FDD EXPLOITATION PROGRAM FOR THE USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-03130A000100030063-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 19, 1999
• Sequence Number: 63
• Publication Date: July 13, 1998
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SUBCONMTTEE ON EXPLOITATION OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE PUBLICATIONS
FDD M".PLQI ATIQN PROGRAM PQRTHS USSR
The following adjustments. to the current program are recommended
as a result of liaison with, and comment from, the substantive con-
sumers during the course of program reporting. Allocation of the work-
load for designated coverage is based upon the full manpower available to
FDD for work on the USSR except for the portional reservation to support
specific reLuests.
I. POLITICAL
A. ASR Territorial-Administrative Changes: No change
B. 'Arganization and Functions of Ministries and other Central.
Organs at the USSR Government: No change
The first semiannual, report, planned for June 1955, to be
precedes by reports on individual ministries on which there have been
no previous reports, and by supplements to previous ministry reports
to brims them up to date. he manpower necessary for this coverage
was uterestimated originally.. It can be accomplished by eliminating
II.B. aelow
Co. Addition; An annual index of YS-42M-at-1 (the Soviet official
gazette of laws and decrees.)
II. SOCIOLOGICAL
A. Education: Elimination of detailed coverage of primary and
eeo)ndary education (reporting only articles of major significance on
t1mm) and corresponding expansion of the coverage of higher (especially''
scientific) education.
B. Crime in the USSR: Discontinue as scheduled report. Reasonable
coverage is provided by JPRS.. The general subject seems to be well known,
tb refore the value of the report does not seem to be worth the labor.
Ill. BIOGRAPHICAL
No change
IV. MILITARY
No change, except to extend the coverage to Sovetskiy Plot.
V. ECONOMIC
A. Republic budgets: No change, except to add information on successes
and failures in carrying out previous year?s budgets., as reported in
addresses of ministers of finance. (See C and D)
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B. Domestic and foreign trade: it local details on former,
concentrating on all-Union and republic data. Use time saved for A.
C.? Labor and manpower; Omit local details, concentrating on SLU-
Union, republic, and manor area data. Use time saved for A.
D. Republic plan fulfillment: No change
E:' Extractive indutry: No change
F.- Agriculture and forestry: No change
G. Industrial equipment: No change
g. Transportation and Telecommunications:
No change
1. Consumer goods: No change
J. Electric power: No change
K. Construction and construction materials. Addition: Industrial
and housing construction; production and specifications ot materials.
May be a single report, or two separate reports. This can be added
because the T/O is nearing full strength.
There appears to be considerable duplication of PDD?s work in
exploitation of water transport journals by ONI, Naval Attache, Moscow,
and ORE. Possibly FDD?s work in this field should be discontinued or
confined to strictly defined limits, in which case it is proposed that
all or most of one man's time could be devoted instead to geographic
information. (VI.A. or B. In the following section)
Possible Additions to theme
The following categories cover subject matter for which there is
an expressed need on the part of consumers for continuous reporting
and on information which is known to exist in documentary sources. Any
one item can only be covered if a corresponding effort in the established
program is discontinued.
A. POLITICAL
A: A systematic coverage of USSR periodicals and books to supplement
reports by the Embassy, JPBJ3, Current Digest of the Soviet Press and
other agencies: To be published irregularly as bibliographic notes,
sunanst'ies, or condensed, partial or full translations, as appropriate.
These sources are not now being covered adequately by any
single agency or combination of agencies.
B. Regular coverage of selected emigre publications, such as those
of the Institute for the Study of the History and Culture of the USSR
(Munich) and the newspapers Posey (Munich) and Vozrozhdeniye (Paris).
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II. SOCIOLOGICAL
A. Religious and anti-religious activities
Organized religion (Orthodox.. Moslem and others) and its
leaders in relation to the government, the party and Soviet society.
B. Non-Slavic minorities
Sociological information, particularly on the peoples of
Central Asia and the Caucasus, indicating degree of, or resistance to,
Sovietization.
III. BItRAPBtCAL
A. Extension of source coverage to major political journals,
scientific journals and specialised newspapers such as Literat~ya
(meta and Sovetskaya ftltara. [Present work is confined to the regular
central and provincial newspapers]
B. Extension of categories of personalities covered, particularly
to meet BR/CIA requirements for scientific and economic personalities,
notably for scientists, authors of articles and others, who are not
included in the present categories of official positions, and the top
managerial and technical personnel of industrial plants.
A. Extension of source coverage: To Vestnik Voz lMogo Flota,
not now regularly received but understood to be avs318ble, and other
military publications irregularly received, as well as Bolts a
Sovetskaya Enteiklopedis-a.
B. Increase in depth of coverage: More on tactics and doctrine;
fuller exploitation of important articles.
A. Progress on key commodities: Follow through the years the
progress on such key commodities as iron and steel, coal, petroleum,
etc. First report would require going back through previous years, and
establishing base year for figures.
B. Efficiency of utilization of resources. There is much discussion
by Soviet economists of the coefficient of utilization.
C. Agricultural labor productivity.
D. Analysis of Soviet economic and technical literature: A
bibliographic listing and critical description of important Soviet
monographs.
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VI. GEOGRAPHIC
A. The Arctic: Soviet research; other activities and installations;
the Northern Sea Route.
B. Special regions (of current Intelligence interest, such as
reported atomic energy centers, missile launching sites, selected border
regiions, etc . )
C. Detailed information on urban developments: Structures and
facilities, with locations; new streets, changes in names, etc.
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