FDD MONTHLY PROGRESS REPORT - APRIL 1954

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00500R000200110009-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 2000
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: May 10, 1954
• Content Type: MEMO

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TO Assistant Director for Operations
FROM Chief, Foreign Documents Division
SUBJECT: FDD Monthly Progress Report - April 1954
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DATE: 10 May 1954
ADMINISTRATION
1. As of 30 April the total personnel on duty was
2. on loan to FDD from the DD/P area, is
working as an analyst in Western World Branch.
3. of the Technical Accounting Staff and
of the Budget Office visited FDD to make a survey
o FDD accounting procedures. A simplification of accounting for
unvouchered funds has resulted.
eld recruiters, were briefed on FDD personnel needs.
OPERATIONS
1. The 23rd, 24th, and 25th meetings of the Subcommittee on
Exploitation of Foreign Language Publications were held 2, 9, and
30 April, respectively. The examination of the exploitation of
scientific publications was continued. It was agreed that FDD would
issue a biweekly compilation of scientific and technical news items
from the Soviet Bloc press commencing 5 May 1954.
2. The Linguist Consultation Service processed 834 items
during the month. .
3. FDD, assisted as Vietnamese language con-
sultant at a point G-2 -3 conference in the Pentagon on special
planning problems.
4. Commendations:
From Mr. Otto E. Guthe, Assistant Director, ORR, for the
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From Mr. Matthew Baird, Director of Training, to
FDD,.for his instruction of a class
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From Chief, Information Division,
TSS, for expeditious treatment of a riorit Bulgarian translation
performed by
Also from FDD, for his report
on the administrative divisions of Burma.
From Chief, RQM/OIS, an appreciation
for FDD Research Aid No. P).oommmunistic Perspective."
5. Liaison activities:
FDD, arranged with Mrs. Betty
Naley, G-2, for FDD to borrow certain Soviet military publications
from G-2 for exploitation by FDD.
Captain Sachanen, Chief, Translation Section, Air Technical
Information Center, conferred with
FDD, on ATIC
translation problems. As FDD could not administer a contract.trans-
lation program for ATIC without additional positions for controlling
it, FDD could not assist materially in this problem.
FDD, discussed with Mr. Richard Bauer, G-2,
the preparation by FDD of periodic summaries of Bulgarian press
articles on military matters. Because of personnel limitation FDD
can comply only partially to this requirement.
FDD, discussed with Mrs. Elizabeth
Sanderson, Off ce o. Libraries and Intelligence Acquisition, State
Department, the servicing of certain documents for use in an NIS
report with the result that the latest and most complete information
was made available.
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