EXPLOITATION OF ENEMY DOCUMENT REPOSITORIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-00706R000200030030-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 1, 2003
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: March 18, 1947
• Content Type: MEMO

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64 _
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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO Assistant Director for Operations
FROM . Chief, ICAPS
SUBJECT: Exploitation of Enemy Document Repositories
18 march 1947
1. Attached paper's are returned with recommendation that the
project be presented to the Projects Review Committee after withdrawing
Tab "B" which investigation has found to be inaccurate.
2. The reasons why Tab 11B" is considered inaccurate follow:
a. The statements made in the Committee report on the Washington
Document Center are correct. The 35% of documents dealing with
economic subjects were included because it was considered that they
had at least an indirect bearing on the psychological aspect of the
problem. Only 1 Japanese translator was provided for because it was
understood the Document Branch would, in its abstracting and cataloguing,
cover a large portion of the material. Mr. Bagnall has confirmed this
understanding.
The original ONI paper requesting this study gave as its
primary interest material related to the USSR, but desired coverage
on the entire world. There is no necessity for clarification in the
Committee report which gave the results of its study on the ONI request.
b. The statement that the GMDS material has been reduced from
seven to four tons is refuted by the Intelligence Division, WDGS, after
consultation with Major Seeley, the officer in charge of this section.
It was stated that there are still about seven tons of material at
this Center.
c. Whereas there may be some dispute with respect to the
Kulturabteilung files at Tempelhof, there remains at this Center a
tremendous volume of material which requires processing, and remains
available to exploitation. 25X1 C
3. The Committee report has been found to be basically correct, and
represents as complete a survey as can be made in this country based on
available information. Information on Centers in ?s 25X1 C
admittedly scant, but with conditions continually changing a more complete
OSD REVIEW
COMPLETED
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survey is impracticable. There definitely appears to be sufficient
material in those areas to warrant the emplbyrnent of a three translator
team under present conditions.
4. It is not recormended that this project be extended to
include all types of intelligence. The recommendations contained in
the Committee report were framed specifically to accomplish the project
requested by the Chief of Naval Intelligence. Normal processing
procedures of the several Centers should ultimately provide for all
types of intelligence without the expenditure of funds by CIG for this
purpose.
25X1
Chief, CAF S
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