PROGRESS REPORT IN COMPLIANCE WITH NSC 50

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 20, 2006
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: January 5, 1953
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director, Intelligence
FRO: Assistant Director, Collection & Dissemination
SUBJECT: Progress re~-)ort in compliance with NSC 50
1. Transmitted. herewith is a draft which ma %, serve as a
point of departure for the report which you requested in your
memorandum of 8 Dece_nber 1952.
2. I suggest that the section dealing w-.th OCD b?. ; ui head~ds
"Central Reference Facilities for Intelligence Research". as t
title has some .Weaning for persons who )mow nothing and came no-t-h
ing about the Office or Collection & Dsse_nini.Ltion as sue'.--I.
3. Probably the peel of tzumm)ets in the first paragr .p}h
should be deleted, though I think it germane.
4. The short list of significant developments could be con-
siderably expanded, but I thou-7ht it well to restrict myself to
those developments which had real import for the intelligence cam--
munity as a whole.
5. I shall be very sorry if this year's report fails to
underscore, in unmistakable lang?aage, the fact that we cannot
make further progress - an- will not even be able to keep ~paee
with constantly- growing de lands for service - unless space c. -i he
found for us to work in and unle.=s adequate clerics?1 ' i? ' can
be authorized by our budgetary and administrative top-r: er; .
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CENTRAL REFERENCE FACILITIES FOR II3T LLIGMCE Rt;SEIRCFH
The Agency's central reference faciliti's, ;.dminister9 by e
Office of Collection & DisseLlination, are op,~rated for the benef ': of
all persons engaged in intelligence research in CIA and in the Its--
agencies. It was reported in August, by an inter-departmen t,z_1
appointed to consider how the intelligence commur_ity might fii ke iI e bti _ t
possible use of available intelligence information, that Of a13 :. e
intelligence services, only CIA has attempted to establish is coin ?eh--
sive central reference system: the exact nature of the rec,uireme-ui-, t } f.
most feasible jurisdictional -Weans, and the most suitable m uchcn.i 41
devices". Significant developments in 1952 were the follows n :
The CIA Library, in conjunction with the Library of Co gress4 11ma6E
a frontsl attack on the major problem of organizing and inci ng . ,e
Russian-language materials which have come into the Unit---d rotates: In
recent years. With CIA support, the Library of Congress Jhas co;tr it- ced
a revision of its Slavic Union Catalogue which will ultii,iat,11yr p; -,-ide
for the researcher an index by subject matter, and in the
guage, to all the Soviet publications received since 191'7 by all e
30-odd contributing U. S. libraries. In April, the Library 9 Cor.g--ess
published its first issue of a si_,nilar monthlr,
index - a1 so arrar,~J d tr=
subject matter and giving both Russian and Fmf lish-lanrnut ge ~,it.? es - fr,n4
all materials currently being received.
The Biographic Register, which has the responsibility ;;si it
to CIA by NSCID 8 of maintaining biographic d.uta on foreign L;cientti sts
and technologists, published in May the first round-up of sl? av iblf
information on Soviet sci enti people. S~1V2" ' TT 1T+'
SCIENCE contains data on some d is the only u-o_t -.dat
compendium of its sort availa e.
By agreement between CIA and the Department of State, r;ng ,nt
were made for the latterrs Biographic Information Division t, rec.e .=re
from CIA sufficient financial support to enable it to meet all CIA -e-
quirements for biographic data on foreign personalities in the polf i;ica I
social, and cultural fields. The arrangement was designed to enahj
CIA's Biographic Register to concentrate its effort on foreign sei .ttis
and technologists, and to provide biographic intelligence in`auopn~` of
economic research.
A microfilm team, operating in Europe, photographed r;nd :et~tY _d t,
Washington a great mass of detailed information on foreign iri,iustr 1
Plants which had accumulated in the files of various goveznmeprt aga-eie}
overseas. These basic data, though collected ~:.t very great~endE hart
not hitherto been available for purposes of economic intelligence n.-
search in the United St.'tes. They will now be accessible to tll_ methez
of the intelligence corm,runit;r through the facilities of the
Register. stri:u7_
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The major obstacles which impede continued progress iii tie evo iitier,,
of CIA? s central reference facilities are (1) tie inadequacy +f the trorkr
ing space available, and (2) the difficulty of obtaining the .tervicp?; of
personnel qualified for the work which must be done.
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