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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-00706R000300120076-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 10, 2001
• Sequence Number: 76
• Publication Date: December 2, 1954
• Content Type: MEMO

Approved For Release 2001/08/07 : CIA-RDP81-00706R000300120076-0
2 December 1954
FDD Reports
The question of whether or not OCI is in favor of having FDD
follow procedure on Economic Abstracts and publish its monthly
summaries on cards cannot be given a "yes" or "no" answer until details
as to methods of dissemination and identification are more clearly
described.
STATSPEC Currently the bcards are received in batches that have not
been sorted and it requires considerable time for the analysts to wade
STATS PEC through to find items of interest. Attempts to improve this are being
made but to date _ Reproduction and OCD have turned down the sorting
work. If it is proposed that FDD should institute a similar method of
publishing, and leave the sorting responsibility to the recipient offices,
OCI would be in a terrible predicament. The FDD summaries are more
numerous and cover a much wider range of interests than the Economic
Abstracts. OCI does not have the time or personnel to do sorting on this
scale.
As to receiving information items on individual cards versus the
periodic area or subject compilations, OCI would interpose no great
objections. In some instances, filing would be made simpler. However,
it is pointed out that having all items on a particular area for a
particular period in one report makes it easier for an analyst to discern
trends and assures him that he has received all the items he should have
during a given period.
Approved For Release 2001/08/07 : CIA-RDP81-00706R000300120076-0