FDD MONTHLY PROGRESS REPORT - - SEPTEMBER 1955

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00500R000200130004-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 10, 2001
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: October 10, 1955
• Content Type: MEMO

STANDARD FORM NO. 64 SECRET
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Bice Meniorandum ? UNTTF.n STATES r n A 7 4 A ATM,rE"T"r
TO : Assistant Director for Operations
FROM Chief, Foreign Documents Division
SUBJECT: FDD Monthly Progress Report -- September 1955
DATE: 10 October 1955
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ADMINISTRATION
1. The total personnel on duty as of 30 September was
team consisting of
began a survey of a Di sion on
15 September. ubsequently left the team. The survey was
still in process at the end of the month.
3. Chief, FDD, briefed the Director of Training and MR
Division and branch chiefs on FDD mission and operations.
5. Dr. Herbert Scoville, Jr., new AD/SI, was briefed by Chief,
FDD, and Chief Scientific and Technical Branch, on FDD operations,
and especially on FDD exploitation of scientific and technical publica-
tions.
As a further sult of the classification survey conducted
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se e r a pos on cientific and Technical Branch was raised
from GS-5 to GS-6 and the clerk-typist position in Screening Section,
Reports Branch, was raised from GS-4 to GS-5, thus bringing these
positions into line with general practice in the DD/I area.
$. One Russian and one German linguist were transferred to
DD/P for Project
9. The English refresher course under was
resumed on 22 September. Eleven of the on na s u en s are
participating.
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10. A visit to Records Center by the FDD Area Records Officer
revealed that a considerable number of FDD deposits had been dis-
seminated into general reference shelves of OCR. Action was taken
to correct this.
11. Special Assistant to the Chief, Printing
Services Division, LO, conferred with FDD officers regarding FDD's
reproduction and space needs in the projected new CIA building.
12. Through the cooperation of 00/C, FDD has made contact with
a Tibetan-English translator. This promises to increase the FDD con-
tract potential, previously lacking, in this language.
OPERATIONS
1. The 54th and 55th meetings of the Subcommittee on Exploita-
tion of Foreign Language Publications were held on 9 and 23 September,
respectively. It was agreed that the Subcommittee resume the biweekly
meeting schedule. It was further agreed that a second program review
be conducted using as a guide two collated statements prepared by FDD,
namely, a) Subject Categories not now being Covered but which are
Desired, and b) Current Program Coverage Keyed to DCID 4/4. The
programs on the USSR and the East European Satellites will be.con-
sidered at the next meeting scheduled for 7 October.
2. The first issue of a new scheduled report was published
during the month, "Semiannual Report on Retail Trade in the USSR"
(Summary).
3. Reference to.the CTS Index prevented 52 cases of duplication
totaling 1252 pages.
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4. Arrangements have been made for to work at
NSA every other Wednesday for an indefinite period on a special project.
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7. Commendations:
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From Acting Chief,- Scientific Resources Divisio n, OSI, to
for valuable
assistance over a period of two years in support of SRD projects.
From, South Asia Branch, Near East/Africa Division, OCI, for
scheduled reporting in the "Monthly Information Report on Afghanistan."
From Chief, Industrial Division, ORR, for the scheduled
"Weekly Information Report on Communist China" and other current FDD
publications relating to this area.
8. Liaison activities:
Department of the Air Force
With AFOIN, Major Howard G. Neumann, to explore possibilities
of reducing duplication in the exploitation of East European foreign-
language documents.
Department of State
With Division of Research for Far East, Mr. Selig Taubenblatt,
to clarify an OIR requirement.
U.B. Information Agency
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operations
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9. Special services rendered:
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document survey project
Also for RQM/OIS, numerous items were reported in a survey on
local world (non-Bloc) reaction to the Moral Rearmament show "The
Vanishing Island."
OTR -- Several intelligence, psychological, and vocat
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OCR -- For Graphics Register, Chinese films were monitored.
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10. Significant reports:
"Review of First Eight Issues of 'Referativnyy
Zhurnal -- Geologiya-Geografiya'" (Evaluates usefulness of a new
Soviet abstract journal).
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