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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68-00069A000100170065-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 28, 1998
• Sequence Number: 65
• Publication Date: November 4, 1959
• Content Type: MISC

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To: Mr. November 4+, 1959
Chairman, Committee on Procurement
of Foreign Publications, USIB
Assignment
"The Chairman asked that the Non-USIB agencies (National
Science Foundation, Library of Congress, Department of
Agriculture, National Library of Medicine and the United
States Information Agency) prepare a statement on what
support these agencies would expect from procurement
operations under war-time circumstances, to include before
the immediate declaration of war, during a war, and post-war.
He asked that the Library of Congress member be Chairman of
this Working Group, to consist of the members from the
agencies mentioned."
(From Secret minutes of the Special Meeting, 6 October 1959
of the Committee on Procurement of Foreign Publications,
USIB)
Assumptions
The Working Group recognizes that assumptions concerning future
conditions must be made if it is to arrive at conclusions regarding
the types of support which the institutions it represents would
require during the three periods suggested by the Chairman of PROCIB;
yet it is the consensus of the Group that its primary assumption must
be that the next war will be cataclysmic completely destroying its
institutions in their present locations.
If the Group assumes unrealistically that its institutions will
remain in their present locations or if it assumes that they will
have been effectively relocated under conditions which will permit
service to the Federal community and to research generally then it
suggests several types of support which would be required from
whatever Federal publications center may be authorized to control
the procurement and distribution of publications and from the military,
since it assumes that the military will control certain basic services.
It is the view of the Group that the support suggested would be
required during an officially declared emergency, during the war and
during the period following the war until normal channels and services
were reestablished.
Support required
1. From the Federal publications center
a. At least one copy of each publication procured, regardless
of subject field, for deposit in a War Agencies Collection to be
established b the Library of Congress (either centralized or
decentralized) for the primary use of the Federal community
engaged in research for the war effort.
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b. A copy of each medical publication procured to be de-
posited in the National Library of Medicine.
c. A copy of each agricultural publication procured to be
deposited in the Department of Agriculture Library.
d. A copy of each publication] procured in. the informational
fields. assigned to the United n)Information Agency for special
research or other activity, to be deposited in that Agencyts
Library.
e. The purpose of the National Science Foundation will be
satisfied by effective implementation of paragraphs 1 a-c,
above.
f. Use of the centerts foreign based personnel in procuring
priority materials required by all five institutions.
2. From the Military
a. Communications services
b. Transportation services
c. Foreign publications storage facilities
d. Housing and subsistence for representatives of the five
institutions on foreign assignments in areas under U. S. or
allied control.
Statement prepared by following
Working Group:
Scott Adams
National Science Foundation
Foster E. Mohrhardt
Department of Agriculture Library
H. Roth Newpher
U. S. Information Agency Library
Frank B. Rogers
N Tonal Libra y of Medicine
C Co n, Chairman
Library of Congress
[Initials of Working Group members appear on draft
of this statement held at the Library of Congress]
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