COMMENTS ON DD/I MEMO CONCERNING RESPONSIBILITIES RELATED TO DISARMAMENTS DATED 3 JUNE 1957.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61S00137A000100130135-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 2, 2003
• Sequence Number: 135
• Publication Date: June 13, 1957
• Content Type: MEMO

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Comments on DD/I Memo Concerning Responsibilities Related to
Disarznts dated 3 June 1957.
1957
lv . In order to make plans for role as related to dis-
armament, assumptions have to be made-vTth respect to the type of
"disarmannt" agreements and a degree of access in these eeunts.
that inspection agreements will be made which permit:
agreement will be the assurance by each party that the other
,he purpose of this memo it is assumed that the basic principle
not making prepaarationm for attack. this basis it is likely
i.ve aerial: inspection.
b. US inspectors at a very limited number of transporta-
tion centers, strategic gateways, and airfields but little or
no access to other military installations such as plants, teat
sites, and laboratories.
Far greater mobility of US personnel in the USSR than
ermitted
,ittle or no access
er than is current
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be of the bit-and-piece
the handling of
bl.e quantities of raw data with little d
he economic National Intelligence Objectives.
much that the take would not include useful information btv
tm of identifying and separating such inform,-:
f trivia.
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ganizing the information on hand in a useable form, atorage of
new information, processing equipment, ",Material handling methods.
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The information on path would have to be
thoroughly reconsidered on a plant-by-plaint basis so that the new
aterial could be properly evaluated. While this would be worth-
while with respect to the military and strategic plants, the problem
of identifying such installations from the vast amounts of data on
ha : as well as to-be-received would be extremely time consuming.
A plant-by-plant analysis Hof the Soviet Union would be if little
value from the over-all economic National Intelligence Objectives.
4. It is desirable that the Agency realize the scope a:
problems of handling, sorting, and evaluating the tremendous volume
that could result from the inspection operation assumed above. It
is further hoped that the Agency will have profited by the rocerit
xperlences of insufficient preparations concerning information
processing equipment and adequately trained personnel, derived from
operations such as r I
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