GRA ACTIVITY REPORT FOR THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER 1960

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
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• Publication Date: December 8, 1960
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AWA'M = PCM: Assistant Director, Rsseaureb and Reports
rRE is Chief, Geogmpbic Research
SU JW A Activity Report for the 1 th of November 1960
A. a l(l r Rauh a4d Teabnl mal ftapart Activity
30 The Cartogmpby Division accepted requests for 3.18 maps and czaaste
and cc feted. 130 o Roth aletio a and requests decreased sa but frcz
last month, leaving a backlog of 365 Jobs in progress Among the major
accc nplieb; eats of the idvision d-turi r was the cc pletic of two
significant ips on Africa for the Deper ent of State--tom Administrative
.D=ivisions p of Africa is lrevis :d and brought up to date, and a aap,
Africa - New Nations a Rev I ers, Was prepared for the Depertemaet 0
2. '. urben program for the production of USSR city IxUws advanced
to the extent that 3 city p: of the old sdwdule were painted and
published and a grog .Yas in the collateral research phase of the now
t1 ies Ms acca ..lased. In a ttoe, the Division oceepleted the printing
25X1X7 of 3 rum is now current on requests for this, typo of
assists e x
3. Geograpixy, Diviaio t cuawleted and ciisemiinatadi one Oeographi'
Intelligence Ymomw1un ( 60?4 South Viet ), and serimb Geographic
Sort Projects. Gems of the lujxport Projects (OP 60 0111:L., C Utz
Pertinent to the AAraleal of 1~O11cy and the Operations Plan for tai ctk;t'.~ w
was dtaoe at the request *t the DC1, and two others ? rare requeate
by DD/p. in addition, overlay,-3 t Fast Ger Oy showing e t .a: o:F' byste ?
missiles and LOX auanufaotarir. , as well as two overlays of M! s?.t:;a
in Bulgaria were ccapleted. and passed to 1/GL
4- The Map Li racy Divietva fox 23,353 itews to requesters ill
psizaz to 95 . + t4'wes s for __,al sag isI;Ir-tad gZO 7 .pbmac :P tlicat1=6 and reference info a,`id.on. Cub't anc1 Africa were the areas of gzeatest
concentration during t Le month. 2Ups on all countries of Africa r i sent
to the Rug of Cul`turai Ai rairs, : a nt of State, to two ditf arort
e onents of CIA 0 A . Ax shiers, of maps was sent to the 1 r ~ rat of
State's Vital. Nester aal.s I(x-a iw . A vialt was made to the office of
)k 0 Foy D. Kobler,, AskcLs- -nt Se retary of State for European Af irs, to
survey the map :!dings of the office$ is order to bring the sap to date's
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5. Significant items received by the May Library Division included:
a) a 1960 administrative-territorial handbook of the 1ISSIt; b) an Administra-
tive handbook and a 1:200,000 administrative slop series of Caen boslavakiaa,
both based on the arm administrative divisions effective 1 July 1964; a)
a 1960 economic geography of Rumania and ac :aapeenying, atlas of 25 eccna is
maps; and d) 1960-61 timetables for railroads and buses of Yugoslavia.
6. Support activities of the Special Collection Support Branch, D/GL,
included the following: a) a requirement for the collection of Soviet-
produced topographic maps of Northern Afghanistan was submitted to St/I
for transmittal to M /P. This requirement supplements a previous --
o n D)/P for collection of maps in Afstan. In addition, fourteen other
requirements were submitted to St/X, or CD/C4, nine pertaining to Slaoo-Soviet
Bloc collection and five to non-Bloc collection, mostly from U. S. oil
cocas anies . b) In response to a 4L/8 requirement
3,841 aerial photograph negatives were obtained on a loam basis in November,
This photogra? which is
scheduled for publication in early spring.
3. The WS Chapter IX no Jules and forecasts for FY e s 1962-(A still
have not been approved by the MIS Committee. The Chapter XX Subea .tt ban
deferred further action on the ianpl ntaation of the agar pter IX format
until the forests are given final approval. However, the Coordination
Staff has initiated work on revision of the Chapter U 0aatline Guide for
the 18 Standard Irstructionhs, which viii be subject to the apprtmal of the
Chapter IX Subcommittee and the NIB Ccm aittee.
4. material pertinent to the plan of contra is for external research or,
Africa has been exadned and briefly written up by the Nisar East/,Africa i tsp
D/OG; these working notes will serve as a basis for planning .ttiartber action.
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5. Lack of interest on the part of the An W., Air Force, State end
Do/P has caused a reduction in scope of the initial phase of the planned
external project on photo interpretation keys of Africa, and a geed to
establish an area priority within C.A. Further comments from another 25X1A9a
part of DD/P, to be available early -in Date r, should facilitate the
estaaabliasbwent of such a priority.
6. GM Task Forge, conferred with
on the
feasibility of preparing a Geo, ras s cn
study outlining the precision surveying procedures that would be followed
by Soviet authorities in establishing a specific missile site in the
Western 1tik acne. The purpose of the report would be to increase our
ua rsta sd S of the capabilities of this site and to improve intelligence
collection efforts against other suspected or potential sites.
7. Plsnning is in progress for foreign travel by Geography Division
personnel as follows: Area famiuftion travel by to the 25X1A9a
Par East and Southeast Asia, beginning aappr xI ,itely Aid-Irch? and combined 25X1 A9a
area familiarization and procurer nt missions for D GL by to
Latin A rica, beginning mid:4 Arch, and by to Western E e~25X1A9a
being early February. Plans a are also being asad~e for two na esbers of
C to attend the symposium on the Sciences in Goaae unist Chimp to be
conducted in Now York on 26-27 December as s part of the neetings of the
American Association for the Advancement of Stdencor.
