FDD MONTHLY PROGRESS REPORT - OCTOBER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-00706R000300010038-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 17, 2001
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: November 9, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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Assistant Director for Operations
Chief, Foreign Documents Division
FDD inthly Progress Report - October
9 NoveMber 1954
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of 31 October the total personnel on duty was
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Basic Managemen ourse resentad by OTR.
completed the
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1. The 36th, 37th, and 38th meetings of the Subcommittee on
Lxploitation of Foreign Language Publications were held 1, 22, and
29 October, respectively. The Bear Last, South Asia, and Africa
programa were concurred in, providing for monthly information reports
on (1) Arab States and Israel; (2) Greece, Turkey, and Iran; (3) India,
Pakistan, and Afghanistan; and (4) Africa.
It was agreed that 12 of the FDD scheduled reports initiated
as a result of Subcommittee agreements would be printed on one side
only to facilitate filing of item. Discussion was continued on the
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2. The Linguist service received 416 visitors during the month
ana screened 3916 pages.
Reference to the CTS Index prevented 20 cases of duplication
totaling 600 pages.
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3. During the nth the first of two new series of scheduled
reports were issued:
Monthly Information Report on Indochina (Summary)
Political, Economic, and Sociological Report on Burma
(Summary) -- semiquarterly
. Conzuenda t.ions
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Lion of Chinese calligraphy request performed by
From Chief, Identification Division, 1S6 for rapid -
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puty Chief, Western urope Division, DD/P, to
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on Course
Trainin Division, OM,
FDD, for their assistance
or Agency personnel.
From Chief, EQA1/015, to East Germany Services and Political
Eastern Europe Branch, FDD for assistance in collating
nation from apprcudamA41111111questionnaires completed by East
German refugees.
From Division of Biographic Information - partment,
Liaison activities:
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Dlpar:tment of State
With Division of Research for Near East to discuss information
needed for MIS studies on
with Division of Research for Far East to discuss reaction
to FDD scheduled reports on China and to arrange for further program
6uldance.
kartment of Defense
With liaison officers of 4i-2? G-2, and OKI; agreement reached
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through Mr. Richard Bauer, Army representative on the Exploitation
subcommittee.
Department of the Ars9w
With &na1 Corps Intelligence 4gency to supply information
needed in preparing NIS chapters on telecommunications in Algeria,
French Morocco, and Yugoslavia.
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With Army Map Service to supply iforztion on Soviet Armw
engineering eqnipment.
With Office of Chief Chemical Officer to clarify CCCO
requirements in the field of chemical warfare.
Dvartmeht of the Air Force
With Chief, Air Intelligence Division, to explore the
possibility of eliminating potential duplication of effort by Air
Force and FED in the coverage of Soviet Air Force
6. Special services renaered:
For the DI)/? Area -- Indexing and tr nilationof 2150 pages
of French within 5 days.
J. J. BAGNALL
Enclosures: 2
Statistical Report on FDD Operations
Details on Personnel Actions
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