FDD MONTHLY PROGRESS REPORT - JULY 1960

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00500R000100060006-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 21, 2002
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: August 9, 1960
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office iVfemorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
: Assistant Director for Operations
DATE: 9 August 1960
FROM : Chief, Foreign Documents Division
suBJECT: FDD Monthly Progress Report - July 1960
STATSPEC
1. FDD's new program to provide collated reports of required
information on the Sino-Soviet Bloc finally received the green light
on 15 July. At a DD/I luncheon with other representatives of DD/I
offices it was agreed to put the program into action for a trial of
six months.
Subsequently, a meeting of the ADO and Acting AD/RR was
held on 25 July arranging for a meeting of Chief, FDD, and ORR
division representatives the following day. At this meeting on
26 July, the program was discussed and agreement reached whereby
ORR will indicate to FDD its continuing reports requirements and
also what collated reports are needed. Acting AD/RR agreed to
general release of pending collated reports in economic fields.
Since then, Manufacturing Sectors Branch has indicated it
will frame requirements for collations on (1) automation in the USSR
during the past year, and (2) amortization in certain branches of
machine building in the USSR.
2. A General Accounting Office audit team on 28 July began a
detailed survey of the Division, following a general briefing on
the Office of Operations on 25 July-
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. The first Sino-Soviet Bloc Military Report, supplanting
previous military reports on the respective areas, was published
as a weekly summary on 20 July. Expeditious editing and the cooper-
ation of the Printing Services Division, now makes the information
available to consumers two to three weeks after the origination date
in Moscow, a 50 percent reduction in the previous time lag.
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6. On 28 July, the Division Chief and Administrative Officer
visited the new CIA building under construction to survey the
proposed FDD area for possible changes in space planning in the
light of our recent reorganization.
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Enclosures:
1. Statistical Report
2. Details of personnel actions
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