OSCOL

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00509R000100030023-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 4, 2003
• Sequence Number: 23
• Content Type: NOTES

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NOTE
TO: Associate Deputy to the DCI for
Collection Tasking
1. You may now wish to show the attached OSCOL paper to
The previous draft memo is enclosed so you can
see what changes were made. Regarding your two questions, the
following from
and I to be working group members. I I
himself could, if we gave 0 a follow-up contract
(the present one has expired), expand on his earlier
study to flesh out who-is-collecting-what-for-whom,
which is the lst working group task. The problem is that
it would take about six weeks to arrange such a contract,
and by then we likely will have completed the task ourselves
via a task force drawn from the departments concerned. We
should leave the door tol o n, however, should
it prove essential to draw on extensive personal
contacts.
b. Why He was recommended to me separately
by I las an excellent
prospect tor t He working group. He is an outsider who
has never been personally involved in the "machine trans-
lation versus human translation" issue identifies
with the human translation side), but is an authority on it
and is respected by all concerned. He is orchestrating an
annual Community seminar on the subject at this time; one-
time funding Owhich expires this week. It is
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already clear that if LITINT is being under-exploited by
the production analysts the reason probably is that the
raw data is not getting to them on a timely basis in a
form that is readily usable.s unusually well
qualified to figure out what to do about that and get the
others to agree.
2.1 has since found some funds in OPEI that could be
made available to hireas a consultant, per the enclosed
draft memo. I plan to su mi this memo if there is concurrence
in the action plan and proposed working group.
Attachment:
OSCOL Paper
Enclosures:
1-Previous Draft
2-Request to Engage
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