !,74 adgreciated
hy this Avow, sod it jou should desire fartStr diocuosion or clarification
of any of the points at,. ,'rid obsess a *catenate bet-we/co the ap?repriate b
branch ehLets of the CIA dad the Directorato aSnL i1it.. can 7-Je
arranged at your conveolonco?
E. K. WRIGHT
BRIGADIER GENERAL. USA
-124.VIEL;41 DIRECTOR
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