EXPLOITATION OF FOREIGN-LANGUAGE DOCUMENTS

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• Publication Date: July 25, 1952
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The enclosed chart is a graphic rization of the
division of responsibilities in the production of intelligence
from Polish-language documents.
2. 1y I suggest that such charts be prep-red for each
country and distributed, among all analysts in the Agency? They
would help (a) to clear up some of the existing misunderstanding
of the differences among translation, ex2loit-tion, and cataloguing,
and (b) to guide the analysts to the proper sources, some of wnicb
are not widely known.
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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO Assistant Director for Operations
FROM Chief, Foreign Documents Division
DATE: 16 April 1952
SUBJECT: Proposed Program of Exploitation of Foreign Publications by FDD
REFER : Memorandum from AD/RR to AD/IC dated 8 April 1952, Subject:
Staff Study on FDD's Contribution to Economic Intelligence
1. The Offices of Research and Reports, and Scientific
Intelligence have indicated that their operations can be served
by FDD solely through translation service support and that they
will have no requirements for documentary exploitation by this
Division. In view of the fact that FDD has never had sufficient
personnel to meet the exploitation requirements of consumer
offices, this will permit a reallocation of the workload which
will allow a more complete fulfillment of other high priority
intelligence requirements. A plan is proposed herewith to adjust
the exploitation capabilities of FDD so as to place the maximum
effort on more urgent needs as follows:
a. Development of propaganda analysis of the foreign
press*
b. Increased attention to special exploitation require-
ments of OPC, CSO, TSS, and the continuing requirements of
IR, BR, GR and OCI.
c. Expansion of effort to satisfy the exploitation
requirements of the IAC agencies.
While it is not possible to satisfy the entire needs indicated
in "a, b and c" above with present personnel, an expanded contribu-
tion can be made to "a and b" and some expansion to "c." As FDD is
best equipped to handle the requirements of "a, b and c" and the
need in each case is great, it is logical that these functions
should be a part of the mission of the Division.
2. Propaganda analysis of the foreign press
ONE and OPC have expressed the need for FDD to undertake
propaganda analysis of the foreign press. It is believed that this
is a vitally important element in strategic intelligence which is
not being covered at this time. FDD is receiving the needed source
material regularly and would have personnel qualified to develop
this facility if the above program is approved. This Division
should devote a substantial portion of its workload toward this
service.
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3. Increased exploitation. to meet the needs of OPC, OSO, BR,
TSS, GR, IR and OCI.
Each of the above offices has asked us from time to time
to increase exploitation to meet their needs. Closer liaison with
OPC and OSO has revealed that they have a large number of specific
needs which could be met by analysis and exploitation of foreign
publications. There has been a mutual reluctance to tackle these
needs due to limitation of facilities in FDD. I believe now that
we should work toward fulfilling some of these. BR would like us
to at least double our output of biographic information. Similarly,
GR and IR have needs for increased output of graphics material and
industrial information. Understanding our limited facilities they
have withheld requesting more. We should now try to increase the
output of information to these offices. OCI has recently served
us with a guide requirement. Information answering certain parts
of this requirement is currently available in foreign publications
and some of our effort should be placed on supplying OCI with this
information.
4. Exploitation to meet IAC requirements
The IAC agencies have come to depend on FDD for coverage
of information from foreign publications to meet their needs. For
an outline of their requirements see Tab A. State Department revises
its guide requirements on FDD regularly. Its analysts have frequently
expressed their need for and reliance on FDD products. The Department
of the Air Force has a very large guide requirement on FDD which is
revised or amended periodically. Responsible officials in the
Collection Division of A-2 have stated categorically that they must
have a continuation of FDD services in the exploitation of the foreign
literature. ID personnel have likewise repeatedly expressed their
reliance on FDD to process the foreign literature for them and have
exhibited deep concern over any possible limitation of this service.
A close working relationship has been established to avoid duplication
on the few specific items which they are able to handle themselves.
