HIGHER CLASSIFICATION OF CIA EXPLOITATION OF SOVIET RUSSIAN LANGUAGE MATERIAL.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-00706R000300110078-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 26, 2002
• Sequence Number: 78
• Publication Date: December 30, 1948
• Content Type: MEMO

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2. ,.*cent policy actions bearini on the above recommendation
havr been taken as follows:
a. lee ;:enruty Iirector has orally directed the AD/0',
to -
e the classification of r' oovint Press ?-,xtracta
from TALto 3ECW1'.
b. The -xecutive .1recter in a memorandum to ,,Lapdated 2 ecember l9L snproved the reclassification of the
:acts And i,4urea Section of thel
from 1J,'4_1..1 to t
There remain the following matters to be considered:
a. Aaisine the classtficAtion of the following "DB
eubffcations:
. ;.ussian Pericvilsals - - now Ui,eL.
Abstracts (7;4;;;I-Tiriga) - - now REST4IGT,
Periodical(6clentific Series) - - nor fiEsim.
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11. 'heter reoommenciation
eAteniled to tneluee publications derive from overt
norces in satellite coup:tripe.
L. Comments are made in the Attached lepers regarding neesiele
elmelaints rsin because of distributioe restrictions caused by un-
6rad1n of tvIterial. To be balanced aviinat this eossible adverse
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5. Attached art statements free State, Army and air Forte sai-
im for use within their Lepartments they wouldhave no objectIons
to raising the classifications of !MB materiel to SLCHT. ntate makes
the noint that if the increased classification resulted in a diminish-
ing of tnformation to non?IAC agencies it eight have to resort to its
own niesemination arrangements in order to fulfill its responsibility.
It ta not believed that Alit: would have to resort to this action as
long as 7k;14 continues to furnish the Library of Congrese with micro-
film copies nf 6oviet periedicals and newspapers, an as long as the
Library of Congress continues to publish the List of usaianAcessions
wnict is available for governmental and public u.
Tho ihlo of .iasiaa Periodicals contains only blanket
lietintfe in he various nuesian eeri-
onicals; it does not reveal intelligence reqeiremnnts. .tiile the
biblingranhy s derived from all overtly Procured Russian Periodicals,
yet, as nreeently eublished and disseminated, there is no Indication
that t was orininated by CIA. If the bibliography were classified,
tne k.ibrary of Conerese would continue to publish in its List of
nuneien accessions a similar nroduct in unclassified transliterated
77;17W17---N-17761i,eved, therefore, that security would not be he-
preyed by classifying the ,-ibliogrephy.
7. believes thut security and onerretin efniciency can be
tanroved if Periodical Abstracts (Oeneral Series) were discontinued
and replaced L-y individual extracts. almost as such time le now taken
ur in ereparinn abstracts as is consumed in comolyinr with ensuing re-
quests for complete extracts. Time and work would be saved and se-
curity improved if extracts were prepared in the first niece, and their
dissemination directed to nrimarily interested addressees.
b. The Assistant irector 11), rx and 0i4E have concurred in the
following recommended actions
a. The plbliograony of Russian Periodicals remain
Jfi-A3.
b. Periodicel abstracts (General 5eries) be discon-
tinued ai-nriressuance of separate extracts
classified individually eccordinn to source and subject
Twitter, with as a minimum.
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