INTELLIGENCE DEFICIENCIES REVEALED IN SE-27

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-00706R000300110032-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 26, 2002
• Sequence Number: 32
• Publication Date: September 18, 1952
• Content Type: MEMO

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&ssistant Director for Irxtel.li; Once Coordination 18 September 19>2
Assistant Director for operations
Intelli,,ence Deficiencies Revealed in 34-27
d ~ 'sl~irC :s AD/'IC; imoraridurn, Sane Subject, dated 8 September 1952
Translation (Reference norandu~i, para raph d)
r~. Unclassified Translation
Foreign Documents rlvision of the Office of +Jperations has
contractual arrare:ents for handling the translation of 'unclassified
Chinese language materials. This procedure can ue zsea for sizeable
amounts of work, subject to three limitations 1) this service is used
only for CIA offices; 2) individual requirements are necessary for
each -ob; 3) funds.
For coordination of the unclassified translation needs of
the intelli,-;;ence community the blowing pro6rar is augfested:
1. }DD, on the basis o" specific requests, will handle
the 'unclassified translation needs of C:CA.
2. With the cooperation of the departrlental intelligence
agencies, a cential index of all translations in process will
be maintained by FDD and periodic notification will be made to
those agencies through the medium of the Consolidated Trans-
lat .on Survey.
This arrangement will assure that all o . fives of the IAC
will benefit from translation done for any office ii it fits their
requirements and will also prevent duplication (triplication, etc.)
of translation work on any one item.
This is the most efficient and economical method of hand.
ling; the vast quantities of unclassified translation needed.
130 ~ZassjLjed Translation,
Foreign Documents Division is at present organized to handle
translation o1' classified documents in Chinese 1 :or CIA offices on the
basis of estimates of need submitted by each office. The overwhelmin
majority of this (about 90 percent) has been political material. Upon
the present estimate of receipt of classified economic source material,,
FI1D will be able to absorb translation of CIA needs 11 pending r/C is
approved and if priorit for clearance of Chinese translators is
authorized,
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between FUD
b) Zee
c decisions on Lite assignment of requirements
a) teco-~nnend ior approval the assignment of a project for
external research lWhen an IAC requiMient is beyond the "normal"
operational capability of the two exploitation activities.
25X1 A d) Study and make recorsmendationa when necessary for
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increases in the /a
to handle all requirerents on a continuous basis, except urazsual
type requirements for which a permanent T/0 could not economically be
maintained*
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for 17DD so that they may a eve "normial" operational papa y.
:3owm,al'- operational capability as used here means the capability
3. All !AC offices having requirements for economic information
on Ch a.na shoulds
U. =xploitation (Reference ~amorandma paragraph e)
&xploitation is the most efficient a thod of handling vast quantities
of foreign language material. It is the only practical method for hand-
lint press material, which, because of China's state security Laws, is
the source of about 90 percent of the overtly published economic informa-
tion on China.
following recommendations are rude:
All requirements of all ZAC offices for exploitation of
economic information on China from foreign language documents be channelled
t3irough CIA/OCII, a member of which office will be chairman of a proposed
Interdepartmental Committee on, is for Exploitation of Chinese
sconomic Documents, which wif representa4ives of J ; SAD, State
Department j and F])]1.
20 he above-r eed Committee should:
a) Drsww up an initial plan for division of exploitation
activities between FOX)
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a) Ravi" their regairemwits list quarterly,
b) Serve ad hoo requirements with spsaifications of time
of coverage, "s i c" data required, and date data is regeired.
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