8. The following reaasig nt of area responsibilities within the
0 Branch and
mtsrn Had spbere loch :
Bulgaria, Greece, Cyprus
Prance, ltaaaly, b'pa1n, Protugal, ritsmrl ,
fugoslavia, and Albania
Benelux, Poland. Finland. Noranav. Iceland
Greenland.
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25X1A5a1 90 has reaffirmed his
interest In zw pproject or lore ra on of an Explorer' as Atlas of West C ,
25X1A6a utilizing original materials Dina lions tiorxaern his
plans Included exploration of aa, a: .bility of funds for finesncia a trip to
to confer with Also, in correction with exploitation or
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materials., /tSia visited
the Crops Research , nt of Agriculture Plant industry
Station, Beltsville, to examine the files of photograply held there.
Regatives will be borrowed from Beltsville for reproduction of the
relatively small but highly selective collection.
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10. Efforts are being a to place Oa/S, on
U. Two scheduled D/GG projects were cancelled during the month:
PH 6 2.1863, The Rhodesian CoVerbelt, was cancelled in favor of a
comprehensive GM on the Federation of Rhodesia and ll asalassd, already
scheduled as FN 62.18+980 19.l U, Ane1lrsis of Soviet $ct Accuracies
was dropped because of disc=repancies in data between a Hof this
project and a special GMA.'IC study using data not available for use its the
project.
12. As a result of a meeting with Col. Krause, Chief of the Target
Material Division at SAC k adquarters, and. Major Wright and Mjor Wsh of
the SAC Deta ent in D. C., it was decided that an employes at SAC would
be detailed to GL/S. The individual chosen has Russian, Polish, Czech,
and Germ n language capability, and has been in intelligence for eighteen
yea's; his experience includes agent band1.i u in the 7000tb in Germany
Arranaments were also coerpleted for GL/S, to spend his 25X1A9a
two -weeks ? Air Force active duty at SAC under Col. Krause. 25X1 C
Dent of State has been asked 25X1A9a
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Dace s Over-all restrictioLs on tca?~el will be 25X1 Cod
resigned from his position as
entered on duty with the Geof7aphy Division.
l4? Plxantr and final, details for the publication of the Acquisitions
List for Antarctic Cartographic Materials are mixing completion by the
Yap Library Division. The first list is tentatively scheduled for
Januawy 1961.
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C. Significant Outside Contacts end Activities
1. In accordance with an C instruction to the Working Group on Antarctica, a series of ~eretings have begun in order to deve 25X1A9a
icap V. S.
guidelines for the future preparation of operations plans;
attended these stings during absence. Other contacts of
interest concerning Antarctica
was was briefed at the r mr nt of State prior to his departure
during the coming season.
2. representatives confirmed to OG/E, that 25X1A9a
RSA now accepts the grid. plotting suggestions are uses set forth in our
ORA-sc-6o-1. OG m has prepared a i e reMi t reviewing the project to
date and aura rising the latest discussions.
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00/3, iciPPa in the first meetiUg of the 25X1A5a1
among -- a me"Iqr dum
was prepared for use in briefing the O on the situation rag ling the
handling of mars of Cuba during the -t year.
At tine tt r tiDg of the Arctic Area Discussion Group, Y iss
presented a briefing on economic develo nt in
the Soviet Arctic.
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6. The Africa. Roundtable met 18 November to discuss source3 of
infozaation and finished inteUigenen production on Bloc activities
in Africa.
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Gtr/?, eonferrwed with =t
concerning plans for resumption of meetings or the 8out~lls,at Asia
Discussion Group, of with the latter is Chain=. vii]. 25X1A9a
call a meeting in Deter at which, because of the pressure of other
duties., he will surrender the abairrtaaship. Be seemed to view favorably
the idea of having the cba. nahip pertly vested in Qd// and
probeloly will make such a par+oposal. 25X1X7
8. is oea vbere he is conducting
rater tiatirxts re tiding the revision of 1:9$0,000
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9. The following m tings were conducted by the Special Collection
Support Brwwh, D/GL, during the mouth:
a. briefed. a
source who travelled to Tot Poland an an a n i
several The Source was able
p some or ation regarding the use of topographic maps in:
Poland for agricultural purposes.
b. Nr. Emmml, ACIC Washington representative, was briefed
on the Branch project. He g ranised. to obtain an ACYC evaluation
(substantive intelligence) of t l:25,,040 sheets of }test Germany
that have been collected in tL3e ?past few yes. Be will also arrange
for a priority listing of specific tgets in Chinao for use in a
supplement to the China Collection Guide. Targets furnished by APCIN
previously were limited to specific tbeater targets for a particular
weapons syateng and were not deemed appropriate for our purposes.
c. Nareroua contaa ng the month.
'.Lases incllu All of these
discussions were related to a iftc operations and operation s port
activities.
10. The retention of item 1. F. (relating to geodetic and target
locationa_ data) as a first priority category item in the priority
T&tiona t, Intelligence Obj a;tiv free defer b
Chfe3 a.td 25X1A9a
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before a meeting of the Board of gati ates,, t;L.
11. Ch/G participated in the Clandestine Services Rev-Lowpresenting not o Geographic Area activities but the
as well.
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? was briefed an scurm
imterlals relating to an external re+ earth project be is is "rag
for the Department of the Azar.
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D. miscellaneous
Several (WA persOnne1 attea led a3 se m on the Development of
x,formtion Processing F rate presented by the Ageuty oal 30 rpvembe
at the Isper taint of state Ae for
Distribution:
1 - AA/RR
1 - St/A
1 - St/1
1 - St// /R
a - Ch/E
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3 - D/aC
2 - D/GL
- Ch/G
GAR/ ,/G: :RAN:nmk/8867 (8 December 1960)
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