ONI has relied on FDD for general coverage of any naval items and has
consistently placed specific requirements. All of the services in
support of FDD's exploitation operation for their needs have gone out
of their way to procure publications required for this program which
FDD was not able to procure through other normal channels. In addi-
tion, on the scientific and technical side, as the result of a special
survey, the services have clearly expressed themselves in writing as
satisfied with the reports of FDD and insistent on the need for its
continued services,. There is much more that we could do for the IAC
agencies and I believe we should expand our services to them within
our facilities.
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5. It should be noted as a correlative matter that the
Western European Branch of FDD was officially established at
the request of ORR to meet its exploitation requirements. When
it was organized'. in addition to the positions needed for ORR
requirements, other positions were transferred to it for that
workload of the Division which could be most appropriately handled
by a Western European Branch. However, since its organization,
those positions allocated for ORR requirements, amounting to half
the personnel of the Branch, have been scrupulously devoted to work
for ORR. Therefore, the status of the Western European Branch will
now have to be reviewed carefully to determine whether overall
requirements warrant the number of personnel now assigned to it or
indicate a need for reallocation of some or all of the positions
to other branches of FDD.
6. It is recommended that
a. The program outlined in paragraph 1 be approved and
that FDD be directed to implement it.
b. FDD undertake a thorough study of its Western European
Branch and report its findings and recommendations to 00 for
decision.
c. As ORR and OSI have indicated that they will have no
exploitation requirements for FDD, the proposed NSCID for
exploitation of foreign publications can now be directed to
other interested CIA offices and the IAC agencies for
concurrence.
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Encl: Tab A
"IAC Guide Requirements in FDD
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IAC GUIDE REQUIREME NTS IN FDD
Department of State
IAD 404 -- Effective June 1951 -- USSR and Satellites
Requests information on propaganda, resistance, hostility
within, changes in leadership, party information, industrial and
agricultural plans, financial data, history and philosophy, science
claimsculture and education, economic discussions, data on communica-
tions. Specific by countries for the satellites. Comprehensive. (7pp)
Second revision: 14 Feb 52, 8pp
IAD 407 -- Effective June 1951 -- Thailand, Malaya, Indonesia, Philippines
Specific by countries for information requested on political,
socio-political, economic, national security and sociological categories.
Fairly detailed. (16pp)
Second revision: 14 Feb 52, lp on Thailand
IAD 408 -- Effective June 1951 -- Burma and Indochina
Similar information required as in IAD 407. Includes military
information for Indochina. (14pp)
Third revision: 18 Mar 52
IAD 409 -- Effective June 1951 -- China
Information requested on CCP, government and politics, foreign
relations, economic data. Includes Mongolia. Specific directions for
exploitation of press and periodicals. (7pp)
Second revision: 5 Feb 52, Opp
IAD 410 -- Effective June 1951 -- Japan and Korea
Information requested on internal and international political
aspects, economic affairs. Publications for exploitation suggested.
