DOCUMENT SECTION, 7707TH EUROPEAN COMMAND INTELLIGENCE CENTER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-00706R000200020022-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 29, 2004
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: October 20, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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CONFIDENTIAL
20 October 1948
Document Section, 7707th European Command Intelligence Center
Date Visited:. 15, 19 July, 24, 27 August 1948
1. The Document Section is the central shipping point for the
bulk of the documentary material sent to the German Military Docu-
ments Section in Washington. It also makes disposition of documents
to agencies within the European Command. It has frequently been the
policy of this section to forward to Intelligence Group, ECIC the
majority of the more valuable intelligence documents where they are
retained for reference purposes or until exploitation of them is
completed. The document section itself does not retain an appreciable
number of documents on hand for any length of time as it is considered
a shipping point rather than a document repository.
2. The personnel of the section include Major Kaufman, chief,
one enlisted man, two civilians, and a few indigenous personnel who
do the packing and crating of documents, The contracts of the two
civilians were due to expire this month and will not be renewed.
It is planned that they will be replaced by two enlisted men.
3. Shipments from this section to GMDS have been vastly im-
proved during recent months both in quality of material sent and in
shipping procedure. It is believed that in the near future ship-
ments of captured documents will drop off considerably as the major-
ity of captured documents of any value have been evacuated from the
theater. Captain Bernhardt, chief of the Document and Photo Section,
ODI says there is approximately two hundred tons of material that still
will be sent to GMDS. However, only a small portion of this material
will be for GML ; the majority will be earmarked for other agencies.
RECOMMENDATIONS
4. It is suggested that detailed transmittal lists of all
documents disposed of within the theater by Document Section be
sent to GML$. If such an arrangement is made, agencies within the
Zone of Interior may then request through GMDS loan of a particular
document of interest to them or, if this is not possible, a photo-
static copy of the document.
JCS and DIA review(s) completed.
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