FDD MONTHLY PROGRESS REPORT - JUNE 1955

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-00706R000300010030-2
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 17, 2001
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: July 11, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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Assistant Director for erations 11 July 1955
Chief, Foreign Decueenta Division
FDD Meetnly Progress Report - June 1955
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1. AU of 30 June the total personnel on duty was
2. Two short films on cancer were shown to FDD personnel on
7 and 8 June during the lunch period.
3. A survey eaa made of the Division in an attempt to decrease
the amount of =required intelligence reports received by the Divi-
sion from other parts of the LAC. This resulted in a 15 percent cut
in Aessage Center transmittal and logging.
OPLRATION6
1. The 51st meeting of the Oubcummittee on Lxpleitation of
Foreign Language Publications was held on LO June. The review of
'estern Europe was completed. It was agreed 1) to issue a week4
index of "Le Monde," and 2) to issue bison a) Develop-
25X6 ment of Political Attitudee in b) Trade
Union Activities in Finland; umi cJ Cooperation%mmunist,
eocialiat, and Catholic Labor Unions in France and It.a1r. The review
of Japae/Korea and of Latin America was cumpleted with miner changes
in ceverage and presentation.
Since the current review of reporting programa has aeen
cempleted, the Committee will ge on e monthly meeting schedule
antil the time for the next pregram review. The next meeting will
be held 6 July.
2. On 10 June, Chief, Lastern uroa Branch
FTD orations at a Contact Division briefing.
0 spoke on
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1......14n 24 June.
3. The first of four new scheduled reports were iaaued 4urin6
the month:
"Monthly Information Report on Continental Southeast
Asie" (eummary).
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"Data on wall Consumer Goods Industriee (Summary
Bimonthly
"Index uf 'Le Sonde" (0C-W) 'Sesekly
"Monthly Information Repert on Afghanistan" (00-S)
4. siaison Alb held with Commerce Department througn Liaison
Division, 00, to the end of having Commerce sponeor the GPO printing
of tae USSR Academy of Sciences textbook '/Political iconomy" prepared
by ?DD. Commerce refused to sponsor the project on the gromadb that
oub/ication might leud to public criticism. Other methods of publica-
tion aru oeine investigated.
?A new system of apecial reporting, aimed particularly to
service SCI with timely spot news briefs, waz initiated under u
series to be knoun az "FDD Notes."
6. On information that ATIC is essoged in compilation of
saterial for Aussian-iSIglish technical dictionaries, steps were taken
by FLL to coordinate such efforts with the collecting in progiress in
the Division. STIC's attention was called to the imminent publication
of the "Smssiaa-Lnglish Gloauary of Metallurgical clad Metal-Working
le -"
7. ss a result of obvious delays in the reproduction of FDD
reports, a conference Wheid Acid with officers of Reproduction Division.
Soma caoses for delays in publication of FDD scheduled reports were
revealed and taroash mutual cooperatien it iu hoped that major diffi-
culties will be eliminated within a sonth.
L. The Division cooperated with ecqsiaitions Branch, CIA Library,
in providine u selection of cartoons reportedly required by USIA for a
oriefins of the Secretary of State and the President.
9. Commendations:
Froa Scting Ceief, TS6/ID, for recent aervices in the
translation and evaluation of technical Persian-Ianguage documents
performed by
From the Asaistant Director for Operations to the Deputy
Chief aad 12 members of the Far Zast and ILISR branches for support
rendered in "Operation Aiert."
kJ. ,1?tecitki services rendered:
141C valuated three translations (in Russian, French, and
',-4paniall) of US data to be distributed at the Geneva "Atens for Peace"
Conference. The Russian ana French were found to oe substandard, the
LI1Junish usable.
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Czech, end MAMA:Jan broadcast
bility under jamming.
..anguage and External Training 6cbool,
served on a panel for testing fluency in
spoken French.
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!BD 6ummary No. 50i -- Information on Aumanlan petroleum
industry; 1949-1951
J. J.
closure: 2
1. 6tatistical iWpot 411 EDD Operations
2. Details on Personnel Actions
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