Priorities of interest are listed. Sociological feature included for
South Korea. For North Korea, information wanted on political setup,
foreign relations and economic data. (Opp)
Revised: 5 Feb 52, lOpp
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IAD 416 -- Effective June 1951 -- Israel and the Arab States
Requests information on internal and international politics,
relations with other states, economic data and negotiations. Specific
suggestions for exploitation by state areas. Opp)
Revised: 1 Sep 51, l+PP
IAD 417 -- Effective June 1951 -- Greece and Iran (Cyprus & Turkey added)
Information on Greek analysis of communist policies in
Greece, Balkans and Near East; require information of military, studies
on economic trends, political developments, international attitudes,
editorial comment. For Iran, requests concepts of cooperation with
USSR, laws, decrees, speeches, election results and candidates,
political groups, organizations, trends to extreme or violent actions,
anti-US or anti-UK attitudes. (2pp)
Third revision: 29 Feb 52 (Cyprus & Turkey included) 1ipp
IAD 418 -- Effective June 1951 -- South Asia, Tunisia, Morocco
Information required on Attitudes in India and Pakistan;
Kashmir dispute; Pushtunistan dispute; foreign relations of India and
its attitude to neighboring states and to Communist activities. Tunisian
and Moroccan reactions to events of current issue. (2pp)
Second revision: 4 Feb 52, lp
IAD 452 -- Effective 1 December 1951 -- Union of South Africa and
Territory of Southwest Africa
Requests exploitation of,significant items in the Afrikaans
and German press. Interested in attitudes. Specific suggestions on
international relations in both areas, and in Southwest Africa on items
of politics, economics, sociology, and defense. (lp)
CD - A 1561.1 -- Effective 27 May 1950 -- USSR and Yugoslavia
Requests information on fisheries. (2pp)
CD - A 2621.1?-- Effective 15 June 1951 -- International
Requests information on all Communist front organizations
and Soviet pronouncements that might bear on policies and strategy of
the international Communist movement. (lp)
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CD - 7866.1 -- Effective 13 December 1950 -- USSR
Requests information on production of fish oils in
the USSR and availability to USSR of soya bean and products from
Manchuria. (lp)
Department of the Ar
CD - A 1067.3 -- Effective 27 February 1950 -- USSR
Requests information on the development, manufacture
and use of guided missiles, control instruments, radar, proximity
fuses, television, vacuum tubes and electronic countermeasures by
USSR. (14.pp)
CD - 4510.3 -- Effective 3 June 1918 -- USSR
Requests all information relating to phases of Soviet
military and political organizations, economic potentialities and long
range tactical plans. Specific suggestions listed. (4pp)
CD - 7243.1 Effective 1 March 1949 -- Satellites and Sovzone Germany
Requests information of intelligence value from these
countries. Information not specified. (lp)
Department of the Navy
CD - A 1975.1 -- Effective 14 November 1950
Requests information on details of work for which
Stalin Prize Awards were made in television, radio, photography,
communications equipment and materiel. (lp)
CD - A 2111.1 -- Effective 27 November 1950
Requests information dealing with photographic interpre-
tation of vegetation in USSR and other countries. (lp)
FDD is also served with ONI Intelligence Requirements Memorandums
as they are Issued and as they may be applicable to the collection of
information from foreign documents. These are identified as "ONI
Instructions" as follows:
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ONI Instruction 03820.19A -- Effective 18 September 1951
Requests information on movements of
Soviet and Satellite vessels en route to or arriving at ports in North
America, and movements of such vessels in all parts of the world.
Includes Chinese Communist vessels. (Supersedes 03820.19, 3 Aug 50,
which included Yugoslav and Finnish vessels). (lp)
03820.25A -- Effective 17 September 1951
Restates 03820.19A and adds request for information on
new and converted merchant ships of foreign registry. (Supersedes
and cancels 03820.25, 6 Oct 4+9). (3PP)
00382.27 -- Effective 4 December 1950
Requests information on Soviet guided missiles development. (2pp)
0382.16 -- Effective 21 August 1950
Information requested from foreign telephone directories of
larger cities. (lp)
0382.13 -- Effective May 1950
Requests information on USSR mine warfare potentialities.
Detailed and specific. (61pp)
00382.17 -- Effective 24+ August 1950
Requests information on selected foreign ports and port
areas. Lists ports, including certain USSR and Satellite, Latin
American, African and Southeast Asia. (32pp)
Revised: Change 1, 28 May 51, 3pp
00382.18 -- Effective 25 August 1950
Requests information on personnel strength of foreign
naval forces. (lp)
0382.11 -- Effective 11 January 1950
Information requested on foreign naval vessels photographic
requirements. (lp)
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0382.14 -- Effective 22 May 1950
Requests information on operational capabilities of foreign
naval units. (lp)
0382.12 -- Effective March 1950
Requests information on Soviet submarine organization.
