OCI CALENDAR OF SCHEDULED FORTHCOMING EVENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00951R000100070008-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2003
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: August 16, 1955
• Content Type: MEMO

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Chief, Lisison Division, OCD
Chief LIB/OCD
OCI Calendar of Scheduled Forthcoming Events
16'August 1955
1. This memorandum is written in light of the proposal of
I XE'EEC/CD that this Branch assume the responsibility for publishing
the working paper entitled "Calendar of Scheduled Forthcoming
Events" which is now prepared and produced by CCI.
2. CCI has been publishing this calendar on a monthly basis
since November 1951, Publication was commenced as a result of
OCt's internal needs; distribution was made to the DD/I at his
request in April 1952 and has broadened ever since.
3, The calendar contaixite entries covering dates of "signifi-
cant" anniversaries (e.ga, birth of Lenin, establishment of Republic
of Indonesia), national celebrations (e.g., Rumanian Navy Day,
Hungarian Railwayman's Day), national elections, sporting events
(e.g., Moscow International Horse Race, Sofia International Parachute
Jumping Contest), national meetings (e.g. All-Indonesian People's
Congress and plenums of political parties), and of international
conferences and trade fairs. Since January 1954 when ICB agreed
to review the draft of each OCI calendar prior to its publication
for accuracy and completeness of entries on international conferences
and trade fairs, the list has become more and more heavily weighted
with entries on conferences and fairs. The LDN 101 Series (Inter-
national Conferences Information Index) and LDN 73 (oviet/5atellite
Participation in International Trade Faqirs) have been used by OCI
as a source for many of the entries in the calendar.
4, At the present time an OCI GS-7 Junior Analyst is responsible
for the collection and collation of material used in the calendar and
for the editing, reproduction and dissemination of the calendar.
This individual has been spending about one third of her working time
on this task, A typist spends three to four hours each month pre-
paring the mats for reproduction. OCI Reproduction prints, collates
and disseminates the finished product, OCI has agreed to continue
reproduction, collating and disseminating if COD assumes responsi-
bility for preparing the calendar and typing the mats.
5. Entries are based principally on material from FBI: Daily
Reports (USSR and TE, FE and E volumes are read daily by the Junior
A st), an annual USSR calendar, LDN 73 and LDN 101 Series and
CIS States a "Schedule of Communist-sponsored Propaganda Activities".
OCI's file contains material on anniversary dates.
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6. Dissemination of the calendar has snowballed on the basis
of specific requests. (CI has not attempted to initiate d assee> d nation
to likely prospects. Consumer evaluations have not been requested
nor reasived, 108 copies of the 4 August 195 index were disseminated
(24 extra copies were retained to service requests for copies). At
present three copies are sent to the 1)1)/I, 30 to C-2, one to OCB, 41
to DD/P (including over eas stations), one to CCI# (ZC8), seven to FM),,
one to the NIC, two to and the remainder to OCI desks.
7, We have asked the principal users what their reactions to the
calendar are. 4-2 states they are glad to receive it and that they
send it overseas to military attaches. FDD/OO feels they could do
without it easily since ICB can service their inquiries. R /QI5
reports that the docent is the best available run-down on forth-
coming even:: and that they have received a number of favorable coal-
ments on it from DD/P divisions and staffs. They feel that some shift
in ea phas,sis s uld improve it and that publication should be continued.
OI3 stated that ICE would prbbfrbly make the calendar more useful to
8, do not believe that ICE could possibly undertake to produce
this calendar with its present T/0, We do feel that we could do the
web and do it well if a 05-7 were assigned to ICS and given the re sponsi-
bility to prepare it and if OCI would continue to print? collate and
disseminate the calendar as they have informally agreed to do. Although
work on the calendar would not cu: a. full-time job for the person assigned
to ICB, he could be given other important information control responsi-
bilitieess which would relieve the Branch's liaison officers of much detail
work and enable them to use their time more effectively.
9. It should be noted that present editor of the OCI
calendar, will be leaving the Agency on 26 August. If ICE is to be
given this task, and if publication of the calendar is to continue with-
out a break, an Immediate personnel action would therefore be required,
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Distribution:
Orig, & 1 - Addressee
2 - ICB
1 - Chrono
OCD/LD/ICB:
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Reasons why it would not be feasible to consolidate the Calendar of
Scheduled Forthcoming :vents with 11's LDN 101 Series (International
Conferences Information Index)
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Content differs
The calendar contains information (event, place and dates)
on jU significant eduled events to be held.
2. LON 101 contains information (event, place, dates,, report
tations and annotations) on only those co i egences on which substan-
ive reports have been received since publication of the previous LDN.
C. der of__presentat on ffers
1. The calendar is organized chronologically in order to place
forthcoming events in perspective for planning.
2. The LDN is organized on the basis of organizations sponsoring
conferences so that it ms be used effectively as a research aid.
D. Y ,,, of Publication, differs
1. The calendar is published monthly. More frequent publication
would be unnecessary.
2. The LDN is published every week or ten days. Less frequent
publication would limit its effectiveness as an index of current ac-
cessions of reporting on conferences and as a device to spread the
word of Soviet bloc participation in current and future conferences.
Less frequent publication would also result in unmanageable size of
the index and a slowdown in the integration of information contained
in the index into ICs records.
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E. In view of these facts there appears to be no logical reason for
consolidating the two publici.tions. Like water and oils they won't .
Even if they could be combined in their final form and distributed to-
gether, they would have to be independently prepared and edited because
of the differing sources used and content included.
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