OCR CONTRIBUTION TO THE SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT'S BOARD OF CONSULTANTS ON FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (30 SEPTEMBER 1960 - 1 APRIL 1961)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81S00991R000300020004-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 14, 2001
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: April 7, 1961
• Content Type: REPORT

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7 April 1961
OCR CONTRIBUTION TO THE
SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT'S
BOARD OF CONSULTANTS ON FOREIGN
INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES
(30 September 1960 - 1 April 1961)
DEVELOPMENTS IN THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUN1T.._ y
The USIB Committees on Documentation (CODIB) and Procurement (PROCIB),
chaired by the Assistant Director and Deputy Assistant Director, respectively,
continued their increasingly active roles. Chinese Communist publications
drop off continued to command considerable PROCIB attention, with, for
example, November 1960 Journal receipts only 10% of the total received in
November 1959; the some low level obtains in April 1961. Procurement efforts
to obtain Cuban publications were increased and plans for a survey tour of
publications availability in Latin America for mid-1961 were developed.
CODIB had a particularly active season, devoting much of its attention to
the development of a common format for Intelligence information reports for
compatibility and greater uniformity in input to mechanized or automated
information processing systems; the activities to this end of the newly
developing automation staff within the State Department are most encourag-
ing, since Foreign Service reporting oonatitute$ 40% of OCR's input. Current
developments in equipment or systems design were considered by CODIB in
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an expanded program of briefings and demonstrations by manufacb~rera, the high
point being it 10 day trip by the Committee to the West Coast to visit 11 companies
and two military service organisations. CODIB is proceeding with the develop-
ment of a plan for a study of the information processing activities of the
Intelligence Community. with emphasis on the use of automatic data processing
and the development of compatible systems. This was directed by the USIB in
March 1961. An especially urgent Community need is that of a secure machine-
language-byproduct typewriter for use in overseas installations to provide for
direct input to information processing systems and for tie-in with communica-
tions facilities for rapid transmittal to Headquarters; this need is being pursued
by a newly created CODIB Working Group. Other such groups were established
during this reporting period to consider the requirements for inter-agency
facsimile transmission of documents and the development of a standard name-
check format. In other areas, a survey of Community file-holdings on foreign
Institutes, laboratories. schools and similar organisations was undertaken by
OCR through CODIB to determine the need for and feasibility of establishing
a register of this type of information. Finally. considerable attention was
devoted by the Office and by CODIB to the USIB Security Committee's draft
revision of DCID 11/2 on dissemination and use of intelligence.
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OTHER SERVICES
Reflecting OCR involvement with both major intelligence projects and
significant academic activities, support is being given the ACSI/ORR priority
program to reidentify and locate important intelligence targets in the USSR and
was given to
Coding experts were
loaned to Navy and to USAFE to instruct Service personnel in the use of the
revised Intelligence Subject Code. The 438L SAC experiment was given
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aide were produced on Soviet organizations in certain cities suspected of
containing guided missile centers, on 84.000 SinoSoviet Bloc locations, and
on selected industrial and research facilities in East Germany and Poland;
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Improved support capability will result from newly received Chinese Communist
feature and documentary films, the opening at the China News Service as a
photography source, and from valuable collections
resulted in reporting improved in both quality
and quantity, and the value of this source attracted USIB attention to the
extent that vas approved and distributed.
INTERNAL DEVELOPMENTS
Considerable time has been devoted to identifying new equipment and
evaluating both solicited and unsolicited proposals for systems improvement
in OCR, and to participating in a limited operations survey instituted by the
DD/I Automation Staff. In addition, considerable attention was devoted to
the investigations of the Joint Study Group; the JSG recommendations
pertinent to the office or to CODIB are being or will be implemented as
directed.
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