Detailed and specific items. (l3pp)
0382.21 -- Effective September 1949
Periodic summary. Comprehensive and detailed statement of
information required for production of naval intelligence. (75pp)
Supplemented by 00382.31, 44 Jun 51
0382.24 Effective 6 September 19+9
Personality appreciations of foreign naval officers
requested. (2pp)
0382.23 -- Effective 17 June 19+9
Requirement for collection of information on port facilities,
naval bases and facilities, shipbuilding and ship repair facilities.
First 21 pages request much economic information. (62pp)
00382,31 -- Effective 4 June 1951
Requests information on Soviet merchant shipping operations.
A supplement to 00382.21, Sep 49, 6pp
00382.30 Effective 23 March 1951
Background information requested on Soviet/Satellite ports
and port cities. (lp)
0382.26A -- Effective 14 March 1951
Requirement for Soviet hydrographic charts and publications.
(Supersedes 0382.26, 10 Oct 49) (4pp)
Revised: Change 1, 14 Jun 51
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00382.15A -- Effective 16 March 1951
Requests information on operations of Finnish, Soviet and
European satellite fishing vessels in the Baltic area. (lp)
Supersedes 00382.15, 29 Jun 50
0382.7A -- Effective 16 March 1951
Requests status reports on foreign naval vessels. (lp)
Supersedes 0382.7, 4 Oct 49
Department of the Air Force
CD -'A 7025.4 -- Effective 15 September 1948 -- World-wide
USSR, Satellites and areas of Soviet influence noted
as priority interest.
This is an all-embracing requirement, with air power, production
and potential as the subject of primary interest. Economic,, atomic
energy, scientific and technical development, personalities, civil
defense, domestic affairs, sociological and psychological, and industrial
information also required in detail. Geographic, meteorological,
resources are among the many other categories covered in this requirement. (15pp)
Revisions: This requirement is supplemented and revised
periodically, the latest supplement received by FDD on 25 April 1951.
A periodic Summary of Air Intelligence Requirements is also
published and used as a 'complementary guide to A 7025.4, as is the Air
Intelligence Interrogation Guide, a voluminous manual of detail.
CD - A 4144 -- Effective 7 February 1952 -- USSR
Requests information on Soviet command posts down to Air
Armies, including military. districts and other than air posts. (ip)
CD - A 2409.1 -- Effective 16 April 1951 -- USSR and Satellites
Requests information on Soviet and Satellite comment
and findings on operations at Eniwetok Atoll and US progress in the
field of nuclear weapons. (lp)
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CD - 2228 -- Effective 9 February 1951 -- Bulgaria
Requests information on airfields in Bulgaria later than
1948, including construction and improvement of airfields. (2pp)
CD - A 2177 -- Effective 25 January 1951 -- Rumania
Requests information on airfields in Rumania later than
1948, including construction and improvement of airfields. (app)
CD - 7667.1 -- Effective 23 February 1951 -- USSR
Information requested on the stored reserve of Soviet
military aircraft. Detailed suggestions regarding methods of storage,
locations, types. (5pp)
This requirement supplemented less detailed request of
20 September 1949.
CD - A 1564.1 -- Effective 13 September 1950 -- World-wide
This is an Air Weather Service requirement for weather
information. Lists world areas of interest and notes foreign documents,
charts and maps as of value. (lp)
CD - A 1247.1 -- Effective 14 April 1950 -- USSR
Information required on USSR development of titanium
carbide for turbine blade application. (lp)
CD - A 1217.2 -- Effective 19 April 1950 -- USSR
Specifically requests reports on the Academy of
Science Azerbaydzhan SSR work on fuels and lubricants, new processes
and experiments. (lp)
CD - 7405.1 -- Effective 25 May 1949 -- USSR
Information requested on any gasoline research and
petroleum exploitation. (2pp)
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CD - 7710.3 -- Effective 17 October 1949 -- USSR
Requests any information on Soviet air-to-air rockets.
