FDD MONTHLY PROGRESS REPORT - - MAY 1956

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 2002
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: June 8, 1956
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum *UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO Assistant Director for Operations DATE: 8 June 1956 11
SUBJECT: FDD Monthly Progress Report -- May 1956
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ADMINISTRATION
1. The total personnel on duty as of 31 May was
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2. The draft of Division per fln-r
was concluded in May. A total of
linguists were supplied to this pro ect.
3. Deputy Chief, FDD, spoke on FDD operations at Clandestine
Services Review Course No. 12 on 22 May.
is on indefinite TDY in Western
Worl from WE DD F.
5. An Intensive Polish Reading Class started on 7 May with
seven students, including one from ORR.
Three persons completed the NSA Chinese Course on 18 May.
Two advanced trainees began a full-time Chinese Reading
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Chinese at CR.
6. On 23 May, 19 FDD personnel received a one-hour briefing
on guided missiles by OBI and ORR representatives.
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OPERATIONS
1. The 70th and 71st meetings of the Subcommittee on
Exploitation of Foreign Language Publications were held 4 and 18
May. The review of the Communist Far East program was completed.
The review of the Free World program was begun and will be continued
at the next meeting on 1 June.
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2. On 7 Ma the Division initiated a Linguist Service in
Building. as assigned to handle this
new Division outpost.
3. Reference to the.CTS Index prevented 97 cases of dupli-
cation totaling 3,179 pages.
4. Commendations:
From Soviet Orbit Staff/Office of Policy and Programs,
USIA, for the valuable series of scheduled reports "Development
From Chief, RQM/0
of two 015 requirements by
From Chief, Requirements Branch, OCI, for FDD Summaries
No. 94+9 "Development of CPSU and Communist Parties of Union
Republics, 1952-1956" and No. 950 "Council of Elders of Supreme
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I respectively.
5. Liaison activities (other than CIA):
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With Mr. Richard Bauer ACSI to make arrangements for
FDD to receive weekly from the lists of translations
in process. Copies of unpublished translations by this office
will be forwarded to FDD for coordination.
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U.S. Information Agency
With Soviet Orbit Staff/Office of Policy and Programs,
Mr. Morris Watnick, to discuss program guidance on the FDD scheduled
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6. Special services rendered:
DD/P -- For RQ /OIS, reverse translation of 22 pages,
English to Spanish.
Department of the Navy -- For ONI, performed reverse
translation of 15 pages English
and 16 pages English
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7. Significant reports:
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I _J- Soviet Activities in the Arctic and Antarctic
(3) (Collation from over 30 sources on most recently reported Soviet
activities and research in the polar regions)
FDD Summary No. 885 -- Semiannual Report on Education in
the USSR (4) (Statistics on graduate degrees at scientific research
institutions and higher military educational institutes 19+5-19553
collation from over 30 sources)
FDD Summary No. 900 -- Scientific Information Report (1)
(Initial consolidated report on Soviet science with emphasis on
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2. Details of Personnel Actions
Enclosures: 2
1. Statistical Report on
FDD Operations
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