LETTER TO HONORABLE WALTER B. SMITH FROM RAYMOND P. WHEARTY

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 16, 2007
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: November 20, 1951
• Content Type: LETTER

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ICIS-P64/46
November 20, 1951
Honorable Walter B. Smith
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D. C.
The Interdepartmental Committee on Internal Security is conducting
a survey of existing arrangements concerning the exchange of published
materials between agencies of the United States Government and organiza-
tions located in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and its satellites.
The Committee will appreciate your cooperation in supplying infor-
mation, as called for on the enclosed questionnaire, on any exchange
arrangements of this type in which your agency participates. It is
requested that each question be answered and that answers be as complete
as possible. Additional information concerning any important aspect
of your exchange program not covered by the questionnaire would be
most helpful to the Committee.
Your submission of the requested information should cover all of
the exchange arrangements of your agency with Soviet bloc countries.
In the event that more than one administrative unit of your agency
conducts such exchanges, a separate reply should be prepared for each
such unit.
Requests for additional questionnaires and inquiries concerning
the questionnaire should be directed to Leonard Bienvenu, Secretary of
the Interdepartmental Committee on Internal Security, Code 197, Exten-
sion 551.
Your attention is particularly invited to the fact that a security
information classification has been assigned the conduct of this survey,
as well as the answers to the questionnaire, in view of the relationship
of these exchange arrangements to certain governmental programs affect-
ing the national security.
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We shall be grateful if you will undertake the requested survey
immediately and submit your findings in triplicate to the Committee
within thirty days of the date of this letter. In the event your
agency does not participate in any exchange arrangements with the
Soviet bloc, a notification to this effect would be appreciated.
YMOND-P. WHEARTY
Chairman nterdepartment
Internal Se itv
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QUESTIONNAIRE
1. List all exchange arrangements you have with organizations, both public
and private, in Soviet bloc countries 1/, showing separately for each exchange
(a) name of foreign organization and description thereof (i.e., government
agency, etc.); (b) origin of exchange (i.e., state international or executive
agreement involved or, if readily available, name of agency first suggesting
an exchange); (c) list of U.S. titles sent from January 1, 1951 to date; and
(d) list of foreign titles (in original and English translation) received
from January 1, 1951 to date. If information on (c) and (d) is not available
for indicated period, then supply information for another representative
period.
2. List any Soviet bloc publications which you consider of interest to the
United States which you are not presently able to obtain by any method.
Describe any efforts made to obtain such publications. State also whether,
to your knowledge, such publications were previously received in the United
States and as of what date Soviet bloc shipment was suspended.
3. Describe your method of conducting exchange arrangements:
(a) What proportion (approximate percent of total number of publications
shipped) of your exchange arrangements with the Soviet bloc do you
execute (1) through International Exchange Service of Smithsonian
Institution, or (2) other (specify),
(b) By what method or methods do you receive shipments from Soviet bloc
organizations and in what proportions?
1.
2.
3.
too
5.
International Exchange Service
Department of State
lst Class Mail
2
6.
Freight shipment
nd Class Mail
Book post
7.
Other (specify)
(c)
1/ Albania, Bulgaria, China excluding Formosa, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Germany,
(Russian Occupied Zone Only), Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Manchuria, North
Korea, Poland and Danzig, Rumania, and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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(c) How are your exchanges with Soviet bloc organizations negotiated?
(d) In developing an exchange arrangement with a Soviet bloc organiza-
tion, to what extent do you take into consideration the factor of securing
a fair return for materials shipped out?
(e) Do you review your exchanges periodically to insure a fair return
from material shipped out?
(f) Have you refused to enter into any exchange arrangements with Soviet
bloc, organizations and, if so, on what grounds?
(g) Have you deliberately withheld from exchange arrangements any pub-
lications? If so, explain.
(h) Do you request publications not offered specifically by the Soviet
bloc agencies and to what extent are these requests filled?
4. Use of Soviet bloc publications received:
(a) What uses do you make of publications received through your
exchanges?
(b) List specific Government agencies which use publications obtained
through your exchanges. 1/
(c) List specific private groups or organizations which use publica-
tions received through your exchanges. 1/
(d) Do you use publications received by other Government agencies and
private organizations by exchange arrangements with Soviet bloc organiza-
tions? If so, list all such agencies and organizations and use made of
such material. 1/
1/ If complete list of agencies or organizations cannot be easily compiled,
give general indication of number and variety of such agencies and organiza-
tions, and list outstanding examples
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5. List any informational materials which you ship to Soviet bloc countries
under exchange agreements that are neither in printed form nor available
from the Superintendent of Documents.
6. Describe any action which you believe you might be able to take for
the purpose of :
(a) Withholding from exchanges publications of relatively low total
circulation but comparatively high technical or intelligence value.
(b) Increasing receipts of Soviet bloc publications of greatest
value to the United States.
(c) "Loading" shipments to the Soviet bloc with material of
psychological warfare value.
7. Do you have any exchange arrangements with organizations in non-Soviet
bloc countries (a) by which you acquire Soviet bloc publications and/or
(b) through which you suspect that United States publications may be re-
shipped to Soviet bloc countries? If so, specify.
8. Please furnish any additional information on exchange programs with
Soviet bloc organizations that you consider significant.
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