Gives some background and suggests features of interest. (2pp)
Joint Aircraft Intelligence Committee
CD - A 3053.4 -- Effective 22 January 1952 -- USSR
Requirement for information on Soviet aircraft. Lists
specific aircraft of interest. Requests complete scientific and
technical information on all other aircraft not listed. (2pp)
Joint Guided Missiles Intelligence Committee
CD - A 3031.3 -- Effective 24 November 1950 -- USSR
Requests information on guided missiles development
and research in the USSR. Gives background on USSR/German development
and notes initial locations of Soviet installations. Limits collection
to post-1949. Specifies intersts in field testing, descriptions of
missiles, locations and activities, submarine testing. Gives priorities
of such interests. (3pp)
Atomic Energy Commission
The National Scientific Intelligence Requirements on Nuclear
Energy, USSR, issued 29 May 1947, stand as the AEC Guide Requirements.
These requirements are covered in CIA by the following Collection
Directives:
CD - 1038 -- USSR and Satellites
Information requested on educational institutions; nuclear
physics; nuclear or radio chemistry courses; names and capabilities of
instructors; classes and curriculum; source of students, names of
graduates, where assigned; graduate schools; physic and chemistry
laboratory facilities, (lp)
CD - 1039 -- Who's Who; USSR Scientific Personnel
Information required relative to education, research engaged
in, current position and type of research, political convictions of
specific Russian scientists listed on five double-column pages.
CD - 1040 -- Who's Who; German Scientists in the USSR
Similar information to above requested on German scientists
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CD - 101+1 - Research Laboratories and organizations
Requests information linking any laboratory, institution,
or organization in the USSR or Satellites with development or use of
nuclear energy. Lists such laboratories and organizations believed
engaged in this field; specific notations for careful observation.
(3p list)
CD - 1042 -- Raw Materials; Uranium and Thorium
Asks information on government activity for discovery and
exploitation of uranium and thorium ores; regions of concentration;
use of Geiger counters; diamond drilling; existing and operating mines;
percentage of uranium and thorium; details of mine production and output
of refineries; importation from other countries, and details. (3pp)
CD - 10+3 -- Other Critical Materials
Requests reports on all details concerning pure graphite,
beryllium oxide, and heavy water. Explains uses. (lp)
CD - lO11+ -- Scientific Equipment and Apparatus
Requests information on location, quantity, sizes, manu-
facturers and users of listed items, such as analytical mass spectrometers,
beta-ray spectrometers, electromagnetic isotope separation units,
centrifuges, particle accelerators, and detecting devices. Sources of
such equipment, details of shipments within and outside USSR.
CD - 101+5 -- Industrial Processes
Describes industrial-scale installations and operations
required in the development and application of nuclear energy and
explains the processes to the end of guiding exploitation. Contains
suggestions regarding characteristics of plants and buildings; power
consumption; plant equipment, such as piping, pumps, control installa-
tions, with details. (6pp)
Requirements ST-256 dated October 1950 and ST-220 dated 10 November
1950, issued by OSI/CIA, substantially restated the above CD's and have
therefore been used to identify nuclear energy reports prepared by FDD
since their initiation by OSI.
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD: 8 April 1952
SUBJECT: Russian Scientific Literature Problem
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SI, and P&C Staff, 00, discussed draft SI
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Staff Study on subject wi out reaching any agreement.
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insisted that OSI -e~ should have respon-
sibility for exploiting open Russian scientific literature. He would
like to consider nmechanics" and various impracticabilities, which
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mentioned, only after responsibility for
the over-all program is "centralized" (actually further decentralized
in three offices: SI/research CIA Library/acq ition, in exing, etc?
and presumably FDD/translating.
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handle other IAC requirements and deal with outside agencies on this
matter.
4. Little attention was given to mentioned impracticabilities
longstanding problem of how to get (already disseminated) material from
foreign language sources in hands of SI scientists at once when needed.
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5, Often not so much ~co]lect on failure asdis ibution, as shown
by nature of DEX inquiries received by FDD from SI divisions.
6. exp. y o segregate records and communications,if source
survey, acquisition, exploit and/or translations, are handled separately,
*ole screening operatiox4 needs to be in.one place.
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