FDD MONTHLY PROGRESS REPORT - -AUGUST 1957

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00500R000100010005-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 25, 2002
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: September 9, 1957
• Content Type: MEMO

STANDARD FORM NO. 64
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ice Memoiandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO : Assistant Director for Operations
FROM : Chief, Foreign Documents Division
SUBJECT: FDD Monthly Progress Report -- August 1957
DATA: 9 September 1957
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1. The number of personnel charged against ceiling as of 31
August was
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25X1 A 3 ? is on special assignment from 18
August to September to accompany a delegation of
experts to meetings of the Institute of Radio Engineers at San
Francisco, and of the International Scientific Radio Union at 25X1 A
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4. On 29 August, returned from a three-
month trip to the Far East where he surveyed foreign document
exploitation activities.
5. The Division reviewed a list of U. S. colleges with
foreign-language departments to evaluate them as to potential
sources for recruiting.
6. Approval was sought for use of FDD employees in off-duty
hours for contracting Q inasmuch as a number of employees
are seeking outside employment, The Office of Personnel disapproved.
The opinion of the Office of the General Counsel was that legally
and administratively the plan was not feasible. This matter has
been dropped-
7. The FDD Budget for FY 59 was completed on 27 August.
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spoke on FDD operations
at the 12th Intelligence Orientation Course.
8. On 19 August,
9. The FDD Intensive Rumanian Reading Class IV with one student
ended on 19 August.
comparative linguistics at the
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completed two months' study in
I I on 15 August.
10. The Division prepared a roster of personnel who will receive
the initial Asiatic flu shots when they become available.
11. I I Office of Security, visited the
Division to work out with the Division Security Officer cover
arrangements for the 25X1 A
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discusse WITH e pace icer location of Acquisitions
Branch, OCR, to maintain its proximity to FDD.
OPERATIONS
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2. Reference to the CTS Index prevented 197 cases of duplica-
tion totaling 4250 pages. 25X1 A
3. A new contract form has been drawn up by Contract Personnel
Division, Office of Personnel, for the use of
simply changes the rate of compensation from a paragraph Within the
contract to an attached fee schedule which can be more easily amended
as required. 25X1 A
25X1A 4. A requirement has been received from FE Division to exploit
reels, containing an estimate ages, of Vietnamese.
Priority procedures have been arranged and the main effort of FDD's
Vietnamese Section will be devoted to this material for the coming
year.
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25X1A 5. Several meetings were held with L__J regarding
RPB needs for information from publications v s-a-vi.s the question
In conjunction with this, discussions were held with
International Communism Division, DDP, regarding their need for
information from party theoretical journals; these were found to
parallel closely RPB's needs.
6. By direction of the DD/I, covert material received by
his office and formerly routed through OCR to FDD for abstracting,
henceforth will be sent directly from the Office of the DD/I to
FDD for exploitation. Material of no value will be destroyed.
7. The OCB reviewed on 16 August an ad hoc committee
recommendation concerning the screening of captured German
documents held by the Defense Department. It approved the
procedure that the Defense Department would continue screening
these documents in accordance with U. S. policy statements as
to which documents may be returned and which will be retained
permanently. It was agreed that CIA would not participate in
the screening.
8. Duplicate subscriptions of numerous newspapers and periodi-
cals have been placed to serve the needs of the field office
operations. A study of economic methods for reproducing copies
of such source material is being continued with the cooperation
of Printing Services Division, OL, and Management Staff.
9. Commendation
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10.. Liaison activities (other than CIA)
Department of State
With Division of Research for USSR and Eastern Europe,
Mr. Roye Lowry, to discuss program guidance matters affecting
political and sociological reporting on Poland. Also with Mr.
Stephen Peters of this Division to discuss similar matters
concerning Rumania and Albania.
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With Division of Research for Far East, Mr. Harald W.
Jacobsen and Mr. F. Dawson, to clarify requirements on coverage
of Communist China in scheduled FDD reports.
Department of the Army
With Production Division, ACSI, Mr. Warren Darkew, to
discuss FDD coverage of military information on Burma.
With the Office of the Surgeon General, Dr. Myron Gordon,
to acquaint him with the scope of FDD coverage of Soviet medical
literature.
With Logistical Intelligence Branch, Office of the Chief
of Ordnance, Mr. John 0. Moser, to furnish material on
automobile industry.
Department of the Air Force
With AFCIN, Miss Patricia Sinnott, to discuss program
guidance matters affecting Soviet order-of-battle information.
Also with Mr. B. H. McFeely, AFCIN, to discuss biographic coverage
of Chinese Communist military personnel.
With Air Research Division/LC, Mr. L. Boszormenyi, to
acquaint him with current Hungarian pictorial publications. Also
with Mrs. J. C. Katz to discuss ARD requirements for information
on Communist China.
US Information Agency
With Production Division, Mr. Theodore A. Wertime, to
discuss program guidance concerning FDD scheduled reporting on
Communist China.
11. Special services rendered
DDP -- Reverse translation, English to German, of a
5-page document titled "Communism is not Socialism."
Office of Training -- Reverse translation, English to
Spanish., of graphic material on "Communist Party Organization."
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I I assisted
on a testing panel in oral French and
applicant in spoken Arabic.
tested an
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Office of Research and Reports -- Performed oral review
of Czech and Albanian documents, one day each.
Office of Scientific Information -- For Medical Division,
prepared advance copies of a translation of "Public Health in the
USSR, A Statistical Handbook" for use of a delegation of U. S.
medical doctors bound for Moscow.
12. Outstanding reports
FDD Translation No. 647 -- USSR Industry-A Statistical
Compilation (this national-level statistical handbook is the first
to deal with the broad picture of Soviet industrial development
issued by the Soviet government for about 20 years)
FDD Summary No. 1421 -- Weekly Information Report on
Communist China (162) (a report on number of workers and staff
members in Shanghai in first quarter of 1957 with statistics on
education, production rates, and wages; also a report on increase
in number of women workers and staff members in Harbin for 1956,
p 66ff )
1. Statistical Report on FDD Operations
2. Details of Personnel Actions
Enclosures: 2
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