MINUTES OF THE EIGHTH MEETING OF SUBCOMMITTEE ON EXPLOITATION OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE PUBLICATIONS 7 AUGUST 1953

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-03130A000100010016-7
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 11, 1999
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: August 7, 1953
• Content Type: MIN

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Stameey Wilcox, 6tate
H. J. Go:Joel Jr., Army
Theeieze ?. Georzevitch, Ar'
Copsultanta: Elrgeteet Valiance, State
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1. The Eighth Meeting conveeed et 1100 hours, 7 Augest 1953,
n Room 4125 M Building.
2. reeuezted tat corrections be made in Vass minutes
f tact, Seventh Meeting CA follows:
a. The lest twe paragraph numbers be corrected to read '4'
and "5" respectively.
b. Paragraph 313, CIA: The statemeut concercing ILEA be
deleted. iinfi the following be substituted: "PDD should provide
complete bibliographic treatment or a selected list of periodicala -
the list to be determined by the eerials received. by FDD and sot
covewed by MUM* Library of Congress. FDD would Una supplement
MIAA for these purposes."
3. Regarding the type of exploitation needed,
onttnued his statei7lant, us begun in the Seventh Meetiug.
CIA: Although in the past compilationz have been geveral.),y
satisfactory to the ceesueler a reviev establishes that for several
purposea there la n greatee need for abstracts and extracta rether
than compilatiuns. Frz az in the pest should pay cerefUl attentiot
to the documentation in Its report:5 and 31e5uld reference the page
eni line of source materials.
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It was sueeested by the Chairman that this 'would impose a
severe burden on FDD ad become rather impractical insofar as
the newspapers are concerned. There followed a discussion dueing
which the State and Army eembere stated that lime references were
not necessary for their peroses. The Chairman auggested thee line
reference would presuppoee that the coneumer did not have confidence
in thm FDD officer eed intended to Check the report against the
aouree rate:vial. nix process would take more true than the
orieinel report and vould pose the qeestion of Whether FDD should
have reporeed at all. withdrew his request for "line"
documentation.
stated that extract and abetract types of reporties
should have emphasis while compilations or collations should 2irst
Le nubmitted for review at the initial stage of these revireuenta
for the following reasons: first, to coordincte the mutat eo
determine hether its scope should be enlarged; and second, to
amid the encouragement of passive non-productive type of researth
alcove the substantive aealysts.
stated teat collations as requected from FDD eeeely
preeented in one report the foreign documentary inforwation crl one
subject which then needs to be analyzed aeeinst the inforeatIon
froe other sources.
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le. Section 2d of the Agenda: "Whet methods of reportiag should ba used?"
State (At. Wilcox): The Department would like a flexible ae/ection
to eeet the needs of the report itself. Some intonation is of
sufficient importance to cal/ for immediate spot reporting and not
held for incorporation in collations. The emphaaie however arould
be en the semi-anneal type of collations, although FDD should be
prepared to answer at any time on idiot information is available on
ary subeeet. The Department is not interested in press sumeaeies.
Amy (Mr. Gordon): Army would like monthly compilations on Order
of Battle information and quarterly compilations on training end
other types of requirements.
CIA CIA would primarily like extracts and
abctracts with collations only against occasional specific needs.
5. Section 2e of the Agenda: "chat effort should FDD make in
non-current publications?"
State (Mr. Wilcox): The heart of the operation is the current
take of Soviet publiceelons. This should be the primary effort,
therefore the maxim= devoted to non-current documents is whatever
effort is left after the current material has been exploited. Basic
projeCts uill have to be determined at the time their necessity
arises but specific searches in basic literature should be coasidered
second priority.
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AM (Mr- GegrePlitcb)1 Army agrees with State Departaen
proposal.
CIA CIA agree3 in general but bag a critical
need for quantitative data in Once fields wbich Can be eatiefiod
only with some basic sttdy.
6. Agenda for next meeting iu the concAsion of amaination 03
USSR publications.
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T. fleeting adjourned at 1535 hours, 7 August 1953. The next
meeting will be held at /400 ho,/rs 21 ;.uhiust 19j3 in Room 2125 M
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